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A US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber returns after the US attacked key Iranian nuclear sites, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, US June 22, 2025 in a still image from video. Photo: ABC Affiliate KMBC via REUTERS

How the US’s 'stone age' threat fits into a long history of carpet bombing

The phrase “bombing back to the Stone Age” is widely understood to describe carpet bombing, a military strategy involving the widespread destruction of infrastructure

US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, US, 2 April, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Why Trump's tariffs failed to make America great

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro holds a press conference, days after he said Venezuela would deploy military, police and civilian defenses at 284 "battlefront" locations across the country, amid heightened tensions with the U.S., in Caracas, Venezuela, September 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria

How Nicolás Maduro has maintained power in Venezuela

Olga Urbina carries baby Ares Webster as demonstrators rally on the day the Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments over US President Donald Trump's bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, during a protest outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, May 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

What ending birthright citizenship could mean for Americans

Employees work on an Airbus A220-300 at the Airbus facility in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada February 20, 2020/ Reuters

What is the Airbus ‘Icarus Bug’ and how are airlines fixing it?

FILE PHOTO: The US Department of Justice building is bathed in morning light at sunrise in Washington, U.S., February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F Calvert

What happens now that US Justice Department must release the Epstein files?

Photo: PID

What are the five charges against Hasina?

Attendees at the second Pan African Conference, Brussels, August 31 to September 2 1921. Photo: Unknown author - Pan-Africanism, Africana Age, NYPL exhibtion http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/photos/panafricanism/1953714.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56718666

The Pan-African Congress and its role in African liberation

The Truth social network logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a display of former U.S. President Donald Trump in this picture illustration taken February 21, 2022. (REUTERS Photo)

Truth Social: AI deepfakes, misinformation, and Trump loyalists

Containers are seen at Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China July 4, 2019/ Stringer via Reuters

Can China still hit its growth target?

People wearing protective face masks walk near the glass Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in France, February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

The Louvre just got robbed, here is how it happened

A demonstrator wearing a large mask depicting US President Donald Trump holds a sign during a "No Kings" protest against US President Donald Trump's policies, outside City Hall in Los Angeles, California, US, October 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Daniel Cole

What's driving the massive 'No Kings' protests against Trump's presidency

A drone view shows Thai soldiers and riot police officers confronting Cambodian people in a disputed village along the Thailand-Cambodia border in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand, September 17. Photo: Reuters via Royal Thai Army

From a leaked phone call to airstrikes: What sparked the deadly Thailand–Cambodia border clashes