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Iran’s supreme leader absent as senior officials attend ayatollah’s funeral
Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the attack which killed his father at the onset of the US-Israel war with Iran.
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Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’
One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sicknessIn October 2016 I was in hospital. I had been ill for 11 years with something I called chronic fatigue syndrome, but in the previous six…
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Yet Again, the U.N. Is Treating Hamas Lies as Fact
A new Independent International Commission of Inquiry report relies on flawed and unproven claims about Israel.
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How the far-Left teamed up with Islamists to bring about Iranian revolution… only to be crushed by extremists – and now experts warn the West is walking down the same path
In 1979, leftwing activists in Iran were instrumental in toppling the Western-backed Shah and installing the reign of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who later persecuted them in their thousands.
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Iran’s Top Officials Attend Prayer For The Late Supreme Leader In Tehran
Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signaling a new confidence in their safety as calls grew for the killing of Trump.
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Andy Burnham is facing vital mine-clearing Gulf mission in his first days as PM – ‘but Starmer won’t brief him’
The Prime Minister is finalising the details of a Royal Navy mission to clear Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, which he hopes will form part of his post-No 10 legacy.
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Funeral of Iran’s former supreme leader ‘intensely political moment’
Authorities expect up to 20 million people to attend ceremonies across Iran and Iraq over the coming days.
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BBC in Tehran as mourners gather for former supreme leader’s funeral
Iranian authorities say they expect millions of people to take part in funeral commemorations for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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With Washington determined to step away from Europe and the Middle East, what next for Nato? One country has the answer…
When he steps off the plane in Ankara for this week’s NATO summit, it will be the president’s first trip to Turkey since he regained the White House.
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Tortured by Hamas’s so-called doctors: October 7 hostage’s terrifying account of how Gaza medics sliced open her skin, poured alcohol into open wounds and reattached her FOOT at 90 degrees
Maya Regev, who was 21 when she was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, has opened up about the cruelty inflicted by Palestinian doctors who reattached her ankle at a 90-degree angle.