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The US is withholding Sudan's army chief's UN visa unless he signs a 90-day ceasefire he has refused. The pressure lands as the RSF tightens a siege the UN warns could repeat
Heart of the Beast opens today with a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score, the best critical reception of Brad Pitt's career as a starring performer. Director David Ayer, eight years removed from the Suicide Squad debacle, earns the reviews he was
Seven Ethiopian armed groups that fought each other in the last civil war united against Abiy Ahmed's government last weekend. Within days, airports fell, fighting spread to three regions, and the internet
Trump and Xi spent hours discussing AI in Washington and produced no deal, no rules and no oversight body. That was the point: both leaders want the AI race to stay unregulated
Iraq's formal security forces include Iranian-directed militias whose political wing props up Al-Sudani's coalition government, while US military advisers remain on Iraqi soil under a bilateral security agreement. At UNGA, Al-Sudani endorsed
Kuwait sits 40 miles from the Iranian coastline and was liberated from Iraqi occupation in 1991 by the American military coalition it still hosts at Al Salem Air Base. At UNGA, Foreign
A televised campaign ad accuses Donald Trump of working to install a friendlier government in Brasília and seize Brazil's natural resources. With the vote a dead heat, Lula is betting that sovereignty,
Benjamin Netanyahu spent barely eight hours in New York, long enough to address the UN and skip a meeting with Donald Trump entirely. Israeli commentators call it a warning sign five weeks
Amazon opened Seller Central to AI agents at its Accelerate 2026 conference, starting with Anthropic's Claude, while the consumer storefront stays closed. The move draws a deliberate line revealing what Amazon considers
Germany abstained from the Western counter-resolution on Iran at the UN Security Council on September 24, breaking with France and the United Kingdom on a major Iran vote for the first time
Benjamin Netanyahu called Iran's written ceasefire roadmap a trap on September 24, describing it as a diplomatic maneuver designed to buy Tehran time to reconstitute. Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Qatar, and
The DRC Ebola outbreak reached 3,759 deaths on September 22 as North Kivu's caseload surged 73 percent in three weeks — even as Ituri showed early signs of improvement. No licensed vaccine
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