World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
The IRGC says the vessels ignored warnings and used an “unauthorised” route, while US Central Command insists the main shipping lanes have been cleared of mines.
The Royal Shakespeare Company actor, who found global fame in his late forties as Jean-Luc Picard, died at his Los Angeles home after a short illness with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.
The 39-year-old who killed one person and wounded seven near Paris said he chose the area as “a hotbed for Islamists”, prosecutors say, as Macron calls it a “racist terrorist attack”.
With all votes counted, Netanyahu’s bloc is down 11 seats on 2022 and Eisenkot’s has 48, leaving neither side a clear route to the 61 needed to govern.
Muslim leaders in Michigan say hostility is at its worst since 9/11 as Republicans accuse the Egyptian-American doctor, without evidence, of links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.
Lt Gen Brett Sylvia, the Joint Staff’s head of strategy, plans and policy, was removed after reportedly failing three polygraph tests about sharing classified information with the media.
A jet-powered drone hit a crowded platform where a Zaporizhzhia-bound train was waiting, as Zelensky called for more sanctions on Russia.
Attendance at the fifth plenum fell below 300 for the first time under Xi, after a purge that has left the Central Military Commission with just two members.
The election committee chief ordered the security service to look into “serious suspicions” of outside influence, as 480,000 absentee ballots are counted and neither bloc nears 61 seats.
The Race Course mosque, a listed heritage property, was told to vacate within six days and had its power and water cut. The government says it will hear the Waqf Board first.
