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 […]
US President Donald Trump has stirred fresh controversy after sharing an AI-generated image portraying himself as Jesus Christ, intensifying an already strained relationship with Pope Leo XIV. The image, posted on his Truth platform on Sunday, depicts Trump in flowing robes, bathed in radiant light, with his hands outstretched in a pose suggestive of healing. […]
Pope Leo XIV on Monday said he had “no intention to debate” with Donald Trump, after the US president criticised him over his comments on the US-Iran war. “I am not a politician,” the pope told reporters aboard the papal plane as they headed to Algeria for the pontiff’s first visit to Africa. “I have […]
China on Monday called reports it had supplied or intended to supply weapons to Iran “baseless smears”, after several outlets quoted US intelligence sources to that effect. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump threatened Beijing with a “staggering” new tariff of 50 percent if it were to provide military assistance to Tehran. His comments came […]
Operations resumed on Monday at a major gas facility in Iraq’s Kurdish region, the Emirati company running the complex said, after more than a month of disruption due to the US-Iran war. Dana Gas announced “the resumption of production of the Khor Mor gas facility in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, following a period of […]
