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Greens compare Reform UK's detention centre pledge to racist 1960s Tory campaign slogan Imran Mulla on Mon, 05/04/2026 - 11:43 Nigel Farage’s party proposed to put detention centres housing illegal migrants in Green-voting areas Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (R) attends a press conference with the party's home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, in London on 18 November 2025 (AFP) Off Nigel Farage's Reform UK has been criticised for promising to build detention centres

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The radical left leader will seek presidency for the fourth time – despite previously vowing to stand aside Jean-Luc Mélenchon, France’s radical left leader, has confirmed he will run again for president next spring, saying it was urgent for the country to stand up against war being waged by the US and Israel in the Middle East. The 74-year-old veteran leader of La France Insoumise (LFI), announced in an interview with the French broadcaster TF1 that he would run for the presidency for the four
NEW: CENTCOM says two U.S.-flagged merchant vessels have safely transited Strait of Hormuz and are on their way.
One of the victims of the morning missile strike on Merefa, Kharkiv region, has died in the hospital.
Dr. Andreas Krieg | Gulf Security Expert | Institute of Middle Eastern Studies: The UAE is trying to regain control over its destiny - reviewing every relationship & assessing the utility of every multilateral membership to its own security. Abu Dhabi is a Machiavellian actor built purely around national interests - specifically Abu Dhabi's interests, not just the UAE's. Since 2020, there's been immense tension with Saudi Arabia in OPEC over oil quotas. Abu Dhabi hasn't comp

Military officials noted that the army is working closely with farmers and local communities to facilitate seasonal fieldwork amid the setup of minefields and defensive lines
WATCH: Hezbollah FPV drones hit 2 Israeli Namer APCs, a Merkava Mk.4M tank, and an M113 at IDF staging areas in Lebanon. Some Israeli units have started camouflaging vehicles, but mostly in a basic/limited way and not consistently.

He's spent more than two decades documenting the realities of war, including years working alongside US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. But photographer Peter van Agtmael's work goes beyond the battlefield. He's equally interested in how those wars echo back home, and that's the focus of his photo book "Look at the U.S.A.: A Diary of War and Home". By pairing images of conflict with jarring snapshots of everyday American life in the post-9/11 era, he draws a stark connection between distant co

Ilya Ivanov specified that it is not just a matter of quantitative but also qualitative superiority

US forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports," US Central Command said in a post on X.

A green group has spotted people landing on an uninhabited island in the southern Hong Kong waters known to be a regular breeding site for a seabird species during mainland China’s Labour Day “golden week” holiday, which coincides with its breeding season. Terns, known as “sea swallows”, are seabirds with typically white or light grey streamlined bodies, long pointed bills and forked tails. While about 40 tern species exist globally, one-third of them, or 12, have been recorded in Hong Kong....

Discussing alternatives to the Alliance has long been taboo. That changed in 2026.

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Austria declared three Russian diplomats personae non gratae over an “antenna forest” on the roofs of diplomatic buildings that could be used for spying, the government said on Monday. Numerous satellite dishes placed on buildings used by the Russian state in Vienna, particularly a residential complex for diplomatic staff, have long attracted the attention of Austria’s main domestic intelligence service, which has warned for years they could be used to intercept other states’ satellite...
BEIRUT, May 4 (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament speaker, who is the most senior Shi'ite politician and a close ally of Hezbollah, said on Monday there could be no negotiations with Israel without a halt to the war that has raged on in southern Lebanon in spite of a ceasefire. Nabih Berri's comments, made as Israeli forces ordered residents out of four more villages in southern Lebanon, underline challenges facing U.S. efforts to forge peace between the states which held rare, face-to-face talks l

Back in March, Lebanon was pulled back into conflict amid escalating regional tensions linked to Iran, as Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel. Israel responded with waves of airstrikes and later ground operations in the south, displacing hundreds of thousands. While early exchanges relied on rockets and mortars, Hezbollah has since shifted tactics, with analysts pointing to an increased use of fibre optic drones that can evade Israeli jamming systems. A US-brokered ceasefire came into effect i

The latest developments in the Middle East war: - Iran targets UAE tanker - The United Arab Emirates said Iran fired two drones at a tanker affiliated with its state oil company ADNOC in the Strait of Hormuz, condemning the attack. "Targeting commercial shipping and using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool of economic coercion or blackmail represents acts of piracy by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps," the foreign ministry said, adding there were no injuries. - Iran media says missiles fired at US f

Internal splits over defence spending are widening within Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang, ahead of this year’s local elections. The party is facing growing pressure from the United States over its response to a proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special defence budget put forward by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party to fund the purchase of arms from the US and the development of domestic weapons. Washington’s de facto ambassador in Taipei, Raymond Greene, last week..

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Berlin police plan to introduce strict general orders regarding Soviet memorials for the period of May 8 and 9.
Armenia's PM Pashinyan: Now we have peace with Azerbaijan. It is already two years that we have had no casualties… unprecedented since our independence. This is the first time when the President of Azerbaijan is participating in an event taking place in Armenia… but online... Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to visit Azerbaijan in 2028.

The council specified that Finland’s air force conducted the Ilmataktiikka 26 exercise, with the stated goal of enhancing combat readiness and refining coordination between units
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Donald Tusk stressed that Warsaw refuses to undermine solidarity and cooperation at the European level

Canadian PM says Europe is not destined to submit to a more ‘transactional, insular and brutal world’ Europe will not submit to a more “brutal world”, and can instead be the base from which a new international order can be rebuilt, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, has said. Carney was speaking as the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of the European Political Community, which opened on Monday amid high tensions in the strait of Hormuz and renewed doubts about the US commitme
‘Israel is not implementing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza’
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The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned an Iranian drone attack on an ADNOC-linked tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. Two drones hit the vessel, but no injuries were reported.

The United States said Monday it is ready to “guide” commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz in a new effort to end the blockade wreaking havoc on the global economy. The U.S.-led Joint Maritime Information Center advised ships to cross the strait in Oman’s waters, saying it had set up an “enhanced security area.” The American military has said the initiative might involve guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 aircraft and 15,000 service members but has not specified what kind of assist
As part of the I Want to Go Home project, 70 collaborators have left for Russia to date in exchange for captured Ukrainian military personnel and civilians.

The US Department of the Air Force has selected three companies to potentially develop and operate nuclear microreactors on military installations as part of its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations initiative. US Air Force selects three firms for nuclear microreactors first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
Reuters: Senior Iranian official says Iran fired warning shot to US warship A senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday that Iran fired a “warning shot” against the US navy vessel to prevent its entry into the Strait of Hormuz, but is unclear as to whether any damage was sustained. This comes after US Central Command denies that any attack on their vessels which Iran media reported had taken place.
UAE condemns Iranian attack on Adnoc tanker transiting Hormuz The United Arab Emirates has condemned Iran’s attack on a tanker from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) attempting to cross through the Strait of Hormuz, according to AFP. Two drones were reported to have targeted the ship. “Targeting commercial shipping and using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool of economic coercion or blackmail represents acts of piracy by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps,” the foreign ministry said, a

A drone struck a laboratory for external radiation monitoring at the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), located outside the plant's perimeter.

Alexander Stepanov added that Sweden will likely develop the satellite constellation as part of creating duplicate European military space capabilities

Ukraine’s battle-tested system uses thousands of acoustic sensors and interceptors to find and destroy incoming drones.
The first of the KC-46 aircraft undertook a maiden test flight within the US, and is expected to be delivered to the Jewish state in around a month.

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