Islamabad, Pakistan – The capital woke up on Saturday to lockdown: Roads were sealed, checkpoints appeared, and more than 10,000 security personnel were deployed ahead of  ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran.The Iranian delegation arrived late on Friday...

Peter Magyar, once a staunch loyalist of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has ended his mentor’s 16-year rule after his Tisza party won Sunday’s parliamentary election by a landslide.With votes in 97.35 percent of precincts counted early on Monday, Magyar’s...

The US restrictions on maritime navigation and transit in international waters are illegal, Iranian military says. Published On 13 Apr 202613 Apr 2026The Iranian military says an announced naval blockade on vessels by the United States in international waters would be...

NewsFeedIsraeli forces fired tear gas towards a group of children trying to walk to school in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank after a fence had been erected blocking their route, according to local reports.Published On 13 Apr 202613 Apr 2026Click here to share...

Other US allies criticise Trump’s move, including France, Spain and Turkiye, and China also condemns the plan. Published On 13 Apr 202613 Apr 2026British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says his country will not join the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz announced by...

EXCLUSIVEHead of defence college asked military official to ensure the government took ownership of the ban, emails reveal.The United Kingdom’s decision to ban Israelis from a top military college over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza prompted concern about the...

Many people resorting to eating leaves and animal feed to survive in North Darfur and South Kordofan states.Millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day, as the country’s food crisis deepens and threatens to spread, according to a report published...

United States President Donald Trump’s planned naval blockade of Iran would further cripple international shipping, exacerbating the energy crisis roiling the global economy, analysts warn.Oil prices surged above $100 a barrel on Monday after Trump announced that the...

NewsFeedHundreds of protesters gathered in Paris to oppose a proposed law aimed at combating ‘renewed forms’ of anti-Semitism, which critics say would restrict free speech and silence pro-Palestinian activism. A petition against the bill has surpassed 660,000...

NewsFeedIran’s military has called US blockade plans in the Strait of Hormuz an “act of piracy”, warning that the ports in the Gulf and Seas of Oman are “either for everyone or for no one”. Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi is in Tehran.Published On 13 Apr 202613 Apr 2026Click...

When the lights went out in Cuba last month leaving in the dark 10 million people, American media coverage reflexively reached for its tired old frame: a failed communist state, a dying regime, an opportunity. What that coverage cannot see, because it has not been...

Sana* is a 27-year-old woman living with her roommate, Fatemeh, in a two-bedroom apartment in western Tehran. The economics master’s student and risk control analyst at an investment firm had already survived the June 2025 Israel-Iran war. When the latest war began in...