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Azerbaijan has charged Iran with launching a drone strike that hit Nakhchivan, damaging an airport and wounding two civilians. The assault would represent Tehran’s first attack on a Caucasian state since the onset of the US‑Israel conflict, and it raises the possibility of the war spilling beyond the

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

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

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

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

An internal U.S. assessment reveals that Israeli officials were already skeptical about Lebanon’s ability to disarm Hezbollah before Israel began an aerial operation against the group on Monday. The disclosed embassy cable indicates that on the night preceding the joint U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran, Israeli representatives