French lawmakers voted Tuesday to ban social media use for children under the age of 15, making it the first country in the European Union to introduce such an age limit. Australia made history late last year when it implemented the first ban on social media for under-16s. The British government announced similar restrictions last month, expected to come...
The war with Iran has cost the US some $37.5bn (£28bn) so far – an increase of nearly $8bn since the last estimate in May, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee it was urgent that lawmakers approve another $87bn in congressional funding for the Pentagon, with $67bn of that...
Former Manchester Mayor, Andrew Burnham, was appointed Prime Minister of the U.K. on Monday (July 20, 2026), its seventh in a decade. Mr. Burnham described the moment as a “circuit breaker”, as he promised to usher in a new political and social model for the country, taking power out of London and spreading it across...
The US military says it launched another round of strikes against Iran to “further degrade” its capabilities to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes – the 10th consecutive night of attacks – come after US President Donald Trump vowed to punish Iran for the deaths of US soldiers. Trump earlier said Iran...
The US said it had launched a fresh wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday as President Donald Trump warned Tehran it “better behave”. The US military said “Iranian military capabilities used to threaten vessels” moving through the Strait of Hormuz had been targeted. Air defences also sounded in the capital Tehran, according to state...
Iran widened its military campaign across the Gulf on Sunday, launching missile and drone attacks against Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. The regional barrage came just hours after the United States carried out a third round of airstrikes against Iranian targets in retaliation for attacks on commercial shipping in...
A powerful typhoon has made landfall in China, the second to hit the country in a week, with nearly two million people evacuated from areas in the path of the storm. Typhoon Bavi, which spans 1,000km (620 miles) at its widest point – roughly the width of France – first came ashore in the coastal city...
The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting Gulf countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle East. Back-and-forth attacks, including a day earlier, have repeatedly threatened the ceasefire, but Thursday’s appeared bigger all around, with...
The latest exchange of fire has thrown into doubt the shaky truce between Iran and the United States that is intended to allow talks to bring an end to the four-month-old war. Here’s what happened the last time U.S. and Iranian negotiators held indirect talks. Sources familiar with the last round of talks in Doha, said negotiators for...
United States President Donald Trump has declared he is “very disappointed with NATO” on the first day of a summit of leaders of the mutual defence alliance in Turkiye that exposed tensions over European defence spending, the Russia-Ukraine war and the future of Greenland. Trump arrived in Ankara on Tuesday for the summit along with...