In the event of an emergency, the U-turn is the fastest way home in the first 36 hours after the TLI. After that it can be just as quick, and often simpler, to stay on course around the Moon and fall back
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Donald Trump’s comments about his marriage were “neither elegant nor up to standard”. The US president was delivering a national address in Washington on the war in Iran, when he claimed that Brigitte Macron, Macron’s
His efforts appear to have worked. China’s Foreign Ministry said the two were making “new efforts towards advocating for peace.” The joint statement agreed that dialogue and diplomacy were “the only viable option to resolve conflicts”, and it called for waterways, including
Many of the cases in the report took place in the conflict hotspot of North Darfur last year, following the RSF takeovers of the displaced persons camps of Zamzam and Abu Shouk, and of the city of el-Fasher in October, which MSF
Before the decision was made to allow Cardinal Pizzaballa full access to the church, Netanyahu said worshippers of “all faiths” had been asked not to visit sites in Jerusalem’s Old City, which had been subject to strikes from Iran, and that police
The Iranian regime is an obdurate, ruthless, well-organised adversary. Founded after the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah, it was then forged in the deadly misery of the eight-year war with Iraq. The regime is built on institutions, not individuals, and reinforced
“I just wish that there was more transparency on why we’re doing what we’re doing, that way you could send your loved one overseas and be OK with that,” said Samantha Cassell. “I hope it comes to an end quick, because it’s
Many of these US and Israeli strikes have targeted police stations, Basij militia buildings, police headquarters, military and police universities, safe houses, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) homes, as well as potential ammunition stores and checkpoints.
It is worth mentioning that the future of the Gulf model has been questioned in the past, not least during the Covid pandemic, when some experts suggested carriers reliant on long-haul routes and transit traffic, using fleets of large aircraft, were not
Between January 2023 and mid-February 2026, at least 4,765 Palestinians from 97 locations, have been displaced by settler violence, the UN’s humanitarian office says. Most were from Bedouin and herding communities in Area C. At the start of this year, 600 people