By Valentini Anagnostopoulou ATHENS, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Dockworkers went on strike across Europe and beyond on Friday, disrupting shipping and ferries as they protested against the use of their ports for arms shipments and the number of seafarers killed in wars from the Gulf to
By Yoruk Bahceli LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Swedish climate academic Andreas Malm said on Friday he had been denied entry to Britain, where he was due to speak alongside the co-founder of Palestine Action, a group banned as a terrorist organisation. Malm, an academic at
Heavy rain and flash floods left five people dead, including four children, and forced some 375 families to flee displacement camps in Syria’s Raqqa province.
WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump, speaking ahead of November 3 midterm congressional elections, said on Friday he believed the war with Iran will end soon, but did not say how that would happen. "It's going to get wrapped up soon," Trump said in an
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Friday that two oil tankers were involved in incidents and stopped in waters south of the Strait of Hormuz, after ignoring radio warnings and attempting to use what it described as an unauthorized route through the
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Friday that three oil tankers had caught fire and exploded while attempting to use what it described as unauthorised routes through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported. An IRGC Navy statement said one of
By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev skipped a summit of Turkic states on Friday despite a personal invitation from his Turkish counterpart, highlighting growing tensions between the historic allies over domestic and regional policies.
By Andrea Shalal ATLANTA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Deep rifts overthe wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are likely to derail unified actions or statements at a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the world's 20 largest economies in Atlanta, experts and diplomats said. The US,
Araghchi said Tehran's own seven-day plan could be implemented in less than a week, adding that Iran was 'continu[ing] to give diplomacy a chance to succeed' even as its armed forces remained on alert
SEOUL, Oct 30 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday he would relay to Brussels concerns voiced by key Asian trading partners that the EU's "Made in Europe" initiatives risk becoming a new form of protectionism. "There is a fear that we might be facing a
Israeli defense officials doubt a brief air campaign could topple Tehran or halt its nuclear program, warning that Netanyahu's objectives for another war differ sharply from Trump's
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday as part of efforts to reach a deal between the US and Iran, an official briefed on the talks told Reuters. The mediation talks have been coordinated with the US, the official said. Qatar presented a draft peace
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis denied launching any attack towards Saudi Arabia on Friday, after the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the group over the Mecca region. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree dismissed the
By Huseyin Hayatsever IZMIR, Turkey, Oct 30 (Reuters) - When Turkey's opposition made big gains in local elections in March 2024, its leaders believed they had finally found a way to defeat long-serving President Tayyip Erdogan. More than two years later, the opposition's
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host his G20 counterparts, including Russia's Sergei Lavrov, for talks on Friday that are expected to be fractious, with wars in Ukraine and Iran and surging energy prices fanning discord. The foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta,
Taxi driver Mohammed Kanaan drives his shiny new electric car around Damascus's rundown streets, hoping for higher profits as spiking petrol prices made his old car too expensive to run. He is among some in the Syrian capital who are steering towards electric cars -- mostly
By Antoni Slodkowski UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that the recently signed maritime deal between Libya's eastern parliament and Turkey was "blatantly illegal, null and void," adding that it "completely disregards
It was not immediately clear following Trump’s meeting with top defense officials whether he had decided to restart the war.
By Keith Coffman and Steve Gorman DENVER, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The man who lobbed gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally in Colorado last year, injuring several people including a woman who later died, pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate-crime charges, theUS Department of
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired US Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, a senior military planner on the Pentagon's Joint Staff, over accusations he leaked classified information to the public, officials said on Thursday.
TAIZ, Oct 29 (Reuters) - In a hospital in Yemen's Taiz, a 25-year-old pregnant mother of two lay immobilised after a bullet lodged in her spine while she was trapped inside her home without food or water for two days. The UN and aid agencies say health needs in the besieged
By Bo Erickson Oct 29 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said that Vice President JD Vance's outreach to Iran was about helping the country get medical supplies, after US media reported Vance had written toTehran's top security official to revive peace talks. Iran has
Oct 29 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Wednesday for a global maritime truce aftera drone attack sank a Greek container ship off Bulgaria, the latest of a series of strikeson ships in the western Black Sea this month. Speaking at a high-level
Tehran has little incentive to make concessions that the Trump administration could tout as a win before next week’s election.
HKN Vice President Matthew Zais tells Al-Monitor the company plans to double production at Syria’s northeastern oil fields while tackling pollution, as questions remain over the future of the Kurdish-run Jazira Oil Company.
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it was engaging with Iraqi authorities as it prepares a new bailout program for the country, whose economy has been battered by the war on Iran. The US-Israel war on Iran, launched in late February, plunged the region into