live U.S. has 'total control' of Strait of Hormuz, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said the U.S. has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran warns the key waterway will not reopen while Washing...
Saudi Arabia welcomed the upcoming U.S.-Ukraine meeting in Jeddah next week, aimed at finding solutions to end the Ukraine-Russia war.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry emphasised the kingdom’s commitment to promoting peace, highlighting its role in hosting multiple discussions on the matter over the past three years.
U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed the meeting, with reports indicating that the U.S. delegation will include Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, while Ukraine will be represented by Andriy Yermak, head of President Zelenskyy’s office.
Last week, a tense meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy at the White House stalled a deal on rare earth minerals tied to U.S. support for Ukraine.
Trump previously held talks with Putin and later facilitated a U.S.-Russia meeting in Riyadh on February 18 to discuss ending the war.
One hundred years after the First World War and more than eighty years after the devastation of the Second World War gave rise to the United Nations, humanity once again finds itself living in an age of permanent crisis.
Flights arriving at Catania airport in eastern Sicily were suspended after volcanic ash from a new eruption of Mount Etna drifted into the airspace around the airport, disrupting operations at one of Italy’s busiest aviation hubs.
Iran said it was nearing a final pact with Oman defining new shipping lanes between them through the Strait of Hormuz but repeated that the U.S. must meet other conditions.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has surpassed $1.1 billion at the global box office, becoming the highest-grossing film of the director’s career.
U.S. President Donald Trump has called for Iran to pay compensation for decades of deaths and damage, adding a new demand to peace talks as Tehran seeks compensation and sanctions relief before reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
An overnight drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk killed a child, injured two people and damaged residential buildings and key port infrastructure, Russian officials and companies said on Wednesday.
Large parts of Libya’s fourth largest city have been left without power following a drone attack on a power station, the country's state energy company has said. The incident in Zawiya is the latest in a spate of strikes on energy infrastructure in the city since Saturday.
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A U.S. federal judge has halted a key part of President Donald Trump's effort to tighten rules around mail-in voting, dealing another legal setback to the administration's attempts to expand federal involvement in election oversight ahead of November's congressional elections.
Lebanon has become the first country in the Middle East to formally abolish the death penalty, marking a significant shift in the region's human rights landscape after years of debate over capital punishment.
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