Like the Irish author, the Israeli founders of November Books have vowed to comply with a cultural boycott over their country’s assault on Palestinians

María Fernanda Espinosa is among five candidates vying to succeed António Guterres and make the organisation relevant again

Issues on the table include global trade, Iran, and the future of Taiwan

From Iran to Israel, countries that are otherwise hostile to journalists have been welcoming social media stars with open arms

Donald Trump has dragged protesters into a vortex of online misinformation

The search engine containing 12m party membership cards shatters the illusion that few ancestors were active supporters of Hitler

The French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri has petitioned French authorities to investigate the Israeli bombing that killed his parents in 2024

Viktor Orbán is facing the fight of his political life – and his hopes of winning a fifth term appear to be fading as his pro-EU rival surges

RAF veteran says the US pilot missing in Iran will find evading the enemy even more difficult than sticking his landing

As the US president ups the ante, allies discuss using minesweepers to clear the strait and Tehran imposes new transit fees on shipping

The Iranian regime purports to be avenging the financier’s victims in its latest skirmish with the US, but the use of artificial intelligence further muddies the water between fact and fiction

If the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened within weeks, the disruption could hit harvests beyond this year and leave hundreds of millions at risk of acute food insecurity

Authorities say the money-making scheme shared sensitive information with enemy agents. Much of that information was fake

The US president’s claims echo the Bush administration’s baseless case for weapons of mass destruction allegedly held by Iraq

When a journalist reported on a missile strike on an Israeli forest, he was inundated by messages accusing him of an ‘inaccurate report’ causing ‘a chain of errors’. Then, he realised he was at the centre of a gambling war on Polymarket

The US president’s return to office has put the Israeli leader closer to his treasured goal, Isabel Coles reports

As efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions have intensified, work on an Israeli nuclear site has gathered pace. Isabel Coles reports from the Negev desert

The prime minister has long coveted war with Iran, but he knows the offensive comes with a political dimension at home

The Ukrainian military has honed methods to intercept the airborne weapons, which Iran has sold to Russia for use on the battlefield