Hegseth named the price of continued American protection: 3.5 per cent of GDP. Allies who refuse face 'a clear shift in how we do business.'
Kenneth Law shipped 1,200 poison packets to vulnerable people across 41 countries from his home in suburban Ontario. On Friday he admitted counselling or aiding 14 suicides — but families say the real toll is far higher.
Trump lifted the naval blockade on Iranian ports on Friday — then emerged from a two-hour Situation Room meeting without deciding on the ceasefire. Tehran says the deal was never finalized.
Romania's foreign minister has given "final confirmation" that the drone which struck a Galati apartment building was carrying explosives. The Russian consul is expelled, the consulate shuttered. NATO's public response has been measured — which is itself the story.
Israeli soldiers crossed the Litani River on Friday. Seven thousand kilometers away, Israeli and Lebanese generals sat down at the Pentagon to discuss peace. Both events happened on the same day, and neither side seems to find that contradictory.
A Russian drone struck an apartment building in Romania, injuring two — the first such hit on NATO residential housing. The diplomatic response was instant. The military response was not.
A 60-day ceasefire framework has been negotiated, reported, and priced into oil markets. It now awaits a single signature that nobody can guarantee is coming.
Russia fired its nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile at Kyiv Oblast overnight, killing four. For a weapon designed to carry nuclear warheads across Europe, the low casualty count may have been the point.
Turkey's riot police stormed the main opposition party's headquarters on Sunday, firing tear gas to enforce a court order that removed its elected leader. It is the latest move in a 14-month campaign to dismantle the country's strongest challenge to President Erdoğan.
A suicide car bomb struck a train carrying soldiers and their families through Quetta, killing at least 24. The separatist Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility — and the province it operates in is home to China's biggest overseas infrastructure bet.
Russia hammered Kyiv with one of the largest missile and drone assaults in months, hours after Zelenskiy warned Moscow was preparing to deploy the hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile.
Serbia cancelled every train into Belgrade and fired tear gas at the crowds that showed up regardless. The student-led movement born from a deadly roof collapse 18 months ago shows no sign of stopping.
After two days of talks in Tehran, Pakistan's army chief has produced the outline of a 14-clause framework deal to end the US-Iran war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Both sides called it progress — and both meant something different.
A gas blast at a Shanxi coal mine killed at least 90 workers — up from eight in initial reports — with nine still trapped underground. Mine executives have been detained.
Iran just published a map claiming military control over 22,000 square kilometres of the Strait of Hormuz. The 20,000 sailors trapped in the Gulf since February are running out of food — and the IEA says oil markets are heading for the "red zone" by July.
Iran attacked Qatar with hundreds of missiles this spring. On Friday, Qatari negotiators landed in Tehran anyway — the first real diplomatic backchannel in a war that has shut off 14 percent of global oil supply. Oil markets spent the week swinging wildly between hope and dread.
At least 19 workers were massacred on a Honduran palm plantation this week — the same week Congress voted to let the military treat drug cartels as terrorist groups. The criminal networks answered before the law could take effect.
The Pentagon canceled the deployment on Monday. On Thursday, Trump reversed it personally — citing not strategy, but his friendship with Poland's nationalist president.
After seventeen years, a Paris court ruled Airbus and Air France "solely and entirely responsible" for the crash that killed 228 people. The maximum fine: €225,000 each — roughly a few minutes of revenue for either company.
A written US proposal is on the table, Pakistan's army chief is en route to Tehran, and the terms under discussion bear little resemblance to what Washington was demanding three months ago.
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