German foreign minister says first phase of Trump's Gaza plan achievable by next week
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Monday that the initial stage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the conflict in Gaza must...
Iran has warned it will respond to any move by Western powers to reinstate United Nations sanctions over its nuclear programme, though it has not specified what form that response would take. The statement came from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei during a press conference on Monday.
Last week, a French diplomatic source told Reuters that European countries may be forced to trigger the “snapback mechanism”- a provision under the 2015 nuclear agreement if a new deal that safeguards European security is not reached. The mechanism allows U.N. sanctions to be reimposed on Iran in the event of serious non-compliance.
Baghaei rejected the threat as lacking legal and political legitimacy, warning that Tehran would respond appropriately and proportionally. He criticised the European parties to the agreement, the UK, France, and Germany, accusing them of serious violations of their Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) obligations and arguing they have no moral or legal right to invoke the snapback provision.
The JCPOA was signed in 2015 by Iran, the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China, and lifted sanctions in exchange for strict limits on Iran’s nuclear activities. Western governments have long accused Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
The United States withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 during President Donald Trump’s first presidency, with Trump branding the deal “weak.”
Now in his second term, Trump has called on Iran to return to the negotiating table for a revised agreement, following a recent ceasefire that ended a 12-day air conflict between Iran and Israel.
When asked whether Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi would meet with Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, Baghaei said that no date or location for renewed talks had yet been determined.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Monday that the initial stage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the conflict in Gaza must be implemented by the beginning of next week at the latest, while acknowledging that other elements of the proposal would take longer to resolve.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday found a militia leader guilty for the first time over atrocities committed in Sudan’s Darfur region more than two decades ago.
Protesters once again took to the streets of Madagascar’s cities on Monday, marking a third consecutive week of anti-government demonstrations now calling for President Andry Rajoelina to step down.
Iran and France indicated on Monday that talks on the release of two French citizens held in Iran in exchange for an Iranian national detained by France were progressing.
Ukraine’s military says it has carried out strikes on one of Russia’s main explosives factories and an oil terminal in occupied Crimea, escalating long-range attacks on key sites supporting Moscow’s war effort.
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