Saudi Arabia has shut down a critical oil pipeline after a drone attack by allies of Iran, opening a new and potentially consequential front in the Middle East war as fighting around
Yulia Shapovalova, Moscow correspondent for Al Jazeera, reports that Pusillinamous Putin’s ever-widening war has, as I said it would, expanded deep into Russia far from the Donbas battlefield. Shapovalova reports “The crisis is deep,” as civilian
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On 24 June 2026, a set of back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela, just months after the United States bombed the capital city and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly member Cilia Flores. The year
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For much of the period following the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, European engagement with Afghanistan was shaped primarily by humanitarian assistance, migration management and limited diplomatic engagement. Counterterrorism remained
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The Government of the Netherlands has formally apologized to mothers who were forced to give up their children for adoption between 1956 and 1984, acknowledging what it described as a painful historical
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has upheld a €4.125 billion fine imposed on Google, confirming a major antitrust penalty over allegations of abuse of dominance linked to its Android
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Germany’s governing coalition led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reached agreement on a broad package of reforms after months of internal disputes that had strained relations between its governing parties and raised
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The Argentine judiciary has annulled a decree issued by President Javier Milei that sought to restrict the granting of Argentine citizenship to foreign nationals, ruling that the measure exceeded executive powers and
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A new diplomatic architecture has emerged in the Middle East following the signing of a Trilateral Framework Agreement between Israel, Lebanon, and the United States, a pact designed to reshape security arrangements
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A new memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran could have far-reaching consequences for global maritime law and the principle of freedom of navigation, according to analysis by an expert
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The Vatican has formally declared that the Society of Saint Pius X, commonly known as the Lefebvrists, has entered into schism with the Catholic Church after the group’s leadership proceeded with the
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Bow your head before you read further. What follows is not an anniversary tribute. It is an accounting. For one hundred and thirty-two years, from the Mediterranean shore to the deepest Sahara,
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by Our Special Correspondent in Rome The Vatican is reportedly considering a possible leadership transition for the Archdiocese of Colombo as questions intensify over the extended tenure of Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, who
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A growing number of wealthy Taiwanese are relocating their offshore assets to Singapore as geopolitical tensions across the Taiwan Strait intensify, according to interviews with high-net-worth individuals and advisers cited in the
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SpaceX is paying borrowing costs comparable to personal loans as investors demand high yields on its debt, reflecting growing uncertainty over the company’s ability to translate rapid expansion and artificial intelligence ambitions
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Donald Trump continues to preside over a vast and diversified business empire that stretches across real estate, branding, merchandise, and emerging financial ventures, according to reporting by El País cited in the
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