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Since the United States and Israel began launching airstrikes against Iran on February 28, social media has been flooded with content that claims to show scenes from Tehran and other Iranian cities. Though some footage is real — especially images published by reputable, professional media organizations — some is misleading, recycled, taken out of context or artificially generated and simply fake.

Razed forests, collapsing fisheries and vanishing pollinators rarely register as national security threats. Yet recognition is growing that nature loss poses serious risks to political stability.  "Nature is a foundation of national security," authors from the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) wrote in a recent assessment that draws a direct line between

From God reaching out to give Adam the spark of life on the sweeping Sistine chapel ceiling fresco to a grieving Mary holding the limp body of her son Jesus in her lap, the works of Michelangelo are iconic. Less well-known by the general public are the details of the life of the high Renaissance

Malawi's government last month imposed a comprehensive ban on "dual practice," prohibiting public‑sector doctors and nurses from working in private clinics, hospitals, pharmacies or diagnostic centers while still employed by the state. The directive goes even further, ordering any public health worker who owns or partly owns a private facility to divest within 30 days or

The US-Israeli war with Iran is affecting the tourism industry on the Arabian Peninsula, which until recently had set new records. After years of rapid growth, the sector is now facing a sudden downturn. Following the latest attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran, and Tehran's subsequent counterstrikes, hundreds of thousands of travelers

After the first military strikes by Israel and the United States, Iran launched counterattacks that mainly targeted US military bases. But the German military, the Bundeswehr, is also stationed at some of the bases that were hit. One attack targeted a military base near Erbil, in northern Iraq; another struck a Bundeswehr base in Jordan

Headlines in Serbia have been dominated recently by revelations from investigations into an investment fund that many Serbs feel hint at corruption at the very highest level of politics and business. At the center of the revelations is what is known in Serbia as an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) called Vista Rica, a Spanish term that roughly

Hungary said Friday it will use "every means" to resolve an escalating row with Kyiv over stalled Russian oil supplies to Budapest and Bratislava. Tensions have flared between Budapest and Kyiv in recent weeks over a damaged oil pipeline, the Druzhba pipeline, that delivers Russian crude to Central Europe. Hungary and Slovakia, both European Union members

As a child, Laura Müller dreamed of becoming a Formula 1 driver – inspired by the legendary Michael Schumacher. "I always watched Formula 1 on Sundays," the German said in an August 2025 interview published by the auto motor und sport portal. But nobody was taking her seriously back then, and since she didn't know how

The massive airstrikes by the US and Israel on Iran and the bitter resistance of the Iranian regime have plunged the Middle East into a state of emergency. According to the latest ARD Deutschlandtrend survey, three-quarters of Germans feel threatened by the global situation and are very concerned. In Germany, the US-Israeli military operation has been