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In Kharkiv, life threads through air-raid sirens as a city adapts to war’s long grind Kharkiv moves with a calm that belies its proximity to the frontline. Air-raid alerts roll across the snow and concrete, their whirling tone carried by loudspeakers and phones, yet buses, trams and the metro keep time. Pedestrians navigate the city’s broad, winter-bright boulevards as if the sirens were just another layer of weather. Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kharkiv has become a study in endurance. City…

CJNG leader ‘El Mencho’ killed in raid; unrest erupts across Mexico as succession fight looms Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the elusive boss of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel, died in custody after an early-morning shootout with Mexican special forces, authorities said, in an operation aided by U.S. intelligence. The capture and killing of the crime boss, known as “El Mencho,” was hailed as a major breakthrough in Mexico’s long war with drug gangs. U.S. officials have accused the CJNG of trafficking cocaine, heroin,…

Fresh blasts rattled Dubai, Doha and Manama on Sunday morning, and air raid sirens wailed over Jerusalem, a day after Iran launched widespread strikes across the Gulf in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli attacks, officials and witnesses said. Thick black smoke rose on the southern horizon of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where two people were injured after shrapnel from intercepted drones fell onto two houses, according to a Dubai Media Office statement. Similar blasts were reported in Bahrain’s capital, Manama, and in…

Trump claims Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead after reported strikes; claim unverified Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on his Truth Social platform that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead, calling him “one of the most evil people in history.” Trump’s post came as he described a massive wave of U.S. and Israeli strikes targeting sites across Iran, including Khamenei’s compound in Tehran. The claim could not be independently verified. Khamenei, 86, has dominated Iran’s political and…

When Donald Trump threatens Iran with “force never been seen before,” the words do more than light up headlines. They signal a strategy of coercive diplomacy that has defined the most fraught chapters of U.S.-Iran relations this century, raising the stakes across a Middle East already primed for miscalculation. Rhetoric at that volume can deter, but it can also lock leaders into escalatory paths, unsettle markets and embolden hard-liners on both sides who thrive on grievance and spectacle. The central question is not whether…

NEW YORK — The United States launched a sweeping series of strikes against Iran over the weekend under the banner of Operation Epic Fury, jolting a country that had not been primed for war and igniting a rapid clash of narratives at home and at the United Nations. Many Americans awoke to the news with confusion and unease. “No one in my circle ever talks about Iran,” a New Yorker told RTÉ News, adding he felt less safe and was unsure about gathering in public spaces. President Donald Trump addressed the Iranian public…

Trump claims Khamenei killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes as Iran fires missiles and drones across Gulf; Tehran denies WASHINGTON and ABU DHABI — President Donald Trump said U.S.-Israeli airstrikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and vowed operations would continue, even as Tehran denied the claim and launched waves of missiles and drones that hit targets across the Gulf, killing at least two people in Abu Dhabi and injuring dozens in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait. Trump, monitoring the operation…

Pakistan bombed Taliban government forces in Kabul and Kandahar overnight in the first direct strikes on Taliban military sites since the group returned to power in 2021, a sharp rupture between the neighboring Islamic nations that Islamabad’s defense minister described as “open war.” The escalation raises the risk of a broader conflict along the 2,600-kilometer (1,615-mile) frontier and deepens a crisis already fueled by cross-border militant attacks. “Our cup of patience has overflowed. Now it is open war between us and…

France has called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Iran, elevating the issue to the world’s top diplomatic forum as member states weigh next steps and potential responses. The request places Iran back on the Security Council’s immediate agenda. While details on timing, the precise agenda and potential outcomes were not immediately available, an emergency session would allow council members to receive briefings, consult behind closed doors and consider statements or resolutions addressing the situation.…

At least 15 people were killed when a Bolivian military C-130 Hercules cargo plane carrying banknotes crashed while landing near La Paz, prompting police to use tear gas to push back crowds grabbing scattered cash and leading authorities to burn the money at the scene. The aircraft veered off the runway at El Alto International Airport and careened onto a nearby avenue, smashing into cars and damaging trucks, according to local media footage. Twisted metal and torn fuselage parts littered the roadway as bystanders rushed…