Category: 4. World

Viktor Orbán’s defeat in the race for the Hungarian prime ministership is no less momentous for being totally unsurprising. Even the many Americans who were late to tune in—noticing Hungary’s election on Sunday only after J.D. Vance showed…

Donald Trump has delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo XIV, saying he does not think the US-born leader of the Catholic church is “doing a very good job” and that he is “a very liberal person”, while also suggesting the…

After the American-Iranian talks in Pakistan ended in failure, U.S. President Donald Trump decided to step up pressure on the Iranians. On Sunday afternoon, he announced a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, a step that effectively…

Donald Trump has said the US will begin blockading the strait of Hormuz in an attempt to take control of the strategic waterway from Iran in the aftermath of failed peace negotiations between the countries in Pakistan.

The US president also…

Ghoncheh Habibiazad
Senior reporter, BBC Persian

Iran has been under a near-total internet outage since the war began on 28 February.

Iranian authorities often cite…

New York — 

Zohran Mamdani says he is just getting started.

Having just checked off the first 100 days of his administration leading America’s largest city, New York’s…

Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja has been arrested on suspicion of showing support for a proscribed organisation after attending a mass protest against the ban on Palestine Action in central London on Saturday.

Del Naja, also known as 3D,…