Geopolitics beyond the usual borders.
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.
One of Spain's deadliest wildfires killed 13, and now PM Pedro Sánchez wants prevention. Meanwhile France is chasing the possibility that a fire near Paris was set on purpose. Two countries, one blistering summer, and a fire season that no longer respects national lines.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they struck US bases in multiple Middle Eastern countries in retaliation for American attacks, as Washington reported degrading Tehran's capacity to hit Hormuz shipping and Britain proscribed the IRGC.
For the second time, Sofia's objection to blacklisting Patriarch Kirill has blocked the EU's 21st sanctions package against Russia — but narrower designations targeting VK, its Max messenger app and the elite Turla hacking unit are moving anyway.
Brussels and London jointly blacklisted 33 Russia-linked cyber targets tied to FSB operations, drawing a NATO condemnation and a Russian threat of retaliation. The move lands while the EU's broader 21st package remains hostage to internal bargaining — evidenced by Bulgaria's confirmed removal of Patriarch Kirill.
Iran has extended its retaliatory strikes to Oman, widening a Gulf-wide escalation as US-Iran talks to end the war remain unresolved and the Strait of Hormuz standoff resets to square one.
A Paris summit of Ukraine's allies promised more air-defence help on Monday, but the gathering exposed a widening gap between wartime rhetoric and delivered capability, with the EU's 21st sanctions package still unagreed and NATO's Ankara summit offering warnings rather than resolution.
South Africa says it has deported more than 53,000 undocumented migrants as anti-immigration protests spread — a shift that could ripple across Southern Africa's migration corridors.
Russian strikes on Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson and Ukrainian drone attacks into Russia and occupied Zaporizhzhia killed nine people overnight. The exchange came as the US senator who spent a year fighting to pass a Russia sanctions bill died hours after finally securing a White House deal to move it — leaving its next steps unclear just as Kyiv called the legislation essential leverage.