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Altaf KhananiAltaf Sattar Khanani is a Pakistani man who was born on the 2nd of May 1961 and went on to found a foreign exchange business called Khanani & Kalia International. On paper, a firm like that does something ordinary. It helps money change…
HouthisOn the 31st of October, during the Gaza war, the Houthis launched ballistic missiles from Yemen toward Israel. Israel's Arrow missile defense system shot them down, and Israeli officials claimed it was the first combat ever to take place…
Nicolás MaduroNicolás Maduro was at the center of an announcement made in the pre-dawn hours of the 3rd of January 2026. At around 04:20 Eastern time, which was 05:20 in Venezuela, United States president Donald Trump said Maduro and his wife had been…
Anwar al-AwlakiAnwar al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and died in Yemen under the missiles of an American drone. On the 30th of September 2011, a group of men was traveling toward Ma'rib Governorate. They stopped for breakfast in Al Jawf…
Bashar al-AssadBashar al-Assad was slipping out of Damascus on the morning of the 8th of December 2024 when his longtime driver asked him a question. According to accounts of his final hours, the driver said, "You're really leaving us?" Assad replied,…
Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin's grandfather cooked personal meals for both Lenin and Stalin. Putin later joined the KGB in 1975.
Daniel KinahanDaniel Joseph Kinahan is an Irish suspected crime boss whom the High Court of Ireland has named as a senior figure in organised crime on a global scale. Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau has gone further. It has stated that he "controlled…
Dawood IbrahimDawood Ibrahim Kaskar has a bounty of US$25 million on his head, offered by the United States. In August 2015, an Indian television channel, Times Now, phoned a home in Karachi. His wife answered and confirmed that he was there. The…
Masood AzharMasood Azhar is the founder of the Pakistan-based militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, and BBC News once described him as "the man who brought jihad to Britain." That label is unusual for a militant leader whose group is best known for…
Dmitry MedvedevIn March 2023, Dmitry Medvedev posted that a missile could hit The Hague courthouse.
Yevgeny PrigozhinYevgeny Prigozhin died on the 23rd of August 2023, when a business jet crashed in Tver Oblast, north of Moscow. All ten people aboard were killed. The date fell exactly two months after Prigozhin had turned on Russia's military leadership…
Kim Jong UnKim Jong Un spent years as a face the outside world could not quite place. For a long time, only one confirmed photograph of him existed beyond North Korea's borders. It showed a boy of about eleven, snapped in the mid-1990s. Other…
Valentina TereshkovaValentina Tereshkova, a former textile worker, orbited Earth 48 times in 1963. She was 26 and skydived as a hobby.
Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević died in a prison cell in The Hague while still on trial for war crimes.
Mikhail MishustinMikhail Mishustin became Russia's prime minister without a single vote against him.
El MenchoNemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known across Mexico as El Mencho, led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a criminal group based in the western state of Jalisco. At the time of his death he was the most wanted person in Mexico and among…
Ilyas KashmiriA CNN headline once called Ilyas Kashmiri the "most dangerous man on Earth." The journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad went further. He said, "He is invariably described by the world intelligence agencies as the most effective, dangerous, and…