Geopolitics beyond the usual borders.
Iran threatened to resume full-scale offensive operations and renewed strikes on Gulf states after a seventh consecutive night of US airstrikes, France 24 and Reuters reported.
For the seventh night running, US forces struck Iran as fighting over the Strait of Hormuz escalated. What is new is the target set: reporting now describes both sides hitting civilian infrastructure, raising the humanitarian and energy stakes of a conflict already parked on the world's most important oil chokepoint.
US strikes on Iran extended overnight to bridges, an airport and a railway station, Iranian media said, as Kuwait reported damage to an electrical and desalination plant and Cathay Cargo postponed Riyadh freighter services.
The United States is imposing a 25% tariff on Brazilian imports at President Trump's direction, escalating its trade war to reach the world's tenth-largest economy and raising the risk of fresh commodity and supply-chain shocks.
For years the United States led China on global favorability. A new Pew Research Center survey shows that lead has reversed across most of 36 countries and territories, including two of Washington's closest neighbors — the first hard data pointing to a measurable shift in soft power.
The US military launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran on Wednesday as President Donald Trump threatened to hit bridges and power plants next week absent talks, and Tehran threatened to block additional trade routes.
President Donald Trump threatened strikes on Iranian civilian targets as the United States resumed its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran fired on US bases in the region, sharply widening a confrontation that days ago centred on passage tolls.
Donald Trump says he has reinstated a US blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will bill ships for safe passage, days after fresh strikes and an Iranian attack on a vessel in the waterway.
France turns its annual military parade into a demonstration of European backing for Kyiv, with allied aircraft and troops pledged to Ukraine's post-war security taking centre stage.
India has formally launched its campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2028-29, built around a Global South 'SHANTI' vision, as Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar worked the UN on Ukraine and the Middle East.
A week ago the question was whether Graham's signature Russia bill could survive without him. The answer is arriving fast: Trump and Thune have taken it up as a memorial, and a Graham will keep sitting in the Senate.
Hungary's parliament passed a constitutional amendment on Monday removing president Tamás Sulyok, an Orbán loyalist, in the post-Orbán government's most concrete move to dismantle the old system.