The seppuku of the Japanese samurais (a painful cut in the abdomen with a dagger, dressed in white ritual clothes and writing a farewell poem) was not just any way to take one’s life, but an honorable death to avoid being captured, pay for failure, demonstrate loyalty, bravery, and self-control. It was banned at the end of the 19th century but even if it were not, and despite its romanticism, there is nothing further from the will of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer than to commit harakiri.

The United States Central Command (Centcom) reported late this Friday that its forces shot down four Iranian drones launched towards the Strait of Hormuz, considering they represented an immediate threat to commercial navigation in the area.

The plane that transported Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from Moldova to Oslo on Tuesday, where he attended the funeral of King Harald of Norway, was nearly hit by a drone, according to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

At least five people died after an Amazon cargo plane crashed off the runway after landing at Miami International Airport, authorities confirmed.