World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
Roman Gofman was due to meet CIA Director John Ratcliffe and envoy Steve Witkoff, three sources said, as Israel’s caretaker prime minister urges Washington to resume the war on Iran.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt called it the “reform of the century”: the BND may now act against threats abroad, and the domestic service may block data flows and, with prior approval, enter homes covertly.
The real number is far higher because the siege keeps the sick away from hospitals, officials say, and a doctor says only about 8 percent of the city’s water needs are being met.
Victory means Iran never gets a nuclear weapon, the US secretary of state told a lawyers’ convention in Washington, while admitting the war has caused Americans economic pain.
Uganda’s NRM says reports that its leadership rejected a proposal to back army chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba as President Yoweri Museveni’s successor are “completely false,” days after the general threatened the vice president with dismissal and arrest.
Door-to-door polio vaccination has not taken place in Afghanistan since October 2024, the WHO says as it keeps polio a global health emergency. Pakistan has confirmed nine cases this year.
SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster was diverted away from its launch tower and exploded over the Gulf of Mexico, but the Starship spacecraft reached orbit and could make the first attempt to catch it on Saturday.
The opposition leader says proof against the prime minister is on his phone and renews his debate dare; BJP leaders say he has offered no evidence.
The UN and aid groups blame Israeli restrictions, not the weather alone, for last weekend’s deaths and damage, and say more than 150,000 tents are waiting outside Gaza, most of them in Egypt’s Al Arish.
Investigators dug cash out of forests and found more in farm buildings, warehouses, and hidden safes while investigating former development minister Miklós Seszták, who is suspected of taking bribes.
