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Israel sealed every crossing into Gaza without a set date after its strike on Iran, enforcing a blockade that has already raised food costs and endangers two million residents with a fresh famine risk. More than two years into the conflict, with Israeli troops holding roughly 60 % of the area,

France plans to enlarge its nuclear stockpile for the first time in many years and to deepen nuclear‑weapon collaboration with eight European partners, including the United Kingdom, as part of a “major” reinforcement of its deterrence policy, President Emmanuel Macron announced. With European leaders increasingly uneasy about uncertain U.

As a presidential hopeful, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to withdraw the United States from “endless wars,” to put “America first,” and to concentrate on domestic issues. After completing his first term, he boasted—somewhat inaccurately—that his administration had overseen “no wars.” Now the Trump administration’s choice to side

Iran’s noisy $50,000 delta‑winged Shahed‑136 drones have long been an unwelcome presence over Ukrainian airspace. In the past two days, hundreds of these distinctive machines have struck Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states as Tehran seeks to pressure and penalise Washington’s

Iran has answered U.S. and Israeli strikes by carrying out a series of retaliatory attacks on nations throughout the Middle East, with serious repercussions for the petroleum sector and the world economy. Tehran has hit oil installations in adjacent states, while vessel movement through the Strait of Hormuz – the

Abu Yehya and his two sons were roused by the sound of explosions in the early hours of Monday. A series of about a dozen blasts, one only a few hundred metres away, forced them onto the streets of Beirut’s southern districts. For four weary hours they walked until