LATIKA M BOURKE: A cast of countries led by the UK has declared a ban on Israeli goods from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank — with Australia a notable omission.
The Persian Gulf’s richest states are pushing forward with plans for a massive build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure, even though data centers have become repeated targets in the US war with Iran.
The latest flare-up in the Middle East threatens to deepen a conflict that has dragged on since the United States launched strikes on Iran in February.
An Iranian official has described hostilities between the United States and Iran, the first since late July, as a ‘limited and contained confrontation’.