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.
For two months, Benjamin Netanyahu kept a cancer diagnosis secret while directing Israel's wars on three fronts. The timing of the disclosure tells its own story.
The €90 billion loan was stuck for months because one man refused to sign. Then Orbán lost an election, a pipeline was repaired, and the EU's largest single commitment to Ukraine sailed through.
NATO has confirmed no mechanism exists to suspend members — hours after a Pentagon email proposed doing exactly that to Spain over its refusal to support the Iran war.
The U.S. Navy is now authorized to kill Iranian small-boat crews on sight in the Strait of Hormuz — part of a maritime standoff that has removed 13 million barrels of daily oil from the world market.
Israel says it has targets marked and is waiting for Washington's permission to 'return Iran to the Stone Age.' The next move in the war is Trump's alone.
The White House branded China's AI model theft 'industrial-scale' on Thursday — elevating corporate complaints to official policy just three weeks before a Trump-Xi summit in Beijing.
Hungary held €90 billion hostage to an oil pipeline dispute for two months. Orbán's election defeat ended the blockade — and the first payment could reach Kyiv by June.
The former Philippine president becomes the first Asian head of state committed to stand trial at the International Criminal Court, charged with crimes against humanity for a drug war that killed thousands.
For the first time, a Taiwanese president has been forced to cancel an overseas trip after Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar revoked overflight permits under Chinese pressure — a move Washington calls an 'intimidation campaign' and experts say signals Beijing's tightening grip on African nations.
A Salvadoran court is trying 486 alleged MS-13 members in a single proceeding over 47,000 crimes. The emergency powers that made it possible have suspended the right to legal defense.
US warships are intercepting Iranian tankers off the coasts of Malaysia, India, and Sri Lanka — thousands of miles from the Persian Gulf. The maritime war now has two fronts, and neither side is backing down.
Navy Secretary John Phelan was discussing shipbuilding budgets at a conference on Tuesday. By Wednesday, he was gone — 'effective immediately' — while three carrier strike groups enforce a blockade of Iranian ports during a fragile ceasefire.
For decades, the Communist Party has played managed opposition in Putin's parliament. This week, its leader stood on the Duma floor and warned of revolution — because the war economy is cracking.
Iran fired on three ships and seized two of them in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, hours after Trump extended a ceasefire Tehran never accepted. Brent crude broke $100.
A Chinese naval flotilla transited the Yonaguni-Iriomote Waterway on Wednesday, returning from Western Pacific exercises — the second such passage in four days and another step in a pattern that Tokyo increasingly views as a deliberate test of will.
Russia bombed its own pipeline through Ukraine. Now Kyiv has to fix it — and resume pumping Russian crude to two EU holdouts — to unlock a €90 billion loan nearly equal to its entire national budget.
Defense Minister Koizumi says 'a number of countries' are already inquiring about Japanese weapons. Seventy-nine years after renouncing war, Japan is preparing to sell the arms it spent decades building.
The Trump administration is discussing resettlement in the DRC for Afghans who aided US forces — a country with 8.2 million displaced people of its own. Advocates say the offer is designed to be refused.
Mexican President Sheinbaum says no one told her about CIA operatives raiding drug labs on Mexican soil. Chihuahua officials first confirmed the raid, then rewrote the story. Now federal prosecutors are investigating a possible constitutional breach.
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