Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top news stories for the 8th of August, covering the latest developments.
The U.S. Senate has passed a package of measures that would introduce sweeping sanctions against Russia and extend penalties on Iran. U.S. partners could be impacted by the legislation which would allow President Trump to hit the biggest importers of Russian energy with 100 per cent tariffs. The long delayed bill now has to clear the U.S. House of Representatives in a few weeks.
A deal between Iran and the U.S. to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping is expected “soon,” a U.S. official has said. The agreement would also result in the end of the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, the official added. Before the U.S.-Iran conflict around one fifth of the world’s oil transited through the strait.
Spain has tightened border controls on travellers arriving from Italy, escalating a growing dispute between the two European Union countries over irregular migration. The measures were announced after Italy imposed temporary controls on travellers from Spain, following the influx of 78,000 migrants from Morocco in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in north Africa.
Right-wing lawyer and political newcomer Abelardo de la Espriella has been sworn in as Colombia’s President in a ceremony in the western city of Cali, breaking with more than a century of tradition. De la Espriella takes over from left-wing President Gustavo Petro, whose four-year term was marked by deep political divisions and economic difficulties.
Kazakhstan has released an Amur tiger into the wild for the first time in more than seven decades, launching an ambitious effort to reintroduce the endangered predator to Central Asia. The female tiger, named Umit, meaning “hope” in Kazakh, was released into the Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve, according to the Ministry of Ecology.
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Iran is setting conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, including an end to the war, the lifting of the U.S. blockade and sanctions. At the ...
Afghanistan’s western Herat province could begin receiving natural gas through the long-delayed TAPI pipeline within two months, ...
Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has dismissed media reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow earlier this week to warn Russia against attacking NATO, dismissing them as "scare stories," which had nothing to do with reality.
Rescuers in Nepal used helicopters on Thursday to scour for hundreds still missing after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border with China's Tibet, sending catastrophic floods through towns and valleys, killing 162 people.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told allied foreign ministers Washington will focus on sanctions and other pressure on Iran “for the time being”, Axios reports. Meanwhile, Iran and Oman have resumed talks on a temporary shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for greater economic cooperation among Muslim countries, saying their combined economic weight remains disproportionately small compared with their population, strategic location and resources.
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 10 prisoners of war each in Belarus, Moscow's Human Rights Commissioner, Yana Lantratova, has said.
Iran is setting conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, including an end to the war, the lifting of the U.S. blockade and sanctions. At the same time, Washington is stepping up economic pressure on Tehran through what the White House calls “Operation Economic Outcast.”
Mail sorting centres used by Nova Poshta, Ukraine's largest private postal company, were destroyed in Russian strikes overnight, the firm said. Elsewhere, four people were injured after drones struck an apartment building in Sevastopol, Crimea, according to the Moscow-installed governor.
Türkiye has dramatically increased diesel imports from the United States and India this month as Russian supplies have been diminished and Middle East energy flows disrupted.
The death of King Harald V of Norway at the age of 89 on Friday has put the spotlight on one of Europe’s oldest royal dynasties: the House of Glücksburg.
Pakistan is treading carefully as Washington tightens the economic squeeze on Iran, caught between a neighbour with which it is expanding trade and a country whose financial system remains vital to its economy.
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