Trump says US helicopter pilots who went down in Strait of Hormuz are fine
Two U.S. pilots whose helicopter crashed near the Strait of Hormuz “are fine”, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday after the New York Times reported the crew of an ...
Trump greeted with boos at NBA Finals in Madison Square Garden
Basketball fans greeted U.S. President Donald Trump with a chorus of loud boos on Monday, as the Republican became the first sitting U.S. president to attend the NBA ...
Iran and Israel say they have halted strikes on each other for now
Iran and Israel said they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump, though Tehran warned it would resume hostilities if Israel continued ...
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir under investigation in Italy over Gaza flotilla
Italian prosecutors put Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir under investigation over the treatment of activists who were part of a Gaza flotilla last month, a judicial source ...
Israeli military kills six in Gaza and expands control zone
Israeli strikes killed six Palestinians, including a child, in the Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials there said, as Israel’s military expanded the area under its control, according to ...
Turkey merges state Islamic banks in financial sector overhaul
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week announced the merger of three state-owned Islamic banks, unveiling a restructuring plan aimed at expanding the role of participation banking within the country’...
Albania’s Rama vows to push on with Kushner-linked luxury resort despite protests
Albania will plough on with a luxury resort planned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on a remote stretch of Balkan coast despite persistent protests over its environmental impact, ...
Germany and France drop joint fighter jet project
The leaders of Germany and France have agreed to scrap a landmark project to develop and build a new-generation fighter jet, two German officials said on Monday, bowing to industrial ...
Defying Trump with brief Iran fight, Israel seeks sway over peace talks
In launching renewed strikes on Iran on Monday in apparent open defiance of Donald Trump, Israel has tried to make its case to have a say at the peace negotiating ...
Pope Leo warns Spain’s parliament the world is in ‘profound’ crisis
Pope Leo told Spain’s parliament that escalating conflict, deepening polarization and widespread disregard for human rights had pushed the world into a profound crisis, in one of his most ...
Ukraine recaptures more than 600 square km of territory in 2026
Ukrainian forces have recaptured more than 600 square km of territory so far this year, Ukraine’s top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Monday, the latest sign of shifting momentum ...
Armenia’s Pashinyan wins election but pro-Russian opposition polls strongly
Armenia’s governing Civil Contract party won a parliamentary election seen as a test of its handling of a peace deal with Azerbaijan and its growing turn to the West, ...
PM Starmer set to ban ‘harmful’ social media for under-16s
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on “harmful” online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some safer forms of social media, the Times newspaper ...
Earthquake of magnitude 7.8 strikes off southern Philippines, 15 feared killed
At least 15 people were feared dead in the southern Philippines on Monday after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the island of Mindanao, triggering tsunami warnings across several countries.
The ...
Iran and Israel say they have halted strikes on each other for now
Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other following an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that they immediately “stop ‘shooting'”, though Tehran said ...
Ukraine says Russian drone struck nuclear-fuel storage facility near Chernobyl
A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
In separate statements, Kyiv’s General Staff and ...
Armenians vote with peace efforts and Russia in focus
Armenians head to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test of the government’s efforts to forge a peace deal after a crushing military defeat ...
At least 12 injured in exchange of gunfire near Ohio festival, police say
At least a dozen people were wounded on Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, as two shooters traded gunfire, police said.
Two of the wounded are in critical condition, police said at ...
Middle East conflict threatens global IT growth outlook, warns IDC
The escalation of conflict in the Middle East is reshaping expectations for the global technology economy, according to research firm IDC, which says the transmission of geopolitical shocks into IT ...
Hegseth, at D-Day event, says Europe faces ‘invasion’ of dangerous ideologies
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned on Saturday that Europe faced what he called an invasion of dangerous ideologies arriving by sea, linking immigration to the legacy of the ...
Zelenskiy: Putin’s response to meeting proposal shows he does not want to end war
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s rejection of his proposal for a meeting to end more than four years off conflict showed that ...
JD Vance blames UK student murder on ‘mass invasion of migrants’
U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday waded into a British dispute that has erupted over the murder of a student, blaming his death on what he said was ...
US attacks Iranian sites after Iran launches drones, in latest Gulf flare-up
U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar sites on Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said, in the latest ...
North Korea to build 10,000-ton destroyer, state media says before Xi visit
North Korea plans to build a 10,000-ton destroyer and develop secret underwater weapons, state media said on Saturday, ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Rodong Sinmun ...
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