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If the militants gain complete control of Bab al-Mandab Strait, it will increase Tehran’s leverage in its standoff with the Trump administration. Source link

The Trump administration wants to strip all nonprofit colleges, universities and private K-12 schools of their tax-exempt status if any of their programs designed to help students uses race as a criterion for eligibility.This...

A string of major disasters in 2026 have had devastating consequences. Earthquakes in Venezuela and Colombia and floods and mudslides in Nepal have killed tens of thousands of people and injured many more. Countless people...

Good morning. Polymarket makes a business out of uncertainty. Now it’s bringing some certainty to its own finances by hiring seasoned CFO Warren Jenson as its first finance chief.Jenson, who has served as CFO of Amazon, Electronic Arts, Delta...

Israel's military says it has destroyed a large underground complex operated by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. It said it used more than 1,000 tonnes of explosives to destroy two tunnels spanning more than 2km (1.2 miles) beneath the...

Thai police have arrested a Buddhist monk on suspicion of embezzling 100 million baht ($3m; £2.2m) from his monastery, along with a suspected female accomplice he was filmed having sex with.Phra Wachirayan Wi, a former abbot at the prominent...

For the past 24 years, there have been six moments of silence followed by bell tolls: two to mark the times when the planes struck the World Trade Center towers; one to mark when a plane struck the Pentagon;...

Yemen's special envoy to the United Nations called on support from the international community after the Iran-backed Houthi militant group seized control of...

Black Axe is a shadowy criminal network known for its extreme violence and operates across Africa, Europe and North America.A BBC Eye investigation in 2021 suggested that the syndicate had become one of the most far-reaching and dangerous organised...

"You've added a number of members that don't get along," he said, describing the challenge for India as bringing together countries with "a wide array of views and positions on the global order".Trump has also been quite vocal against...