Il Tempo: Incontro Starmer-Zelensky: non distogliere attenzione da Ucraina

Londra, 17 mar. (askanews) - Il primo ministro britannico Keir Starmer ha ribadito oggi al presidente ucraino Volodymyr Zelensky che la guerra in Iran non deve distogliere l'attenzione dall'Ucraina, riferisce il Guardian.
In un rapido confronto con la stampa, prima dell'inizio dei colloqui privati a Downing Street, Starmer ha sottolineato che alla Russia non dovrebbe essere consentito di trarre vantaggio dal conflitto iraniano, che ha fatto salire i prezzi del petrolio e portato gli Stati Uniti a sospendere parzialmente le sanzioni contro Mosca.
Starmer ha dichiarato: "La nostra determinazione è incrollabile. Penso sia molto importante chiarire che il focus deve rimanere sull'Ucraina. Ovviamente c'è un conflitto in corso in Iran, in Medio Oriente, ma non possiamo perdere di vista ciò che sta accadendo in Ucraina e l'importanza del nostro sostegno. Putin non può essere colui che trae vantaggio da un conflitto in Iran, sia per i prezzi del petrolio sia per la sospensione delle sanzioni".
Zelensky ha ringraziato il Regno Unito e sottolineato la necessità di non dimenticare "gli sforzi diplomatici e i negoziati in corso, e la situazione attuale con gli americani e con i russi", aggiungendo che nel corso dell'incontro avrebbero discusso anche della guerra in Iran, che a suo dire sta avendo una "grande influenza" sull'Ucraina e sull'Europa.

Starmer-Zelensky meeting: don't lose sight of Ukraine.

London, March 17 (askanews) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer today reiterated to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the war in Iran must not divert attention from Ukraine, reports the Guardian.

In a brief exchange with the press, before private talks began at Downing Street, Starmer stressed that Russia should not be allowed to benefit from the Iranian conflict, which has driven up oil prices and led the United States to partially suspend sanctions against Moscow.

Starmer stated: "Our determination is unwavering. It is very important to make clear that the focus must remain on Ukraine. Obviously there is a conflict underway in Iran, in the Middle East, but we cannot lose sight of what is happening in Ukraine and the importance of our support. Putin cannot be the one who benefits from a conflict in Iran, whether for oil prices or the suspension of sanctions.”

Zelensky thanked the United Kingdom and emphasized the need not to forget “diplomatic efforts and ongoing negotiations, and the current situation with the Americans and Russians,” adding that they would discuss the war in Iran during the meeting, which he said is having a “great influence” on Ukraine and Europe.

#Starmer-Zelensky #Ukraine #London #British #KeirStarmer #Ukrainian #VolodymyrZelensky #Guardian #DowningStreet #Starmer #Russia #Iranian #theUnitedStates #Moscow #theMiddleEast #Putin #Zelensky #theUnitedKingdom #Americans #Russians #Europe

https://www.iltempo.it/tv-news/2026/03/17/video/incontro-starmer-zelensky-non-distogliere-attenzione-da-ucraina-46855618/

I enjoyed #Yellowstone and its spinoffs, but I don't think I'll bother with this.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/14/the-madison-review-michelle-pfeiffer-yellowstone-paramount

#TheMadison #TV #review #Guardian

Delightful - with a limited print run of 30 and a very local distribution (until this was printed)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/16/can-you-solve-it-are-you-a-match-for-the-dinkiest-mag-in-maths

#Puzzle #Mathematics #Logic #Guardian #Fun #HydeParkMathZine

I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

#extremism

To all #people I #pray that:
You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

#awareness

I pray that:
As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

#sovereignty
I pray that:
You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

#CommonSense
I pray that:
We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

#battles
I pray that:
We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

#posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

This is the sort of analysis one would expect from a leading news organization claiming to be democracy’s watchdogs, yet it’s anywhere else but the #NYT, #BBC, or even the #Guardian that you’d find anyone asking the most fundamental questions.

[…] It is stunning to think that in a record-setting State of the Union address, for all of his baiting and bloviating, for all of his lies, this president did not dare to make the case before the American people that his administration had deemed Iran an imminent threat to our national security.

https://wurdradio.com/2026/03/03/trumps-iran-chaos-is-not-a-bug-its-a-feature/

Well, at least we’re not talking about the #Epstein files and #Trump reportedly raping and sexually abusing children.

#uspol #iran #trump

You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on #Trump
Mood among some in #Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and lives
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/anti-regime-iranians-turn-on-trump-us

from #TheGuardian
By Deepa Parent
March 14, 2026

Others who spoke to the #Guardian this week also had a shift in their attitudes towards the #war, especially after the attack on #oil depots, but also after seeing images of the country’s heritage sites damaged.

Among those that took the worst hits were Tehran’s Golestan Palace, dating to the 14th century, and the 17th-century Chehel Sotoon Palace in Isfahan.

“How will they rebuild … a priceless part of history?” asked a #Tehran-based student. “And how will we bring back people who are dying? Is that it? Is the message from abroad that just because the regime doesn’t care, the world shouldn’t? Is the goal to erase our culture and history?”

#NoWArWithIran
#news #politics #USpol #Israel #WestAsia

"At some point, the benefits of extracting minerals are outweighed by the irreparable loss of places like these."

Geographer Tim Werner and his colleague, geoinformaticist Victor Maus, use satellite imagery to track mining activities — and find that the industry is expanding into pristine forests and biodiverse areas, with insufficient oversight.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/mar/11/how-mining-threatens-the-worlds-biodiversity-aoe

#Mining #Geology #Environment #Nature #Science #Biodiversity #Guardian #China #Brazil #Argentina #Mexico

“They have the most serious responsibility imaginable, wielding the mightiest arsenal the world has ever seen – but they are not serious people.”

I have never considered Trump as serious, dangerous but not serious. He surrounded himself with a team of lightweight nonentities, not serious people and then there is a ruinous war that has no purpose.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/donald-trump-iran-war-total-disaster?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#iran #iranwar #guardian