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As a father of four, Viktor Ilchak was not expected to be called up. Ukrainian law exempts men with three or more children from mobilisation. His wife and children wept and pleaded with him not to go to the front, yet he had already decided. “A true Capricorn, very obstinate,

In retaliation for the U.S.–Israeli missile strikes, Iran has begun an outright campaign of economic warfare. If the hostilities persist for another week, the repercussions will spread worldwide as the third post‑pandemic price jump sweeps through markets. For the United Kingdom, another squeeze on household budgets arrives

Mojtaba Khamenei, the second child of the late Ali Khamenei, is widely rumored to be the next supreme leader of Iran, a move that would place a hard‑line figure at the helm of the Islamic Republic during its most unsettled phase in its 48‑year existence and signal that,

The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, answered Donald Trump’s stark warning to halt all trade with Spain after his government declined to support the United States’ ongoing strikes against Iran, likening the escalating Middle‑East tension to a game of “Russian roulette with the fate of millions”. Sánchez, a

The U.S.–Israeli offensive against Iran aims to settle a 24‑year dispute over Tehran’s nuclear effort, yet experts on proliferation caution it could backfire and push the regime toward a covert bomb. Tehran has repeatedly asserted that its nuclear work is peaceful and that it has no

It required months for the false statements of the Bush administration concerning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to surface, after an invasion, a regime change, a probe, and finally the revelation. By contrast, the Trump administration’s alerts about an imminent Iranian danger emerged within a single afternoon. On