A Nation Baking: South Korea’s Record-Breaking Heat At 1:26 in the afternoon on Sunday, a thermometer in the southeastern South Korean city of Yangsan climbed to 42.5 degrees Celsius — 108.5 degrees Fahrenheit — and kept going. That single reading,…
A Senator’s Stark Language Reflects a Broader Strategic Drift Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) used a televised appearance Sunday to signal that President Trump is committed to the ongoing military campaign against Iran — and to deploy some of the most…
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, publicly challenged the Trump administration’s justification for a new wave of tariffs on European goods Friday, calling the underlying rationale factually baseless and describing the move as a breach of an existing…
The United States military has now completed eleven consecutive nights of air strikes against Iran, with the latest round hitting targets far beyond the southern coastal zones that had defined earlier operations — reaching as far north as Tabriz and…
Hundreds of protesters took to Venice’s waterways on Friday to confront a symbol of plutocratic diplomacy: a 384-foot superyacht belonging to Tilman Fertitta, the billionaire restaurateur and casino owner whom Donald Trump appointed U.S. Ambassador to Italy. The demonstration briefly…
The explosions began, as they have every night this week, around 9:30 in the evening local time — a familiar, dreadful rhythm settling over southern Iran. In the port city of Bandar Abbas, residents heard three blasts tear through the…
Military delegations from the United States and Lebanon convened in Beirut this week to work out the practical details of a US-brokered framework agreement aimed at securing the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon. While the discussions represent…
There is a quiet anxiety running beneath the surface of American financial markets right now, one that the cheerful headlines about falling oil prices have done little to dispel. While consumers welcome relief at the pump and equity traders celebrate…
Senior US military commanders knowingly bypassed warnings that intelligence on Iranian targets was severely out of date, approving strikes — including one that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers at an elementary school — in a rush to…
Russia launched one of its most devastating attacks on Kyiv in weeks early Monday morning, killing at least 15 people in the capital and three more in the surrounding region, wounding dozens, and reducing residential buildings to rubble — all…