After contagion in the Arabian Peninsula, should the entire Horn of Africa fear a domino effect? Just as Donald Trump’s decision to invade Iran drew the Saudis back to Yemen: did threats over the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb light the…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Wednesday insisted that there were “strong indications” that Tehran was involved in a security incident on Sunday near an airbase in England that the US military uses in its war against Iran. The British…
A British-French agreement aimed at reducing the number of people trying to cross the English Channel in small boats has been scrapped, London said Wednesday. The pilot programme was intended to break the business model of “people smugglers” by exchanging…
As the French government prepares to unveil its latest budget, the country’s debt is at a record high and growing every day. France’s public debt currently stands at nearly 3.6 trillion euros, nearly 60 billion of that added in the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the pilot of a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight had tried to crash the plane and kill its passengers, after the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Passengers…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday called for an investigation into Cornell University’s response to a 2024 gang rape allegation in which a woman says she was sexually assaulted by seven students after being plied with alcohol and drugs.…
Climate change is increasingly reshaping the polar oceans, with Arctic waters warming rapidly, sea ice shrinking and wildlife losing habitat at both ends of the planet, an annual report said Wednesday. The Copernicus Ocean State Report depicts profound changes across…
Several factions of foreign fighters are credited with helping topple Syria’s Bashar al-Assad nearly two years ago – among them, the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim, Turkic ethnic minority spread across Central Asia – notably in China’s Xinjiang region. They eventually…
The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, but passengers then held him down while other pilots landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
A US appeals court ordered a “short stay of execution” for death row inmate Christa Pike, less than two hours before she was scheduled to be the first woman put to death in the state in more than two centuries.…