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‘Cotton picking’: US lawmaker condemned for racist comment about Jeffries
12 May 2026The office of Hakeem Jeffries, the top-ranking Democrat in the United States House of Representatives, has released a fi...
Israel kills, injures average of 4 children daily amid Lebanon ‘ceasefire’
12 May 2026News|Israel attacks Lebanon Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed or injured more than four children on average per day...
Pentagon gives new $29bn Iran war price tag, downplays munitions concerns
12 May 2026The Pentagon has released a new price tag for the US-Israel war with Iran, saying it has cost the United States $29bn. T...
Kuwait says it foils infiltration operation by Iran’s IRGC
12 May 2026Kuwait has arrested four men it accuses of being members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after they...
Spain reports new hantavirus case in passenger evacuated from cruise ship
12 May 2026News|Health A Spanish passenger evacuated from the cruise ship at the centre of a hantavirus outbreak has tested positiv...
Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni sworn in for seventh term as president
12 May 2026Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been sworn in for a seventh term, extending his 40-year tenure following a landsli...
Why the hantavirus outbreak is different from COVID-19
12 May 2026The last of the passengers on the hantavirus-struck MV Hondius cruise ship have been flown to the Netherlands. But new c...
Trump-Xi meeting: Could China, US form a ‘G2’?
12 May 2026US President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday for a two-day summit with China’s President Xi Jinp...
Why the Iran war is threatening whales near South Africa
12 May 2026The United States-Israel war on Iran has disrupted global supplies of energy, fertilisers, medicines and even helium, de...
A secret Israeli base in Iraq? What we know
12 May 2026Israel built a secretly operated military outpost deep inside the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign in the run-up...
