Since late December 2025, protests across Iran have been met with a State response that can only be described as extraordinary in scale and brutality. Amnesty International has called January 2026 the deadliest period of repression it has…
Britain’s foreign minister Yvette Cooper will meet with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, after President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of London for ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which is home to a US-UK air base.Last…
A Thai court has sentenced a jailed activist lawyer to an additional two years and eight months in prison for insulting the monarchy at a rally in November 2020, a rights group said on Friday, bringing his combined sentence to more than 30…
A recent survey by the Jewish Federations of North America found that only one third of American Jews identify as Zionist. This, of course, doesn’t mean that most American Jews want to dismantle the State of Israel. Nine out of ten Jews support…
For 2026 Gaza, the urgent needs are far more prosaic than the smart-city vision Trump proposes: Palestinians require a warm meal to break the fast and personal security for tomorrow, not a futuristic port. Without clear…
Pakistan and the United States have formally launched a strategic economic partnership to redevelop the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, the Finance Division announced Thursday. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.orgThe…
Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor
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We’re keeping across popular flight-tracking sites like Flightradar24 to help us build a picture of what military aircraft the US is deploying…
Europe’s five biggest defense powers are set to announce a plan to invest in military drones, as part of wider efforts to boost the defense industry in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and concerns about the US commitment to…
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.
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