A case that the Justice Department has described as one of the largest tax evasion prosecutions in U.S. history culminated on Wednesday with businessman Douglas Edelman pleading guilty in a Washington courtroom to conspiracy and making false statements to U.S. authorities, along with several other criminal charges. For nearly two …

Fereydoon Abbasi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, discussed Iran potentially building and detonating a nuclear weapon in a May 26, 2025 interview on SNN.ir (Iran). He said that he has not yet received orders to build a nuclear bomb – but if he does, he will …

In a May 26, 2025 interview with the Didbaniran website, Ahmad Bakhshayish Ardastani, a member of the Iranian Majlis National Security And Foreign Policy Committee, detailed the main points of an Omani mediation offer proposed to Iran on May 23, as part of Oman’s mediation efforts in the U.S.-Iran nuclear …

The ongoing genocide in Gaza is nearing 600 days. According to official records, the death toll has crossed 54,000. Studies done by Lancet and others put the death toll several times the official numbers. An estimate by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is that Israel kills a Palestinian woman every hour …

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At least three dead as thousands try to reach a food distribution site of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in southern Gaza. At least three people have died and dozens have been injured in war-ravaged Gaza as thousands of starving Palestinians attempted to get food from a controversial Israeli-United States …

In the contemporary foreign policy strategy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, integration with the Turkic world holds a pivotal place. Strengthening ties with Turkic states and enhancing cooperation through common institutions has been identified as a strategic priority by the Azerbaijani leadership. Particularly following the restoration of territorial integrity in …

When a US lawyer, Martin De Luca, visited Bosnia’s Serb-led entity, Republika Srpska, in April, the entity’s publicly-funded media outlets reported that he was a member of a US administration team investigating the alleged misspending spending of funds by aid agency USAID in Bosnia and Herzegovina. De Luca himself said …

US President Donald Trump unveiled his long-promised missile defense shield initiative in early 2025, codifying what was then known as the “Iron Dome for America” through an executive order shortly after returning to office. The initiative, which Trump repeatedly touted during his campaign, represents a bold and controversial shift in …

The number of personnel deployed to multilateral peace operations fell by more than 40 per cent between 2015 and 2024, according to a new analysis of developments and trends in multilateral peace operations released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). A total of 61 multilateral peace operations …