Iran's latest missile strikes against Israel, launched this week in response to an Israeli strike on Beirut's suburb of Dahiyeh, have confirmed a…
Gregori Saavedra
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will mark the most significant transformation in the tournament's nearly century-long history. For the first time, football's…
Xi Jinping stayed put in China for more than six months. During this period, presidents and key leaders travelled to Zhongnanhai, the compound at the…
For some 12 hours on 7 June, fighting between Israel and Iran flared up as the two yet again traded missiles and air strikes. Then a tenuous calm was…
The fallout from this year's US-Iran war has shown how important it is for states to secure critical infrastructure and safeguard economic assets,…
Iran, Israel trade fire; earthquake rocks the Philippines
REUTERS/Ammar Awad
An Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jew reacts near a part of a missile protruding from the ground, following strikes from Iran, in the central Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 8 June 2026.
REUTERS/Noel Celis
A woman walks past a collapsed building a day after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake, in Calumpang, General Santos, southern Philippines, on 9 June 2026.
REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
Palestinian girls react as they play with water in the ancient al-Burak reservoir near Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 5 June 2026.
Juni KRISWANTO / AFP
Ten-week-old Sumatran tiger cubs play next to their mother Dini, 10, during their debut at Taman Safari Indonesia in Pasuruan in East Java province on 4 June 2026.
RODRIGO URZAGASTI / AFP
Anti-government demonstrators clash with police officers and civilians during an operation to clear a road blockade in San Julian, Santa Cruz department, Bolivia, on 6 June 2026.
REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon
People gather next to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool partially filled with water after a repainting and cleaning work, in Washington, DC, on 6 June 2026.
Philip FONG / AFP
Lightning strikes illuminate the sky above a residential estate in the Tsuen Wan district of the New Territories in Hong Kong on 6 June 2026.
AP Photo/Matthias Schrader
People in their boats attend the Corpus Christi procession at lake Staffelsee in Seehausen near Murnau, Germany, on 4 June 2026.
Olga MALTSEVA / AFP
Visitors ride the "Oreshnik" attraction, named after Russia's nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile, at Divo Island amusement park in Saint Petersburg on 6 June 2026.
AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary
A lion and lioness cool off by licking a slab of ice during hot weather at a zoo in Lahore, Pakistan, on 7 June 2026.
Since fighting resumed between Hezbollah and Israel on 2 March, the Lebanese government, led by Nawaf Salam, has sought to contain the escalation…
US President Donald Trump has become a passenger in the Iran war, despite insisting that he remains behind the wheel after months of failed efforts…
In Gaza, childhood is no longer unfolding as it once did. Something has broken in the fabric of daily life, leaving children struggling to understand…
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US-Iran tensions in the backdrop of the World Cup
