Trump calls them "love taps" and says the ceasefire holds. Iran says the truce is dead and fired ballistic missiles to prove it. Neither side is backing down, and the Strait of Hormuz is empty.
A one-page memorandum would end the US-Iran war but leave Tehran's nuclear stockpile, missile programme, and proxy networks untouched. Israel was not invited to the negotiating table.
Two former Chinese defense ministers received death sentences in a single Xinhua dispatch — the most severe punishment of senior military officers since Xi's anti-corruption campaign began. Both were Xi's own appointees.
Marco Rubio arrived at the Vatican to smooth things over with Pope Leo XIV. Donald Trump spent the same week calling the pontiff a danger to Catholics.
A US fighter jet shot the rudder off an Iranian oil tanker on Wednesday — the same day Trump said peace talks were advancing. Asian markets hit record highs anyway.
Russia told 85 foreign embassies to evacuate Kyiv, warning of 'massive' retaliatory strikes if Ukraine disrupts Victory Day. The same holiday commemorating the end of World War II is now the pretext for escalating the war Russia started.
Israel struck Beirut's Hezbollah stronghold Wednesday, targeting Radwan Force commander Malek Balout. Israeli officials say the operation was coordinated with the United States — even as simultaneous strikes across Lebanon killed at least 13 on a ceasefire already coming apart.
A Japanese unit fired a surface-to-ship missile on Philippine soil during US-led military drills — the first time Tokyo has launched an offensive weapon abroad since 1945. Beijing's response was furious.
The US expects Iran's response within 48 hours on a 14-point memo that would end hostilities, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and require Iran to give up uranium enrichment for 15 years. An Iranian delegate dismissed the report as 'White House market manipulation.'
North Korea's revised constitution names South Korea as a foreign neighboring state for the first time — and erases every reunification reference dating back to 1948. The diplomatic framework is gone.
Eight days after he sentenced South Korea's former first lady to four years in prison, Judge Shin Jong-oh was found dead in a flower bed outside his courthouse. Police suspect suicide. Whether the public believes that is another matter.
Russia killed at least 27 people in a barrage hours before Kyiv's ceasefire — and days before Moscow's own Victory Day pause. Double-tap strikes targeted rescue workers. The Kremlin has not commented.
Project Freedom lasted one day. Trump paused the Hormuz escort operation Tuesday night, citing progress toward a deal with Iran. The US naval blockade stays. Whether this is diplomacy or a tactical breather is the question now shaping markets and alliances across three continents.
Up to 3,000 Russian troops can now be stationed on Indian soil under a new defense pact. The country that anchored the Non-Aligned Movement just opened its military bases to a sanctioned power.
A 33-year-old German citizen is in custody after a car careered through a pedestrian shopping street in Leipzig, killing two and injuring at least 20. It is at least the fifth major vehicle-ramming incident in Germany in under a decade.
The blast at Huasheng Fireworks killed 26 people in Liuyang — the city supplying 70 percent of China's exported fireworks. The last time a factory exploded here, local authorities tried to conceal the death toll.
US forces sank six Iranian naval boats on Monday as Tehran broke its ceasefire to strike the UAE with missiles and drones. Trump's immediate call for South Korea to 'join the mission' has been met with a diplomatic shrug.
Russia's Defense Ministry offered a two-day Victory Day ceasefire and threatened to flatten Kyiv if Ukraine broke it. Zelensky responded with a truce starting three days earlier — with no end date.
Two US destroyers ran a gauntlet of Iranian missiles through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. The UAE came under ballistic missile attack for the first time since the April ceasefire, cargo ships caught fire, and oil surged past $114 a barrel.
An 11-year-old girl who survived for twenty days has died in hospital, bringing the death toll to ten. The shooter was 14, armed with five guns from the home of his father — a former police inspector.
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