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.
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Von Clause