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Feb 28, 2026 - World

The United Nations chief condemned the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and called for an immediate return to negotiations "to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink."

Feb 28, 2026 - World

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, confirmed dead Saturday after a joint U.S.-Israeli military strike on Tehran, was one of the world's longest-serving authoritarian rulers -- a cleric who held near-absolute power over the Islamic republic for more than three decades.

Feb 28, 2026 - World

Customs agents seized copper-alloy weaponry from over 3,000 years ago shipped from the Middle East after experts determined the artifacts were looted from graves in northern Iran.

Feb 28, 2026 - World

Lucy Powell calls for party to make more use of Greater Manchester mayor after Gorton and Denton defeatAndy Burnham would have won the Gorton and Denton byelection, Labour’s deputy leader said as she called for the party to make more use of the Greater Manchester mayor.Overturning a 13,000 Labour majority from the general election, Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green councillor, became the party’s fifth MP on Friday in an area that had returned Labour MPs for nearly a century. Continue reading...

Feb 28, 2026 - World

Iran's leader, Ali Khamenei, was reportedly killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes aimed at toppling the Islamic republic's hardline regime.