Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it launched an attack on Monday targeting the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, where first responders reported a man was wounded. The Iran-backed militant group said in a statement that its fighters targeted Nahariya...
Swiss voters will have their say on June 14 on a proposal entitled “No to a Switzerland of 10 million residents”, championed by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), the country’s biggest party. The SVP, which has its roots in...
US President Donald Trump said Monday that he does not know whether Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still alive, adding that Washington was unclear whom it could negotiate with in Tehran. “We don’t know… if...
US President Donald Trump stepped up the pressure on Britain and France on Monday, saying he expected them to help secure shipping in the Strait of Hormuz during the war against Iran. Trump said he had talked with French President Emmanuel Macron...
A boat belonging to the EU’s border control agency Frontex capsized and sank off a Greek island near the coast of Turkey, resulting in four people on board being injured, the Greek coast guard told AFP. Greek state television network ERT...
Israeli police said they found missile and interceptor fragments at holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday, including areas near the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. “During the recent missile salvo fired from...
President Donald Trump criticized US allies on Monday for their lukewarm response to his call to help protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz during the US war against Iran. “For 40 years, we’re protecting you, and you don’t want...
The war in the Middle East has put the United States at high risk of falling into stagflation, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told AFP on Monday. Even before the war erupted on February 28 with a barrage of US and Israeli strikes on...
The BBC said Monday it had asked a US federal court in Florida to dismiss a $10-billion lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against the British broadcaster. Trump launched a lawsuit last year over a BBC documentary that edited his 2021 speech...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened on Monday to target US companies across the region, calling on employees to evacuate the sites. “Employees of American companies… are requested to leave these areas immediately. These areas...
Trading in copper, aluminium and zinc as well as tin halted on Monday on the London Metal Exchange’s (LME) electronic market due to a “technical” glitch. Prices in these metals, which had not shown any unusual fluctuations, stopped...
France warned Monday it could block the disbursement of climate funds to India under a recent trade deal with the EU if New Delhi does not up its game in fighting global warming. France’s ecological transition minister Monique Barbut told AFP...
The war in the Middle East started by US-Israeli strikes on Iran has “nothing to do with NATO” and is “not NATO’s war”, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s spokesman said Monday. US President Donald Trump on Sunday called for nations including South...
Sri Lanka announced a shorter work week to conserve its scarce fuel reserves as it prepares for a prolonged war in the Middle East, officials said Monday. The Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which some 20 percent of global exports pass in...
NATO allies and other Western nations pushed back Monday on US President Donald Trump’s demand that alliance members help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the critical conduit for crude oil that Iran has effectively closed. UK Prime Minister Keir...
