Israel blocked voting materials from entering Gaza. The election commission improvised with wooden boxes and vaccination ink. In Deir al-Balah, three-quarters of eligible voters stayed home.
Iran's foreign minister visited four cities in three countries this weekend, pressing every mediator he could find. Trump cancelled his own envoys' trip and suggested Tehran pick up the phone.
Atef Najib oversaw the arrest and torture of teenagers in Daraa in 2011 — the crackdown that ignited Syria's civil war. On Sunday, he sat in a Damascus courtroom in handcuffs, the first Assad-era official to face trial inside Syria.
Military spending across Asia and Oceania rose 8.1 percent — the fastest pace in 16 years — as US allies questioned Washington's security guarantees. The global total has climbed for 11 straight years.
A ceasefire extension was two days old when Netanyahu ordered fresh strikes across southern Lebanon. Six people are dead, seven towns are under forced evacuation orders, and thousands are fleeing again.
North Korea deployed 15,000 troops to Russia's war and lost an estimated 2,000 soldiers. This weekend, Moscow repaid the debt with a five-year defense pact and a war memorial in Pyongyang.
A suicide car bomb at the defence minister's residence in Mali's most fortified garrison town. Five cities hit at once. The junta that promised security has lost its top security official.
A gunman breached the magnetometer screening area at the Washington Hilton and opened fire during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Trump was evacuated unharmed — his third encounter with an armed assailant in under two years.
Trump cancelled his negotiators' trip to Islamabad on Saturday, declaring Tehran's leadership too confused to negotiate with. Iran's hardliners had just finished sidelining the pragmatists who actually wanted a deal.
Rescue crews pulled bodies from the rubble of collapsed apartment blocks in Dnipro after Russia fired more than 660 drones and missiles in a single night — the second massive aerial assault in nine days.
Gunmen hit Mali's international airport, its main military base, and towns spanning hundreds of kilometers of the Sahel in a dawn assault — raising the question of whether the junta itself could fall.
Iranian strikes on Qatar's main LNG terminal cut capacity by 17 percent. The IEA says the damage will squeeze global gas markets through 2027 — even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens tomorrow.
Orders to 'shoot and kill' Iranian boats remain active as the White House sends Trump's son-in-law to Islamabad for ceasefire talks. Iran's foreign ministry says no direct meeting will take place.
For two months, Benjamin Netanyahu kept a cancer diagnosis secret while directing Israel's wars on three fronts. The timing of the disclosure tells its own story.
The €90 billion loan was stuck for months because one man refused to sign. Then Orbán lost an election, a pipeline was repaired, and the EU's largest single commitment to Ukraine sailed through.
NATO has confirmed no mechanism exists to suspend members — hours after a Pentagon email proposed doing exactly that to Spain over its refusal to support the Iran war.
The U.S. Navy is now authorized to kill Iranian small-boat crews on sight in the Strait of Hormuz — part of a maritime standoff that has removed 13 million barrels of daily oil from the world market.
Israel says it has targets marked and is waiting for Washington's permission to 'return Iran to the Stone Age.' The next move in the war is Trump's alone.
The White House branded China's AI model theft 'industrial-scale' on Thursday — elevating corporate complaints to official policy just three weeks before a Trump-Xi summit in Beijing.
Hungary held €90 billion hostage to an oil pipeline dispute for two months. Orbán's election defeat ended the blockade — and the first payment could reach Kyiv by June.
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Von Clause