{"id":458282,"date":"2026-03-05T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458282\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:21:08","slug":"us-senate-backs-trumps-war-powers-as-iran-launches-new-missile-barrage-at-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458282\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate backs Trump&#8217;s war powers as Iran launches new missile barrage at Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carney and Albanese call for de-escalation while insisting Iran cannot have nuclear weaponpublished at 02:57 GMT<\/p>\n<p>02:57 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\">Helen Livingstone<br \/>Reporting from Sydney<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese wear suits speaking at microphones during a press conference\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/58e01634-1cee-4017-a70c-43979a942c58.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3000\" height=\"1688\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney have called for deescalation in the Middle East while arguing a ceasefire should not happen until Iran is unable to develop a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The world wants to see a de-escalation &#8230; We\u2019re seeing Gulf states that have not been involved attacked across the board, including the attacks on civilian and tourist areas as well. We also want to see the objectives achieved,&#8221; Albanese told reporters at a joint press conference with the visiting Canadian leader in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carney echoed the Australian PM&#8217;s call for de-escalation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Right now we have a spreading of hostilities. We recognise that. And before we get there, there needs to be the ending of targeting civilians, civilian infrastructure. Those are necessary conditions before ceasefire can exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both leaders have expressed support for the Israeli-US strikes on Iran that began on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked whether he had ruled out joining the attacks on Iran, Carney said he could &#8220;never categorically rule out participation,&#8221; drawing a distinction between offensive and defensive actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will always defend Canadians. We will always stand by and defend our allies when called,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carney and Albanese call for de-escalation while insisting Iran cannot have nuclear weaponpublished at 02:57 GMT 02:57 GMT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-458282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}