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America’s Missile Shield Enters Production Race After Months of Conflict The Pentagon has ordered another expansion of America’s missile-defence production base, signing framework agreements with Boeing and RTX to increase supplies of critical components for SM-3 Block IB and Block IIA interceptors. The weapons form a central part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System protecting US forces,...

Tourists Escape By Sea As Wildfires Tear Across Europe Europe’s wildfire emergency has erupted across holiday resorts, forests and residential communities, forcing more than 4,000 people from danger in Croatia, Greece, France and Germany. Tourists have escaped by sea, families have abandoned threatened villages and dozens of people have been injured as flames cross roads and close in on homes. The...

Count Binface Shatters Election Record — But Farage Wins Clacton With 63% Count Binface has produced the most extraordinary result by a novelty candidate in modern British parliamentary history, collecting 9,455 votes and finishing second in the Clacton by-election. Yet even that record-breaking performance barely threatened Nigel Farage, who returned to Parliament with 22,239 votes and a commandi...

Trump’s “Wall of Steel” Closes Around Iran As Tankers Come Under Attack Donald Trump has signalled that America may retain control over the Strait of Hormuz as his defence secretary declared that the US Navy could enforce its blockade of Iran indefinitely. The warning came as two vessels operated by the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned energy company ADNOC were attacked while crossing the strait,...

Mystery Drone Shot Down Near Russia–Latvia Border A NATO fighter jet has shot down an unidentified drone inside Latvian airspace, turning another Baltic incursion into a live military interception near Russia’s border. The aircraft’s origin remains unconfirmed, but the incident shows how rapidly the Ukraine war’s expanding drone battle can force NATO pilots into potentially consequential decisions...

Inside the Disinformation Campaign Driving Poland and Ukraine Apart Russia is accused of dramatically intensifying an online campaign designed to drive Poland and Ukraine apart, exploiting one of the most painful chapters in their shared history. Polish officials and researchers say social-media activity surged after a Ukrainian military unit was named in honour of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, re...

Luigi Mangione’s Expected Federal Plea Could Reshape The Battle Over Brian Thompson’s Killing Luigi Mangione is reportedly expected to plead guilty to federal stalking charges connected to the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, a potentially transformative development arriving less than a month before his separate New York murder trial. The anticipated change of plea has n...

What We Now Know About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Less than a month before the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the criminal case against the man accused of killing him has reached its most important stage so far. Prosecutors say surveillance footage, DNA evidence, an abandoned rifle, private messages and a note connect Tyler Robinson to a carefully prepared political killing....

The Alarming Reason an Alleged Festival-Shooting Plot Produced No Indictment A former police officer accused of planning a racist mass shooting at a festival in New Orleans was released from custody after a Louisiana grand jury declined to indict him. Christopher Gillum, 45, had been held without bond, but he is now facing no criminal charges in Louisiana or any other confirmed jurisdiction. The r...

Bathroom Fight Erupts Into Gunfire At Georgia High School A student has been wounded and a 14-year-old suspect detained after a fight erupted into gunfire inside Warner Robins High School in Georgia. The shooting triggered a Code Red lockdown, a large police response and the closure of the school for the remainder of the week. Houston County Sheriff Matt Moulton said the confrontation began at abo...

Travis Kelce Opens Up About His “Perfect” Wedding To Taylor Swift Travis Kelce has finally spoken publicly about his wedding to Taylor Swift — and his verdict could hardly have been more emphatic. More than a month after the couple married at Madison Square Garden, the Kansas City Chiefs star described the celebration as the “best night of my life”. His words were brief, warm and revealing. After...

Colombia Opens the Door to US Military Strikes Against Cartels Colombia has asked the United States to collaborate in joint military operations against armed criminal organisations, potentially opening a new front in Washington’s expanding war against drug cartels. The request could bring American intelligence, surveillance and strike capabilities directly into operations conducted on Colombian te...

Israel–Lebanon Deal Stalls as Hezbollah Refuses To Surrender Its Weapons Israel has declared that its forces will not leave southern Lebanon until Hezbollah has been disarmed and its military threat removed across the country. Defence Minister Israel Katz has also ordered the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for an extended deployment, placing the future of the occupied security zone behind a cond...

The Bishop, the Alcohol-Fuelled Parties and 13 Guilty Verdicts One of Australia’s most senior former Catholic clerics has been convicted of sexually abusing two young Indigenous men during his time in charge of a vast and isolated diocese. Christopher Alan Saunders, the former Bishop of Broome, was found guilty of 13 sexual offences following a trial in the District Court of Western Australia. The...

Antwerp Denies Trump’s Diamond Ring Influenced Tariff Exemption Antwerp’s diamond industry has denied that an extravagant ring created for Donald Trump influenced the restoration of a valuable United States tariff exemption. The rejection follows accusations from two Democratic senators who questioned why the gift was presented less than four weeks before European natural diamonds regained tariff-...

Bomb Hidden in Public Square Kills Russian Serviceman in Sevastopol A Russian serviceman has been killed by an explosive device in Sevastopol, turning an ordinary public space in occupied Crimea into the scene of a suspected targeted assassination. Russia’s Federal Security Service says it has detained a woman and alleges that she acted under instructions from Ukrainian intelligence. The blast rep...

The $12.5bn Lakers Gamble: Can Luka Dončić Lead A New Dynasty? The Los Angeles Lakers are entering one of the biggest transitions in their history. Josh Kushner and former Disney chief Bob Iger have agreed to purchase the franchise in a deal valued at $12.5 billion, just as LeBron James’ departure leaves Luka Dončić as the undisputed centre of the team. The agreement would establish a record valua...

Meta Blocks Three-Quarters Of A Million Teen Accounts — Yet Children Are Still Getting Through Meta has removed access to approximately 756,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts suspected of belonging to Australians under 16. It is one of the largest age-based social-media lockouts ever attempted and a striking demonstration of what happens when governments force technology companies to identify the...

Putin Reopens An 81-Year Wound With First Visit To Japan-Claimed Island Vladimir Putin has made his first visit to Iturup, a Russian-controlled Pacific island that Japan claims as Etorofu, transforming a decades-old territorial dispute into a highly visible demonstration of power. The Russian president toured civilian facilities, met regional officials and spoke to residents on 13 August after obs...

Trump Fights To Restore Election Integrity Order Before America Votes Donald Trump has returned to the US Supreme Court in an urgent attempt to restore his administration’s mail-in ballot restrictions before November’s midterm elections. The latest filing argues that lower courts are prematurely preventing the federal government from pursuing election-security measures before agencies have even fi...

Ukraine Says It Has Retaken 745km² From Russia — But The Map Tells A More Complicated Story Ukraine says it has recaptured 745 square kilometres of occupied territory in one of its most significant battlefield announcements of 2026. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said an eight-month offensive restored Ukrainian control over 26 settlements and struck a major blow against Russian forces. If confirmed...

Saudi Arabia Builds A New War Shield As Iran Conflict Closes In Saudi Arabia is constructing a new network of defensive alliances as the expanding Iran war threatens to drag the kingdom into a conflict it has spent months trying to avoid. Riyadh is now combining a mutual-defence pact with Türkiye and Pakistan, a planned multinational Red Sea coalition and limited military retaliation in an attempt...

What If Elon Musk Ran Britain Like One Of His Companies? Elon Musk has responded to a joke about buying the United Kingdom with three characteristically provocative words: “How much is it?” It was not a formal offer, but coming from the man who once used the same phrase before eventually purchasing Twitter, the remark was guaranteed to attract attention. The exchange began with a satirical article...

European Merchant Ships Face New Threat As Putin Vows Global Retaliation Vladimir Putin has threatened to seize European merchant ships in retaliation for Western action against Russia’s so-called shadow fleet. His warning carries an especially dangerous twist: Moscow may not limit its response to European waters or to the places where Russian-linked vessels are intercepted. Speaking during Pacifi...

From Sun-Eating Dragons To Einstein: Humanity’s Extraordinary Eclipse Story The Sun begins to disappear in the middle of the day. The light weakens, the temperature falls, shadows sharpen and animals behave as though night has arrived hours early. Then, along a narrow path across the Earth, the final bright sliver vanishes and an immense black disc appears in the sky, surrounded by a ghostly silve...