Manila is paying jeepney drivers to give free rides. Sri Lanka has declared Wednesdays a holiday. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and the bills for a war thousands of miles away are coming due across Asia.
An 11-year-old Israeli girl is in critical condition after Iranian cluster munitions scattered bomblets across her Bnei Brak neighborhood. Roughly half of the 300 missiles Iran has fired carry cluster warheads — and the civilian toll is climbing fast.
The CMA CGM Kribi changed its AIS destination to "Owner France" before entering Iranian waters — a signal to Tehran. It made it through. So did a Japanese LNG carrier. Neither company will say how.
An F-15E shot down over Iran. An A-10 Warthog lost near Hormuz. One crew member rescued, one still missing in hostile territory, and the Pentagon's claims of air superiority are looking threadbare.
Iran has rejected Washington's 48-hour ceasefire proposal, betting that a sealed Strait of Hormuz and rising oil prices give it leverage the Pentagon cannot bomb away.
Armed Russian soldiers walked into a Kherson village school and took 15 children at gunpoint. The documents recording exactly how it happened were made public this week — while the world was looking elsewhere.
An American pilot is missing behind enemy lines after the first US aircraft was shot down over Iran — two days after Trump declared the country's air defenses "100 percent annihilated."
The UN Security Council will vote Saturday on a Hormuz resolution already stripped of its enforcement teeth. Trump is promising to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants regardless.
Trump posted the footage himself — a president celebrating the destruction of civilian infrastructure. The bridge fell in Karaj. The alliance may be next.
Trump's primetime address promised two to three more weeks of strikes on Iran, threatened power plants, and told the rest of the world to secure the Strait of Hormuz itself. Oil surged past $110. Nobody got the off-ramp they were hoping for.
The same Treasury Department that branded Delcy Rodríguez an enabler of authoritarian rule in 2018 removed her from its sanctions list on Wednesday — making her Washington's chosen partner in post-Maduro Venezuela.
Zelenskyy proposed an Easter ceasefire. Russia answered with 700 drones in a single day. The next round of peace talks has no date — Washington is occupied with the Iran war.
The US isn't invited. Roughly 2,000 ships can't move. And all the pipelines in the Gulf combined can carry less than half the oil that normally flows through a single waterway each day.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off Ternate early Thursday, killing one person and triggering tsunami waves before the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center lifted its alert after two hours. Indonesia's disaster agency says the full damage assessment is still underway.
An $800 fuel surcharge on a single economy ticket. Asian carriers in emergency mode. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, jet fuel has doubled in price, and the industry warning is blunt: some airlines won't survive this.
Russia banned all gasoline exports today and China quietly extended its fuel restrictions. Now Asian governments are swapping LNG for cooking gas and calling Moscow — until recently a sanctions target — just to keep the lights on.
Global stocks posted their biggest rally in years on ceasefire hopes. The same day, a cruise missile hit an oil tanker off Qatar and Trump vowed to bomb Iran 'back to the Stone Ages.'
Not one lawmaker voted no. Senegal's new law doubles prison terms for same-sex relations to 10 years — and adds prison time for anyone who 'promotes' them.
Russia says it has completed its hold on Luhansk — the first of four illegally annexed Ukrainian regions to come entirely under Moscow's control. Kyiv says Ukrainian troops are still there.
Iran struck a Qatar-linked tanker and Kuwait's airport fuel depot on the same day Trump declared Tehran was begging for peace. Iran's foreign minister says there are no negotiations whatsoever.
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