U.S. and Iranian officials met in Geneva on Thursday for a third round of indirect talks that many observers see as a crucial effort to prevent a wider conflict in the Middle East, according to BBC News. The negotiations come as President Donald Trump has warned he may order military strikes on Iran if a […]
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Before dawn broke over the waters between Florida and Cuba, a speedboat cut across the dark sea carrying ten men and a plan that would soon end in violence, according to Hurriyet Daily News. On February 25, Cuban coastguard vessels intercepted the Florida-registered boat just one nautical mile from Cayo Falcones, an island along Cuba’s […]
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Walk into almost any café in Vienna, and there’s a good chance the person ahead of you pays with cash. Not because they forgot their card, according to Kurier. Not because the machine is broken. Simply because that’s how they prefer it and probably how they always have. While the rest of Europe has been […]
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For decades, the continent slept soundly under America’s nuclear umbrella, a quiet, unspoken guarantee that Washington would have Europe’s back if things ever went terribly wrong. But Donald Trump’s cozying up to Russia, his threats toward NATO allies, and his general disdain for the old transatlantic order have cracked that sense of security wide open. […]
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They weren’t scientists. They had no medical training, no sterile equipment, and no licenses. They were ordinary people working in an ordinary building in Vienna, filling capsules by hand, printing labels on a desktop printer, and quietly shipping banned performance-enhancing drugs to customers across Europe. That operation is now over. Austrian authorities, working as part […]
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The guns were busy again in Pakistan’s restless west. Military forces reported killing 34 militants across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on Wednesday, in what the army described as a series of swift, intelligence-driven operations targeting two militant networks it blames, in part, on India, according to Dawn News. Pakistan’s military media wing, ISPR, said the […]
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has had enough of what he calls lies. In a candid interview with India Today aired Wednesday, he pushed back firmly against claims that Tehran is building missiles capable of striking the United States, labeling the allegations flat out “fake news”, according to Mehr News Agency. The reality, he said, […]
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In the grim ledger of press freedom, 2025 etched itself as the deadliest year on record for journalists and media workers, with a staggering 129 lives lost worldwide, the highest tally since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began tracking such tragedies more than three decades ago. Released on February 25, 2026, the New York-based […]
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WASHINGTON — True equality at work remains out of reach for women everywhere in the world, and only a small share live in countries where job opportunities and protections come close to being fair, the World Bank said in a sobering new report, according to Hurriyet Daily News. The study, part of the bank’s long […]
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ISLAMABAD – In the shadowed halls of Pakistan’s justice system, a plea echoes for the ailing former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose once-vibrant spirit now battles the dimming light of failing health behind prison bars, according to The Nation. On February 25, 2026, his legal team, led by Sardar Latif Khosa, filed a urgent petition […]
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