The Revolutionary Guards have taken wartime decision-making from Ayatollah Khamenei's hands — and the Strait of Hormuz is still shut. Whoever is negotiating with Tehran may be dialing the wrong number.
The UAE walked out of OPEC after 59 years without telling Saudi Arabia first. With its second-most capable producer gone, the cartel faces an existential crisis at the worst possible moment.
The Pentagon's FY2027 budget includes $1.85 billion to study building US warships in Japan and South Korea — a tacit admission that American shipyards can no longer produce hulls fast enough to meet the fleet's own requirements.
Putin stood beside Iran's foreign minister in St. Petersburg on Monday and praised Tehran's resistance to the United States. The country that once offered to mediate has picked a side.
Some NATO members want to skip the 2028 summit entirely and move to biennial gatherings. Six sources say the alliance built on leaders showing up for each other is now debating whether showing up is worth the trouble.
Germany's chancellor declared the United States 'humiliated' by Iran and told Ukraine to prepare territorial concessions for EU membership — both in remarks to school students.
A dissident FARC faction blocked traffic on Colombia's Pan-American Highway and detonated a bomb that left a crater of 200 cubic metres. Twenty civilians are dead, and the presidential election is one month away.
Israel blocked voting materials from entering Gaza. The election commission improvised with wooden boxes and vaccination ink. In Deir al-Balah, three-quarters of eligible voters stayed home.
Iran's foreign minister visited four cities in three countries this weekend, pressing every mediator he could find. Trump cancelled his own envoys' trip and suggested Tehran pick up the phone.
Atef Najib oversaw the arrest and torture of teenagers in Daraa in 2011 — the crackdown that ignited Syria's civil war. On Sunday, he sat in a Damascus courtroom in handcuffs, the first Assad-era official to face trial inside Syria.
Military spending across Asia and Oceania rose 8.1 percent — the fastest pace in 16 years — as US allies questioned Washington's security guarantees. The global total has climbed for 11 straight years.
A ceasefire extension was two days old when Netanyahu ordered fresh strikes across southern Lebanon. Six people are dead, seven towns are under forced evacuation orders, and thousands are fleeing again.
North Korea deployed 15,000 troops to Russia's war and lost an estimated 2,000 soldiers. This weekend, Moscow repaid the debt with a five-year defense pact and a war memorial in Pyongyang.
A suicide car bomb at the defence minister's residence in Mali's most fortified garrison town. Five cities hit at once. The junta that promised security has lost its top security official.
A gunman breached the magnetometer screening area at the Washington Hilton and opened fire during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Trump was evacuated unharmed — his third encounter with an armed assailant in under two years.
Trump cancelled his negotiators' trip to Islamabad on Saturday, declaring Tehran's leadership too confused to negotiate with. Iran's hardliners had just finished sidelining the pragmatists who actually wanted a deal.
Rescue crews pulled bodies from the rubble of collapsed apartment blocks in Dnipro after Russia fired more than 660 drones and missiles in a single night — the second massive aerial assault in nine days.
Gunmen hit Mali's international airport, its main military base, and towns spanning hundreds of kilometers of the Sahel in a dawn assault — raising the question of whether the junta itself could fall.
Iranian strikes on Qatar's main LNG terminal cut capacity by 17 percent. The IEA says the damage will squeeze global gas markets through 2027 — even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens tomorrow.
Orders to 'shoot and kill' Iranian boats remain active as the White House sends Trump's son-in-law to Islamabad for ceasefire talks. Iran's foreign ministry says no direct meeting will take place.
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Von Clause