Start your day informed with the AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top stories for the 2nd of July, covering the latest developments you need to know.
Indirect talks between Iran and the United States have ended in Doha without a major breakthrough, as negotiators focused on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and the release of frozen Iranian funds rather than Tehran's nuclear programme. While both sides described the discussions as constructive, no significant progress was announced. The next round of talks is expected to take place after the week-long funeral procession of Iran's late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei which begins on Saturday.
At least ten people were killed and 56 others injured after Russia launched a large overnight drone and missile attack on Kyiv, hitting residential buildings and sparking fires across the city. Emergency crews searched through the rubble of collapsed flats. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cut short his visit to Ireland, while officials warned the attack was among Russia's largest strikes on Ukraine in recent weeks.
The European Union will provide up to €200 million in grants to improve transport, energy and digital links across the South Caucasus, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced during a visit to Baku on Wednesday. The funding aims to support lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan by boosting regional connectivity, alongside an additional €20 million for local communities, including healthcare, demining and business development.
Israel's parliament has approved the first reading of a bill that would restrict the use of loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer, or adhan. The proposed law, backed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's party, still requires three further readings before it can become law and has drawn criticism from Palestinian officials, who say it infringes on freedom of worship.
A Russian couple were arrested after scaling the spire of New York City's Empire State Building to unfurl a peace banner before a dramatic marriage proposal. The pair, known for their "rooftopping" stunts, climbed more than 440 metres above the streets of Manhattan before the man proposed. Police later took them into custody and charged them with offences including burglary, reckless endangerment and trespassing.
Peace is Armenia’s only reliable guarantee of security, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said in comments in Dublin, where he also...
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash hidden in buildings and buried in forests as part of a bribery investigation into M...
U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold a historic trilateral meeting in She...
European leaders gathered in Dublin on Thursday, 12 November, for the ninth European Political Community (EPC) summit, with security, defence and energy high on the agenda. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held talks focused on peace, trade and regional cooperation.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has backed withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and overhauling the country’s defence doctrine, calling both steps essential to national security and deterrence.
President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to let European representatives join the next round of Ukraine peace talks while the United States continues to work towards what could become the largest prisoner exchange of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Microsoft struggled to restore its services on Friday after a major outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot across the United States and Asia-Pacific region.
Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted mapping data in South Korea, a lawsuit targeted advanced AI development, and Nvidia faced a leadership crisis after Jensen Huang's resignation.
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash hidden in buildings and buried in forests as part of a bribery investigation into Miklós Seszták, a former minister under ex-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold a historic trilateral meeting in Shenzhen on 19 November. The White House says the talks will focus on nuclear arms reductions, with Iran also on the agenda.
U.S. negotiators floated the idea of Ukraine withdrawing from the eastern Donbas region in exchange for NATO membership, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
China is taking its space technology ambitions beyond its borders, with a major deal to build a network of 20 artificial intelligence-powered satellites for Oman.
Europe will send a team of diplomats to Ukraine peace talks rather than a single envoy, EU leaders agreed on Friday at the end of a summit in Dublin.
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