US politics already feels like a contact sport, but one of Washington’s most bitter political feuds may literally be headed to the mat after former president Joe Biden’s son challenged the two eldest Trump brothers to a cage fight. After...
President Donald Trump said Friday that US warships are being reloaded with weaponry to strike Iran if talks in Pakistan fail to produce a deal, in an interview with the New York Post. “We have a reset going. We’re loading up the ships...
At least 10 people were killed on Friday when a boat carrying dozens of passengers in northern India hit a pontoon bridge and capsized, police said. The incident occurred on the Yamuna river in the town of Mathura. “So far, 10 bodies have been...
For decades, the United States has cast itself as the guarantor of stability in the Middle East, allying militarily with Gulf Arab states as well as Israel and brushing aside global rival China’s aspirations for a greater role. The US-Israeli...
Israel has approved the establishment of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media reports and the watchdog Peace Now, which said the decision was taken “secretly” in early April. “The security...
The head of a prominent anti-disinformation watchdog has warned of the dangers posed by AI chatbots, saying children are particularly vulnerable. “Social media broadcasts to billions, AI whispers to one,” Imran Ahmed, who heads the...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted on Friday that NATO was “in America’s interests” as he ended a three-day visit to the Gulf to discuss bolstering the “fragile” Middle East truce. Starmer’s comments...
The heads of America’s biggest banks met this week with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to weigh the security implications of a new artificial intelligence system developed by Anthropic, according to...
Pope Leo XIV and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first meeting Friday, a private audience at the Vatican where discussions ranged from the Iran war to basketball. The French leader wanted above all to discuss “the resolution of the...
A school pupil in western France on Friday stabbed a 15-year-old female classmate with a kitchen knife over a “personal dispute”, gravely wounding her, local officials and a source with knowledge of the matter said. Teachers in the...
US Vice President JD Vance warned Iran on Friday against trying to “play” Washington, as he set off for talks in Islamabad aimed at transforming a fragile ceasefire into a lasting peace deal. Despite the temporary truce struck between...
Iran’s parliament speaker on Friday set a ceasefire in Lebanon and the “release of Iran’s blocked assets” as pre-conditions for the start of negotiations with the United States. “Two of the measures mutually agreed upon...
European and Arab states have pressured Israel to stop targeting Beirut, a Western diplomat told AFP on Friday, two days after deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon that left more than 300 people dead. On Thursday afternoon, the Israeli military issued...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday that officials would release an extra 20 days’ worth of oil reserves from next month. The country began tapping its stockpiles, the world’s largest, in March as the government looked to...
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukrainian military experts downed Iranian drones in several Middle East countries. Kyiv dispatched dozens of anti-drone personnel to at least four countries in the Middle East after US and Israeli strikes...
