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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
The EU removed Usmanov and Fridman from its Russia sanctions list Monday. France traded the decision for a hostage freed in Azerbaijan; Luxembourg used it to halt a $16bn arbitration claim. Estonia
Russian ballistic missiles killed two and wounded eight in Kyiv while Zelenskyy met with US Congress members at UNGA to push for the Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act. The missiles hit
Turkey's foreign minister Hakan Fidan held sessions at UNGA with every principal in the Iran ceasefire — Washington, Tehran, Hamas contacts — and earned no formal role in any of it. Ankara
Iran's security council secretary gave the US four to five days to accept Tehran's ceasefire terms or see Hormuz stay shut. The conditions are not new. The clock attached to them is.
Japan's used-book market has reported a five-fold surge in bulk buying since August 2026, with 50 tons of volumes — including irreplaceable Edo-period texts — consolidated and shipped to the United States
Michael Penix Jr. returned from his third ACL injury at Lambeau Field on Thursday night, giving the 0-2 Falcons their first real offense of 2026. A roughing call opened the red zone,
Taylor Swift drops The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore tonight, four songs written in Stockholm the week the original shattered streaming records. The 'Patient Zero' video, starring Colin Farrell and Dakota
Médecins Sans Frontières addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday with a warning: 37% of Sudan's health facilities have closed, 45 clinics shut after USAID defunded them in May, and measles is
Iran's ceasefire roadmap delivered at UNGA on September 23 names the IAEA, Qatar, Pakistan, and Egypt. It does not mention Hezbollah once. The document's most consequential feature may be what it left
Qatar hosts both the Hamas Political Bureau and the United States' largest military installation in the Middle East, making it indispensable to every party in the Iran ceasefire negotiations and impossible for
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