Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday an explosive device was found near the border with Ecuador, as the two countries wage a diplomatic and trade dispute. Months of tension between the leftist Petro and his Ecuadoran counterpart Daniel...
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that 201 Ukrainian anti-drone military experts were in the Middle East to help defend the region against Iranian-designed Shahed drones, and another 34 were “ready to deploy”. “These are...
US President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at “foolish” NATO over Iran, saying the United States needs no help after allies rebuffed his calls to join efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said most US allies had rejected his...
A senior US counterterrorism official who resigned to protest the Iran war was “very weak on security” and it’s a “good thing” that he stepped down, President Donald Trump said Tuesday. Joseph Kent, the director of the...
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he expected to travel to China in a bit over one month, after postponing the trip slated for the end of March due to his war on Iran. “We have a very good working relationship with China, so we’re...
The four youths arrested on suspicion of detonating an explosive device outside a Rotterdam synagogue were probably “recruited”, the Dutch justice minister said Tuesday, with investigators probing possible links to Iran. The attack on...
US President Donald Trump said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made the wrong choice in not supporting Washington over war in the Middle East. “He hasn’t been supportive, and I think it’s a big mistake,” Trump told...
Iranian authorities called on people to pack streets nationwide on March 17 to defy enemy “plots”, over two weeks into war with Israel and the United States, on a night usually marked by Persian new year festivities. The message, broadcast widely in...
Cuba scrambled Tuesday to restore power after a nationwide blackout that hit the communist-run island just as US President Donald Trump proclaimed he will “take” it over. The government did not specify what caused the latest of...
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that US forces “no longer need” military help in the Iran war, after his calls for assistance from allies to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic were largely rebuffed. The American president has...
Albania on Tuesday designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a “terrorist organisation” and Iran as a state “supporting terrorism” as the Middle East war raged on. The Balkan nation’s ruling Socialist party used its...
Argentina formally withdrew from the World Health Organization on Tuesday, the foreign minister said, following in the path of the United States which took the same step earlier this year. The government of President Javier Milei, a close ally of...
A senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in...
Two men appeared in a Nairobi court on Tuesday accused of attempting to smuggle thousands of ants to China, a lucrative trade exposed last year in the east African country. Chinese national Zhang Kequn was arrested at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta...
The US Federal Reserve opened its two-day meeting on Tuesday with policymakers expected to keep interest rates unchanged as they digest weak economic data and gauge the economic effects of the Iran war. The central bank’s rate-setting Federal...
