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Only 27 percent of Americans approve of the military strikes launched by President Donald Trump against Iran, according to a new Reuters / Ipsos poll, highlighting deep divisions within the US electorate over the use of force abroad. The survey, conducted between February 28 and March 1 among 1,282 respondents, found that 43 percent of Americans......
The United States and Israel launched a coordinated air campaign against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and struck hundreds of political and military targets across the country, marking a dramatic escalation in Middle East tensions. Iranian state media and officials confirmed that Khamenei, 86, died after airstrikes......
The El Niño climate pattern could reappear in the second half of 2026, adding extra heat on top of an already warming planet and increasing the chance of new global temperature records. The phenomenon develops when surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific turn unusually warm, releasing additional energy into the atmosphere......
Bitcoin tumbled then rebounded over the weekend as coordinated US and Israeli strikes on Iran, and confirmation of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death, jolted global markets and fueled fresh concern over energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz. The largest cryptocurrency briefly fell to around 63,000 dollars on Saturday......
The United Kingdom has authorized the United States to use British military bases in operations linked to the escalating confrontation with Iran, while firmly maintaining that it is not formally at war. Tensions rose after a drone struck the Royal Air Force base at RAF Akrotiri in southern Cyprus, hours after London confirmed that US forces......
The escalation of hostilities in the Middle East pushed the US dollar and gold higher on Monday, as investors turned to traditional safe-haven assets amid rising geopolitical uncertainty. Following reported joint Israeli-American strikes on Iran over the weekend, Tehran responded with missile attacks targeting countries in the region. The......
President Donald Trump has urged Iranians to seize what he called a historic chance to topple their leaders after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but the United States has not outlined a clear plan for what might follow any collapse of the Islamic Republic. In a video message released as U.S. and Israeli warplanes struck......
Three United States fighter jets that crashed in Kuwait were accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defense systems amid a wave of regional attacks, according to the US Central Command. The announcement was made by United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American military operations across the Middle East. In a statement released......
The United States and Israel have launched a large-scale air and missile offensive against Iran that has killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and shattered key elements of the country’s command structure, triggering a wave of Iranian retaliation that has pushed the wider Middle East to the brink of a broader war. Washington says......
Cambodia has formally welcomed 74 looted Khmer artifacts back into its national collection, marking one of the country’s largest single recoveries of stolen cultural property in recent years. The sculptures and ritual objects, many hundreds of years old, were unveiled at the National Museum in Phnom Penh during a ceremony attended by......
The latest military escalation between the United States and Iran has unsettled global financial markets and revived concerns about energy security, with potential consequences extending beyond the Gulf to economies such as Morocco. Reciprocal strikes on Iranian positions and American bases across the region, with reported impacts in Qatar,......
Safe-haven currencies strengthened at the start of the week as investors reacted to a sharp escalation in the conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel, driving money out of risk assets and into traditional shelters. The Swiss franc rose to its strongest level against the euro since 2015, while the Japanese yen also firmed as foreign......
Ali Larijani has emerged as the central political operator in Tehran after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in coordinated United States and Israeli airstrikes, which struck Khamenei’s compound in the Iranian capital on February 28 and triggered the most serious succession crisis since the 1979 revolution. Iranian......
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