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Worlds In Brief (11 March 2026 am – updating)

Europe (Clea Caulcutt - Politico) Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe is supposed to be the centrist candidate with the best chance of stopping the far...

Trump reportedly wants to seize Iran’s Kharg Island. He floated the idea 40 years ago

(Middle East Institute) US President Donald Trump mulled over taking over Iran’s oil-export hub Kharg Island as a way to assert US power in...

Iran’s MEK plots a US-backed path to power from exile in Albania

(Elis Gjevori - Middle East Eye) The war on Iran has given an opposition group that has long struggled for relevance in exile a...

Iranian missiles might be testing Nato air defences in Turkey to target crucial radar base

(Ragip Soylu - Middle East Eye) Iranian missiles may have been testing Turkish airspace over the past week to target a crucial Nato radar...

Worlds In Brief (11 March 2026 am)

China (Suranjana Tewari - BBC) China's leaders are trying something new to revive the country's slowing economy: encouraging people to spend more. At this year's...

USA – Cuba: verso una soluzione morbida

(Maria Eva Pedrerol) L’amministrazione Trump starebbe per annunciare a breve un accordo economico con Cuba. Lo ha rivelato USA Today. Mentre il Medio Oriente è...

Iran war could cause millions to flee, but who will take them?

(Tasha Kheiriddin - GZero) As missiles rain down on the Middle East, concerns about a humanitarian emergency are beginning to mount. Hundreds of thousands...

Hegseth presses Defense civilians to deploy for immigration enforcement

(Eric Katz - Defense One) The Pentagon first asked its civilian workers to consider volunteering for assignments to the Homeland Security Department's immigration-enforcement operations...

NSA, Cyber Command get a permanent leader, ending 11-month gap

(David DiMolfetta - Defense One) The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Cyber Command and the National Security Agency in a...

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