Russian strikes across Ukraine wounded more than a dozen people in at least four regions, at a time when US-led peace talks to end the war have ground to a halt, officials said Tuesday. In the northeastern city of Sumy, Russian drones wounded 15 people and damaged apartment buildings and a medical facility, the head […]
Russia is not participating in the US-Iran negotiations but is ready to assist in achieving a peaceful solution, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, APA’s Moscow bureau reports. He noted that Moscow hopes the negotiations will continue and that there will be no return to a violent scenario in the conflict. According to the Kremlin spokesperson, […]
Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday that the United States was not serious about pursuing diplomacy, citing what it called “violations” of their two-week ceasefire. “While claiming diplomacy and readiness for negotiations, the US is carrying out behaviours that do not in any way indicate seriousness in pursuing a diplomatic process,” said ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei […]
Israel’s foreign minister and military on Monday condemned the desecration of a crucifix smashed by an Israeli soldier in a southern Lebanese village home to Christians. A photo that emerged online over the weekend shows a soldier taking the blunt side of an axe to a fallen sculpture of Jesus on the cross. It was […]
US President Donald Trump said the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak on Thursday in what would be a historic first, but there was no confirmation from either side. Trump’s announcement comes as Washington pushes to ease hostilities following the first direct talks between the two countries in decades this week, when their ambassadors […]
US President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Fox Business on Wednesday that he asked China’s leader Xi Jinping not to supply weapons to Iran, and that Xi replied saying he was not doing so. “I had heard that China’s giving weapons to, I mean — you’re seeing it all over the place […]
Iran’s military warned on Wednesday that it would block trade through the Red Sea, along with the Gulf and Sea of Oman, if the US naval blockade on Iranian ports continues. In a statement carried by Iranian state television, the head of the military’s central command centre said if the US continues with its blockade […]
Hakan Fidan, Badr Abdelatty discuss developments in US-Iran ceasefire negotiations and agenda for upcoming meetings. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, in a phone call with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, discussed developments in US-Iran ceasefire negotiations, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday. According to sources from Türkiye’s Foreign Ministry, the conversation focused on the current state […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that a pipeline carrying Russian oil through Ukraine to Hungary and Slovakia and damaged in Moscow’s strikes would reopen by the end of April. “As for the oil pipeline, as we promised, it will be repaired by the end of April — not completely, but enough for it […]
Lafarge has been found guilty by a French court of financing terrorism after it paid millions of dollars to jihadist groups, including the Islamic State, to sustain its operations in Syria during the civil war. The Paris court according to a report by the Cable Nigeria, said the company made payments of about $6.5 million […]
