Additional Arrests Made Over Bank Of America Attack Scheme
French authorities expanded their investigation Monday into a foiled firebombing of the Bank of America’s Paris headquarters, arresting two more suspects as investigators pursued a suspected connection to Iranian intelligence operations spreading across multiple European countries since the start of the Middle East war. Five people are now in custody following Saturday’s attempt to ignite […]
Pentagon Refutes Hegseth Broker’s Pre-War Investment Hunt
The Pentagon demanded Monday that the Financial Times retract a report alleging that a wealth manager for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted to make a multimillion-dollar investment in defence industry stocks in the weeks before the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran — a demand the newspaper had not complied with by […]
Reeves To Caution G7 Against Solo Trade Moves Amid Iran War
Britain’s chancellor will use a rare joint session of G7 finance ministers, energy ministers and central bank governors on Monday to push back against the protectionist instincts that the Iran war has been quietly encouraging among major economies, arguing that countries retreating behind new trade barriers would compound an energy crisis that only coordinated action […]
Australia Slashes Fuel Tax In Half As Energy Crisis Worsens
Australia will halve its fuel excise from Wednesday, cutting the pump price by 26 cents a litre for three months, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and state leaders agreed on a four-stage national fuel security plan that stops short of rationing but acknowledges the country is managing a genuine energy crisis driven by the war […]
Iranian Speaker: Our Forces Ready To Torch US Troops
Iran’s parliament speaker threatened Sunday to incinerate American ground troops if they set foot on Iranian soil, as diplomats from three Muslim-majority nations gathered in Pakistan to piece together a channel for direct US-Iran talks — two tracks of the same conflict running simultaneously in opposite directions, one toward escalation, the other toward an exit […]
Zelenskyy’s Gulf Trip Yields Defence Pacts With UAE, Qatar
Volodymyr Zelenskyy completed a three-country Gulf tour on Saturday by signing a defence agreement with Qatar in Doha, capping a diplomatic sprint that has repositioned Ukraine as a serious security partner for Gulf states absorbing Iranian drone and missile strikes — and opened a new front in Kyiv’s long campaign to convert battlefield experience into […]
Monaco’s Wealthy Elite Get Papal Plea To Help Poor
The first American pope flew into one of the world’s wealthiest postcodes on Saturday and spent the day telling its residents, with considerable papal directness, that wealth exists to be shared. Pope Leo arrived in Monaco by helicopter from the Vatican — a 90-minute flight to a principality so small that the journey took longer […]
Pahlavi Warns Against Negotiating With Tehran’s Leadership
Reza Pahlavi stood before a cheering crowd of American conservatives in Texas on Saturday and argued that any deal struck with Iran’s current leadership would simply defer the threat rather than resolve it — positioning himself, without quite saying so directly, as the only alternative that actually ends the problem. The exiled son of Iran’s […]
This Generation Stinks To High Heaven—Part 2
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze How modern religion markets certainty, exploits suffering, and preaches what it often refuses to practice Pastors, Olive Oil, and the Business of Holy Deception The most successful deceptions in history have rarely worn the face of open evil. They have usually arrived dressed in sanctity, clothed in confidence, and speaking in […]
US-Israel Month-Long Iran Offensive Brings Guns To Streets
Tehran is not a city under siege in the conventional sense. There are no front lines running through its streets, no trenches dug across its parks. But the Iranian capital has been reorganised around war in ways that are visible at every hour — in the masked men at checkpoints, the pick-up trucks with machine […]
Two Vessels Vanish From Cuba Aid Convoy, Mexico Searches
Nine people remained missing Friday aboard two sailboats that vanished in the waters between Mexico and Cuba while carrying humanitarian aid to an island facing its worst energy crisis in decades, as search teams from Cuba, Mexico and the United States scanned the Caribbean for vessels that departed over a week ago and never arrived. […]
GOP Kills Bill To Compensate Federal Airport Employees
American airports are haemorrhaging security staff and House Republicans have blocked the bill that would have stopped it, deepening a standoff that has turned air travel across the country into an exercise in managed chaos. The Senate moved first, passing a bill unanimously in the early hours of Friday morning that would restore funding to […]