For Ukraine the financial frontline is perhaps the unseen battlefield in the war with Russia.

Keeping the economy on a level footing isn't just about today, but central to the future that they've spent four years fighting for.

"We don't want to be just a poor neighbour [to the EU]," says Ukraine's Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko.

In Somalia's remote al-Miskad mountains, a group of soldiers huddles around a small hand-held screen, tracking Islamic State group fighters on a drone feed.

A figure appears in the picture, moving through a valley. "He has been to fetch water for his friends," says the drone operator. "He is running and carrying something

For the last fortnight, as drones and missiles have whistled through the skies above Iran and the Gulf, air traffic controllers have been shepherding passenger jets through safer but congested airspace on the edge of the war.

A glance at a flight tracker map shows how busy Egypt and Georgia have become.

Working side-by-side, each controller looks after a different section of the map, co-ordinating with colleagues which planes are entering and leaving their airspace.

On a normal day an individual controller might manage six

The first reports appeared on foreign screens, beyond the reach of most Iranians. On 28 February Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were "signs that the tyrant is no more," suggesting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in a joint US-Israeli strike. Iranians watching state television, however, encountered silence.

Government officials would neither confirm nor deny Khamenei's death. On

A brother of the man accused of attacking a Michigan synagogue on Thursday had been a Hezbollah commander who was killed in an air strike last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says.

Police say Ayman Muhammad Ghazali died after driving a car full of explosives into the Temple Israel synagogue. Members of his family, including two brothers, had reportedly been killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon in March.

The IDF said his brother Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali had managed weapons operations for the Badr Unit in Hezbollah, a

A Swedish court has ordered the detention of the Russian captain of a ship suspected of sailing under a false flag as part of Moscow's shadow fleet.

The man, who has not been named, appeared in court in Ystad after being arrested on Friday by the Swedish Prosecution Authority on suspicion of using forged documents.

Members of the coast guard boarded the Sea Owl One in Swedish waters, where it was sailing under

On the Iran-Turkey border a man sells a service that helps Iranians outside their country keep in touch with loved ones inside.

His secret is two phones - one connected to the Iranian phone network and one to the Turkish. It's necessary because international calls into Iran are blocked.

Customers outside Iran call his Turkish phone on WhatsApp and he