At Least 66 Soldiers Killed as Colombian Military C-130 Crashes on Takeoff
A Hercules transport carrying 128 people went down 1.5km from the runway in the remote Amazon province of Putumayo, triggering an explosion as onboard ammunition detonated.
A Hercules transport carrying 128 people went down 1.5km from the runway in the remote Amazon province of Putumayo, triggering an explosion as onboard ammunition detonated.
Iranian missiles strike Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities while also hitting Kurdish Iraq and Emirati forces in Bahrain, escalating regional conflict.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, whose approval soared after she publicly rejected Trump's demands to cede Greenland, goes to the polls Tuesday with her center-left bloc holding a nine-seat polling lead.

Government cuts to human rights groups coincide with promotion of revisionist accounts of military dictatorship's crimes fifty years after the junta.

Berlin's SATCOM Stage 4 constellation of 100+ low-orbit satellites would parallel the EU's own IRIS² program, raising fears of costly duplication in European defense architecture.

Grégoire defeated conservative Rachida Dati 50.5% to 41% in Sunday's runoff, pledging to continue Paris's transformation into a greener, more pedestrian-friendly city.

A Colombian Air Force Hercules transport plane went down 1.5 kilometers from its takeoff point near Puerto Leguizamo, detonating onboard ammunition and igniting a fireball in the jungle.

Beirut's expulsion of Iran's entire diplomatic mission marks the most significant assertion of Lebanese sovereignty in decades, as Israeli ground operations reach the Litani River.
WatchIslamabad is preparing to host in-person meetings between American and Iranian intermediaries within days, offering a possible off-ramp from a war that has killed more than 2,000 people.

Riyadh ordered five Iranian diplomats to leave after repeated Iranian missile attacks struck near Saudi oil facilities — shattering the China-brokered diplomatic rapprochement in the most serious Saudi-Iranian rupture in years.

Germany, France, and most NATO members have refused to deploy forces to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the sharpest rupture in transatlantic relations in decades and raising urgent questions about the future of the alliance.

Announcing a five-day pause on strikes against Iranian energy sites, the president said backchannel talks with Tehran — facilitated by Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey — have produced 'major points of agreement,' including an Iranian commitment to abandon nuclear weapons. Iran denies any negotiations took place.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened an emergency COBRA meeting with the Bank of England governor and cabinet ministers as Britain's heavy reliance on imported energy exposed it to the worst oil shock in decades.
The 'No' side won 54% in a two-day vote on the Nordio Reform — a constitutional overhaul that would have separated judges from prosecutors — leaving Meloni's authority weakened ahead of next year's elections.

A new phase targeting oil and gas facilities could hurt businesses and customers worldwide for months or years, economists warn.
With 180 people injured in Saturday's missile strikes near Dimona and no confirmed ceasefire framework in place, the U.S. government has begun organizing evacuation routes while humanitarian officials warn of an irreversible threshold.

Two southern Israeli cities — Arad and Dimona, located near Israel's primary nuclear facility — were struck Saturday in the most damaging single-day attack on Israeli soil since the war began.

The U.S.-brokered meeting brought together Kyiv's security and military chiefs for a second round of diplomacy, but Moscow rejected the American venue and repeated its preconditions for ceasefire.

The president stepped back from his 48-hour ultimatum to obliterate Iranian power plants, saying diplomacy could yield a 'complete and total resolution.' Iran called it a retreat.

The attacks on towns near a heavily guarded nuclear site in the Negev Desert have raised serious questions about the effectiveness of Israeli air defenses.

A strike on Al-Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur destroyed the facility's paediatric, maternity, and emergency departments and left the city without functioning emergency medical care — pushing the war's health facility death toll past 2,000.

Secretary-General Rutte convened an emergency session of the North Atlantic Council as Iran vowed to 'completely close' the Strait of Hormuz if Trump follows through on his threat to strike Iranian power plants.
WatchThe island of 11 million people has gone dark again after an unexpected failure at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant — the third nationwide blackout since March 16 as Cuba runs out of fuel.

Defense Minister Israel Katz commands troops to destroy more bridges and buildings, raising concerns about expanding military-controlled buffer zone.
The State Department dropped Venezuela from its most severe 'Do Not Travel' designation as the Trump administration pursues a transactional rapprochement with Maduro, driven by the urgent need to replace Iranian oil cut off by the Strait of Hormuz closure.

Fires broke out across multiple units at Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi refinery — processing 730,000 barrels per day — as Iran escalated its campaign against Gulf Arab states supporting U.S. and Israeli operations.

An operational military order dated January 13, 2026, reviewed by Danish broadcaster DR, shows Copenhagen deployed soldiers and demolition materials to Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq under the cover of a NATO exercise — a contingency plan to deny U.S. aircraft landing strips if Trump moved to seize the territory.
Generations of Indian workers and businesses built vital economic ties with Gulf states now disrupted by ongoing Middle East conflict.

After SpaceX implemented a whitelist system in February that disabled Starlink terminals used by Russian troops, Ukraine's military exploited the resulting communications blackout to recapture territory across Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
The attack on the East Darfur hospital on Friday night rendered it non-functional and brought the total death toll from attacks on Sudan's health facilities to more than 2,000 in the three-year civil war.