According to a 2009 U.S. diplomatic cable later published by Wikileaks, American officials privately warned that Israel was becoming “a promised land for organized crime.” The cable described a country struggling to contain syndicates whose reach extended far beyond its borders.
Londoners woke up Friday to a city edging back toward normal after a week of stoppages that turned the Underground into a patchwork of shuttered gates, sporadic services and crowded alternatives. The Rail, Maritime...
An Israeli airstrike in Doha has cast a long shadow over the latest round of ceasefire diplomacy. Hamas negotiators, assembled under Qatari protection, became the targets of a strike that killed the son of...
The Tube strike entered its second full day on Tuesday, intensifying disruption across London as commuters grappled with packed buses, long walks and overloaded journey planners. With negotiations stalled, the capital is facing a...
Prince Harry during an Invictus-related engagement, 2019. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom this week is more than a diary of engagements. It is a reminder of his commitment to...
Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. Photo: Oxyman, via Wikimedia Commons. LONDON — 8 September 2025 Yes, a widely respected organisation’s report suggests that the licence fee — which is sold as a...
Birmingham residents paint the St George’s Cross on mini-roundabouts. Descriptive footage of the street-level flag campaign. “Operation Raise the Colours” footage: flags painted and flown in Birmingham neighbourhoods. If your theme blocks iframes, link...
Jeremy Corbyn, 2019. Zarah Sultana, official parliamentary portrait. The start of this new political realignment comes as Britain drifts headlong into an economic crisis. The divide between rich and poor is widening, with wealth...
Exterior of an Aldi supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Exterior of a Morrisons supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). Aldi has taken the crown as the UK’s cheapest supermarket...
Londoners faced one of their most chaotic mornings yet today, as a London Underground strike entered its first full day in force. With almost no Tube service before 08:00 and journeys advised to be...
KYIV — The claim landed like a hammer blow in a war already defined by attrition and exhaustion: “142,000 servicemen deserted.” In a few words it compressed two and a half years of fear,...
Russian accounts describe custom malware, a OneDrive trove and a casualty ledger; Kyiv rejects the story as information warfare NY-Style Enhanced — Excerpt (No Headline) MOSCOW — The story began with a single post...
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn’s inquiry has shifted the debate back onto the government, forcing ministers to confront allegations of complicity in Gaza that will now circulate in public reports and international forums. Last week...
PARIS — When Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer convened a “coalition of the willing” in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, they were not speaking from a position of strength. Twenty-six capitals signed...
In a single post, Donald J. Trump captured a sobering truth: America’s influence over two great powers has slipped away. The story runs deeper than one president. It is the result of decades of...
BIRMINGHAM — In 2021, Reform UK was little more than a footnote. Its inaugural conference drew a few hundred activists to a function room in Manchester, far overshadowed by the Conservative Party gathering down...
LONDON — London is bracing for days of severe disruption on the Underground as members of the RMT union prepare a rolling walkout that is expected to halt most Tube services for four consecutive...
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the Pentagon to be styled once again as the Department of War, reviving a name that vanished from official use more...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise of a strategic victory is unraveling. Instead of triumph, Israel faces the contours of strategic defeat: a grinding stalemate in Gaza, an economy losing investor confidence, a...
JERUSALEM — In the Hebrew press, the calls are growing louder, sharper, and more extreme. The country’s most widely read right-wing daily, Israel Hayom, published an opinion piece this week that made plain what...
JERUSALEM — More than four in five Jewish Israelis — 82 percent, according to a June Haaretz poll — now say they support expelling Gazans from the Strip. The figure is overwhelming, and it...
BERLIN — The turbulence in Germany’s politics cannot be separated from the choices its leaders have made since 2022. What some analysts describe as a “political tsunami” is also the result of self-inflicted wounds:...
Washington’s Shadow War on Venezuela: Bounties, Battleships, and the Long Siege CARACAS — The gray silhouettes of U.S. warships have reappeared in the Caribbean, a show of force not seen with such intensity since...
Russia has now turned its back on Europe. It has signed an agreement with China to build a new pipeline that will carry Siberian gas straight into the Chinese heartland — and, in time,...
LONDON — On the afternoon of 24 July 2025, a bare-bones website suddenly lit up with traffic. Its message was stark: “It’s time to build a new kind of political party — one that...
Middle East A cluster of American guided-missile destroyers has shifted into the Eastern Mediterranean, adding a sea-based layer to Israel’s missile defense while Washington weighs the risk of deeper entanglement. By Jaffa Levy WASHINGTON...
By Jaffa Levy CARACAS — President Nicolás Maduro appeared on national television this week flanked by his defense minister and closest lieutenants, warning that Venezuela was facing its most serious external threat in decades....
NEW DELHI/LONDON — As Britain’s asylum system creaks under record numbers and Labour’s government pursues reforms, Indian newspapers are watching closely. Their coverage reflects both practical concerns — warnings to Indian students, exposure of...