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The Iran war of 2026 has revived long-standing warnings that Gulf monarchies may be entering a period of structural fragility, as reliance on external security guarantees is increasingly exposed as conditional and unreliable. Rather than imminent collapse, the region now faces pressure to either rapidly recalibrate into more autonomous and integrated defence arrangements or risk gradual...

Fertiliser disruption exposes a blind spot that farm-level policy has long ignored – but Africa holds the resources to fix it, write Julia Baum and Marvellous Ngundu in ISS Today.

The death toll from a train collision near the Indonesian capital Jakarta has risen to 15 with another 88 injured, a senior minister said on Tuesday, as emergency teams completed work to rescue passengers trapped in the wreckage.

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied dismissed Energy Minister Fatma Thabet on Tuesday, amid growing controversy over renewable energy projects set to be voted on in parliament.

South Korea’s former First Lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for stock manipulation and bribery, after an appeals court increased her earlier sentence.

A Ghanaian military convoy protecting 140 civilians came under fire in the northern town of Binduri on Monday, resulting in the death of three of the people being escorted and one injury, the armed forces said.

How are ordinary citizens and households expected to pay when the very government that should be leading by example is not doing so? It seems there is a different set of rules for government departments and parastatals.