Friday's visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi comes after US President Donald Trump threatened a military strike on Iran...
- A next round of trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the US to halt the war will continue in Abu Dhabi...
Under the agreement, Israel will increase the total volume of gas supplied to Egypt to 130 billion cubic meters, according...Egypt has struggled with energy supplies in recent years, having sought to both meet its domestic needs and position itself as a regional energy hub.
Egypt was the first country in the region to sign a peace deal with Israel in 1979, and the two countries have since had decades of close security collaboration.
Under the second stage, Israel is supposed to withdraw from its positions in Gaza, an interim authority is to govern...But progress has so far been slow in moving to the following phase of October's agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Turkey said Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan would attend the talks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Moscow would "certainly" achieve its goals in the offensive in Ukraine, including seizing..."The goals of the special military operation will certainly be achieved," Putin told a meeting with defence ministry officials in Moscow
His hawkish comments come as Ukraine on Monday hailed "progress" made on the question of future security guarantees for Kyiv
Other countries newly subjected to the full travel ban came from some of Africa's poorest countries -- Burkina Faso, Mali,...The Trump administration has promised to let in athletes for football's signature competition, but has made no such promises for fans of blacklisted countries.
Global Refuge, a Christian-based group that supports refugees, warned that the travel ban would push vulnerable people further into harm's way.
In its annual report on the coal industry, the International Energy Agency said demand was on course to rise by...China and India are usually the main drivers of growth in coal consumption as the two emerging economies race to meet rising demand for electricity.
The IEA sees demand in China, the top coal consuming nation, decreasing somewhat over the next five years.
- The Israeli army is to demolish 25 residential buildings in the north West Bank's Nur Shams refugee camp later this...
In early 2025, Israel's military launched an operation it says is aimed at rooting out Palestinian armed groups from refugee camps
During the operation, Israel has destroyed hundreds of houses in the dense network of alleys that make up the refugee camps
- Kyiv's negotiator Rustem Umerov wrote on social media that the marathon diplomacy in the German capital had been "constructive and...
Ukraine hopes to convince Washington that a ceasefire must be agreed without prior territorial concessions to Russia
Trump has pushed strongly for an end to the war but an initial 28-point plan last month was seen as favouring Moscow's position
- Police declared the shooting a "terrorist incident" and said they had found suspected "improvised explosive devices" in a vehicle near...
The shooting took place during an anncual "Hanukkah by the Sea" event at Bondi Beach which police said was attended by over a thousand people
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Australia's government of having fuelled anti-Jewish sentiment in the period leading up to the shooting
- US President Donald Trump's special envoy will meet with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders in Berlin this weekend,...
Ukrainian officials said they recently sent Washington an updated plan building on Trump's original 28-point peace proposal to end the war
Trump's plan, publicly revealed last month, was accused of echoing Moscow's key demands, including Ukraine giving up crucial territory to Russia
Speaking on the sidelines of a summit in Turkmenistan, Erdogan told Putin that efforts to end the war were valuable,...Erdogan's remarks came on the heels of several attacks on Russia-linked tankers in the Black Sea, some of which were drone attacks claimed by Kyiv
The attacks sparked harsh criticism from Ankara, which summoned envoys from both Russia and Ukraine, warning the strikes amounted to a "worrying escalation."
