After the Labour Party's crushing defeat in the recent local elections, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer finds himself politically besieged by a growing internal rebellion and public calls for his resignation.

The United States is 48 days into its war on Iran and has received no support - military or diplomatic – from its European allies at that time, underscoring Donald Trump's irritation with NATO.

The downing of a drone suspected to be Iranian over the British base at Akrotiri in southern Cyprus on April 2, 2026, was not a routine security incident but a turning point that quietly yet decisively redefined the role of these bases in the Middle East’s widening conflicts.

Just hours after London allowed Washington on March 20, 2026, to use its Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean to strike Iran, U.S. sources claimed Tehran launched two missiles toward the facility, nearly 4,000 kilometers away, with one failing and the other intercepted.

At the age of 100, Walid Khalidi, the Palestinian historian from occupied Jerusalem, died on March 8, 2026, after a long intellectual journey that helped rebuild Palestinian memory on rigorous academic foundations and challenged dominant Zionist narratives of the 1948 Nakba.