The Home Office said there had been a surge in asylum applications by students from those countries, and almost 135,000 asylum seekers in total had entered the UK using legal routes since 2021.

Khamenei, who led the country for 36 years, was killed at 86 during a wave of US-Israeli attacks on Saturday

With global energy prices on the rise, President Donald Trump said the US Navy was ready to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, the vital chokepoint into the Gulf that Iran has threatened to seal off

Lutnick, a billionaire former New York financier, has faced pressure over his associations with the now-deceased Epstein, especially after publicly released files undercut his claims of when he had severed ties with him

Trump cites Supreme Court ruling to justify potential embargo

Explosions tore through Tehran, Beirut and elsewhere across the Middle East yesterday, as the United States, Israel and Iran escalated attacks, raising fears that the conflict could drag on.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran amid its escalating war with the US and Israel has raised fresh concerns over liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to Bangladesh, which relies heavily on the narrow maritime corridor for its energy imports.

Bangladeshi men are being flown out of Dhaka, routed through Saudi Arabia and the UAE, before being taken to Moscow and forced onto the frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Asylum applications to the EU dropped by almost 20 percent in 2025, the bloc’s asylum agency said yesterday -- warning however that a crisis in Iran could result in refugee movements of “unprecedented magnitude”.

Environmental pollution is linked to several mental health disorders in Europe, the European Environment Agency (EEA) warned yesterday, arguing that enforcing legislation would result in Europeans being both less depressed and less anxious.

Two special flights arranged to repatriate stranded Bangladeshis amid Middle East crisis

The UN human rights office yesterday urged what it called the forces behind a deadly attack on a girls’ school in Iran to investigate and share insights into the incident, without saying who it believed was responsible.

US President Donald Trump said the historical relationship between his country and Britain was “not like it used to be”, in an interview to British daily newspaper The Sun, amid a major transatlantic fall out over US-Israeli strikes against Iran.

Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years. And when the senior Iranian officials came to work near Pasteur Street in Tehran - where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli air strike on Saturday - the Israelis were watching, according to a Financial Times report.

Planned Israeli action against Iran that would have seen retaliation against American forces prompted the United States to launch its weekend strikes against Tehran, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday.

President Emmanuel Macron said Monday evening that France will expand its atomic arsenal and could deploy nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries for the first time, as he unveiled an unprecedented plan to bolster security on the continent.

Iran’s Unesco-listed Golestan Palace in Tehran has been damaged in US and Israeli strikes, local media reported Monday.

AFP was not in a position to verify the toll given by the organisation

Guardian reports airport closures and regional conflict leave tourists stranded

Move aims to ease pressure on travellers affected by flight disruptions