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Israel-Iran war: Netanyahu says eliminating Khamenei would end crisis, ‘We are fighting your enemy’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says eliminating Khamenei would end the crisis. A day after it was reported that US president Donald Trump blocked an Israeli plan to kill Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is not ruling out eliminating Khamenei as that would only end the ‘forever war’ […]

Israel Iran war: Pentagon positions warships in West Asia

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) The Pentagon is positioning warships and other military assets in West Asia to help protect Israel and American troops from possible Iranian retaliation to Israeli strikes, US officials said. Naval destroyer USS Thomas Hudner was directed to move to the eastern Mediterranean, and a second destroyer may soon follow, officials […]

Israel-Iran war: Attack comes at a moment of weakness for Iran’s proxies

For four decades, Iran poured billions of dollars, weapons and military minds into a grand project: building up a network of anti-Israel militias known as the “Axis of Resistance” that would join Iran if a war with Israel broke out.Friday’s strikes underscored just how degraded that axis has become over the past year, with few […]

Israel-Iran war: Iran launches fresh missile barrage at Israel; blasts heard in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem

Iran launched a new wave of missile strikes targeting Israel early Saturday, intensifying a rapidly escalating conflict in the region. The Iranian state broadcaster confirmed the offensive, saying, “A new round of Iranian missile attacks on the Zionist regime begins from Tehran and Kermanshah,” a city in western Iran.The Israeli military immediately issued warnings, urging […]

Israel-Iran war: US helps Israel intercept Iranian missile barrage; warships and jets mobilised across Middle East

American air-defence systems and naval assets played a key role in helping Israel intercept a barrage of ballistic missiles fired by Iran on Friday, a US official confirmed, as tensions between Tehran and Tel Aviv threaten to engulf the region in a wider war.The missile launches were in retaliation for Israel’s earlier airstrikes on Iranian […]

‘Everybody hates Russia but loves Germany and Japan’: Donald Trump reflects on World War II in talks with Macron and Putin; calls it ‘a strange world’

US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump took a reflective turn on Thursday, steering a conversation back in time to the days of World War II. In remarks that blended history with surprise, Trump recounted recent conversations with French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin—both of which circled back to one of […]

From pig war to coffee ban: Ten weird historical events that thankfully did not shape history

The World Wars, the moon landing, the invention of the internet, the fall of empires, and civil rights revolutions — history has no shortage of epic, world-altering events. This article is not about any of them.So buckle up (preferably with a cup of coffee — before someone bans it again), and prepare for a crash […]

‘One of biggest in war’: Russia unleashes drone, missile barrage on Ukraine; Zelenskyy urges global action

Russia launched attack on Ukraine (Image Credit: Zelenskyy’s X account) Russia launched over 300 drones and 7 missiles, 2 of which were North Korean-made ballistic missiles, at Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed. In the overnight attack, Russia launched a large drone attack on Ukraine, targeting Kyiv and causing damage to a maternity facility in […]

‘Enough is enough’: Former Israel PM Ehud Olmert blames Netanyahu for Gaza war; urges Trump to intervene

Former Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert (left) and current PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Image credit: AP) Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, has blamed the current PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, for failing to prevent the October 7, 2023 attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which triggered a deadly war in the middle east.In an interview […]

From China with Love: Kash Patel explains to Joe Rogan how fentanyl became America’s opium war | World News

Even as Elon Musk and Donald Trump dominated headlines by publicly feuding on social media, the newly appointed FBI Director, Kash Patel, appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast for his first long-form interview. The conversation, over two hours long, ranged across familiar territory—government dysfunction, national security, and internet conspiracy—but the most striking element was Patel’s […]