Brent crude surged to $104 a barrel after reports the Pentagon will send 82nd Airborne troops to the Middle East. The deployment gives Trump options for seizing Iranian territory—whether he uses them is another question.
The largest aerial assault of the entire war struck western cities far from the front lines — a clear signal that Moscow's spring offensive is underway while peace talks stall.
For the first time since 2000, Israel will hold Lebanese territory indefinitely. Defence Minister Israel Katz says displaced civilians cannot return until northern Israel is safe — and his cabinet colleague wants the Litani River as the new permanent border.
Eight thousand kilometers from Tehran, the Philippines is rationing fuel and bracing for inflation. The Strait of Hormuz blockade is now a Southeast Asian crisis.
Months before an Air Canada jet slammed into a fire truck at LaGuardia, killing two pilots, aviators were filing urgent warnings to NASA's safety database. "Please do something," one wrote. Nobody did.
Fabrice Leggeri ran the EU's border agency during the migration crisis. Now a French judge wants to know if his policies amounted to crimes against humanity — while Leggeri serves in the European Parliament for the far right.
At least six people were injured when an Iranian missile slammed into central Tel Aviv — one of multiple projectiles that evaded Israel's vaunted air defense systems. More than a million Israelis are in shelters, and the coordination between Tehran and Hezbollah shows no sign of breaking.
Mette Frederiksen was heading for defeat. Then Donald Trump threatened to seize Greenland, and Danish voters remembered why they hired her.
Kim Jong Un's declaration isn't just rhetoric — it's a formal policy shift that ends decades of denuclearization negotiations. The timing, coming alongside constitutional changes and a defense budget hike, signals Pyongyang has closed the door on disarmament for good.
Hours after Ukraine demonstrated its reach by striking oil infrastructure 1,400 kilometers inside Russia, Moscow made good on Zelenskiy's warning—killing two civilians in a coordinated missile and drone barrage.
A Lockheed Martin Hercules C-130 carrying 125 soldiers and crew crashed moments after takeoff from a remote Amazon border town. The death toll stands at 34, with dozens hospitalized and ammunition detonating at the crash site.
The world is safer from terrorism than it's been in a decade—unless you live in Nigeria, where deaths jumped 46% last year. The divergence reveals where jihadists are winning.
Trump claims 'productive' negotiations. Tehran calls it 'fake news.' Somewhere between those positions, regional mediators are passing messages — and global energy markets hang in the balance.
A military ruler who seized power after Gen Z protests now demands ministers pass lie detector tests. Young activists call it 'a joke and embarrassing.'
Fifty-seven dead, most of them students. A nation in mourning. And a courtroom so cramped that victims' relatives were forced to sit in the defendants' seats.
A Hercules C-130 carrying up to 110 soldiers crashed on takeoff from a remote border outpost. At least 57 have been rescued; dozens remain unaccounted for in dense jungle terrain.
Five of the six main bridges spanning the Litani River have been destroyed. For the million displaced Lebanese civilians, the message is clear: don't come back.
Nearly £900m in UK aid to Africa will disappear by 2029 — enough to build hundreds of schools and clinics. The money is going to defence. In Mozambique, Rwanda and Zambia, the Foreign Office's own assessment says children and people with disabilities will bear the cost.
Trump claims 'productive conversations' with Tehran. Iran denies any talks took place. The five-day pause gives both sides breathing room — but the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and the clock is ticking.
Four volunteer ambulances destroyed by arson in a Jewish neighborhood of London. Three suspects on CCTV. A little-known group claims responsibility. The Gaza war has found its way to a north London car park.
The Socialist who brought France the 35-hour work week and civil unions never recovered from his shock 2002 defeat by Jean-Marie Le Pen. Emmanuel Macron praised his 'rigour, courage and ideal of progress.'
An Air Canada Express jet struck a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing both pilots. The emergency vehicle was responding to a separate incident — investigators will ask why it was on an active runway.
Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir's declaration of a 'prolonged' campaign comes as Israel destroys key bridges linking southern Lebanon to the rest of the country — a move Lebanon's president calls a prelude to ground invasion.
North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament handed Kim Jong Un a third term as head of state with 99.99% turnout. The only surprise was who didn't appear on the leadership roster.
Four Port Authority officers were critically injured when an Air Canada Express jet struck a fire truck on a LaGuardia runway. The airport is closed.
If Trump follows through on his threat to destroy Iran's power plants when the deadline expires, Tehran vows to close Hormuz indefinitely and strike desalination plants that supply water to millions. The question is no longer whether markets panic — it's whether one-fifth of global oil traffic actually stops.
Cuba's national grid failed for the third time this month on Saturday, leaving nearly 10 million people without electricity. The island hasn't imported a drop of oil since January 9.
A war meant to last days has revealed that the world's most powerful navy cannot easily secure a 21-mile strait against a determined adversary armed with mines, missiles, and patience.
Two days of talks in Florida produced a potential prisoner exchange — but Moscow's absence speaks louder than any diplomatic progress. Meanwhile, Russia is profiting from the war in Iran.
After an 18-year-old settler was buried, WhatsApp groups called for vengeance. By nightfall, Palestinian villages were burning. In Gaza, four more were dead from Israeli strikes.
Israeli interceptors locked onto two Iranian ballistic missiles heading for towns near the Dimona nuclear site — and missed both. At least 160 people were wounded, and the military has no explanation yet.
Ayla Lucas has autism. She is seven. She has been in U.S. immigration detention for over a week, sleeping on floor mats and eating food her family calls terrible — despite holding a valid Canadian visa through 2030.
The National Rally went from 17 municipalities to at least 24, with Toulon and Nice poised to fall. The real question: what does that map look like ahead of April 2027?
The G7 has stopped treating the Strait of Hormuz as someone else's shipping lane. Their joint statement frames it as a shared security obligation — but the language stops well short of saying what they'll actually do about it.
An estimated 200,000 people filled the same park where Czechs rallied against communism in 1989 — this time protesting a 'foreign agent' bill critics call a carbon copy of Russian law.
Chernihiv lost all power to a Russian drone strike on Saturday — the same day US and Ukrainian negotiators in Miami called their latest session "constructive." Sunday's talks may be the most consequential yet.
Cuba's power grid has collapsed for the third time in March — not because of one broken plant, but because a war in the Persian Gulf and an American oil blockade have left ten million people with almost no fuel at all.
Barely a day after musing about winding down the war, Trump issued a ticking-clock ultimatum to obliterate Iran's power plants — infrastructure serving 88 million civilians. Iran's military promised to retaliate in kind.
The U.S. has pulled Patriot batteries from Germany and THAAD components from South Korea to feed its Iran campaign. NATO's eastern flank now has less than 5 percent of the air defense it needs to stop Russia.
A drone strike on Al Deain Teaching Hospital killed 64 people Friday night, including 13 children and medical staff. The WHO says cumulative deaths from attacks on Sudan's health facilities have now exceeded 2,000.
Three years of Beijing-brokered rapprochement undone in 24 hours. Riyadh gave Iran's military attaché and four embassy staff a day to pack after a drone hit the kingdom's last functioning oil export route.
For the first time, an Iranian missile has struck the Israeli town housing the Negev Nuclear Research Center. The attack came hours after Tehran said its own Natanz facility was hit — a symmetry that suggests the old rules about off-limits targets no longer apply.
Twenty-two countries have declared their readiness to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The joint statement took days to assemble. The coalition it implies could take far longer — and the hardest question remains unanswered: who commands?
Moscow calls itself Tehran's "loyal friend and reliable partner." The Kremlin's Nowruz message was long on warmth and conspicuously short on military commitments.
An estimated 200,000 Czechs filled the same park where crowds helped topple communism in 1989 — this time to fight a bill critics say is 70-80% identical to Russia's foreign agent legislation.
A couple dead in Zaporizhzhia, their children — aged 15 and 11 — pulled from the wreckage. Russia launched 154 drones at Ukraine in a single night, hours before peace talks were set to resume.
The death toll from a fire at a South Korean car parts factory has risen to 14, with over 100 kilograms of reactive chemicals recovered from the site. Questions about factory safety are mounting.
Two permanent Security Council members just publicly aligned against the U.S. campaign in Iran, invoking the "law of the jungle" — and Beijing didn't even acknowledge Trump's demand for help in the Strait of Hormuz.
A 34-year-old Iranian man and a Romanian woman were charged after attempting to enter Faslane — home to the UK's entire nuclear deterrent — three weeks into an active military conflict with Iran. They didn't force their way in. They walked up to the gate.
Hours after Trump mused about 'winding down' the war, US and Israeli jets struck the centrepiece of Iran's nuclear programme. Tehran answered by firing intermediate-range missiles at a base 4,000 kilometres away — double the range it publicly admits to.
Tehran is offering Tokyo safe passage through the world's most contested waterway — while its ally Washington gets nothing. The question is what Iran expects in return.
Two Iranian ballistic missiles flew 4,000 kilometres toward Diego Garcia — double Tehran's declared range — in the first operational use of IRBMs against the logistics backbone of American power projection. Neither hit. The message did.
Israeli jets struck Hezbollah command centres across Beirut's southern suburbs early Saturday — the third week of sustained bombardment that has killed over 1,000 in Lebanon. Washington is sending 2,500 more Marines anyway.
Ten dead, four missing, and workers leaping from an auto-parts plant in Daejeon. President Lee ordered full mobilization — in a country with the OECD's third-worst industrial safety record.
Two federal prosecutors' offices and the DEA are probing Gustavo Petro's alleged ties to drug traffickers — an extraordinary move against a sitting head of state that lands ten weeks before Colombia's presidential election.
The UK just authorized American bombers to strike Iranian missile sites from RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia — on the same day Trump mused about winding down the war. London calls it 'defensive.' Tehran calls it participation in aggression.
The world's most famously neutral country just blocked $119 million in arms exports to the US. On the same day, Britain opened its bases to American strike operations.
Debris from an intercepted Iranian ballistic missile landed on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Armenian Patriarchate, the Jewish Quarter, and the Temple Mount. No injuries were reported.
Russia offered to stop feeding Iran the coordinates of American bases if Washington cut off intelligence to Ukraine. The Trump administration rejected the swap — but the offer itself reveals how Moscow prices its alliances.
The Pentagon is rushing two Marine Expeditionary Units to the Middle East three weeks ahead of schedule. The White House insists there's been "no decision to send ground troops." The Marines are trained for exactly one thing: going ashore.
Mette-Marit sat down with NRK to call herself 'manipulated and deceived.' The three million pages of Epstein documents released last month paint a more complicated picture — and she left the hardest questions unanswered.
Iranian drones hit Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi refinery for a second straight day, dragging a neutral Gulf state into a war it wanted no part of. Four senior Iranian officials are now dead in a single week.
Israeli jets hit Tehran on the Persian New Year. Iran fired four missile salvos back. Three weeks into open war, Brent crude has surged 60 percent — and neither side has a plan for how this ends.
Belarus released 250 political prisoners hours after a US envoy met Lukashenko in Minsk. Washington lifted sanctions on Belarusian banks and potash firms in return. Over 850 prisoners remain behind bars.
An Iranian photographer funnelled IRGC propaganda through a French photo agency and into Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle, and at least eight other German outlets. The images were AI-generated — and nobody caught it until forensic analysts did.
The UN has recorded 143 dead in the strike on Kabul's Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital. At Emergency Hospital, families crowd around a handwritten book of names — and some find neither the living nor the dead.
Iran fired ballistic missiles at a third country's energy infrastructure — Qatar's Ras Laffan, the world's largest LNG plant. That's not retaliation against an adversary. It's a message to the entire Gulf.
South Africa's 'water tanker mafias' don't just exploit infrastructure failure — they engineer it. Sabotaged pipes, stolen cables, and entire communities paying fifteen times the going rate for their own stolen water.
Israel struck the planet's largest natural gas reserve — a field Iran shares with Qatar. Tehran's response: missiles aimed at energy infrastructure across the Gulf.
Public hearings begin Thursday into the Wang Fuk Court fire that killed 168 people last November. Contractors admitted to using substandard materials. Fire alarms never sounded. The question isn't just what went wrong — it's how many other buildings are next.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle is expected to hit Far North Queensland on Friday morning as potentially the first Category 5 landfall since 2015, with gusts above 250 km/h. Some communities in its path have no dedicated cyclone shelter.
British prosecutors have charged two men under the National Security Act for allegedly conducting surveillance of Jewish community targets in London on behalf of Iranian intelligence.
Moscow is considering deploying 'mobile firing groups' to escort its shadow fleet tankers — an open militarization of the sanctions-evasion operation that has so far relied on mercenaries and fake crew manifests.
Iran struck Qatar's Ras Laffan — the world's largest LNG plant — hours after threatening five Gulf energy sites by name. With 20% of global LNG supply already offline and Brent crude near $110, neutral Gulf states are learning there is no sideline in this war.
Iran fired cluster munitions at Tel Aviv within hours of confirming Ali Larijani's death — the fastest retaliation cycle in a war now entering its third week with no off-ramp in sight.
Four million square kilometres. Forty percent of Canada's landmass. One percent of its road network. Ottawa just pledged $35 billion to fix decades of Arctic neglect — right around the time Washington started eyeing Greenland.
Beijing just approved 400,000 Nvidia H200 chips for its biggest tech firms — two weeks after Chinese regulators were blocking imports entirely. The reversal says less about semiconductors than it does about who blinks first in the AI arms race.
FPV drones cause 80% of front-line casualties. Ukraine's answer: white nylon fishing nets strung over entire cities. It's working.
A war 3,000 miles from London has added £788 a year to the typical new mortgage — and the sub-4% deals from Barclays, HSBC, and NatWest that existed last week are already gone.
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