European allies who ordered American weapons now face indefinite delays — those munitions are heading to the Iran theater instead. It's the first documented crack in NATO's supply chain caused by the war.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listed specific Iranian targets — power plants, energy facilities, dual-use infrastructure — and said the US is 'locked and loaded' if Tehran doesn't make a deal. A clarification at the same briefing: the blockade targets Iranian ports, not the Strait of Hormuz itself.
The ceasefire was negotiated without the belligerent. Hezbollah wasn't at the table, hasn't endorsed the deal, and launched 24 attacks during the talks that produced it. A bombing campaign that has killed 2,100 people now pauses — but only if the group doing the shooting agrees to stop.
Russia followed a 324-drone barrage with 659 more the very next night. At least 15 civilians are dead, and the Patriot interceptors that might have stopped them are running dry — consumed by a different war.
On April 7, China vetoed a UN resolution demanding the Strait of Hormuz reopen. Nine days later, Beijing's top diplomat was on the phone to Tehran, pressing Iran to do exactly that. Tehran's response came with conditions.
Pakistan's army chief is in Tehran with a message from Washington. The White House says no ceasefire extension was requested. Both can be true — and both probably are.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi confirmed a 'very serious' expansion of North Korea's nuclear weapons production, including a completed uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon. Washington is focused on Iran.
€1.3 billion was pledged in Berlin for Sudan on Wednesday. The country's humanitarian crisis remains 84 percent unfunded — and UN investigators say systematic sexual violence has become "the blueprint" of a war the world stopped watching.
The US blockade has forced six merchant vessels back into Iranian ports. Tehran is threatening to seal the entire Persian Gulf. The ceasefire expires in seven days. Trump told Fox the war is 'very close to over.'
An eighth-grader carrying five of his father's guns killed three students and a teacher Wednesday — the second school shooting in Turkey in as many days.
Ukraine intercepted 309 of 324 drones overnight — a 95 percent kill rate that still left one woman dead, seven wounded, and nine locations struck across the country.
A Chinese-built spy satellite was covertly transferred to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and used to photograph US installations before and after missile strikes in March. Five American refueling aircraft were damaged in one such attack.
The last time Berlin and Kyiv held formal government consultations, the war was still a distant headline. Tuesday's €4 billion defense package is a bet that American guarantees can no longer be relied on.
A US naval blockade of Iranian ports is barely 24 hours old, but oil is sliding below $100 and the Nasdaq is on a ten-day winning streak. The markets have decided there will be a deal. Nobody has signed one yet.
Survivors describe traffickers forcing passengers into fish holds where dozens suffocated before the boat even sank. Roughly 250 people remain missing in the Andaman Sea.
The Nigerian military called it a "precision" strike on terrorists. Survivors and local officials say the jets hit a crowded weekly market, killing up to 200 people including children. It is at least the third such incident in 15 months.
Hezbollah's leader called them 'futile.' Israel says it won't discuss a ceasefire. But on Tuesday, for the first time since 1993, Israeli and Lebanese envoys sat down at the same table.
UN investigators have found that RSF attacks on ethnic communities in Sudan bear "the hallmarks of genocide." The international aid response is 16 percent funded.
Jet fuel hit $195 a barrel. China's exports grew at a fraction of what forecasters expected. Six weeks into the Strait of Hormuz closure, the blockade has moved from military briefings to cancelled holidays and grocery bills.
The former CEO of Lafarge will spend six years in a French prison for financing ISIS. His company was fined €1.12 million — roughly 0.2 percent of what it paid to terrorist groups to keep a Syrian factory running.
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