Authorities in Florida released the body camera video of Tiger Woods being arrested on Thursday following a rollover car crash last week that led to him stepping away from golf to seek treatment. In the footage released by the Martin County...
A drone attack targeted the US diplomatic and logistics centre in Baghdad’s international airport complex on Thursday, two Iraqi security sources told AFP. “Two drones targeted the logistics support centre, causing a fire but no...
Argentina on Thursday expelled Tehran’s diplomatic envoy following a war of words with the government of President Javier Milei, which has cheered the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Iranian charge d’affaires Mohsen Soltani Tehrani was given...
Russia will send a second ship carrying oil to Cuba as the island grapples with a US fuel blockade, Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said Thursday. Cuba has been suffering from an energy crisis since January, when US forces captured Venezuela’s...
A UK-led meeting of some 40 countries on the strait of Hormuz crisis wrapped up Thursday with a demand for the “immediate and unconditional” reopening of the vital shipping route, but no immediate breakthrough. “Iran is trying to...
US President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday and named his former personal lawyer to serve as the acting chief of the Justice Department. The move, which the Republican president announced in a social media post, comes amid...
Besides oil and gas, Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has choked off shipments of crucial goods and raw materials to world markets. Overall volumes of dry bulk goods fell from 7.5 million tonnes in February to 1.3 million tonnes in...
Russia’s army recorded no territorial gains on the front line in Ukraine in March for the first time in two and half years, AFP analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) showed. Ukrainian forces managed to recapture nine...
Donald Trump told his followers Thursday to boycott Bruce Springsteen in an angry rant against the rock icon who has emerged as a fierce critic of the US president’s often harsh immigration crackdown. Calling Springsteen “a dried up...
Citigroup and Goldman Sachs stepped up security in Paris on Thursday, telling staff they can work from home, after authorities thwarted an attack against another US financial institution that French prosecutors said might have been linked to a pro...
Austria has rejected US requests for military overflights of its territory since the start of the conflict in the Middle East in line with its policy of neutrality, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP on Thursday. “There have indeed been...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for intensifying political and diplomatic efforts to end the Middle East war during a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Facing isolation from the West after sending troops to...
Iraq’s oil export revenues in March dropped more than 70 percent from February, an Iraqi official said Thursday, after the Middle East war disrupted the oil industry. The director of Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO), Ali...
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Thursday warned that Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem would pay an “extraordinarily heavy price” for escalating attacks during the ongoing Jewish holidays. “I have a clear message for Naim...
Libyan authorities on Thursday said efforts to tow a Russian gas tanker, abandoned after a series of explosions, had failed due to bad weather and that the vessel remained adrift in the Mediterranean. The Arctic Metagaz was abandoned in the...
