Thirty-four percent of respondents in the Ipsos survey said genuine refugees should seek asylum in the first safe country they...
His death at the age of 74 closed a defining chapter in the country's modern history. During his 18-year reign...
While the plan offers several concessions to Palestinians, it also carries provisions favorable to Israel — including Hamas’ demilitarisation and...The proposal marks a significant shift in Washington’s approach as earlier this year, President Donald Trump had floated the idea of relocating Gaza’s population permanently
The new framework, however, calls for Gazans to remain in the Strip and outlines a conditional pathway toward eventual statehood
- Tehran, Iran -- As United Nations sanctions returned in full force on Sunday, Iranians felt the strain deepen, with prices...
Tehran's foreign ministry urged other countries to refrain from enforcing the sanctions, vowing to "defend its national rights and interests".
The impact on prices was visible as the rial plummeted to a new low in an already squeezed economy, leaving many struggling to make ends meet.
The meeting comes days after Trump unveiled a 21-point plan aimed at ending the war in the Palestinian territory during...On Sunday, Trump hinted at "something special" to come in Middle East talks, adding in a post on his Truth Social platform: "WE WILL GET IT DONE!!!"
"He has no other choice but to accept" Trump's plan for a ceasefire, said Eytan Gilboa, an expert on US-Israel relations at Israel's Bar-Ilan University.
- A statement from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and the Thousand Madleens to Gaza (TMTG) said they intended to "break...
"For the most part, our boats carry medical supplies, dry food and school equipment, as this was highlighted as some of the biggest priorities by Palestinians," they said.
They intend to join the Global Sumud Flotilla which is also bound for Gaza carrying aid supplies.
The sanctions, three months after Israel and the United States bombed Iran, bar dealings related to Tehran's nuclear and ballistic...European and US diplomats stressed immediately after the resumption of sanctions that diplomacy was not over.
Iran has allowed UN inspectors to return to its nuclear sites, but President Masoud Pezeshkian said the United States had offered only a short reprieve.
Beijing, China -- The world's highest bridge opened to traffic in China on Sunday, state media said, capping an engineering...The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625 metres (2,051 feet) above a river and vast gorge in the country's rugged southern province of Guizhou.
Live drone footage broadcast by state media on Sunday showed vehicles traversing the immense structure, its blue support towers partially engulfed in clouds.
NATO flexed its muscles in the North Sea this week in a display of military might, as Russia allegedly tested...F-18 fighter jets lined up on the world's largest aircraft carrier, flanked by 20 ships and with some 10,000 military personnel from 13 countries
US destroyers and French and Danish frigates escorted the giant USS Gerald R. Ford on the high seas as part of NATO's Neptune Strike 25-3 exercise
- Sweeping UN sanctions loomed for Iran late Saturday for the first time in a decade, after last ditch nuclear talks...
President Masoud Pezeshkian said the United States had offered Iran only a short reprieve in return for handing over its whole stockpile of enriched uranium
An 11th-hour effort by Iran allies Russia and China to postpone the sanctions until April failed to win enough votes on the Security Council on Friday
- The new mutual defence pact signed by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia this month surprised many and came just days after...
The agreement comes at an especially volatile time in the wake of both Iranian and Israeli strikes on Doha, and uncertainty over the future of Tehran's nuclear programme
"Even those accustomed to dramatic developments in the Middle East and South Asia were caught off guard by the announcement," said Joshua White from the Brookings Institution
China and Russia at a Security Council session on Friday put forward a draft resolution, seen by AFP, that would...European powers were urging Iran to reverse a series of steps it took after Israel and the United States bombed its nuclear sites in June.
Complaining that Iran has not complied with a landmark but moribund deal, the Europeans have triggered a return of sweeping UN sanctions
