June 18 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday he had authorised a memorandum of understanding signed by the Iranian and U.S. presidents, despite holding a different view, after receiving assurances from President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior
Israel's foreign minister said Thursday he was severing all contact with the European Union's top diplomat over reported remarks in which she allegedly compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa. Diplomatic relations between Israel and the EU have come under heavy strain
Prime Minister Netanyahu says the Israeli army will remain in southern Lebanon 'so long as security needs require it,' as President Aoun tells negotiators heading to Washington that Beirut 'will not accept any arrangement that does not ensure full sovereignty and a complete
By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT, June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S.-Iran agreement — the first signed by an American and an Iranian president since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution — is being hailed by its backers as the deal of the century. But for Tehran's adversaries across the Middle East
US Vice President JD Vance on Friday issued an extraordinary rebuke to Israeli critics of the Iran deal, warning them not to alienate their "only powerful ally" left in the world. Vance told members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet criticizing the
WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday announced sanctions against several Lebanese officials it said were aligned with Hezbollah and members of the sanctioned Alaa Hassan Hamieh business network for obstructing Lebanon’s peace process and delaying the
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - The interim deal to end the Iran war will include a waiver on sanctioned oil sales but the country still faces a complex web of international restrictions on its activities and trade. Sanctions, trade embargoes and asset freezes have been imposed by
Several teams from the Middle East and North Africa could advance to the knockout stage under the new format, and Morocco climbed in the rankings despite a tie in its opener.
WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance said the 60-day window laid out in a memorandum of understanding approved by President Donald Trump and Iranian leaders begins on Thursday. "I would say the 60-day period officially started today," Vance told
The Iran war was cast as a catalyst for the Islamic republic's collapse, but months of fighting failed to dislodge the clerical leadership and left its opponents out in the cold. US President Donald Trump said in launching the war with Israel on February 28 that it would pave
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 18 (Reuters) - Dozens of countries including Britain, France and Germany raised the alarm at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday that Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces could imminently escalate an assault on the central Sudanese
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized Israel for a "weird panic" and "freakout" over the agreement struck between the U.S. and Iran, in an interview released on Thursday as the Trump administration sought to tamp down criticism
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized Israel for a "weird panic" and "freakout" over the agreement struck between the U.S. and Iran, in an interview released on Thursday as the Trump administration sought to tamp down criticism
Three big Saudi oil tankers left the Gulf through the Hormuz Strait on Thursday, maritime trackers said, after leaders vowed to reopen the route under an agreement to end the US-Iran war. Virtually halted during three and a half months of conflict, traffic through the crucial
Oil prices dropped further Thursday after US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart signed off on a deal to end four months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker and cargo traffic. Optimism that operations will in due course return to pre-war levels in
Oil prices dropped further on Thursday after US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart signed off on a deal to end four months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker and cargo traffic. Wall Street was cautiously in the green around a half hour into
By Jihed Abidellaoui and Zohra Bensemra NABATIEH, Lebanon, June 18 (Reuters) - Rescue workers in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh said they believed their headquarters, clearly identified as a civil defence centre, would be safe from Israeli bombardment - until it was
CAIRO, June 18 (Reuters) - The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza has reached more than 1,000 since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire last October, the enclave's health ministry said on Thursday, as at least three people were reported killed in the latest strike.
When US President Donald Trump first announced a deal with Iran, he named nearly half-a-dozen countries that approved the agreement, including all the Gulf states save one: former mediator Oman. The quiet sultanate that shares the key Strait of Hormuz with Iran was, for over a
By Michel Rose EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France, June 18 (Reuters) - When Donald Trump, flanked by the French president, signed the Iran memorandum in the opulent Palace of Versailles, the optics were vintage Emmanuel Macron: the full weight of French history, glamour and pomp deployed
BRUSSELS, June 18 (Reuters) - Germany is deploying two ships to the Red Sea in preparation for a possible military mission in the Strait of Hormuz, Germany's defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said on Thursday. Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a deal with Iran to
Anas Alqahtani, CEO of Wa'ed Ventures, expects strong growth in Saudi Arabia’s emerging technology and retail sectors over the coming years.
The US-Iran framework agreement to end the Middle East war proves that nuclear weapons provide no strategic advantage, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) said Thursday. US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a deal
Soldiers deployed in IDF-occupied areas warn that as Lebanese residents displaced by the current Israeli invasion return to their homes despite IDF evacuation warnings, a lack of clear instructions from IDF's top brass may lead to fatal incidents
By Maya Gebeily, Rami Ayyub and Jonathan Saul BEIRUT/JERUSALEM/LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Three Saudi-flagged supertankers carrying 6 million barrels of crude sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a deal with Iran to
In the darkness of a market in the central Gaza Strip, where power outages are a part of daily life, a brightly lit screen showing a World Cup match holds everyone's gaze. Dozens of men and boys stood transfixed as they watched Belgium play Egypt -- a much-anticipated fixture
It is no exaggeration to say that every provision of the 14-point deal favors China.
Switzerland confirmed Thursday that "initial negotiations" on implementing a US-Iran memorandum of understanding on ending the Middle East war were planned to take place at a Swiss resort complex on Friday. "Currently, the plan remains for the United States and Iran, along with
DUBAI, June 18 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has set a minimum age of 15 for social media use, becoming the first Arab country to introduce such a restriction as governments worldwide seek to address growing concerns over the impact of online platforms on children. Under
June 18 (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday he was severing "all contact" with European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas over what he said were remarks attributed to her comparing Israel to apartheid-era South Africa. In a post on social
GDANSK, June 18 (Reuters) - Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook. Below is a summary of what countries and companies
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - While a city is not a living organism, it behaves very much like one. Its metabolic processes may be manifested in growth spurts, metamorphosis over time and even decay. Researchers using satellite imagery have tracked the vital
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 18 (Reuters) - The United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday welcomed the interim peace deal signed by Washington and Iran, saying it would now be involved in technical discussions to implement the agreement. "It is good that the memorandum
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Three Saudi-flagged supertankers with six million barrels of crude onboard sailed through the Strait of Hormuz hours after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a deal with Iran over an end to the conflict, ship tracking data showed on Thursday. The
JERUSALEM, June 18 (Reuters) - Israel is holding negotiations with the U.S. as it seeks to continue its deployment of troops in southern Lebanon, two Israeli officials including a senior Israeli official close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Reuters on Thursday. The
By Nidhi Verma, Siyi Liu and Joyce Lee NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, June 18 (Reuters) - Middle Eastern crude oil markets could come under further pressure if the Strait of Hormuz reopens on Friday following the U.S.-Iran interim deal, releasingmillions of barrels of oil stranded in the
BRUSSELS, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday harshly criticised some NATO members over defence spending and their stances on the Iran war as he announced a review of U.S. military forces in Europe. "It's a review that some countries will
(Removes reference to package being worth $100 million) HELSINKI, June 18 (Reuters) - Sweden, Norway and Canada will announce a new Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) package to supply Ukraine with U.S. weapons, Sweden's Defence Minister Pal Jonson said in Brussels on
Master Sergeant (Res.) Alexander Filin, 29, was killed in an explosion caused by an explosive device in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. He is the 31st Israeli soldier to have been killed in the current round of fighting with Hezbollah
By Panu Wongcha-um RANONG, Thailand, June 18 (Reuters) - Chaiyaporn Arunrasamee hunched over his fishing nets, overlooking the waters of the Andaman Sea, where Thailand's government is proposing an ambitious "Land Bridge" that will ferry goods between ports on opposite sides of
Trump and Israel no longer see eye to eye on Lebanon. While the U.S. פresident's new strategy resurfaces past traumas in Beirut, Syria's al-Sharaa has made it patently clear that the age of Damascus intervening in Lebanese affairs is gone for good
June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war with Iran, a U.S. official told Reuters. The memo had been signed digitally on Sunday by Vice President JD Vanceand
By David Brunnstrom June 17 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that Israeli settler groups could be added to a global blacklist for violations against children as he voiced alarm at a "staggering" rise in violations against Palestinian
Both U.S. President Trump and Iran's President Pezeshkian signed the agreement • Iran warns: Israeli attacks on Lebanon will be considered breach of U.S. commitment • Trump threatens to 'bomb the hell out of them' if Tehran violates cease-fire • Switzerland: Countries to attend
June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war with Iran, a White House official told Reuters. (Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Ryan Patrick Jones; editing by Costas Pitas)
By Francois Murphy VIENNA, June 17 (Reuters) - The most important issue in imminent nuclear talks between Iran and the United States is how Iran's nuclear programme will be policed, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said on Wednesday. Washington and
US President Donald Trump and Iran's president signed a deal Wednesday meant to end the Middle East war, with Tehran agreeing to dilute its enriched uranium in return for large-scale economic relief. Trump put his signature to the memorandum of understanding during a candlelit
US President Donald Trump lashed out at critics of his agreement with Iran on Thursday, calling those who accused him of offering concessions to end the war "fools", ahead of negotiations in Switzerland on implementing the deal. Oil prices tumbled after Trump and his Iranian
The United States and Iran on Wednesday released the text of their agreement to end the Middle East war, with Tehran committing to dilute its enriched uranium while being allowed to resume oil sales. Washington commits to waive some sanctions and to facilitate the release of a
DUBAI, June 17 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States will end fighting on all fronts, per MoU details published by Iran's official IRNA news agency on Wednesday, adding both countries to end naval blockades in the region. Iran's official news agency released details of the