All of the complexities and competing interests in the Middle East are coming out during the current showdown between Israel and Iran, and Jordan has a strategic role to play.
Month: June 2025
The world of ultra-fast fashion has adapted quickly to Trump’s newer “reciprocal” tariffs and has become even more exploitative.
After a week of unprecedented conflict between sworn enemy states, Israel and Iran may actually be holding back in the coming days, as the White House mulls its options. But surprises are no doubt in store with so much at stake.
Nude modeling in Paris is a demanding, underpaid job clinging to relevance as figurative art fades. Despite its decline, many still see it as essential to preserving artistic tradition.
With remarkable shots from Khan Younis, Barcelona, Kananaskis and Ascot, among other places.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said what others were thinking: Israel is doing the world a favor by trying to stop Iran’s nuclear program: Westerners and Arabs but also Russia and China, all would rather Tehran doesn’t get the bomb. But it may now be up to President Trump who is only concerned with his own interest.
June 20 – July 3, 2025
By declaring that Israel was “doing the dirty work for all of us,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz shocked many and cast an ambiguous shadow over Europe’s position in the conflict. At a moment when Europe should be upholding the rule of law, he appeared to align with Israel and the United States, who seem to rely solely on force.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long viewed the Iranian regime as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Now, with direct strikes on Iran, he may be realizing a goal he’s pursued for decades — driven by history, personal conviction and political survival. But the risks for Israel and the region are huge.
A bracelet from Spain is one of the products helping detect if your drink was ‘spiked’ at a nightclub to cause torpor and impede self-defense. But while such tools may prevent incidents like rape, activists say they’d prefer solutions to the plague of sexist violence, Luisa Lara reports in El Espectador.
Christians say the dormant law, first passed in the 1970s, targets their faith. Those trying to revive it say it is essential for preservation of indigenous faiths and culture.
Spain’s coastline is shrinking, caught in a relentless battle between rising seas, legal disputes and private interests. Thousands of homes now stand precariously close to the waves, some awaiting demolition, others clinging to legal loopholes. As nature advances, the struggle for land — and survival — intensifies.
In a world of stiff suits and scripted summits, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is standing out for her familiarity, warmth and an almost cinematic charm. But is it all just theater? Or is this her most authentic political power move yet?
Israel may be giving Tehran a taste of the havoc it wreaked on Gaza and Beirut, as it seeks to crush the very environment that has nurtured and sustained the hostile regime of the Islamic Republic.
The exchange of threats between Donald Trump and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are increasing tensions, and everyone is waiting for the U.S. president to decide whether or not to commit his country to war alongside Israel. If Trump decides to do it, there are three main reasons why.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has challenged President Trump over the deployment of the national guard to address Los Angeles immigration protests. Echoing historic federal overreach, his stand challenges democratic norms and state sovereignty amid a polarized political landscape.
Despite being cheap, eco-friendly and empowering, the bicycle is losing ground among Germany’s youngest. Cities are not built for children, and cars are given priority. Together with parents’ fears and declining physical activity, this is making biking for children harder than in previous generations.
As Israel and Iran trade missile strikes, people of the Middle East are divided between cheering and gloating in a conflict of axes fighting over the ruin of the region. We must return the debate to its root: Who represents the peoples of this region? Who defends their right to freedom, not to arms?
Europe’s long flirtation with anti-immigrant rhetoric is coming back to haunt it — this time with its own citizens in the crosshairs. With reports of Europeans facing detention at Guantánamo, the line between “us” and “them” begins to blur in the cruelest of ways.
After the bombs, Iran stands at a crossroads, torn between dynastic succession, military takeover and revolutionary implosion.
Donald Trump’s early departure from the G7 Summit highlighted his contempt for this type of meeting, but also had the virtue of pointing out that this institution has become an empty shell, embodying a world that has become obsolete. But what should replace it?
The assassination of top Iranian commanders proves again that few intelligence agencies in the world seem to be as effective as the Israeli Mossad. And few seem to have so little moral boundaries.
Scientists are racing to define and map the human exposome — the sum of all environmental exposures over a lifetime — in a groundbreaking effort that could transform our understanding of disease and precision medicine.
As Netanyahu’s war recalibrates alliances and redraws red lines, international law fades into irrelevance, Gaza becomes background noise, and the West’s moral compass spins off course.
In Tamra, an Arab town in northern Israel, the fallout of Iran’s missile strikes has taken a devastating toll. As Israel and Iran trade blows, residents without proper shelters — especially in Muslim, Druze and Christian communities — are bearing the brunt of the escalating conflict.
Benyamin Netanyahu made his point clear yesterday on ABC news: killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, “would not provoke an escalation. It would end the conflict” with Iran. Netanyahu reveals his end goal: the fall of the Tehran regime.
As flagship products of the luxury industry, fragrances have reached stratospheric prices, supposedly justified by craftsmanship and rare ingredients — simultaneously fueling a boom in the dupe market.
The U.S. president insists he wants peace and claims no involvement in Israel’s military campaign against Iran. But conflicting signals, secret briefings, and political pressures raise the question: just how far is Trump willing — or able — to stay out?
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, which Israel has been battering with increasing intensity, were inevitably a prime target after decades of violent subversion often enacted with the aid of that other enemy of the West: Russia. The IRGC may be in its final throes.
A first-hand account of how the war began on the ground in Tehran, as a massive explosion shattered the silence. West Tehran’s high‐rises trembled as homes crumbled to rubble. Amid fierce flames and choking smoke, residents and rescuers confronted a war that had invaded their once peaceful city.
Poland is the EU country that is most afraid of adopting the euro. But why are Poles so afraid, and what economic prospects could help them change their mind?
No externally-induced regime change has produced positive results for more than 30 years: not in Afghanistan in 2001, nor Iraq in 2003, nor Libya in 2011. And even if the current rulers were expelled from Tehran, a particularly dangerous kind of chaos would likely take its place.
As he launches the unprecedented attacks against Iran, much seems to be going Netanyahu’s way, from the decimation of both Hamas and Hezbollah leaders to the toppling of the Assad regime and softening of Gulf states. But a closer look shows a much more ambiguous picture across the region.
A secretive organization is training children in nationalist ideology, drawing on the legacy of banned neo-Nazi groups. With ties to former extremists and echoes of Hitler Youth rituals, the Jungadler operates under the radar — and may have been active for over a decade.
From a vanished child in 1974 to systemic injustices unraveled decades later, Tak-un’s story exposes the fraught past of international adoption in South Korea and the profound impact on separated families.
In the 21st century, international leadership is not defined by force alone, but by the strategic intelligence to understand that openness is not a threat, but an opportunity.
In an age of emotional scams and digital recklessness, older adults are increasingly vulnerable (and dangerous) online. A card-carrying member of the boomer generation is calling out himself and his peers.
Donald Trump was hoping to buy time for negotiations with Iran. But Israel’s prime minister undercut the plan with a military strike, just ahead of Trump’s birthday and military parade.
In a bold move, Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and leadership in an operation that may have been years in the making, much like last year’s attack on the pagers of Hezbollah members.
When tragedy strikes, it is only human to demand immediate answers. But public speculation can hinder investigators and does nothing to ease the burden on grieving families, first responders, or the investigative teams working through this disaster.