Slovenia heads to the polls on Sunday in a closely contested race between incumbent Prime Minister Robert Golob and right-wing former Prime Minister Janez Jansa.Opinion polls currently suggest no clear winner between Golob’s Freedom Movement (GS) and Jansa’s Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), with the outcome likely to hinge on smaller
Israeli air strikes target army camps in response to alleged attacks on the Druze community in Suwayda on Thursday.Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026Israel’s military has said it struck Syrian army camps overnight in response to what it claimed were attacks against the Druze community in the
The United States and Australia’s political tug of war against Iran over the fates of seven members of the Iranian women’s football squad appears to have ended with the depleted team returning home minus the two players who defected last week.Critics now say politics trumped concern for the women’s best
Israel and America’s war on Iran has killed more than 1,500 people in a matter of weeks, and the toll continues to rise.In Tehran on March 7, mourners gathered around the coffin of Zainab Sahebi, a two-year-old girl killed in an Israeli air strike. A small
The world still speaks about the Strait of Hormuz as if the central question were whether Iran will try to close it. That is now the wrong question.Iran’s most effective military option is not to mine the Strait of Hormuz itself, nor the narrow, internationally scrutinised
Lloyd’s List reports that ships could be allowed to pass through ‘safe corridor’ once they are approved by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026Iran is developing a new vetting and registration system for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz as it transitions to a
Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Fitr on Friday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, during which they fast from sunrise to sunset.Ramadan ends with the sighting of the new moon, which ushers in the month of Shawwal.Because some
Beirut, Lebanon and Gaza City, Palestine – Along Beirut’s downtown waterfront, Alaa is looking for somewhere to rest his head.The Syrian refugee, originally from the occupied Golan Heights, is now homeless. He explained that he had already spent the day wandering around the Lebanese capital trying to find shelter.Recommended Stories
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has succeeded where countless previous Israeli leaders have failed: persuading the United States to join Israel in launching open-ended strikes against its regional nemesis, Iran.So far, those attacks have killed more than 1,400 people in Iran, while 1,000 have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon,
Health and environment advocacy groups in the United States are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw a key 2009 climate change ruling known as the “endangerment finding”.That finding had established that greenhouse gases are a risk to public health and environmental safety, given
Ukraine has sent more than 200 experts to help Gulf countries defend themselves against Iranian drones, and was preparing to send nearly three dozen more, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week.“What is happening around Iran today is not a faraway war for us – because of the cooperation between Russia
Rubaya, Democratic Republic of the Congo – More than a month after a mine collapse in the eastern Congolese city of Rubaya killed hundreds of people, heavy rains once again lashed the area, destabilising the open, steep mine slopes and causing another deadly landslide.In the aftermath of the March 3
Slovenia heads to the polls on Sunday in a closely contested race between incumbent Prime Minister Robert Golob and right-wing former Prime Minister Janez Jansa.Opinion polls currently suggest no clear winner between Golob’s Freedom Movement (GS) and Jansa’s Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), with the outcome likely to hinge on smaller
Israeli air strikes target army camps in response to alleged attacks on the Druze community in Suwayda on Thursday.Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026Israel’s military has said it struck Syrian army camps overnight in response to what it claimed were attacks against the Druze community in the
The United States and Australia’s political tug of war against Iran over the fates of seven members of the Iranian women’s football squad appears to have ended with the depleted team returning home minus the two players who defected last week.Critics now say politics trumped concern for the women’s best
Israel and America’s war on Iran has killed more than 1,500 people in a matter of weeks, and the toll continues to rise.In Tehran on March 7, mourners gathered around the coffin of Zainab Sahebi, a two-year-old girl killed in an Israeli air strike. A small
The world still speaks about the Strait of Hormuz as if the central question were whether Iran will try to close it. That is now the wrong question.Iran’s most effective military option is not to mine the Strait of Hormuz itself, nor the narrow, internationally scrutinised
Lloyd’s List reports that ships could be allowed to pass through ‘safe corridor’ once they are approved by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026Iran is developing a new vetting and registration system for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz as it transitions to a
Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Fitr on Friday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, during which they fast from sunrise to sunset.Ramadan ends with the sighting of the new moon, which ushers in the month of Shawwal.Because some
Beirut, Lebanon and Gaza City, Palestine – Along Beirut’s downtown waterfront, Alaa is looking for somewhere to rest his head.The Syrian refugee, originally from the occupied Golan Heights, is now homeless. He explained that he had already spent the day wandering around the Lebanese capital trying to find shelter.Recommended Stories
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has succeeded where countless previous Israeli leaders have failed: persuading the United States to join Israel in launching open-ended strikes against its regional nemesis, Iran.So far, those attacks have killed more than 1,400 people in Iran, while 1,000 have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon,
Health and environment advocacy groups in the United States are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw a key 2009 climate change ruling known as the “endangerment finding”.That finding had established that greenhouse gases are a risk to public health and environmental safety, given
Ukraine has sent more than 200 experts to help Gulf countries defend themselves against Iranian drones, and was preparing to send nearly three dozen more, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week.“What is happening around Iran today is not a faraway war for us – because of the cooperation between Russia
Rubaya, Democratic Republic of the Congo – More than a month after a mine collapse in the eastern Congolese city of Rubaya killed hundreds of people, heavy rains once again lashed the area, destabilising the open, steep mine slopes and causing another deadly landslide.In the aftermath of the March 3
