BEIJING, July 2 (Reuters) - Senior Chinese lawmaker He Wei will attend the funeral of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Thursday. The event He is attending will be on July 3, a ministry spokesperson told a
Iran's disappointed World Cup squad returned to a much warmer welcome at Tehran airport on Wednesday than they experienced on arrival in the US for their three group games. "Iran, Iran!" a crowd of several hundred children, their parents and devoted fans chanted in unison. Some
Mediated by Qatar and Pakistan, the talks come as Trump says Iran's denuclearization is 'moving along well' and Tehran warns it will respond 'immediately and powerfully' to threats
July 1 (Reuters) - NATO is set to announce at next week's Ankara summit that its European members have filled almost all the gaps left by the United States in the alliance's defence plans, a NATO source told Reuters on Wednesday. The main gap NATO is still struggling to plug is
A Somali Defense Ministry statement initially said Turkish F-16s carried out strikes on Al-Shabab targets before a later version referred only to “international partners.”
Iran's former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli attacks in late February, is due to be buried on July 9 in the northeastern city of Mashhad. During nearly 36 years as Iran's supreme leader, Khamenei oversaw some of the most significant moments in the
Kiros has taken a hard stance against Israel and opposes all aid to the country as pro-Palestinian candidates make further inroads in the party.
US President Donald Trump said progress had been made Wednesday in indirect talks with Iran in Qatar, as the sides aimed to push forward their negotiations on ending the Middle East war and quell tensions following exchanges of fire. The head of the Iranian delegation, Deputy
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that indirect talks with Iran in Qatar were making progress, offering a tentative sign that diplomacy was holding after recent exchanges of fire threatened efforts to end the Middle East war. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem
The next indirect US-Iran talks will come after the late Iranian supreme leader's funeral, mediators said Thursday, as diplomacy inches ahead on ending the Middle East war. Following the foes' indirect discussions in Doha on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump as well as
According to the disclosure, Trump earned $810 million from crypto token sales and sales of interests in UAE-backed World Liberty Financial.
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Saudi Arabia is still absorbing the war’s security fallout and is widening its circle by leaning more on Beijing as a diplomatic counterweight to Washington and as a partner that can engage Tehran.
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was thrilled to make his first flight aboard his new Air Force One plane, thanking Qatar for the controversial gift of the luxury jet. Trump said the United States "couldn't build a plane like this" -- despite the fact that the
Mojtaba Khamenei, who has spent his career behind the scenes and is yet to appear in public as Iran's new supreme leader, faces the formidable challenge of occupying the role held by his father for most of the Islamic republic's existence. Iranians knew little about the younger
A group of military, theocratic and civilian figures, rather than a single individual, have led decision-making in Iran since the killing of longstanding supreme leader Ali Khamenei in a US-Israeli airstrike at the start of the war. Khamenei's son Mojtaba was named supreme
One year ago, an Israeli airstrike hit the crowded Al-Baqa Cafe, "shattering the last of our memories in Gaza." In an exclusive excerpt from a new book, Gonzalo Delgado and Malek Al Shanbari reconstruct the café, the people who gathered there and the moment it was destroyed
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States was getting along very well with Iran and that recent meetings in Qatar went well. "The denuclearization of Iran is moving along well," Trump told reporters. "They've had very good
Ali Khamenei suppressed dissent, kept up confrontation with the US and steered a path between competing political factions in over three-and-a-half decades as Iran's supreme leader. But his domination of the Islamic republic came to an abrupt and bloody end on the morning of
On Saturday, February 28, Tehran residents were embarking on the working week during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, nervously anticipating celebrations for the Iranian New Year against the background of diplomatic efforts to stave off war with the US and Israel. That
DUBAI, July 1 (Reuters) - Iran will deliver an immediate and powerful response to any threat against its people or leadership, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in an X post on Wednesday. "POTUS has committed the U.S. to muzzling its pets in Tel Aviv. If they ignore
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The Syrian government has announced the list of 70 members appointed to its transitional parliament.
By Andrew Mills and Ahmed Elimam DOHA/DUBAI, July 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. and Iran held technical talks in Doha on Wednesday as they seek to agree on the flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and secure a lasting ceasefire, a source with direct knowledge of the talks and
By Feras Dalatey July 1 (Reuters) - Syrian authorities announced the names of 70 lawmakers on Wednesday appointed to atransitional parliament by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, paving the way to convene the body next week more than eight months after the process of forming it began.
As settler pressure closes in on the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair, children are losing the freedom to play, study and move safely. The library has become one of the few places they still feel secure
By Parisa Hafezi, Jonathan Saul and Angus McDowall DUBAI/LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Iran is determined to win international recognition of its control over the Strait of Hormuz and ability to levy fees on ships entering or leaving the Gulf even if it has to do so by force, two