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Iranian exile group forms provisional government amid U.S.-Israeli operation
Feb 28, 2026 - World 
The National Council of Resistance of Iran on Saturday announced the formation of a provisional government amid the U.S.-Israeli attack on the Islamic republic regime.
What to know about U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran
Feb 28, 2026 - World 
The U.S. and Israel have launched major attacks on Iran that President Donald Trump says aim to crush Iran’s military and stop production of a nuclear weapon
Iran strikes: Democrats uneasy over lack of congressional approval, Republicans applaud Trump
Feb 28, 2026 - World 
Congressional reaction to President Trump's sweeping military operation in Iran largely fell along party lines, with Democrats outraged over the lack of congressional authorization and notification.
‘Adventurism has had its day’: speedboat shootout leaves Miami’s exiled Cubans bewildered
Feb 28, 2026 - World 
Few clues as to how 10 heavily armed men intercepted on stolen speedboat came together from across Florida or what they hoped to achieve Foot traffic was slow outside the Bay of Pigs Museum on Calle Ocho in Miami’s Little Havana neighbourhood. A few tourists in T-shirts and shorts bypassed the gallery dedicated to one of the most fateful days in Cuba’s history and headed instead to nearby Máximo Gómez Park to take photographs of Cuban exiles playing dominoes.This is the street at the heart of the Cuban expat community of more than 1 million people where tens of thousands partied through the night in November 2016 to celebrate the death of Fidel Castro, and where they gathered in sorrow almost exactly 30 years ago to mourn four Cuban-Americans shot down by the communist country’s air force as they conducted a mission for the humanitarian exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Continue reading...
Deaths of 22 children in Channel due to ‘catastrophic failure’ by UK and France, NGO says
Feb 28, 2026 - World 
Project Play finds UK taxpayers are funding ‘record child fatalities’ and ‘repeated violence’ against children in northern FranceThe deaths of 22 children while trying to cross the Channel in the last two years, along with the mistreatment of thousands of others, were due to “catastrophic failures” of the UK and French governments, according to a new report.Project Play, an NGO that has worked with 2,192 children hoping to cross the Channel from northern France to the UK to claim asylum in the last two years, has documented the impact of the hostile conditions in northern France due to regular teargassing, evictions and dinghy-slashing by the French police. Continue reading...
