A Russian tanker sanctioned by three Western powers just sailed into Cuba — past a Coast Guard blockade that was never ordered to stop it. Nobody in Washington has said why.
Russia launched 273 drones at Ukraine the same night Zelenskyy signed a defense pact in Doha. Kyiv is offering interceptor-drone expertise in exchange for Patriot missiles it can no longer get from Washington.
For the second time in a week, Netanyahu has ordered Israeli forces deeper into Lebanon. Displaced civilians won't be allowed home until Israel decides its northern communities are safe — with no deadline in sight.
For the first time in centuries, Catholic leaders were barred from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday. Israeli police cited Iranian missile threats; the Patriarchate called it 'grossly disproportionate.'
God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war," Pope Leo XIV declared at Palm Sunday Mass — days after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth prayed at the Pentagon for "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy."
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt arrived in Islamabad as Israeli warplanes struck Iran and Tehran fired cluster munitions at Tel Aviv. The war is spreading. The talks are not designed to stop it.
North Korea has nuclear weapons and its regime is intact. Iran stopped short of building the bomb and is under sustained bombardment. Governments from Warsaw to Tokyo are drawing conclusions the non-proliferation regime was designed to prevent.
Pentagon planners are preparing raids on Kharg Island and coastal sites near the Strait of Hormuz. Whether Trump signs off — and what happens if he does — is the question defining the war's next phase.
The IRGC didn't target a military base or a shipping lane. It struck aluminium smelters — the industrial backbone of Gulf economies that account for 9 percent of global supply.
Pakistan got 20 ships cleared. India moved six LPG tankers through. Neither coordinated with the other — and both had to accept Tehran's terms at a checkpoint that may soon become permanent law.
North Korea just tested the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine in its history — a 2,500 kilonewton system designed for ICBMs that launch in minutes, not hours. The war in the Middle East ensured almost nobody noticed.
The USS Tripoli just put 3,500 Marines and F-35 fighters within striking distance of Iran's coast. Kuwait's international airport is smouldering, the Houthis have opened fire on Israel, and the war is one month old.
A suspect recruited on Snapchat for €600 tried to ignite a homemade bomb outside Bank of America's Paris headquarters. The Iran war has reached Europe — one disposable agent at a time.
Four precision missiles destroyed a clearly marked press vehicle in southern Lebanon, killing three journalists. Israel called one a terrorist, offered no evidence, and said nothing about the other two.
A projectile struck inside Iran's only nuclear power plant this week — the third near-miss in ten days. Russia is evacuating the engineers who keep the reactor running.
Sudan's civil war has killed more than 500 people with drones since January alone. Last week, 28 more died — in a market and on a highway — and almost nobody noticed.
Iran invented the Shahed drone. Russia spent three years perfecting it against Western air defenses in Ukraine. Now the combat-refined versions are flowing back to Tehran — carrying technology the Pentagon hasn't faced before.
Yemen's Houthis fired ballistic missiles at Israeli military positions for the first time since the war began. Israel says it intercepted one. The question now is whether they shut down Bab al-Mandab next.
Eighteen Venezuelan men describe beatings, sexual assault, and psychological terror at El Salvador's CECOT prison. Their petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is the first international case demanding El Salvador answer for a secret deportation deal with the US.
Israeli strikes hit two Iranian nuclear facilities on Friday. The same day, the White House rescheduled a presidential trip to Beijing for May. The question isn't whether Washington wants out — it's whether anyone can build a door.
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Von Clause