A System Under Strain When the European Union’s Entry and Exit System — known as the EES — came into force in October 2025, it was billed as a modernising leap: replacing manual passport stamps with electronic biometric registration for…
A mathematics teacher at the Santos Peres State High School in the Brazilian state of Pará was stabbed by one of her own students on September 11, in an attack recorded by classroom surveillance footage and subsequently circulated widely. The…
A Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has ruled that a mother convicted of murdering her baby son did not receive a fair trial, finding that prosecutorial misconduct, unreliable expert witness evidence, and inadequate judicial oversight collectively undermined the integrity…
The Bab al-Mandeb strait — thirty kilometres wide at its narrowest, separating Yemen from the Horn of Africa — has long functioned as one of the arteries through which the global economy breathes. Roughly twelve to fifteen percent of world…
What is being proposed, and who is proposing it? The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent economic research bodies, has recommended that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consider replacing cash payments under…
Explosions Near NATO Territory as Russia Strikes Western Ukraine Russian drone strikes on western Ukraine triggered explosions audible inside Polish territory on Thursday, forcing two airports to suspend operations and prompting Poland to scramble military aircraft — the latest escalation…
The drone was intercepted south of Mecca. That single operational detail — precise in geography, charged in symbolism — encapsulates the degree to which the war in Yemen has metastasised far beyond its original theatre. Saudi Arabia’s air defences shot…
It has been six years since Alix Popham, in his own words, “opened the can.” In April 2020, the former Wales international publicly disclosed that he was living with early-onset dementia and probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a neurodegenerative disease…
For the first time in nearly a decade, a security alert sounded over Mecca — Islam’s holiest city and the spiritual centre for two billion Muslims worldwide. The alert lasted only minutes, but its implications extended far beyond the airspace…
Three American soldiers are dead, and the intelligence trail leads, at least in part, to Chinese commercial entities. US officials have told the Wall Street Journal that Iran obtained high-resolution satellite imagery of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in northeastern Jordan…