The targeted killing of Ali Khamenei by American and Israeli forces plunges the Islamic Republic into a precarious succession crisis while escalating regional military hostilities.

While Iran offered unprecedented concessions that could have made nuclear war impossible, Israel and the US have chosen another illegal war.

Airstrikes on Kabul and border clashes mark the sharpest escalation yet between Pakistan and Taliban-run Afghanistan after a fragile 2025 ceasefire.

Outrage in Arab capitals followed Mike Huckabee’s blunt answer to a simple question. Yet the comment may have been less a gaffe than a moment of honesty about Washington’s real stance.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court argue that former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was central to a campaign of extrajudicial killings.

Peru choses another President with a dubious background.

Donald Trump’s military buildup in the Middle East serves as a coercive backdrop to fragile nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

A UK high court has ruled the government's proscription of the direct-action group Palestine Action as unlawful, citing a disproportionate interference with free speech rights.

Asia leads the global shift toward cryptocurrency as stablecoin volumes for remittances and business transactions reach 4trn dollars.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority in the first competitive election since 2008 following a constitutional referendum and the rise of Islamist opposition.

Members will gather on 17 February at 20:00 Helsinki time for UN-aligned’s Annual General Meeting, where the organisation will present its 2025 achievements, report on new partnerships and outline its plans for the year ahead.

As governments struggle to respond to mounting environmental damage, India’s courts have become unlikely guardians of the planet. Public Interest Litigation is increasingly shaping how pollution, climate stress and public health are confronted.

A right-wing activist arrived in Minneapolis to stoke fear of Muslims and immigrants. When his rally collapsed into chaos, it was a Black man and a transgender woman, the very people his politics target, who stepped in to protect him.

A tantrum over a peace prize, a threat against Greenland, and a committee willing to bend the knee: how indulging Donald Trump’s narcissism has turned one of the world’s most prestigious awards into a geopolitical liability.

Iran’s latest wave of protests has been shaped by decades of economic suffocation, political foreclosure and ideological exhaustion. Under the combined weight of imperial pressure and authoritarian rule, the promise of sovereignty has collapsed, and nostalgia offers no way out.

Designed for a world that no longer exists, the UN Security Council entrenches unilateralism and shields nuclear powers from accountability. Without curbing veto power and elevating the General Assembly, collective security remains unattainable.

Acute malnutrition now affects a third of children in the region while maternal mortality has spiked by 50 per cent. As infrastructure collapses, the crisis requires not just aid, but the same mass solidarity and political will directed at other global conflicts.

The American century was born out of economic collapse and global war. From the Panama Canal to Hiroshima, crisis after crisis propelled the United States into unrivalled political, military and economic dominance.

Urban heat doesn’t stop at the surface. As concrete warms the ground beneath cities, scientists say it may subtly alter stresses on shallow faults — with implications for small earthquakes and urban resilience.