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John Healey, the defence secretary, is weighing the option of dispatching a Royal Navy destroyer to Cyprus to bolster the security of British installations after a series of apparently hostile drones struck RAF Akrotiri on the island. Defence officials said a deployment of HMS Duncan, presently stationed in Portsmouth, is

The US‑Israeli offensive against Iran has been denounced as unlawful by many nations in the Global South, with China labeling the act of “openly murdering the head of a sovereign state” as intolerable. Numerous governments argued that diplomatic talks between Washington and Tehran over the nuclear agenda and missile

Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola, a Sicilian mafia leader and one of Italy’s most notorious criminals, has died at 87. Santapaola, long suspected of orchestrating the wave of violence that plagued Italy in the 1980s and 1990s, passed away on Monday in a Milan prison where he was serving several life

In the modest, dust‑laden streets of Damak, a rare political clash is taking shape. It pits a veteran party figure against a former rapper‑turned‑law‑maker who favors dark glasses and crisp attire, a contest that could overhaul the nation’s political landscape. As Nepal approaches what many

The United States struck Iran after learning that its ally Israel was preparing an attack, which would have provoked retaliation against U.S. forces, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “We understood that if we did not act pre‑emptively before they launched those attacks, we would incur greater casualties,

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