An uneasy, incomplete peace has broken out across most of the Middle East. For now, the hostilities between Iran, Israel and the US are on pause as both sides try to negotiate a permanent end to the fighting.
The human cost has been enormous: thousands are dead and millions have lived under the terror of constant bombardment for the last six weeks. In Lebanon, Israeli attacks continue. The economic consequences of the fighting have brought misery, too. In the UK, the spectre of inflation has returned, driven by a global surge in energy prices since the start of the conflict.
