GENEVA: European and Iranian officials made little progress in meetings on Friday on whether they could engage in serious talks, including over Iran’s nuclear programme, before Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, diplomats said. The meetings in Geneva, the first since this month’s US election, come after Tehran was angered by a […]
CAIRO: Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed 15 people on Wednesday, some of them in a school housing displaced people, medics in Gaza said, adding that the fatalities included two sons of a former Hamas spokesman. Health officials in the enclave said eight Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in an […]
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Ukraine war was escalating towards a global conflict after the United States and Britain allowed Ukraine to hit Russia with their weapons, and warned the West that Moscow could strike back. Russia, Putin said, had responded to the use of US and British missiles by firing […]
DOHA: Hamas negotiators are not in Doha but their office has not been permanently closed, Qatar said on Tuesday following speculation that the Palestinian group had been ordered out of the Qatari capital. “The leaders of Hamas that are within the negotiating team are now not in Doha,” foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said, adding: […]
JERUSALEM: A senior Hamas official said on Friday the group is “ready for a ceasefire” in Gaza, urging US president-elect Donald Trump to “pressure” Israel as it continued to pound the Palestinian territory. It comes nearly a week after Qatar, which hosts much of the Palestinian group’s political bureau, announced it was suspending its role as a […]
AFTER Pakistan floated the idea of ‘climate diplomacy’ to tackle cross-border pollution in light of smog which has engulfed vast tracts of India and Pakistan, a US official indicated on the sidelines of COP29 that the White House may throw its weight behind any initiative taken in this regard. Last month, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam […]
US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Elon Musk to a role aimed at creating a more efficient government, handing even more influence to the world’s richest man who donated millions of dollars to helping Trump get elected. Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead a newly created Department of Government […]
CAIRO: Israeli forces sent tanks into the western side of Gaza’s Nuseirat camp on Monday in a new incursion into the enclave’s central area, as Palestinian medics said Israeli military strikes have killed at least 30 people since Sunday night. Residents said Israeli tanks opened fire as they rolled into that sector of the camp, […]
• Rescuers scour destroyed building in Barja for bodies, survivors • Hezbollah attacks Israeli naval base with drones, missiles, says tens of thousands of ‘trained’ combatants ready to fight BEIRUT: Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed at least 38 people around the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, according to the regional […]
• Trump says could concede defeat ‘if it is a fair vote’ • FBI says fake bomb threats made against polling stations in some states • Control of Congress also up for grabs WASHINGTON: The dizzying presidential contest between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris is hurtling toward an uncertain finish as millions of […]