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Iranian vessel requests docking in Sri Lanka after US sinks frigate

Iranian vessel requests docking in Sri Lanka after US sinks frigate

A second Iranian vessel has been reported in waters near Sri Lanka and has asked for emergency permission to dock, a day after a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian frigate, killing more than 80 people on board. Sri Lankan minister Nalinda Jayatissa told parliament that another Iranian ship was

‘Everyone’s calling’: UK private‑jet firm sees demand jump up to 300% amid Iran war

‘Everyone’s calling’: UK private‑jet firm sees demand jump up to 300% amid Iran war

Planes are always urgently sought out when a crisis strikes somewhere in the world. Since the US‑Israel war against Iran started on Saturday, demand has outstripped supply with thousands of people stranded in the Middle East frantically searching for an exit route. While many rely on governments to send

Vanuatu advances UN climate resolution despite Trump’s opposition

Vanuatu advances UN climate resolution despite Trump’s opposition

The Trump administration’s effort to block a UN resolution urging nations to act on the climate emergency has forced cuts to the text but has not fully eliminated it, according to the small Pacific island state leading the initiative. Washington has pressed Vanuatu, a southern‑Pacific archipelago, to withdraw

I Credit Iron Maiden for My English A‑Level: The Literature Our Writers Unearthed via Pop Music

I Credit Iron Maiden for My English A‑Level: The Literature Our Writers Unearthed via Pop Music

Penelope Farmer via the Cure I first heard the Cure’s “Charlotte Sometimes” as a teenager, and it felt like emerging from a reverie. The clashing guitars rang out like distant bells while the vague lyrics about getting ready for sleep unearthed a childhood recollection of Penelope Farmer’s eerie

Experts claim Trump administration is conducting an illegal war against Iran.

Experts claim Trump administration is conducting an illegal war against Iran.

The Trump administration is conducting an unlawful campaign against Iran, one that contravenes both the U.S. Constitution and the laws governing international armed conflict, according to a number of legal scholars and bipartisan legislators. The Senate is set to vote on Wednesday on whether to stop Donald Trump’s

Blazing Sun, Brutal Populists: The Climate Crisis’s Impact on the Next Two Decades

Blazing Sun, Brutal Populists: The Climate Crisis’s Impact on the Next Two Decades

After a diplomatic career that took him to the conflict zones of Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, the last place Arthur Snell imagined he might narrowly escape death was on a vacation. A near‑miss with a tumbling boulder while climbing in the Swiss Alps forced him to confront the fragility

Former NATO chief backs Starmer after Trump’s “no Winston Churchill” remark

Former NATO chief backs Starmer after Trump’s “no Winston Churchill” remark

Britain must not be drawn into a conflict “without a clear end point”, warned a former senior NATO commander, who also backed Keir Starmer after Donald Trump’s barbs that he was “not Winston Churchill”. Trump was described as “another American president who has launched a war of choice”, Gen