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Downing Street plays down the possibility of the government deploying one of Britain’s two aircraft carriers to Middle East.

A synagogue in the Belgian city of Liège was rocked on Monday morning by an explosion outside its doors in what authorities are considering a potential terror attack.

Belgian judge Bart Willocx, President of the Antwerp Court of Appeal, warned Monday the country is at risk of turning into a narco-state as a result of international drug crime and mafia groups forming a “parallel force” in society.

Well, that didn’t take long. Mojtaba Khamenei has risen to the appointment of Iran Supreme Leader, as the country’s national television news service confirmed Monday, however it has since emerged the man following his father into the post has been wounded in an unspecified incident at a time and place unknown.

Norwegian authorities are considering a terrorist motivation for the explosion outside of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo.

U.S. Olympic figure skating star Alysa Liu has pulled out of the world championships in Prague, only days after she told of a harrowing incident with an overzealous fan. Liu’s name has disappeared from the International Skating Union (ISU) website

Former British Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair has excoriated his Downing Street successor Sir Keir Starmer for having damaged the UK’s special relationship with the United States by refusing a military request from President Donald Trump.

Iran struck Gulf infrastructure on Sunday, hitting fuel tanks at Kuwait’s international airport and damaging a desalination plant in Bahrain as Tehran pressed its missile and drone campaign against its neighbours into a second week.

The military operation against Iran entered its ninth day on Sunday. Reports have indicated that cracks are emerging in the remnants of the Iranian leadership structure as it scrambles to replace slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei amid continued waves of strikes from the United States and Israel, some of which left the Iranian capital of Tehran shrouded in thick black smoke.

President Donald Trump roasted Britain as a “once great ally” on Saturday as he continued to express displeasure with the left-wing Labour government in London over its initial refusal to grant the U.S. use of its bases for the conflict in Iran.

One of Britain’s most notorious child killers died Saturday, days after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in the workshop of a maximum-security prison.

The United States has started using British bases for certain operations against Iran during the Middle East war, the UK government announced on Saturday.

The partnership between Meghan Markle and Netflix took another downturn this week after the streaming giant divested her brand.

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States to manage one of the Holy See’s most important bilateral relationships at a crucial time, with ties strained over the Trump administration’s war in Iran and immigration crackdown.

Swedish authorities are investigating a cargo ship sailing in the Baltic Sea that they believe is a stateless vessel.

At least eight people, including two children, were killed and 10 others were wounded on Saturday by a Russian missile that hit a five-story residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, officials said.

Israel continues its strikes in Lebanon, Tehran vows to keep fighting the U.S., and President Trump has promised to hit Iran “very hard”.

An American airstrike has destroyed Iran’s quirky attempt at building an aircraft carrier, which was only commissioned last year. 

Ten people have been arrested across London in relation to a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into Iranian spying.

The United States says it has continued to dominate the Iranian Navy and Tehran launches strikes against Israel, albeit at a reduced pace. 

Spain is “indirectly” assisting the United States’ military action against Iran’s Islamic regime despite socialist PM Pedro Sánchez’s opposition to the operations, local outlets reported.

Iranian Navy ship handed over to the Sri Lankan government, saving the lives of the crew hours after another warship was sunk by the USN.

Swedish pop star Zara Larsson responded to a fan who said she had an abortion after attending the singer’s concert, declaring, “I killed the performance and then you killed it after.”

A defiant Iran despatched a second warship towards Sri Lanka’s territorial waters Thursday, barely 24-hours after a U.S. submarine destroyed an Iranian Navy frigate in the area, killing at least 84 sailors, a minister told parliament.

You’ll be sorry. That was the warning from Iran to the U.S. on Thursday as it responded to the torpedoing of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, with a Muslim leader adding a call for “Trump’s blood.”

Iran warns retribution against the U.S for sinking one of its warships in international waters, and continues to hit out at the wider region.

French anti-terrorism police have joined the criminal investigation into the alleged Antifa mob killing of a conservative student at a Lyon university last month.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called on Australia to work with Canada as middle-power “strategic cousins” rather than as competitors in negotiations with the world’s superpowers.

Nigel Farage introduced two veteran Labour politicians to his team on Wednesday, including a former London region mayor.

Russia said Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin plans to relay concerns from Gulf Arab leaders to Tehran over Iranian strikes on regional oil infrastructure, as Moscow seeks to use its dialogue with Iran to help ease escalating tensions between countries that include fellow BRICS members Russia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.

An Iranian warship in international waters was sunk overnight by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said. 

Exiled Iranian designer and activist Leila Farahbakhsh over the weekend confronted a purported “pacifist” leftist anti-U.S. rally in Florence, Italy, against the United States’ “Operation Epic Fury” — criticizing the Italian leftists for staying silent over the atrocities committed by the rogue regime against its own people.

Iran is attempting to choose a new supreme leader, while the U.S. and Israel continue strikes, including on Tehran and Lebanon. 

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is being tipped to rise up and assume leadership of the country despite the fact he’s never been elected or appointed to a government role.

Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday morning defended his opposition to the United States and Israel’s military actions against Iran’s Islamic regime, asserting an embrace of neutrality, “The Spanish government’s position can be summed up: no to war.”

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the joint American-Israeli military strikes against Iran are “outside of international law.”

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to “cut off” all trade with Spain after the socialist-led country refused to allow the American military to use its bases to strike the Islamist regime in Iran during Operation Epic Fury.