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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