Weekly News Roundup – Week 11
Monday 11th March Antony Blinken will meet with Caribbean leaders in Jamaica to try and resolve the situation in Haiti. (AP) Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw […]
Monday 11th March Antony Blinken will meet with Caribbean leaders in Jamaica to try and resolve the situation in Haiti. (AP) Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw […]
Monday 4th February France has become the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right. (AP) The Supreme Court in the US has […]
Monday 26th February Hungary approves Sweden’s accession into NATO. (BBC News) Israel has conducted its deepest airstrike inside Lebanon since the outbreak targeting Hezbollah positions. […]
Monday 19th February The Houthis have claimed to have shot down a United States MQ-9 Reaper drone in the Red Sea. (CNN) Tuesday 20th February […]
Monday 12th The people in the city of Gaza are terrified of a possible ground operation in the city conducted by the Israeli military. The […]
Monday 5th February Scientists at CERN have proposed a new “Supercollider” which has been fitted with a whopping £17bn price tag. It is hoped that […]
January 29th The U.S. won’t rule out anything in response to the attack on one of their military bases in Jordan by an Iranian-backed group […]
January 15th Gibraltar Eagle was hit by a ballistic missile launched from Houthi-occupied Yemen just days after strikes from the U.S. and the UK. It […]
8th January Russia launched a large attack on Ukraine with 51 missiles, hypersonic and cruise missiles, and eight drones. All drones and 18 of the […]
An island’s view of the news this week. 1st January Japan was greeted into the new year by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that brought terrifying […]
Monday 30th March An Iranian attack damages the Kuwait power and desalination plant, killing a worker. (Al Jazeera) Spain closes airspace to US aircraft involved […]
Monday 23rd March Trump says US and Iran have ‘major points of agreement,’ including no nuclear weapons. (ABC News) An explosion in Nigeria’s Kwara state […]
Monday 16th March US allies rebuff Trump’s request for support in the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters) Iran hits key UAE oil port and Dubai airport. […]
Monday 9th March 2026 A second Iranian missile in Southeast Türkiye is shot down in what is the second incident of its kind in the […]
Monday 2nd March 2026 First Flights take off from Dubai after Iran strikes, but services are limited. (CNBC) Two drones were intercepted heading for the […]
Monday 23rd February 2026 Mexico sends thousands of soldiers to stop violence after the death of a drug lord. (BBC News) Another US boat strike […]