Iran said Wednesday it would guarantee safe passage for maritime traffic through the vital Strait of Hormuz for two weeks, announcing that the pause would be used for talks with the United States on ending the war, starting Friday in Islamabad...
Iranians formed human chains to protect power plants on Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s threats to strike energy infrastructure, according to images published by state media, as top officials said they were also prepared to sacrifice...
Donald Trump’s increasingly apocalyptic threats of destruction in Iran have raised concerns of just how far the US president might go militarily to bend the Islamic republic to his will. Trump announced Tuesday that “a whole civilization...
Billionaire Bill Gates is to testify on June 10 before a congressional committee investigating the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, a source close to the matter told AFP on Tuesday. The Microsoft co...
The Israeli military on Tuesday expressed regret over “collateral damage” to a synagogue in Tehran caused by an overnight strike that it said was targeting a senior Iranian commander. The military “struck a senior commander in the...
The Israeli military on Tuesday urged all vessels in the maritime zone off the coast of southern Lebanon to immediately head north of the city of Tyre, warning that it would operate in the area. “Hezbollah’s activities expose naval...
Google on Tuesday announced updates to the mental health safeguards on its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot, as the company faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided a user in his suicide. The tech giant said Gemini would now...
US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday threw his support behind Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, ahead of this weekend’s fiercely fought parliamentary elections, accusing Brussels of “foreign election...
Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Tuesday on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a text already diluted from the green light Gulf states had sought to use force to protect the key shipping lane. The draft resolution prepared by...
The UN rights chief decried Tuesday the “incendiary rhetoric” in the Middle East war, warning that deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure was “a war crime”. “Under international law, deliberately...
Egypt and Italian energy giant ENI announced on Tuesday a “significant” natural gas discovery off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, as the North African country struggles to secure its energy needs due to the US and Israel’s war...
Qatar on Tuesday warned the war in the Middle East was close to a threshold where it cannot be controlled after US President Donald Trump set a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “We have been warning since 2023 that escalation left...
Israeli military chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir said on Tuesday that the joint US-Israeli offensive against Iran was “approaching a strategic crossroads” and vowed to “intensify the damage inflicted on the regime”...
Thailand is considering enforcing overnight closures of petrol stations beginning later this month, the prime minister said Tuesday (Apr 7), an effort to preserve fuel as the Middle East war has driven fears of shortages. Anutin Charnvirakul, whose...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel struck on Tuesday railways and bridges in Iran “used by the Revolutionary Guards”, after Iranian officials reported damage to at least two bridges and railway infrastructure. “We are...
