MOSCOW, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Russia's chief negotiator at Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi said on Wednesday after their conclusion that mutual understanding had been achieved on some issues but not on others, and that more negotiations would take place. VladimirMedinsky, in
By Andrius Sytas and Jekaterina Golubkova VILNIUS, Nov 11 (Reuters) - NATO scrambled jets overnight after at least four drones strayed into the airspace of the Baltic states during Ukrainian strikes on Russia, officials said on Wednesday, triggering brief alerts to citizens of
By Roula and Rouhana ABU DHABI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Russian, Ukrainian and US officials began a second day of peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, resuming meetings which Kyiv and Washington depicted on Monday as constructive but produced no early signs of a breakthrough.
By Roula Rouhana ABU DHABI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Russian, Ukrainian and US officials began a second day of peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, resuming meetings which Kyiv and Washington depicted on Monday as constructive but produced no early signs of a breakthrough.
DUBAI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Iran will not allow even a single particle of enriched nuclear material to leave the country and there will be consequences in the event of any new US strikes on the Islamic Republic, Iranian security chiefMohsen Rezaei said in televised remarks.
GIZA, Egypt, Nov 10 (Reuters) - An old villa, tucked away among mango and lemon trees in the back streets of Giza, once resounded with the clatter of keyboards and the chatter of people around its two long meeting tables but has now fallen silent. Orderedby a court to close
In Ras al-Ahmar, pipes were cut and access roads blocked. Masafer Yatta villages lack water infrastructure, and the IDF prevents residents from obtaining supplies. Residents are forbidden to travel without coordination, citing firing zones. The High Court has declined to issue
In a reciprocal move, Iran designates Argentina's navy and air force as terrorist organizations, months after Buenos Aires declared the IRGC a terror group under pressure from the Trump administration
CAIRO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed at least seven Palestinians, including a father and his 13-year-old son, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health officials said. Medics said Fadi Rajab and his son Abubakr were killed in an airstrike that hit the roof of a
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Valerie Volcovici ANTALYA, Turkey, Nov 11 (Reuters) - World leaders will set out their climate priorities in speeches at COP31 in Turkey on Wednesday, as negotiators seek agreement on a plan to increase the share of electricity in global energy use and
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Valerie Volcovici ANTALYA, Turkey, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Wars and trade disputes should not be allowed to distract the world from its struggle to combat global warming, the leaders of Brazil and Turkey told the COP31 climate conference on Wednesday. The
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Valerie Volcovici ANTALYA, Turkey, Nov 11 (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP31 summit in Turkey on Wednesday that the slow international response to climate change had placed the world on a path to destruction,
More than 25 years since its founding by star conductor Daniel Barenboim, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra's mission to foster dialogue in the Middle East endures -- including among its own members. "Our message of peace must be louder than ever," Barenboim, who formed the
By David Lawder and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has recently moved from his Washington, DC residence to a US military base after Iranian threats against his life, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The New
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently moved out of his home and onto a military base after Iranian threats against his life, the New York Times reportedon Tuesday, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. Iran has ramped up efforts to
Prominent Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah, the head of independent media outlet Mada Masr, is set to appear in a criminal court on Wednesday, facing possible prison time in a trial that has drawn international outcry. Attalah is being retried after she was handed a one-year
For years, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC was a US political juggernaut, but deepening voter disillusion over US-Israeli ties and wins by openly Israel-skeptic candidates in last week's midterm elections have left it reeling. Candidates of all stripes long courted the
By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was very happy with messages he was getting from the US in terms of moving towards a resolution of the more than 4-1/2-year-old war with Russia. Zelenskiy was addressing
The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against three men it described as "Iranian operatives," including one already in jail, over their role in an alleged terrorist plot at Britain's RAF Fairford airbase. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri
BASRA, Iraq, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Iraq barred a plane carrying Iran's national soccer team from landing at Basra airport on Tuesday, a decision by the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority linked to US sanctions imposed on Iranian airlines, two Basra airport officials said. The plane
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A member of an Iran-backed militia plotted to attack the RAF Fairford air base in Britain while detained in the US on criminal charges, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday. • Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi
Ahmed al-Alwani was a prominent leader of anti-government protests by Iraqi Sunnis in 2013, and was released from prison last year.
Footage shows ballistic missiles, mobile launchers and drone storage facilities. The disclosure comes as the U.S. relocates aircraft from British bases amid concerns over possible Iranian attacks
The cyberattack on supermarket refrigerators that France has blamed on Iran marks a new phase in the asymmetric campaign Tehran is waging against the United States, extending it onto European soil, analysts say. Scores of French supermarkets were hit in the October 11 and 12
Iran has moved much of its missile stockpile underground as the threat of a new war looms.
(Corrects in paragraph 4 to 'a Navig8 tanker', removing reference to 'Navig8 Messi'; it was not clear which Navig8 tanker was shown) Nov 10 (Reuters) - Despite market bets on a de-escalation in the Iran war, new evidence has emerged in recent days of strikes on tankers in the
Dirar Aliyan, 59, a prominent Palestinian professor and U.K. citizen, says IDF troops first raided his apartment and beat him while searching for a wanted nephew, despite knowing that the latter lived on the floor above
Mohsen Rezaei dismissed reports of ongoing negotiations and a planned meeting with JD Vance as 'pure lies and fabrications,' saying Tehran is still awaiting a clear U.S. response
Nov 10 (Reuters) - Iran's top security official Mohsen Rezaei said there are currently no negotiations taking place between Tehran and Washington, in an interview with pro-Iran broadcaster Al-Mayadeen. Iran has insisted the US must meet seven conditions set out in a June
By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk PARIS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that he told G7 allies the US economic sanctions and naval blockade are working so well that President Donald Trump does not need to conduct major combat operations against
Top US diplomat Marco Rubio said Tuesday that he saw no need to attack Iran again, as diplomatic efforts to end the war gathered steam and Tehran urged Washington to accept its demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Hours after President Donald Trump said he saw "positive
G7 foreign ministers agreed on "the need to avoid a security void" in Lebanon after UN peacekeepers pull out, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday after a meeting of the group in Paris. They also backed "the need to move quickly toward a new security
News surfaced on Nov. 10 that the UAE has reportedly marketed 1.87 million barrels of Saudi crude salvaged from a damaged supertanker for sale, marking an exceptional example of energy cooperation between Gulf rivals.
The acclaimed author is accused of basing his novel "Houris," which depicts Algeria’s bloody civil war, on the story of one of his wife’s patients.
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Israel's parliament was sworn in on Tuesday without a new government, after a deadlocked general election stripped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his parliamentary majority but left his main rivals with no clear path to
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said he saw no need to resume major combat operations against Iran because economic sanctions and other restrictions were working so effectively. "The economic campaign (against Iran) is so devastating that right now there is no
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said there was “no need” to resume strikes while negotiations were progressing.
By Emma Farge GENEVA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The UN children's agency said Israel had rejected the importation of equipment needed to repair a water basin in Gaza, and warned that the facility could overflow and endanger nearby residents through flooding and disease. Local
Nov 10 (Reuters) - Seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton arrived in Egypt's El Arish on Tuesday to see first hand efforts to receive humanitarian and relief aid bound for the Gaza Strip. The North Sinai governorate said on its Facebook page that the visit
By Angelo Amante ROME, Nov 10 (Reuters) - European nations have taken no concrete steps to strengthen shipping protection in the Red Sea, Italy's defence minister said on Tuesday, adding that governments have failed to respond to his calls to bolster the bloc's naval mission in
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Republican US Representative Thomas Massie introduced eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, related to the war in Iran, President Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela and even some administration actions in
Some 31 LNG carriers transited the Strait of Hormuz in October, the highest number since February before the Iran war began, according to data from S&P Global Energy.
GCC countries have stepped up their joint defense efforts with the announcement of a new forward command center to be headquartered in Kuwait, as tensions between Iran and the US continue to escalate.
By John Irish and Simon Lewis PARIS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told G7 foreign ministers on Tuesday that the US would keep imposing "devastating" economic costs on Iran, saying it had options beyond war or agreeing to unacceptable Iranian demands,