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A laden crude oil tanker transits a narrow sea strait at sunset between arid brown headlands, with a small rocky island silhouetted at the channel mouth

Iran-Backed Houthis Seize Yemen’s Entire Red Sea Coast in an Eight-Day Sweep

Iran-backed Houthis took Yemen's entire Red Sea coast and the mouth of the Bab…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 12

Aerial view at sunset of a crude oil tanker transiting a narrow sea strait beside a rocky volcanic island, arid coastline on both sides and a column of smoke on the horizon

The Pipeline Saudi Arabia Built to Escape Hormuz Now Ends at a Houthi Checkpoint

Houthi fighters took Perim Island and the rest of Yemen's Red Sea coast in…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 11

Firefighters in Ukrainian State Emergency Service uniforms hose down burned-out retail kiosks, with shattered glass across the pavement and a destroyed car in the foreground

While Zelensky Collected Air Defence Money in Calgary, Drones and Glide Bombs Tore Through a Pavlohrad Shopping Centre

Russian forces hit a shopping centre in central Pavlohrad at midday on Thursday, at…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 10

Rows of empty delegate desks in a tiered assembly chamber, with a small group of officials talking beside a line of national flags and a city skyline through tall windows

The IAEA Referred Iran to a Security Council That Reimposed Every Sanction a Year Ago

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors voted 23 to 3 on Wednesday…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 9

Coastal oil refinery complex at dusk, distillation columns and crude storage tanks lit by orange lamps, a dark smoke plume rising from a fire inside the plant, and an oil tanker anchored offshore

Saudi Arabia Moved Its Oil West to Escape Iran. That Put It Inside Houthi Range.

Houthi strikes wounded 73 in Saudi Arabia's south. The Jazan refinery they hit has…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 8

A Turkish Airlines passenger jet banks across a deep blue evening sky above the floodlit exterior of a large English football stadium

Liverpool’s Record Shirt Deal Is With a State-Backed Airline, Not Another Bank

Liverpool confirmed on Tuesday that Turkish Airlines becomes its main club partner from June…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 8

A tall white steel defendants cage stands in an Egyptian criminal courtroom, lit by daylight from a high window, with an empty judges bench to one side

One Cairo Courtroom Just Matched Egypt’s Entire 2025 Total of Drug Death Sentences

A Cairo criminal court sentenced twelve people to death by hanging on Saturday in…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 8

Empty semicircular plenary chamber of a German state parliament, rows of blue seats and pale wooden desks facing a raised presidium bench beneath chandeliers and tall arched windows

Blocking the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt Now Takes All Five Remaining Parties

Alternative for Germany took 43.8 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday and…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 7

Rescue workers in reflective gear search the rubble of a destroyed house at night under portable floodlights, with drifting smoke, a burned-out garage and a fire truck nearby

Putin Paused Strikes on Kyiv for Three Days While Russia Kept Killing Everywhere Else

Vladimir Putin ordered a 72-hour halt to Russian strikes on Kyiv on Saturday, hours…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 5

An empty clinical treatment room with a daybed, folded blanket, eye mask, armchairs and a side table holding a covered medicine cup and clipboard

New Zealand Just Approved MDMA for PTSD. Australia Did the Same in 2023 and Has Treated 123 People.

The announcement. New Zealand is now the second country in the world, after Australia,…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 5

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte stands in a wood-panelled Senate session hall, the Philippine flag behind her

The Case That Can Actually End Sara Duterte’s Career Is Not the One That Just Got Her a Warrant

A Quezon City court ordered the arrest of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 4

Aerial view of a long wooden fishing boat crowded with people sitting low in heavy grey Atlantic swell, an orange and white maritime rescue vessel standing off nearby under an overcast sky

What Killed 83 People Off Gran Canaria Was 26 Days, Not the Sea

The wooden boat that Spanish rescuers reached 65 nautical miles southwest of Arguineguín on…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 3

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A crude oil supertanker at night with a ragged impact hole punched in its hull and smoke drifting across the floodlit deck, a dark rocky coastline behind it and a distant warship on the horizon

Iran Says the Sidr Hit a Mine. Saudi Arabia Says Iran Killed Two Sailors on It.

A laden crude oil tanker at dusk in the Strait of Hormuz as a military helicopter tows a minesweeping sonar sled nearby

Oil at $94 Is Priced on the Mines Nobody Can Find, Not the Ones the Navy Cleared

A crashed black quadcopter drone lies on wet tarmac in front of a large blue and white heavy-lift cargo aircraft at dusk, with police in high visibility vests and a tracked bomb disposal robot behind it

Four Hours After It Hit the Wing, a Bus Driver Found the Bomb Germany Now Blames on Russia

A Pentagon briefing room with several empty leather chairs pushed back from a long conference table, US Army and American flags furled against the wall

The Army Secretary Quit Over the General Hegseth Fired in April

Rows of weathered pump jacks and oil-stained ground stretch to the horizon in a heavy-crude field, with a gas flare burning at right under an orange sky

Washington Bought 55% of a Joint Venture, Not 65 Billion Barrels of American Oil

An arid rocky island in hazy Gulf light with a thin column of smoke rising from a damaged structure near its ridge, a laden crude oil tanker transiting the shipping lane behind it and a grey naval warship holding station on the horizon.

The US Bombed Iran Under a Standing Order Trump Issued Five Days Earlier

A white passenger catamaran lies capsized on its side in heavy grey seas while an orange coast guard vessel, rescue boats and a helicopter search among scattered life rafts near a rocky coastline.

Northern Cyprus Says Bad Weather Sank the Filo Jet. Its Own Leader Says the Sea Was Fine.

A plain brass geodetic survey marker set into granite at the edge of a large lake at first light, far shoreline visible on the horizon

Renaming a Lake Costs Trump Nothing. Refusing to Repeat It Cost the AP Its White House Seat.

Firefighters hose down the collapsed, smouldering steel frame of a burned-out warehouse at night while two fire engines stand on a village road beside scorched single-storey houses

Ukraine Opened a Negligence Investigation Into the Warehouse Where 27 of Its Own People Died

A man in a dark navy suit and black tie stands alone in a gilded palace room with tall arched windows and an empty carved chair behind him

Because Harald V Refused to Abdicate, Norway’s New King Inherits a Monarchy Mid-Scandal

Aerial view of a Himalayan river valley after a flash flood, with a collapsed steel truss bridge lying in a churning grey torrent and a mountain village reduced to mud, splintered timber and buried vehicles

Nepal Spent Fourteen Months Watching Tibet for the Next Flood. This One Started at Home.

Firefighters on an extended ladder reaching a smoke-blackened upper-floor hospital window as fire engines and open ambulances stand in the forecourt below and hospital staff in scrubs look on

Fourteen Newborns Died in an Islamabad Nursery Fire That Started with an Air Conditioner

Firefighters on a debris-covered village street beside stone houses whose terracotta tile roofs have been torn away, under a heavy post-storm sky

A Supercell Tornado Injured 41 People in Pomas While the Aude Sat Under a Thunderstorm Alert

A fresh landslide scar down the flank of a large municipal refuse mountain, with crushed corrugated-metal shacks and brown floodwater at its base and a yellow excavator working the debris under heavy grey cloud.

The Dar-es-Salam Landfill Was Due to Close on Sunday. It Killed at Least 30 People First.

A tall wooden wardrobe toppled against a bed in a dark Tokyo apartment bedroom, with books, a fallen lamp and broken dishes scattered across the floor and city high-rise lights visible through the window

Tokyo Earthquake Injures 37 as Japan’s Building Codes Hold and Its Furniture Does Not

A line of stationary transport trucks waits under the lit canopy of a commercial border inspection plaza at night, barrier arms down and booths empty, with a Canadian flag on a pole at the left

Canada Walks Away and Suspends Trade Talks as 50% New Tariff Kicks In

A line of transport trucks waits at customs booths on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge, with the bridge and the Detroit skyline behind them on an overcast morning.

Three Days After Trump Declared a Canada Deal, 50 Percent Tariffs Took Effect Anyway

Firefighters in navy turnout gear direct a hose at a blackened, smoking retail building as a red fire engine and an ambulance with blue lights stand on a debris-covered forecourt.

Russia Waited Thirty Minutes to Strike the Kryvyi Rih Mall a Second Time