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‘It’s like a cat and mouse game’: on the frontline of Belgium’s fight against drug smugglers
May 3, 2026 - World 
Antwerp port is stepping up scanning of goods amid warnings country risks becoming a narco-stateSara Van Cotthem takes a safety knife and precisely slices open the side of a cardboard box to unpack its contents, an aluminium stepladder made in China. Working under harsh fluorescent lights at the border inspection post at the port of Antwerp, Van Cotthem checks the paperwork and taps the ladder with a magnet to check if it really is aluminium and not another metal.It is an everyday operation for customs officers at Antwerp, one of Europe’s main commercial gateways, which handled the equivalent of 13.6m 20ft-long (6 metres) containers last year. Everything is in order and the lorry, jam-packed with identical boxed ladders, can get on its way to Germany. Continue reading...
"If They Misbehave...": Trump's New Warning To Iran On Resuming Strikes
May 3, 2026 - World 
The war, launched by the United States and Israel in late February, has been on hold since April 8, with one failed round of peace talks having taken place in Pakistan.
Two U.S. troops reported missing during major military exercises in Africa
May 3, 2026 - World 
Two U.S. service members were reported missing Sunday in Morocco, during major annual American military exercises in western Africa, Pentagon officials said.
A Serbian bird-watching group uses crowdfunding to buy and preserve a woodland habitat
May 3, 2026 - World 
The merry chirping of birds echoed through towering trees in a small woodland in northeastern Serbia. Down on the ground, animal tracks could be seen imprinted in the moist grass and moss.
Jailed Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Hospitalised, At 'Very High Risk'
May 3, 2026 - World 
Mohammadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in her early 50s, was urgently transferred to a hospital in Zanjan in Iran's northwest on Friday after a cardiac crisis and fainting