The UK Health Security Agency has recorded more than 1,000 cases of travel-associated illness across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in the first half of 2026, with malaria, dengue fever, enteric fever, chikungunya, and Zika virus all featuring in the…
Milan prosecutors have expanded a significant labour exploitation investigation, with Italian police conducting raids on the offices of several major luxury brands, including Bulgari and Chanel, over allegations concerning the use of subcontractors employing Chinese workers in exploitative conditions. The…
Gibraltar is scheduled to abolish its land border controls with Spain on 15 July, ending a regime of frontier checks that has been in place since 1908, as part of a post-Brexit agreement aligning the British Overseas Territory with the…
A Designation Four Decades in the Making Syria has carried the United States’ “state sponsor of terrorism” designation since 1979 — a label that, for all practical purposes, severed the country from international capital markets and placed severe legal constraints…
Three years into a conflict that has reshaped European security, the war in Ukraine appears to have settled into a grim and costly equilibrium. A senior American official, briefing reporters in Washington on condition of anonymity, put the matter plainly…
Record-Breaking Scope The Trump administration has proposed eliminating 702 existing federal rules across government agencies, marking the largest number of deregulatory actions ever included in a White House semiannual regulatory agenda, Bloomberg reported. The figure is roughly double the number…
Donald Trump retains a formidable grip on the Republican Party, but a string of recent endorsement failures raises a pointed question: is his political touch beginning to falter, or has his record always been more carefully curated than his supporters…
A faint voice, possibly that of an 80-year-old woman, was heard somewhere beneath the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in Tanaguarenas last weekend — and it may be the only thing keeping her family from despair. Daniela Mangiafico has…
A Commitment Under Scrutiny The White House has made its position unambiguous. President Trump expects Britain and every other NATO ally to honour their defence spending pledges — and the statement lands at a moment of conspicuous awkwardness for the…
What has actually been agreed between Washington and Tehran? Following a sharp and dangerous exchange of strikes over several days, the United States and Iran have reached what a senior US official described to CBS News as a mutual agreement…