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Iran president gives go-ahead for talks with US

DUBAI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Talks with the U.S. should be pursued to secure national interests as long as "threats and unreasonable expectations" are avoided, President Masoud Pezeshkian posted on X on Tuesday. "Taking into account demands from friendly regional countries to

Crowdfunding fiber-optic drones for Ukraine

Activist groups in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are crowdfunding fiber-optic drones for Ukraine. The locally built drones, with 3D-printed airframes, are reverse-engineered copies of Russian fiber-optic drones recovered by the Ukrainians. Fiber-optic drones have become

The Iran off-ramp is still open. Trump should take it

As the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group steams through the Arabian Sea and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warns that any American attack would trigger a regional war, the current crisis is following a distressingly familiar script. US President Donald Trump has