Editions

The U.S. orders non-emergency diplomats out of Saudi Arabia as Houthi strikes reach Dammam airport.

Colombia seizes 7.6 tonnes of cocaine mixed with powdered panela at the port of Cartagena.

Gangs in Haiti ambush a Salvadoran armoured vehicle, the heaviest blow to the new international force since it deployed.

Egypt’s defence council pledges unspecified support to Saudi Arabia, pulling a Suez-route power toward the Bab el-Mandeb front.

Mexico’s arrest of a former Chihuahua prosecutor over U.S. agents’ role in an April raid signals tighter federal control of U.S. field activity.

Houthi missiles hit Aden airport a second time and a Yanbu-bound missile was intercepted, widening pressure on Saudi Arabia’s Hormuz bypass.

Saudi Arabia says Iran is encouraging the Houthi campaign that has killed at least 19 people and hit Riyadh’s airport.

A missile hit a tower at Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters as Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia reach the kingdom’s energy core.

Iran’s IRGC says it hit a third ship in two days, and at least 18 vessels have been attacked around Hormuz since October began.

Riyadh's airport stays shut through October 17, and the Houthis threaten the U.S. if it joins Saudi strikes.

Houthi strikes keep hitting Riyadh's airport, and the group is warning airlines off Saudi airspace.

Houthis killed 12 and wounded about 300 at Riyadh’s airport, and Trump is weighing joining the war.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit Panama on 9 October; early reports show no deaths and a canal running normally.

Spain and Ecuador widened the Algeciras cocaine case, with investigators alleging a police inspector sold container-targeting data.

Houthi missile and drone strikes on two Saudi airports killed three people, pushing the Yemen war into civil aviation.

Britain has made a seventh arrest in the suspected Iran-linked plot near RAF Fairford, and the prime minister cites strong indications of Iranian involvement.

Mexico has sent about 500 troops to Tamaulipas while disputing the US account that the Coast Guard was fired on.

US bombers leave RAF Fairford after London says Iran played a part in a suspected plot against the base.

Houthis hit a Saudi oil facility near Riyadh as Saudi jets struck Sanaa.

Two men were charged over a chlorine-bomb plot against Manchester’s Jewish community, with a suspected contact in Iran.

Ethiopia and Eritrea cut diplomatic ties, removing the last channel short of open state-to-state war in the Horn.

Mexico froze the bank accounts of Sinaloa Cartel targets a day after US sanctions, its first visible follow-through.

US Treasury sanctioned 46 Sinaloa Cartel targets, including the ex-husband of Baja California’s governor and a former customs official.

The US ban on about $967 million of Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles took effect, and Canada shows no sign of folding.

NBC: Iran’s undisclosed September 14 missile strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz injured eight US Marines; the Pentagon never announced it.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard vows to “change the geography of the conflict” if struck again, as Saudi Arabia demands Hormuz return toll-free to its pre-war status.

Trump rejected Iran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, telling aides he expects renewed U.S. strikes after November's midterms.

Colombia severed ties with Iran and branded the IRGC a terrorist group, aligning Bogotá's new government against Tehran.

Tigray's TPLF and six allied armed groups seized Ethiopian federal airports, both sides now calling it a return to full civil war.

Trump tells the UN he will "annihilate" Iran without a deal, hours before U.S. and Iranian officials hold their first direct talks in three months.

Iran warns Washington is preparing fresh strikes as an unidentified projectile hits a tanker entering the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran warns of a fresh US attack and vows retaliation as Trump cuts short his Camp David trip.

A Houthi missile hit a fuel depot at Riyadh's airport, the first confirmed damage inside the Saudi capital.

Riyadh was hit by a hostile aerial threat overnight for the first time in the Houthi-Saudi war, pushing toward a harder Gulf response.

Strait of Hormuz ship transits collapsed to three on Wednesday — a fraction of the 10-day average of 17 — as Saudi Arabia reroutes crude through Oman rather than waiting for the chokepoint to reopen.

Houthi forces have seized roughly 2,100 square miles of Yemen's Red Sea coast, threatening a second shipping chokepoint beside Iran's Hormuz squeeze.

Houthi forces claim they downed a Saudi F-15 over Marib as their hold on Bab el-Mandeb compounds Iran's Hormuz squeeze on global shipping.

CENTCOM says Iran struck the Panama-flagged tanker El Gaia twice and rejects Tehran's claim it merely hit a mine in the Strait of Hormuz.

Houthis complete control of Bab al-Mandeb as Saudi Arabia's alternate pipeline nears empty, risking a fresh oil-supply shock within days.

Bab al-Mandeb ship traffic halves as Houthis complete control of the strait and Saudi Arabia shuts its East-West pipeline after a drone strike.

Houthi forces complete control of both Bab al-Mandeb shores, seizing Mayun Island after Mokha, and warn only Saudi ships are unsafe.

Houthi forces seize Zuqar and the Hanish Islands, tightening the grip on Bab al-Mandeb alongside a Hormuz already reduced to a trickle.

Houthi forces near full control of Bab al-Mandeb's flanking coast, threatening a second closed chokepoint alongside Hormuz as oil tops $100 a barrel.

The Iran-US war escalated sharply overnight: five more tankers destroyed, and Iran claims missile strikes on a Jordan base and two US destroyers.

Canada's $27.6 billion retaliatory tariffs took effect today, doubling steel and aluminum duties to 50% as Washington vows countermeasures.

Iran says it will declare a Hormuz "exclusion zone" that sanctions any ship merely intending to transit the strait.

CENTCOM destroys three Iranian tankers after Iran fires missiles at two U.S. Navy ships near Hormuz.

Houthi forces push toward Bab al-Mandab in Yemen’s worst clashes in years, threatening the Red Sea’s southern chokepoint.

Independent weapons analysis finds Iran’s deadly wedding-celebration strike likely came from a direct US hit, not a ricochet.

US Hormuz strikes shift from retaliation to systematic suppression, escorting a wartime-record 40-ship convoy while hitting some 60 Iranian targets.

Iran’s “decisive operation” hit a US base in Jordan and Gulf tankers, its sharpest Hormuz retaliation in weeks.

Iran struck Jordan-based US assets and a drone reached UAE waters within a day, widening the six-month Hormuz war beyond its original axis.

US forces struck Iranian launchers on Larak Island; Iran answered with missiles on US-linked bases in Jordan, all intercepted.

Mutinous soldiers stormed Niger’s presidential palace and airport; loyalists — aided by Russia’s Africa Corps — retook control, but dozens were killed or arrested in the junta’s third airport attack this year.

Washington converts Venezuela’s post-Maduro transition into direct control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves — the industry’s second-largest single reserve base.

Colombia formally ends Petro's “Total Peace,” reactivating extraditions of five armed-group negotiators to the United States.

Colombia's government moves to develop floating “prison ships” to isolate cartel and gang leaders, the sharpest signal yet of a security posture built to outlast Petro's “total peace.”

A Haiti gang coalition's Kenscoff hostage-taking — 47 dead, 50-plus captives — escalates beyond killing into leverage against the government's security response.

Colombia’s new president orders raids to deport undocumented Venezuelans, reversing a decade of protective policy.

A Houthi strike sets a Saudi tanker ablaze off Yanbu, extending the group’s Red Sea blockade into its sixth week.

Sinaloa’s governor requests a second leave within days of returning, as Sheinbaum publicly distances herself from his cartel-indictment fallout.

US-Canada trade talks collapse as 50% tariffs take effect on roughly $28 billion in Canadian goods.

Panama Canal will cut daily transit slots from September 3 as a deepening El Niño drought drains Gatun Lake, with further cuts possible.

Trump says the US and Canada have a tariff “deal,” but unresolved dairy and steel terms leave Mexico racing to match still-unclear final terms.

UAE severs all trade and financial ties with Iran after accusing Tehran of firing ballistic missiles into its waters, rupturing Dubai's role as Tehran's top trading partner.

The US-Iran truce deadline lapsed Monday with no deal; Hormuz traffic stays near-collapsed as Trump threatens to bomb Oman.

Strait of Hormuz traffic collapses toward zero as Asian refiners now also shun Aramco's Red Sea loading option.

Iran's Hormuz war escalates as a fourth vessel is struck and Washington preps sweeping new sanctions.

Poland confirms a joint US-Polish operation foiled Moscow's plot to assassinate an American citizen in Warsaw.

Poland says it foiled a Russian-directed plot to assassinate a dual US-Ukrainian citizen — the first known such attempt against an American on NATO soil.

Saudi crude tankers are running AIS-dark to evade Houthi targeting as the Hormuz standoff hardens further, with no reopening in sight.

Colombia's earthquake toll has risen to at least 181 dead and 195 missing, with Bogotá formally asking the UN to help lead the disaster response.

Colombia's earthquake death toll has risen to at least 132, with a national emergency declared and curfews in Cali and Pereira.

Iran's foreign minister rules out resuming U.S. talks as CENTCOM redirects a record 55 ships enforcing its Hormuz blockade.

A car bomb hits southwest Colombia a day after de la Espriella's inauguration, with the army blaming FARC dissidents.

Spain imposes reciprocal border checks on Italy, escalating the Ceuta-crisis Schengen standoff into a monthlong mutual suspension.

China confirms two of its own coast guard officers died in a collision while chasing a Philippine vessel near Scarborough Shoal — the first Chinese fatalities acknowledged in a South China Sea confrontation in decades, disclosed only now, a year later.

A bomb-rigged drone at a German cargo hub and a foiled assassination plot against a Ukraine-arming drone maker surface the same day, both blamed on Russia.

A suspected Houthi strike sank an Indian vessel off Yemen even as Iran and Oman claim progress on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

A bulker's crew member goes missing in the fourth Hormuz-area attack in five days as Saudi Arabia forms a maritime defense coalition.

Iran-aligned Houthi forces strike a second Qatari LNG carrier as Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb both stay severely disrupted.

Trump pauses the planned U.S.-Israel strike on Iran's energy sites, conditioning relief on a rapid Hormuz reopening and a nuclear deal.

The U.S. and possibly Israel are preparing to strike Iran's energy infrastructure as soon as this weekend.

The U.S. struck Iran directly overnight as Iran retaliated against Kuwait and Jordan, widening the war beyond the Gulf.

Houthis are weighing a toll scheme for Red Sea shipping with Iranian advisers, mirroring Tehran's Hormuz playbook, as their Saudi tanker blockade continues.

U.S. and Saudi strikes killed at least 20 Iran-backed militia fighters across seven Iraqi provinces overnight; Iraq's PM is now investigating and traveling to Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia intercepted Iraq-launched drones near Riyadh as Yemen's foreign minister warned Houthis want to copy Iran's Hormuz blockade in the Red Sea.

Berlin police killed the Pride-parade van-and-machete attacker, a previously convicted ISIS sympathizer, after a 24-hour manhunt.

Houthis struck Saudi Aramco's Jazan and Yanbu facilities in retaliation for Riyadh's Hodeidah strike; the U.S. held off hitting Iran for a second night.

Saudi Arabia struck Houthi-held Hodeidah — its first shots since a 2022 truce — after a Houthi missile set an Aramco refinery ablaze in Jazan.

Trump says he's “close” to ordering a “massive attack” on Iran as the Bab el-Mandeb blockade turns live and oil tops $100 a barrel.

Houthi forces struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea — the first attack since declaring a blockade — widening the Iran war’s chokepoint risk beyond Hormuz.

Iran’s war with Washington widened to direct strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait as Houthi blockade threats sent Saudi crude tankers into Red Sea U-turns.

Iran's IRGC struck a third Hormuz-area tanker in roughly 36 hours as the Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia.

The US-Iran war entered a ninth straight night of American strikes, with Iran hitting Kuwait's power plant for a second day running.

Iran struck a U.S. base in Jordan for the first time in the war, killing two American troops and prompting new U.S. retaliatory strikes.

Iran acknowledged for the first time that U.S. strikes hit its power grid, meeting Tehran's own threshold for ordering a Houthi closure of Bab el-Mandeb.

The U.S. struck Iranian bridges and a rail hub for a sixth straight night, and Iran retaliated against Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar, wounding a child in Doha.

The U.S. Navy disabled a tanker breaching its Hormuz blockade, and Iran now threatens the Red Sea as a second chokepoint.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard strikes Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan as the Gulf war widens past shipping.

Iran struck two UAE-flagged tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing a crew member, as its war with the U.S. widens further.

New U.S. strikes on Iran brought Tehran's first confirmed domestic casualties overnight, as Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz declared closed.

Iran fired missiles and drones at the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain after U.S. forces struck about 140 sites; Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed.

Iran's foreign minister met Oman on Hormuz shipping as a U.S. delegation also arrived, after Tehran privately admitted the tanker strikes were a mistake.

Iran struck Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar as Trump declared the U.S.-Iran ceasefire "over"; Hormuz shipping has again ground to a near-halt.

Iran struck Qatar for the first time as CENTCOM hit roughly 90 more Iranian targets overnight; Hormuz-transiting tanker traffic is down about 95%.

The Strait of Hormuz crisis turned into direct U.S.-Iran combat after Iran struck a third tanker on the ceasefire's Omani bypass route.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired missiles at two commercial tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz overnight — including a Qatari LNG carrier set ablaze — specifically targeting vessels using the "Omani route" shippers adopted after the earlier ceasefire, sending Brent crude back toward $73 and reopening the risk premium the ceasefire was supposed to have retired.

China conducted a submarine-launched ballistic missile test into the South Pacific and rotated its coast-guard patrol group east of Taiwan for a second time in a month — two fronts where Beijing is converting one-off shows of force into a durable operating pattern.

Insurgents linked to Mali's Azawad Liberation Front struck five towns in a coordinated dawn assault, and Saudi Arabia's coalition has for the first time named the specific Yemeni ports and airport it would strike if Houthi provocations continue — two fronts where fragile postures are hardening rather than settling.

Saudi Arabia intercepted an Iranian jet carrying mourners to Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral, and Yemen's Houthis have threatened retaliatory strikes on Saudi airports and vessels — a fresh flashpoint layered onto an already fragile Iran-Israel-US ceasefire and a still-recovering Strait of Hormuz.

Venezuela's earthquake death toll has climbed to 2,595 with roughly 50,000 still unaccounted for, and the interim government's response is drawing open criticism from experts and its own officials — a fragile-state scenario worth watching for downstream displacement pressure.

Venezuela's earthquake death toll has passed 1,900 with search-and-rescue still underway; a sustained U.S. military and aid footprint there raises the odds of a fresh migration wave building over the coming months.

The USMCA joint review formally opens today (July 1) amid a strained, Canada-sidelined process — a rules-of-origin renegotiation that lands squarely on customs and trade enforcement.