Tensions in the Gulf escalated sharply today after President Donald Trump said Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter patrolling near the Strait of Hormuz, with both crew members later rescued in what the Pentagon says was the first unmanned sea-drone recovery of its kind. Trump declared the United States “must” respond, and by Tuesday U.S. forces had launched retaliatory strikes on Iran, though key details about the helicopter’s loss and the targets hit remain unclear. Elsewhere, violence closer to home also dominated headlines: in Belfast, police arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after a serious stabbing that left a victim badly injured and a shaken neighborhood on edge. In Southampton, two men were jailed for violent disorder after clashes with police at a protest following the murder of teenager Henry Nowak, underscoring a wider sense of public anger and instability.