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Arguing that Iran understands only “strength and power,” US President Donald Trump threatened to show them just that, tweeting that any Iranian attack on America would be met with “overwhelming force” and “obliteration.” As relations between Iran and the US strain to the brink of open conflict, Trump warned Washington’s long-term Middle Eastern rival in […]

Washington’s fuzzy and high-drama “maximum pressure” approach to Iran has no realistic endgame – but is good for making the world a more unstable place for both America’s adversaries and allies. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s Tuesday claim that US diplomats are “surging” across the Middle East in search of a “path to peace” only […]

Asif Kapadia’s elegiac telling of the rise and fall of Argentine football star Diego Maradona looks set to match his multiple award-winning triumph ‘Senna’, the story of the life and death of the racing driver Ayrton Senna. The bargain-basement recruitment of the wayward Barcelona vagabond by troubled Napoli, perpetually battling relegation from Italy’s Serie A, […]

Siberia’s enormous Mir mine, which once produced over 10 million carats of diamonds, has been filmed by drone. Despite rumors that the hole can swallow up helicopters, the UAV made it out alive with some breathtaking footage. The aerial recording managed to capture the entire 1.2-kilometer diameter of one of the largest man-made pits on […]

The Russian Defense Ministry is about to finalize its requirements for Russia’s future amphibious assault ships, a defense industry source said. The lead ship will be laid down in two years while a second one will follow. Russia is somewhat lagging behind some other nations in terms of amphibious warfare capabilities, operating mostly older Soviet-designed […]

The US Secret Service took a woman into custody after she reportedly spit on Eric Trump at the Aviary cocktail bar in Chicago in what the president’s son called a “disgusting act.” The woman, believed to be a bar employee, was later released. The Chicago Police Department confirmed it was on the scene “assisting the […]

Boris Johnson, the favorite to become Britain’s next prime minister, has been ridiculed after revealing that he likes to make model buses out of wooden crates in his spare time. Speaking to Ross Kempsell from Talk Radio on Tuesday, Johnson was asked, during a rather comical interview, what he liked to do to relax and […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has said Donald Trump is “100% right” in that the US military has no business in the Perisan Gulf, after Trump questioned whether they needed to maintain such a strong presence in the region. Tweeting in rare agreement after Trump announced a new round of sanctions against Tehran, Zarif said […]

Washington’s economic war against Iran took a turn for the petty this weekend, as gamers in Iran and Syria found themselves unable to play popular video game ‘League of Legends’ due to new “restrictions” by the US government. First, they came for the politicians, then, the businessmen… and now, they have come for the gamers. […]

Video footage has emerged showing the moment that a German Eurofighter jet plummeted to the ground following a mid-air collision in the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The two German warplanes crashed over the town of Malchow, with one reportedly falling into a forested area while the other fell 10km away outside the village […]