22+ hour, 49+ min ago  (46+ words) As Ayatollah's son takes power, what does this mean for peace?The Times As Ayatollah's son takes power, what does this mean for peace? The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei shows that the Revolutionary Guard continues to call the shots Two…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (821+ words) There are many important places in the world, many crucial pieces of infrastructure and, as we have learnt this past week, many critical chokepoints, but few are quite as important as the Ras Laffan complex, at the very nape of…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (486+ words) President Trump has threatened to overthrow the communist government in Cuba but said he wanted to wait "a couple of weeks" after military interventions in Venezuela and Iran. Cuba is experiencing economic turmoil caused by a US blockade in the…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (658+ words) Exorcists claim they get accustomed to being vomited on, sworn at and having nails spat at them by people possessed by the devil. But experts lining up to teach them new tricks at an exorcism course in Rome say they…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (963+ words) From his secret bunker last June, as Israeli missiles rained down on Tehran, Iran's supreme leader issued an instruction he had never given before: to prepare for his succession. With the threat of decapitation strikes hanging over him, Ayatollah Khamenei…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (767+ words) Parked at a petrol station, Peter Yazzie slipped into his orange high-vis vest before heading to work on a construction site when several cars pulled abruptly into the lot. Seeing other vehicles or people was rare at 4.30am in Phoenix. But…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (865+ words) International flights are being cancelled. Petrol has all but run out. Universities have closed. The electricity supply is more off than on. And nobody quite knows how it will end. President Trump's bet is that the communist government of Cuba…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (930+ words) Spooked by President Trump's praise of "very good talks" with Iran, Binyamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington on Tuesday to try to impress upon the US that any deal must curb ballistic missiles as well as Tehran's nuclear ambitions. The Israeli…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1304+ words) At a packed butcher's shop in Detroit, Abdul el-Sayed gives short shrift to the notion that he is the next Zohran Mamdani, whose upstart campaign swept aside the Democratic establishment to win New York's mayoral race. "I don't have any…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (693+ words) The King was heckled by members of the public about his brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, during an official visit to Essex on Thursday. One man was heard to ask whether the King had urged the police to investigate Andrew. Charles did…...