Sara Spinelli

In the early afternoon of Ash Wednesday, ominous figures dressed in white roam the lanes of the medieval southern‑French village of Cournonterral. They wear long masks made of black badger hair, top hats tipped with feathers and sprigs of boxwood, and armor fashioned from sacks filled with straw. Though

Iranian drones struck the U.S. embassy in Riyadh as Tehran persisted in launching successive retaliatory raids on the Gulf and Israel, while Israeli troops began operating in southern Lebanon on the fourth day of an expanding regional conflict in the Middle East. The drone strike on the Riyadh embassy

With the United States and Israel ushering in a fresh wave of turmoil in the Middle East, China appears positioned to gain from a Washington administration lacking the political and logistical capacity to concentrate on Asian affairs. Formally, Beijing denounced the assaults. Foreign Minister Wang Yi described them as “unacceptable”

U.S. tells non‑essential personnel to depart Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq The State Department announced on Tuesday that it had instructed non‑emergency staff and their families to leave Bahrain and Jordan, and confirmed that a day earlier it had ordered similar personnel to exit Iraq as Tehran responds

Holidaymakers on the inaugural flights departing Abu Dhabi since Saturday have recounted their close‑up experiences as hostilities broke out between Iran and its Gulf neighbours. With thousands of services suspended throughout the Middle East, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers, Britain has started drafting evacuation schemes for a portion

Thousands of representatives will converge on Beijing this week for China’s annual Two Sessions, one of the most significant events on the nation’s political calendar and a rare chance for international journalists to observe the country’s senior legislators up close. The “Two Sessions” consist of simultaneous meetings