The White House confirmed Trump would discuss leaving NATO in his meeting with Mark Rutte. The president's fury stems from allies' refusal to join a war he never asked them to approve.
Péter Szijjártó stepped out of an EU summit to brief Sergey Lavrov on closed-door negotiations — then offered to courier confidential documents through the Hungarian Embassy in Moscow.
Israel launched its largest-ever wave of strikes against Hezbollah less than 12 hours after the Iran ceasefire took effect. Netanyahu's office was explicit: the truce "does not include Lebanon."
An Indonesian fisherman hauled a Chinese-made underwater drone from the approaches to the Lombok Strait — one of the Pacific's most sensitive submarine transit routes. Billion-dollar surveillance systems missed it entirely.
The Strait of Hormuz has been running at 5% of normal capacity for six weeks. Behind the ceasefire relief, an FBI intelligence report warns of a 'persistent threat' the White House tried to suppress.
Oil plunged 16% in a single evening after Trump announced a conditional ceasefire with Iran. Iran accepted — but warned its hands 'remain upon the trigger.' The fine print on the Strait of Hormuz suggests this pause may be thinner than markets think.
Ordinary Iranians are forming human chains around power plants, offering their bodies as shields against promised bombardment. Russia and China just vetoed the only UN resolution addressing the escalating war.
US forces struck Iran's main oil export hub as Trump vowed "a whole civilization will die tonight" unless Tehran reopens the Strait of Hormuz by 8pm Eastern. Mediators from three nations are racing against the clock.
Iran's IRGC claimed missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia's Jubail petrochemical hub, targeting a $20 billion Aramco-Dow venture. Saudi Arabia can no longer pretend this war is someone else's fight.
Ben Roberts-Smith was escorted off a flight at Sydney Airport and charged with five counts of war crime murder. The Victoria Cross recipient faces life imprisonment for killings a civil court has already found he likely committed.
The UAE has quietly banned most Iranians from its airports and cracked down on IRGC financial networks — a Gulf state openly turning against Tehran. Iran responded by rejecting Trump's ceasefire ultimatum and keeping the Strait of Hormuz shut.
Houthis, Iran, and Hezbollah launched a coordinated barrage of cruise missiles and drones at Israel from three directions. The bilateral war is over; the regional one has begun.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard intelligence chief was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran the same morning Iranian drones struck US forces on Kuwait's Bubiyan island. A ceasefire proposal arrived hours later. Neither government has accepted it.
After three months of denying involvement, South Korea's president conceded that intelligence officials were entangled in drone flights shot down by North Korea in January. Pyongyang has already warned of a "terrible response" to further incursions.
Mediators are pushing a 45-day ceasefire deal to end the Iran war. The same day, Trump vowed to destroy every power plant and bridge in the country by Tuesday.
Two backpacks of high-grade explosives were found beside the Balkan Stream pipeline before they could detonate. Within hours, Viktor Orban was pointing at Ukraine — one week before Hungary's closest election in 16 years.
After the next phase of the Iran campaign, only 425 JASSM-ER cruise missiles will remain for everywhere that isn't Iran — from a prewar stockpile of 2,300. Beijing's military planners have noticed.
Zelenskyy proposed an Easter ceasefire through American channels. Moscow replied with 542 drones and 37 missiles — then Ukrainian long-range drones struck an explosives plant 1,100 kilometers inside Russia.
Three deadlines in two weeks, each extended. This time, Trump says 48 hours — but Iran just shot down a US F-15 and is racing American forces to find the missing pilot before Monday.
Iran's only nuclear power plant has now been struck four times in recent weeks. One worker is dead. Russia is evacuating 198 staff. Radiation levels held — this time.
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Von Clause