The Pentagon had no warning. Germany's chancellor had just praised the transatlantic partnership. Then Trump posted — and extended the threat to Italy and Spain the very next day.
Roughly a hundred protesters met Keir Starmer with signs reading 'Jew harmer' when he visited the scene of a double stabbing. Hours later, Britain raised its terror threat level to severe.
Three vessels seized off Somalia in one week. The naval coalition that once suppressed piracy has been redeployed to fight a war in the Persian Gulf.
Israeli forces boarded civilian aid vessels 600 nautical miles from Gaza — fifty times the distance of its declared blockade zone. The nearest coast was Greece.
Kim Jong-un has publicly confirmed that North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia's Kursk region are under orders to blow themselves up rather than be captured. More than 6,000 are already dead.
For the first time since 2008, no tanks or missiles will roll through Red Square on Victory Day. The Kremlin's explanation amounts to a remarkable admission: Ukraine's drones have made Moscow's own airspace too dangerous for a parade.
Putin offered to mediate on Iran's enriched uranium. Trump told him to focus on Ukraine instead. A ceasefire might follow, or it might not — the details, as usual, were scarce.
$25 billion in two months. That is the Pentagon's first official price tag for the Iran war — and the defence secretary used the same hearing to call his congressional critics the "biggest adversary" the military faces.
London police declared the Golders Green stabbing a terrorist incident. It is the violent culmination of weeks of arson attacks on Jewish institutions across north London, some claimed by a group with suspected links to Iran.
$130,000 of vital medicine for 20,000 people sits stuck in a Dubai warehouse. Aid agencies are demanding a humanitarian corridor through the strait of Hormuz — because the war's deadliest consequences may be thousands of miles from the fighting.
At a White House state dinner, King Charles reminded Donald Trump that without the British, Americans would be speaking French. The joke was the easy part — everything else was encoded diplomacy aimed at a president dismantling the trans-Atlantic alliance.
Trump has ordered an extended Iran blockade. Hormuz traffic has collapsed from 130 ships a day to seven. Neither side is negotiating, and oil has hit $111 a barrel.
At least 29 young people were shot dead at a football pitch in Adamawa state. The same weekend, gunmen abducted children from an orphanage hundreds of kilometers away. Nigeria's security crisis is accelerating — and the world has barely noticed.
The Revolutionary Guards have taken wartime decision-making from Ayatollah Khamenei's hands — and the Strait of Hormuz is still shut. Whoever is negotiating with Tehran may be dialing the wrong number.
The UAE walked out of OPEC after 59 years without telling Saudi Arabia first. With its second-most capable producer gone, the cartel faces an existential crisis at the worst possible moment.
The Pentagon's FY2027 budget includes $1.85 billion to study building US warships in Japan and South Korea — a tacit admission that American shipyards can no longer produce hulls fast enough to meet the fleet's own requirements.
Putin stood beside Iran's foreign minister in St. Petersburg on Monday and praised Tehran's resistance to the United States. The country that once offered to mediate has picked a side.
Some NATO members want to skip the 2028 summit entirely and move to biennial gatherings. Six sources say the alliance built on leaders showing up for each other is now debating whether showing up is worth the trouble.
Germany's chancellor declared the United States 'humiliated' by Iran and told Ukraine to prepare territorial concessions for EU membership — both in remarks to school students.
A dissident FARC faction blocked traffic on Colombia's Pan-American Highway and detonated a bomb that left a crater of 200 cubic metres. Twenty civilians are dead, and the presidential election is one month away.
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