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It was Olivia Dean’s night at the Brit Awards — she took home four trophies, including artist of the year and song of the year. Dean, once a Brit school pupil herself, also performed her song “Man I Need” during Saturday’s show. She also won the best new artist the this year’s Grammys. The U.K.’s leading music awards show moved from London to Manchester in the North of England; and was opened by Harry Styles making the TV debut with new song “Aperture” from his new album “Kiss all the Time, Disco Occasionally,” which will be released next week. Rosalía won best international artist with…

Viola Davis delivered a powerful speech about self-worth, resilience and collective progress on the 57th NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night, telling the audience that personal and national growth require confronting truth and hardship. “There is no becoming without healing and without a radical acceptance of one’s truth,” Davis said after receiving the NAACP’s Chairman’s Award at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium near Los Angeles. “We either move forward together or not at all.” The Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy winner reflected on her journey from childhood poverty in Rhode Island to international success, saying, “I just wanted to be somebody. I wanted success because…

Some Iranians grieved while others celebrated the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, exposing a deep fault line in a country stunned by the sudden demise of the man who ruled for 36 years. Iranian state TV announced his death in the early hours of Sunday, the voice of the broadcaster breaking with emotion as he confirmed Khamenei had been killed in the U.S.-Israeli attack on Saturday. Footage from Tehran showed mourners packed into a square, dressed in black and many of them weeping. But videos posted on social media showed joy and defiance elsewhere, with people cheering as a statue was…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its top leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear program while crushing democracy protests, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes. He was 86. Iranian state media reported the death early Sunday, after a major attack launched by Israel and the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump said hours earlier that Khamenei had been killed in the joint operation. Khamenei dramatically remolded the Islamic Republic since he took the reins after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah…

The US said Saturday that the safety of its allies is “not conditional” as it defended military attacks against Iran during an emergency UN Security Council meeting. “Iran’s continued pursuit of advanced missile capabilities, coupled with its refusal to abandon nuclear ambitions, despite diplomatic opportunities, presents a grave and mounting danger,” said US envoy to the UN Mike Waltz. Reiterating Washington’s position on Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, he said, “The international community has long affirmed a simple and necessary principle: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.” “That principle is not a matter of politics. It’s a matter of global security,…

More than a thousand demonstrators marched to the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Athens on Sunday to protest against strikes in Iran. Demonstrators mainly affiliated to the Greek Communist Party held banners and placards reading “Hands off Iran” and “close Souda base”. Greece on Saturday tightened security in Souda naval base on the island of Crete, a strategic facility for the United States in the eastern Mediterranean. The U.S. and Israeli embassies were cordoned off with rows of blue police buses. Police sources estimated the number of protesters at more than 1,300.

Global air travel remained heavily disrupted on Sunday as continued air strikes kept major Middle Eastern airports, including Dubai, the world’s busiest international hub, closed in one of the sharpest aviation shocks in recent years. Key transit airports, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the UAE and Doha in Qatar, were shut or severely restricted as much of the region’s airspace remained closed after U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday. Israel said it launched another wave of strikes on Iran on Sunday while loud blasts were heard for a second day near Dubai and over Doha after Iran launched…

The secret conclave that elected Pope Leo head of the Catholic Church last May was interrupted when one of the 133 cardinals involved was found carrying a cellphone, a massive security breach, a book released on Sunday revealed. As the clerics were preparing to take their first vote inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, which was fitted with jamming equipment to prevent outside communications, security officials picked up the signal of an active mobile connection. The cardinals stared at each other incredulously, then one of the older clerics discovered he had a phone in his pocket and handed it over, according to “The Election of Pope Leo XIV”,…

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Sunday that the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was “a defining moment in Iran’s history”. “What comes next is uncertain. But there is now an open path to a different Iran, one that its people may have greater freedom to shape,” Kallas said on social media platform X. “I’m in contact with partners, including those in the region that bear the brunt of Iran’s military actions, to find practical steps for de-escalation.” Khamenei was killed on Saturday, Iranian state media announced, in Israeli and U.S. air strikes that pulverised…

Loud blasts were heard in Dubai and Qatari capital Doha for a second day on Sunday and Oman was hit for the first time as retaliatory strikes on neighbouring Gulf states in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic widened. Iran had said it would target U.S. bases in the region but it has hit a range of other targets across Gulf cities. Two people were injured in Dubai after shrapnel from drones fell over two houses when they were intercepted, a Dubai media office statement said. Thick black plumes of smoke continued to rise from the…