World - Monday, March 9, 2026

Exclusive: Independent adviser says some judges in England and Wales have not heard of changes to way cases are investigated An overhaul of the way police investigate rape is being put at risk by a lack of awareness in courtrooms in England and Wales, the government’s independent adviser on rape has warned. Prof Katrin Hohl said legal experts were concerned progress would stall or reverse if the conviction rate for rape dropped significantly because a new approach for investigating the cases, known as Operation Soteria, was hitting outdated practices in the courts. Continue reading...

The president told reporters at a news conference in Florida that the fighting is “going to be ended soon” but added that the U.S. would strike Iran harder if needed.

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups say they are prepared to challenge Tehran but are holding back as the U.S.-Israel-Iran war continues to unfold.

Finance ministers and the IEA discussed options for stabilising oil prices which surpassed $100.

This live blog is now closed. Trump news at a glance: president issues an ultimatum to Congress to get voter ID bill passed Sign up for Breaking US News email alerts Donald Trump has urged the Australian government to grant asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s football team, amid reports that they refused to return home following the team’s elimination from the Women’s Asian Cup and were taken into the protection of Australian police. As my colleague Martin Farrer reports , speculation had mounted for days that some of the players would try to seek asylum in Australia they had been called “traitors” for refusing to sing their national anthem before their opening game of the tournament last week. Continue reading...

Concern for the safety of the players had grown after Iranian state media criticized them for not singing the national anthem at a game in Australia.

This liveblog is closed. Follow the latest on our new liveblog here. Donald Trump has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu , the Times of Israel has reported . It said Trump also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been around. The US president said: Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel. I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account. Continue reading...

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President reassures Republicans that conflict is intended to be short lived but also says ‘we haven’t won enough’ Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has said that the war in Iran is “very complete, pretty much”, as the economic toll of the joint US-Israeli operation has risen, disrupting global oil trade and threatening to engulf the Middle East in a regional war. Trump made the comments before a speech and press conference in Florida where he sought to emphasise that the US military campaign would be ending soon amid concerns from Republican allies that the US was being dragged into another long-term conflict in the region. Continue reading...

Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly selected as Iran's new supreme leader in succession move, described as 'his father on steroids' with deeper security ties.