Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said yesterday they were imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, a move that opens a new front against the United States in its war on Iran and widens the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf.

Andy Burnham became Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade yesterday, pledging to break with the politics of the past to deliver a new economic model to benefit a nation “fed up” with a revolving door of leaders.

Reeves says she will support Burnham’s Labour government

Bahrain accuses Iran of targeting civilians

The 56-year-old is the sixth prime minister to enter Downing Street in the last 10 years

The months-old movement and the planned protest is seen as the biggest public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his third term in office, ganering millions of supporters on social media and mobilising support on ground as well.

Kyiv has in recent months intensified its strikes on Russian territory, describing them as retribution for more than four years of bombardments against its territory

A fragile truce between Iran and the United States broke down after reported attacks by Iran on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the critical international waterway through which a fifth of the global oil and gas supply transited prior to the war

European tuition fees are typically 50% to 80% less than the US, according to education consultant KC Overseas, with lower living costs also reducing the bill.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) late Sunday announced it was beginning a wave of strikes on Iran for the ninth night in a row.

Radical social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were in custody in the US, officials said yesterday, as Britain seeks their extradition to face new charges of rape, sex trafficking and assault.

The death toll from Venezuela’s twin earthquakes last month has risen to 5,119, according to an official tally released Saturday.

Indian authorities were right to move hunger-striking activist Sonam Wangchuk to a government hospital because he had not admitted himself despite his deteriorating health, a court said yesterday, declining to order his immediate discharge.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in Washington yesterday, a State Department official told AFP, after the latest round of Lebanon-Israel talks wrapped up in Italy.

Gaza’s civil defence and hospitals said Israeli attacks on Saturday killed 11 people across the territory, among them three children and their parents.

At least 53 people have been rescued after a ferry carrying more than one hundred people capsized overnight off the coast of Guyana, Prime Minister Mark Phillips told AFP yesterday.

A US strike on a water desalination plant in Iran’s southeastern coastal village of Bunji, in Hormozgan province, has left around 10,000 without water, a provincial official said.

Russia battered Ukraine’s capital Kyiv overnight with one of its biggest ballistic missile barrages of the war, killing at least one person and wounding 16 others, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday.

The United States carried out airstrikes yesterday to “punish” Iran after the first US military deaths since open hostilities rekindled the Middle East war.

Third attack in as many days on a power and water facility in Kuwait