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Israel-Iran conflict set to dominate G7 summit
This week’s G7 summit in Canada will be dominated by war – only not one of those that the world leaders had expected. High on the agenda had been Russia’s war against Ukraine and Donald Trump’s tariff war against America’s trading partners. Instead the three-day gathering in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta will inevitably be…
Israel-Iran strikes: A look at the worst-case scenarios
For now the fighting between Israel and Iran seems restricted to the two nations. At the United Nations and elsewhere there have been widespread calls for restraint. But what if they fall on deaf ears? What if the fighting escalates and expands? Here are just a few possible, worst-case scenarios. For all the US denials,…