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6:49 GMT+1 Iran Guards say ‘waiting’ for US forces to escort ships through Hormuz Strait Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they were waiting for US forces to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway where traffic remains strangled as the regional war rages.”We are waiting for their presence,” said Guards spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini, after the US energy secretary announced the Navy was preparing to escort ships through the strait “as soon as it’s reasonable to do it.””We recommend that before making any decision, the Americans remember the fire of the American supertanker Bridgeton in 1987…
To say that António Lobo Antunes left an indelible mark on Portuguese literature in the 20th century and the first decades of this century would be a major understatement. No Portuguese author, other than 1998 Noble Literature Prize laureate José Saramago, who died in 2010, has been so widely translated and studied, both in Portugal and abroad, influencing several generations of readers and peers. The war in Angola, where he worked as a military doctor from 1970 to 1973, would mark his entire oeuvre. From first novels _-“Memory of an Elephant” and “_The Land at the End of the World”…
Following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the succession at the head of the Islamic Republic remains unresolved. No new Supreme Leader has yet been formally named. Behind the scenes, however, Mojtaba Khamenei — the 56-year-old son of the assassinated Supreme Leader — has emerged as the frontrunner to succeed his father, though no formal announcement has been made. Khamenei has never run for office or been subjected to a public vote, but for decades has been a highly influential figure in the inner circle of the Supreme Leader, cultivating deep ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Critics…
Published on 07/03/2026 – 6:22 GMT+1•Updated 6:28 Explosions sent up clouds of dark smoke in the Iranian capital early on Saturday and Tehran retaliated by firing missiles at Israel as the United States warned of a forthcoming bombing campaign that officials said would be the most intense yet in the weeklong conflict. Video showed explosions flashing and smoke rising over western Tehran as Israel said it had begun a broad wave of strikes. Also early on Saturday, loud booms sounded in Jerusalem and incoming missiles from Iran had people heading to bomb shelters across Israel. In a sign of the…
In the activist’s view, a Tisza victory would reflect a broad anti-Orbán coalition rather than affection for Magyar — similar to Labour’s 2024 victory in Britain, which was less about public enthusiasm for Keir Starmer than a desire to end Conservative rule. And so maybe voters wouldn’t care what baggage Magyar brought with him. Will Vladimir Putin save Orbán? It isn’t just a sex tape people are bracing for. With nominations now closed, András Rácz, an analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations, is watching for Russian influence operations to ramp up. So far, that front has been relatively…
SONDAGE CLUSTER 17 X POLITICO. Quelques jours après la mort de Quentin Deranque, la ville est polarisée entre les soutiens du maire sortant Ecologiste, Grégory Doucet, et ceux de l’ancien président de l’Olympique lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas. Feb 19 3 mins read
During the US-Israeli military buildup preceding the war that erupted one week ago, Iran continuously warned the world that it would fight back if attacked to bring havoc to the region and beyond. One week after the war engulfed the region, Iran’s waves of attacks triggered significant turmoil in the global energy markets. Ever since the Iran war broke out last Saturday, Tehran has kept expanding its aerial barrage across the Gulf, and then on Thursday, it attacked Azerbaijan as well. Tehran has been claiming that it is only targeting US and Israeli interests, but the reality on the ground…
In recent months, Iceland — which occupies a strategically important position in the Arctic, but has no standing army — had explored expediting a referendum on the subject of reviving talks, as POLITICO reported last month. Polls show a clear majority of Icelanders support holding a referendum on resuming talks, though the population is more evenly split on whether Iceland should actually join the EU. The EU’s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos played up the bloc’s attraction as a security guarantor in a time of geopolitical upheaval. “A significant decision now lies ahead for the Icelandic people,” Kos said Friday in a post on X. “In a world that is changing fast, the European Union offers an anchor in a community of…
Published on 06/03/2026 – 20:50 GMT+1 Azerbaijan’s State Security Service (SSS) announced on Friday that it “stopped Iran committing terror attacks” against four targets in the country: the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, the Israeli Embassy in Azerbaijan, a leader of the Mountain Jews religious community and the “Ashkenazi” synagogue, Azerbaijan’s media reported. According to the sources, Azerbaijan’s SSS says “the series of planned terrorist and intelligence operations were orchestrated by Iran’s intelligence service SEPAH, assigning local operatives to conduct surveillance, acquire weapons, and secure transportation.” Authorities reported that explosives were smuggled into the country by Iranian nationals in coordination with Azerbaijani accomplices.…
“President Trump has almost understood the deal — almost — but I will be dining at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow night and will reinforce the message, it was the worst deal in history,” Farage told a “Save Chagos” boat party in London on Thursday night. An itinerary for Farage’s visit has not been made public by his party, and it was not immediately clear who he would be dining with. Farage will be hoping to get face time with senior officials if not with Trump himself. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It comes in the…