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Ansar Allah grew from an indigenous Zaydi movement into the dominant power in northern Yemen. Its rise cannot be explained by Iran, popular support, coercion,
The Houthis have not closed Bab el-Mandeb. But their capture of Mokha and advance toward strategic Red Sea positions comes as Saudi Arabia increasingly depends
Claims that Donald Trump is “about to nuke Iran” go substantially beyond the evidence. The Pentagon really is expanding limited nuclear options, and a senior
Spanish police now say traffickers recovered a hidden 1,650-kilogram cocaine shipment from the wreck of the *Nehir*. Court records, a later Swedish case and an
China is experiencing widespread unrest, but the evidence does not yet show one coordinated nationwide uprising against Xi Jinping or the Communist Party. Here is
Muslims are a growing share of Europe’s population, but does that mean Europe is becoming Muslim? We separate migration, fertility, age, religious retention, local concentration
Berlin’s ransomware leak was more serious than a dump of routine government paperwork: reporting based on the stolen files found vulnerability, civil-defense and critical-infrastructure material,
Apple has extensive operations in Israel, and its employee donation-matching program was reported to include Friends of the IDF. Apple has also faced repeated allegations
Italy has not simply “stopped going to work” or collectively refused to pay taxes. A more consequential movement has been developing: workers are repeatedly using
The 37 handwritten FBI pages missing from DOJ’s official Epstein release now appear to have surfaced outside the government’s public library. The underlying case is
