At the French navy's Maritime Information Cooperation and Awareness Centre in Brest, Commanding Officer Thomas Scalabre's team is tracking more than 750 civilian vessels stranded on the Gulf side of the Strait of Hormuz, sending encrypted alerts within a 50-nautical-mile radius to 85 transport companies that include CMA CGM and Maersk. The centre has logged about 40 security incidents since the Iran war began in late February, including 24 direct Iranian attacks on commercial ships and Tehran's claim to have laid sea mines in the main waterway. France and the United Kingdom have pledged a post-conflict coalition to reopen the strait, but peace talks have stalled.

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UN food agency warns 45 million more face hunger if Iran war runs past June

The UN World Food Programme has warned that an additional 45 million people will be pushed into acute food insecurity by June if the US-Israeli war on Iran continues, lifting the global total to 363 million — surpassing the spike after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The agency's 2030 hunger-eradication target is now off course, and the conflict is also redrawing political loyalties and producing economic winners and losers.

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Russian 76th Air Assault takes heavy losses as Pokrovsk fight shifts to city's northern edge

Russian forces are pressing to dislodge Ukrainian defenders from the northern outskirts of Pokrovsk and advance on the village of Shevchenko, while massing armoured vehicles in the city's south, the 7th Rapid Response Corps of Ukraine's Air Assault Forces said via Ukrinform. The Russian 76th Air Assault Division is taking significant losses, with reserves and units of the Somali Battalion committed to sustain the offensive. Brigadier General Yevhen Lasiichuk, the corps commander, said the defence's focus is now airspace control over the city, where Russian forces are launching combat and reconnaissance drones.

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British Jews mark first Shabbat since Golders Green stabbing with hidden kippot and stab-vested guards

On the first Shabbat since the 29 April Golders Green stabbing — a declared terrorist attack that left two Jewish men seriously injured and led to attempted-murder charges against Essa Suleiman, 45 — many British Jews concealed kippot in public, prayed behind reinforced walls and watched volunteers in stab vests guard their doors. The community is debating Sir Keir Starmer's response after the prime minister was met at the scene with shouts of 'traitor' and 'Keir Starmer, Jew harmer'; he has pledged more police, more Jewish-security funding and stronger powers against extremist charities and 'hate preachers.' Calls to proscribe Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have grown louder, with ministers planning to fast-track a state-threats ban in the next parliamentary session.

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Spirit Airlines ceases operations, cancels all flights after failed bailout and fuel price surge

Spirit Airlines announced an immediate wind-down of operations on May 2, canceling all flights, after rescue talks with the Trump administration collapsed and jet fuel prices more than doubled during the two-month-old U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The carrier, which had filed for bankruptcy twice in 2025, said it could not secure the hundreds of millions of dollars in additional liquidity needed to stay afloat. The shutdown is the first liquidation of a major U.S. airline in two decades and is expected to cost about 17,000 jobs.

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