Atlantic regions are in a “unique” position, meeting told
By Martin Banks The Atlantic Ocean is no longer Europe’s western periphery but one of its principal strategic interfaces with the world.
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June 12, 2026 Plea for calm in Belfast amid violent disorder
By Martin Banks MEPs say protests such as those seen this week in Belfast “must remain peaceful and lawful”.
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June 12, 2026 Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha dies after more than three years in coma
Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha, who has been in a coma for more than three years, has died, the royal household has announced. She was 47. She collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs. Her doctors attributed it to a severely irregular heartbeat, caused by a mycoplasma infection in her heart. With her death, the Thai […]
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June 11, 2026 US and Iran exchange strikes across Middle East for second day in a row
The US and Iran have exchanged strikes across the Middle East for a second consecutive day, further straining an already shaky ceasefire agreed between the two countries in April. US Central Command (Centcom) said it had completed a wave of “self-defense strikes” targeting military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran. The attack came hours […]
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June 9, 2026 Israel and Iran flare-up could strengthen Tehran’s negotiating hand
Israel’s tit-for-tat strikes with Iran over the weekend, despite US President Donald Trump’s call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold fire, threatened to thrust the Middle East back into another round of direct confrontation between Tehran and Washington. Israel bombed sites in Iran for the first time since a ceasefire in April, after Iran […]
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June 6, 2026 US and Iran exchange strikes in Gulf in latest test of ceasefire
The shaky ceasefire between the US and Iran has been tested further, with American forces targeting Iranian drones and radar sites, and Iran firing missiles at US bases in the Gulf. The US military said it had shot down four Iranian “one-way attack drones” launched towards the Strait of Hormuz, which it said “posed an […]
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June 4, 2026 Israel and Lebanon agree to implement ceasefire if Hezbollah stops attacks
Israel and Lebanon have agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire, the US State Department has announced in a statement. The agreement is “contingent on a complete cessation” of attacks from the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, among other conditions. It comes after Israeli strikes killed at least nine people in southern Lebanon on Wednesday and […]
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June 3, 2026 Greece-Turkey Relations Heat Up
Instability and conflict over who benefits come to the surface again. The laying of the undersea electricity cable in the Eastern Mediterranean is emerging as another critical geopolitical focal point in Greek-Turkish relations. The question of whether Greek-Turkish relations will be “heated up” concerns not only the possibility of military tension but primarily the clash […]
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June 3, 2026 Israeli strikes kill nine in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires rockets over border
Israeli strikes killed at least nine people in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, authorities said, as the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah said it fired rockets into northern Israel. Lebanon’s health ministry said the dead included two paramedics whose ambulance was hit in a strike in the southern Chehour area. A car was also struck just south […]
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May 31, 2026 Israel seizes castle in Lebanon as it expands ground offensive
The Israeli military has captured the strategic site of Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “decisive shift” in its offensive against Hezbollah. It comes as ground troops move ever deeper into Lebanese territory beyond their original demarcation line of the Litani river. Meanwhile the Israel Defense Forces […]
