U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to escalate the war with Iran if it blocked oil shipments from the Middle East, even as he predicted a quick end to the conflict. Trump’s warning came at the end of a day that saw global financial markets seesawing on concerns that Iran’s security establishment was rallying […]
One of the seven women who received visas has reversed her decision after speaking to teammates, minister says
Iran's ruling clerics on Sunday appointed the slain leader's son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader, defying threats from the United States and Israel to oppose him. This comes nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed the elder Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war.
Tehran residents have described the war's heaviest night of bombardment.
Mojtaba Khamenei says the leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz should be used and that attacks on Gulf countries will continue.
Russia is wrong to think the war in Iran will give it respite in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday at a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. The leaders were meeting for talks on ways to increase pressure on Russia, including increasing sanctions pressure on Moscow by targeting its "shadow fleet" of tankers.
Combined Russian missile and drone strikes in several Ukrainian regions killed six people, according to offcials. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mykolaiv regions were targeted in an attack that included around 430 drones and 68 missiles, most of which were downed by air defences.
Russia is wrong to think the war in Iran will give it respite in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday at a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. The leaders were meeting for talks on ways to increase pressure on Russia, including increasing sanctions pressure on Moscow by targeting its "shadow fleet" of tankers.
The FBI says the incident is being investigated as a "targeted act of violence against the Jewish community".
US President Donald Trump has called on nations to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for shipping as Iranian forces continue their retaliation campaign amid US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Six people died, and three were injured in a bus fire in a small Swiss town believed to have been caused by a man on board who set fire to himself, authorities said.
Gunmen opened fire at Crocus City Concert hall near Moscow in 2024, killing 149 and injuring more than 500.
Mohammed, aged five, and Othman, aged seven, were killed alongside their parents, the Palestinian health ministry says.
An unexploded World War II bomb has been successfully defused in the German city of Dresden, police said, after a huge evacuation operation.
Ekrem Imamoglu is seen as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival.
Scotland’s busiest railway station is closed all day after a major blaze in which part of a building next door to it collapsed last night, the BBC reports. No trains will run to or from the high-level platforms at Glasgow Central Station, while trains that run through the low-level platforms will not call there. Travel …