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[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

BBC Sport pundits have voted Mikel Arteta as the Premier League manager of the season 🏆👏

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

BOOOM! Finally, common sense prevails. Congrats @_DeclanRice 👏👏👏👏

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is Arteta’s moment.
Yes, the squad’s been amazing.
Yes, the fans have been incredible.
Yes, the club’s owners stepped up big time last summer.
But it was this man’s vision, intensity, intelligence, courage and decisions that won us the League. Thankyou @m8arteta 🙏

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.

Together we are One.

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

When Jordan Devlin was asked by the prosecutor if he damaged drones inside Elbit's weapons factory, he replied "Yes and it was an honour".

After being acquitted of all charges after two trials, he spoke with the Guardian.

Read the interview below.
https://t.co/4qpDorNanD

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Lots of TV and radio shows discussing the Palestine protests.

None of them feature British Palestinian guests.

It's just unbelievably racist - treating their experiences as completely meaningless and irrelevant.

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Nigel Farage secretly accepting a FIVE MILLION POUNDS gift from a Thai-based crypto tycoon is one of the biggest political financial scandals of this or any era.

Farage, for himself not the many.

https://t.co/fFvC77xqYt

[Debra Grosso @Rosetreeme]

@hashjenni

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Am I understanding this correctly? The President, the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House AND the Secretary of State were all at the White House Correspondent's Dinner together and security was so laxed that a guy ran through security with a long gun? I call bullshit.

[Ali @RealAliVoice]

🇺🇸 “𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝.” — 𝐉𝐃 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 😶

Said by the VP of the country that:
💣 Started an illegal war on Iran Feb 28

💣 Killed 168 children in Minab, IRAN.

💣 Bombed 760 schools and 30 universities

💣 Cut American healthcare to fund the war

💣 Made gas prices hit $8 for working families

💣 NOW officially blockading ALL ships in Hormuz

💣 Reports daily to Netanyahu — his own words

Iran closed Hormuz defending itself from an illegal war = “terrorism.”

USA blockades the entire strait for Israel = “critical waterway protection.”

JD Vance calling Iran the terrorist is like the arsonist calling the fire department dangerous. 🗿🌍🔥

#JDVanceExposed #NoWarOnIran

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Sorry, WHAT!? So, having demanded the Strait be opened on pain of all Iranian civilisation being ended, President Trump is now going to shut it himself?

[Rellytwoonefive @RellyTwoOneFive]

@StevenCheung47 So what did America gain?
Iran Won.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Terrifying revelation. A reporter points out that Trump's "5-day pause" in the war is the exact amount of time it takes for thousands of US Marines to arrive in the region. He also used the announcement to manipulate the stock market. Absolute chaos and deception.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Brazil’s President Lula slams Trump:

“We can’t have someone thinking he’s the owner of the world and wakes up in the morning:

I'll take Greenland
I'll take the Panama Canal
I'll take Cuba
I'll take Venezuela
I’ll bomb Iran

Countries have sovereignty. And it must be respected.”

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

😂😂😂

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

A catastrophic war, sold on a lie, which will change the course of history.

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

In only 4 years in power (1983-87), Thomas Sankara

Built 350 schools, roads, railways without foreign aid

Increased literacy rate by 60%

Banned forced marriages

Gave poor people land

Vaccinated 2.5 million kids

Planted 10 million trees

Appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during

sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.

He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.

As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.

He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”

Drove out French imperialism & withdrew Burkina Faso from IMF

A very productive life that was brutally cut short 💔. He was assassinated at the age of 38. Rest on son of the soil 🕊

[Lemon Sturgis @LemonSturgis]

So far, this Iran operation is a cascade of worst‑case outcomes.

• Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, collapsing tanker traffic by 80–90% and sending oil prices from about $65 to over $110 in just over a week.

• U.S. operational costs: ~$1B per day.

• Iranian drone and missile attacks have killed 7 Americans and wounded 18.

• A likely U.S. strike on Feb 28 hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, killing ~165–175 civilians—mostly schoolgirls aged 7–12z

• Kuwait was expected to have ~18 days of storage before cuts, but began reducing oil output within 2–3 days of the blockade.

• Iraqi oil production from its main southern fields has collapsed by 70%.

• Qatar's Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi warned Gulf exporters may halt production within days, potentially spiking oil to $150 per barrel within 2-3 weeks.

• U.S. embassy evacuations collapsed into disaster: State Dept delayed approvals 1–4 days, facilities struck, thousands stranded amid closed airspace/airports, slow military/charter rollout.

• Treasury issued a 30‑day OFAC waiver allowing India to continue purchasing Russian oil, reversing years of U.S. pressure discouraging those imports.

• Iran’s Supreme Leader has been replaced by his more hardline son, Mojtaba Khamenei — and with Iran likely heavily protecting him, Trump’s likely push to remove him could take time, prolonging the crisis and its costs.

• The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow estimate for Q1 2026 growth plunged from 3.0% (Mar 2) to 2.1% (Mar 6) — a 0.9 pp drop in just four days.

• U.S. gas prices jumped from about $2.95 to ~$3.40/gal in a week (≈40–60¢, one of the fastest increases ever), while diesel surged ~50–75¢ to ~$4.30–$4.50.

• U.S. stocks have fallen since Feb 28: S&P 500 −2.0%, Dow −3.0%, Nasdaq −1–2%.

• Despite hopes the strikes might trigger regime collapse, protests so far are nowhere near the scale of the January 2026 nationwide uprising.

• The Fed’s ability to cut rates is constrained even with weak jobs data, as surging oil has pushed up inflation expectations.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

BREAKING:

This is quite something

Qatar's energy minister has told the FT that war in the Middle East 'could bring down the economies of the world'. He says it will hit growth, push up energy bills and lead to shortages of products

Saad al-Kaabi said that even if the war ended immediately it would take Qatar 'weeks to months' to return to normal deliveries after the Ras Laffan plant was bombed by Iran

While only a small proportion of Qatar's gas goes to Europe, the halt in production means there will be a global bidding war for what remains on the market

“This will bring down the economies of the world,” he said. “If this war continues for a few weeks, GDP growth around the world will be impacted. Everybody’s energy price is going to go higher. There will be shortages of some products and there will be a chain reaction of factories that cannot supply.”

This is Qatar telling the US in the strongest possible terms to bring the conflict to an end or everyone will face the consequences...

[sim 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇸🇳🇫🇷🇭🇹 @simscircuit]

🚨| Sir Lewis Hamilton: "I think (Africa) is the most beautiful part of the world and I don't like that the rest of the world owns so much of it and takes so much from it and no one speaks about it. And I'm really looking forward to and hoping that the people that are running those different countries all unite and come together and take Africa back."

"That's what I want to see. Take it back from the French. Take it back from the Spanish. Take it back from Portuguese and the British."

"It's so, so important for the future of that country and for that continent. I mean, they have all the resources to be the greatest and most powerful place in the world and that's probably why they are being controlled the way they are."

[F1 2026 Australia Press Conference]