Morocco’s efforts to secure international backing for its proposed autonomy plan for Western Sahara face a renewed obstacle at the United Nations, where Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that any future arrangement
Morocco’s efforts to secure international backing for its proposed autonomy plan for Western Sahara face a renewed obstacle at the United Nations, where Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that any future arrangement
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Fifteen former members of Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) and intelligence officers have broken decades of silence to describe covert operations against the Irish Republican Army (IRA), offering first-hand accounts of surveillance,
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Piracy off Somalia’s coast has surged in 2026, adding pressure to international shipping as regional conflicts divert naval forces from anti-piracy operations and expose longstanding weaknesses in coastal security. By mid-September, 25
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Three years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks killed approximately 1,200 Israelis and brought hundreds of hostages to Gaza, the consequences have extended far beyond the battlefield. Israel’s military campaigns have
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President Donald Trump and Iran’s leaders are preparing for the possibility of renewed military confrontation after the November 3 US midterm elections, while continuing to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the conflict,
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The arrest of August Hanning, Germany’s former intelligence chief, has prompted calls across the Bundestag for tighter restrictions on what senior intelligence officials can do after leaving government, including demands for a
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US military personnel stationed on Japan’s Okinawa island have been placed under a month-long curfew and banned from drinking alcohol while undergoing discipline training after a US Marine was accused of murdering
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Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine following the death of a 28-year-old laboratory worker who was reportedly exposed to the bacterium that causes plague, prompting international monitoring of an
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China’s state television has released rare footage of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) counter-drone units conducting live-fire drills featuring laser weapons, high-power microwave systems and integrated missile-gun platforms, presenting the three technologies as
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China’s Ministry of State Security has warned of what it described as genetic resource theft and other cross-border biosecurity risks, citing cases in which overseas organisations allegedly entered ecologically sensitive areas under
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The new Netflix series East of Eden gives John Steinbeck’s sprawling American family saga something the celebrated 1955 film largely denied it: room for the characters who were pushed aside in Elia
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For almost two decades, Regina Jardim has been recording the lives of Brazilian women killed by men. Her work began after her daughter, Priscila, was shot dead by her ex-partner as she
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by Our Special Correspondent The 30 September incident aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has revived memories of decades of aircraft hijackings and placed renewed scrutiny on aviation security,
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The FBI’s decision to place Goldy Brar on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List has transformed an India-based organised-crime investigation into a major American manhunt. The case, linked by US authorities to
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Ethiopia’s renewed civil war is intensifying across its northern regions, with about 150,000 people already forcibly displaced and at least 250 rebel fighters reported killed, according to the Ethiopian government. The fighting
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