Iran on Sunday denied it would participate in new peace talks with the United States, its state news agency reported on Sunday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said its negotiators would head to Pakistan on Monday for a second round of peace talks with Iran. Iran’s official IRNA news agency cited no specific sourceRead More →
Congolese refugees have recounted harrowing scenes of death and family separation as they fled intensified fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured a strategic city despite a recent United States-brokered peace agreement. M23 has cemented control over Uvira, a key lakeside cityRead More →
Sudan’s civil war saw a number of developments on the battlefield as well as in diplomacy and the humanitarian crisis. Published On 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025 Sudan’s civil war between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary has produced the largest humanitarian crisis inRead More →
Donald Trump pledges more deals like Intel stake, worrying business community. The US has taken a stake in Intel chipmaker as part of a push to secure domestic production and reduce reliance on China. The acquisition is the most significant intervention in private business since the 2008 financial crisis. SupportersRead More →
The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it plans to take control of Union Station, a major transportation hub in the United States capital of Washington, DC. Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy delivered the announcement on Wednesday, as he stood with leaders from the rail company Amtrak to unveilRead More →
With rare access to El Salvador’s most secure prisons, we explore the dark side of President Bukele’s gang crackdown. President Nayib Bukele introduced a state of emergency in El Salvador, using it to dismantle the violent gangs that had terrorised the Central American country for decades. Thousands of alleged gangRead More →
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says in Yerevan that ‘governance in the Caucasus region must remain Caucasian’. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that a planned corridor linking Azerbaijan with its exclave would be under Armenian control, days after Iran said it would block the projectRead More →
US President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard soldiers to Washington, DC, and taking control of its police department after claiming that crime was “out of control” in the capital city. The nation’s capital is “becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness,” Trump said at an AugustRead More →
In an interview with Fox News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel intends to take control of the entire Strip, but does not want to govern it. His comments came on Thursday shortly before Israel’s cabinet meets to consider his proposal to take over the Strip. “We intendRead More →
Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s Prime Minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), listens to a question from a journalist at the LDP headquarters, on the day of Upper House election, in Tokyo on July 20, 2025. Franck Robichon | Via Reuters Japan’s ruling coalition is certain to loseRead More →
