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Another day, another twist in Donald Trump’s foreign‑policy saga. The weekend focused on conflict, with Trump insisting Iran had not yet “paid a big enough price.” Tuesday brought Project Freedom, promoted as a sweeping “humanitarian gesture” to free trapped vessels and their crews from the Gulf, yet also

At 21, Rodney Wilkinson was South Africa’s top fencer: national champion in foil and sabre, runner‑up in epee. He had competed across Europe and in Argentina, but never reached an Olympic podium because the apartheid government barred the country from the Games. The regime stripped him of that

The acclaimed Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce is receiving payment from the Saudi government to produce a feature film that casts the kingdom’s narcotics officers as heroes. Titled The Watchful Eyes, the film is presented as a dramatization of a genuine case from the Saudi Ministry of Interior’s narcotics

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine whether the country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has struck an Atlantic cruise ship, amid reports that several passengers have already returned home. Argentina, the departure point for the cruise to Antarctica, is consistently ranked by the

When British settlers began constructing Christchurch city 170 years ago, they largely overlooked the nearby Waimakariri River, which winds from the South Island’s alps toward the eastern coast. Rain and glacial movements forced the braided river – a globally uncommon form with many intertwined channels – to reshape itself, at times

Russia has instructed foreign embassies in Kyiv to pull out their staff should it decide to strike the Ukrainian capital during Moscow’s Victory Day parade this weekend. This warning comes even though President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered a truce that would cover the period before, during and after the