A Maltese jury acquitted millionaire businessman Yorgen Fenech last week of conspiracy to murder investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed by a car bomb near her home in October 2016 — a verdict that has sent shockwaves through…
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…
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…
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…
Fifty-three years after Chile’s armed forces overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende on 11 September 1973, the country has still not finished arguing about what happened — or about what that history is permitted to mean in the present.…
A Test of Accountability in Post-Assad Syria Syria’s new authorities face an early and consequential reckoning. Plans to convert Mezzeh military airport in Damascus into a hub for private and executive aviation have drawn sharp condemnation from human rights organisations…
A Court’s Verdict on Memory Itself A Hong Kong court has sentenced two pro-democracy activists — Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung — to seven years in prison, following convictions for inciting subversion under the national security law imposed by Beijing…
Moscow has arrested a Russian national who worked as a security guard at the British Embassy, claiming he was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence to gather sensitive information that would enable a staged attack on British diplomatic staff — an operation,…