As Iran locks down the Strait of Hormuz and its Houthi allies turn the Bab el‑Mandeb into a no‑go zone, an audacious three-party blueprint is taking shape: a $5 billion Omani refinery and export hub beyond Tehran’s reach, a revived India–Middle East–Europe rail corridor, and a clandestine Saudi‑to‑Israel pipeline built on the buried secrets of a Cold War deal with the Shah. But there is a fourth prong, less discussed yet no less transformational: a planned Leviathan gas pipeline that would funnel Israeli hydrocarbons directly to Europe via Turkey, starving Egypt of transit revenues and cementing Israel’s role as the region’s indispensable energy hub. This investigation reveals the U.S.‑ led gamble to weaponise infrastructure, redraw the energy map, and force a reckoning, while risking a wider war that could consume the very chokepoints it hopes to bypass.

As social media mobilises thousands for a new mass crossing into Ceuta, evidence mounts that Algiers is strategically funnelling sub-Saharan migrants towards Morocco’s frontier. With Italy reimposing controls on Spain and the EU hailing a “resilience” it has not yet proved, the Maghreb’s long-simmering cold war has found its most combustible theatre: human lives.

Exclusive report from Gaza City, 10 August 2026 — Despite a ceasefire agreement that has supposedly held since October 2025, Israeli forces continue to fire on Palestinian civilians across the Gaza Strip. Medical sources, eyewitness accounts, and freshly collated data from the Gaza Health Ministry paint a picture of a truce that has merely slowed the killing, not stopped it. Sunday’s violence, which left seven people injured in multiple locations, is the latest chapter in what human rights organisations now openly call a “low‑intensity continuation of the genocide.”

It happens roughly once every five days. A brick through a prayer-hall window. Graffiti scrawled across a minaret. Arson that chars centuries-old doors. Over the past year, the British Muslim Trust recorded over 70 attacks on mosques across the United Kingdom.

President Donald Trump was told that the war with Iran would be quick and decisive. Five months later, with missile stockpiles dangerously depleted by 80%, a furious Trump confronted his defence secretary at Camp David. Inside the hidden crisis reshaping American power.`

MUZAFFARABAD / RAWALAKOT / ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) is convulsing through its gravest political and humanitarian crisis in decades.

With Damascus silent, weekly incursions and home raids turn Quneitra countryside into a militarised frontier. Human Rights groups warn of war crimes, while settlement expansion on the Golan moves forward.

A spiralling confrontation in the Persian Gulf, the collapse of a fragile ceasefire, and the shadow war over the world’s most vital maritime artery.

From Virginia’s Data Centre Valley to the parched communities of Uruguay and Gaza, the hidden water appetite of artificial intelligence is straining aquifers, poisoning environmental justice, and exposing a collision between big tech’s ambitions and the human right to water.

TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz “is not re-openable” as long as the United States continues its military threats and maritime interference, effectively locking down the passage through which a fifth of the world’s oil usually transits. The announcement came hours after US forces overnight bombed several Iranian cities, including a residential neighbourhood on Qeshm Island that killed a two-year-old child and his parents, and as Tehran retaliated with a new barrage of missiles aimed at American bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.

A tour of illegal outposts reveals the machinery of dispossession. New government billions, a fresh settlement approval, global real estate fairs selling occupied land, and a plan for military-agricultural outposts in Gaza show the project speeding up at breakneck speed.

Multiple UN and human rights reports now converge on a single, devastating finding: Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has systematically dismantled the conditions for Palestinian life to continue, before, during and after birth. This is not collateral damage, investigators say, but a deliberate architecture of what one major new study calls “reproductive genocide”.