When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets President Donald Trump on Wednesday, the agenda will be formally “Iran.” 

For years, Western policy toward Iran has been built on a quiet assumption: that the Islamic Republic can be managed, delayed, contained, but not fundamentally confronted. 

For years, the Iran debate has been trapped in a lazy binary: deal or war, diplomacy or regime change, restraint or strike. 

Parisian brasseries are more than restaurants. They are part of France’s cultural fabric, places where time slows, waiters glide between tables in long aprons, and the menu rarely strays from the classics. 

Phuket, Thailand’s flagship island destination, is stepping up efforts to diversify its tourism markets. 

Ras Al Khaimah welcomed 2026 with an impressive 15-minute New Year’s Eve show combining drones and fireworks, earning a new Guinness World Records title for the largest aerial phoenix formed by multirotor drones.