Feb 9 (Reuters) - The United States issued fresh guidance on Monday to commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane for Middle East oil supplies, as tensions simmered between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has in the past
Iran stepped up its crackdown on Monday after recent protests, with more arrests, while holding the door open to Washington for further nuclear negotiations. The arrests -- including that of Javad Emam, the spokesperson for the main reformist coalition -- came after Iranian and
Turkey’s military chief said on Monday that Ankara has no plans to withdraw troops from northern Syria despite recent Damascus-SDF agreements.
By Terje Solsvik and Johan Ahlander OSLO/STOCKHOLM, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Norwegian police are investigating two high-profile diplomats in a corruption probe announced on Monday, part of a widening scandal in the Nordic country and across Europe over prominent figures' ties to the
Feb 9, (Reuters) - Israel has taken steps to help settlers acquire land in the occupied West Bank and widen its powers in parts of the territory where Palestinians have some self-rule - measures they said aimed to undermine the two-state solution. It marks the latest blow to
By Ali Sawafta and Emily Rose RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates led regional states on Monday in condemning Israel's move to ease settlement expansion and widen its powers in the West Bank, a step critics said went in the
Ankara and Cairo's military framework agreement goes beyond arms sales, reflecting a gradual strategic convergence that includes intelligence sharing in third countries.
Israel is destroying the Palestinian economy and striving to expel whole communities, as it aims to offload civil society organizations that bolster the occupied people's resilience
By Eltayeb Siddig NEAR AL-OBEID, Sudan, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Gubara al-Basheer and his family used to traverse Sudan's desert with their camels and livestock, moving freely between markets, water sources, and green pastures. But since war erupted in 2023, he and other Arab nomads
Britain's Prince William will begin Monday his first official visit to Saudi Arabia, aimed at deepening economic cooperation but already overshadowed by his disgraced uncle Andrew's links to Jeffrey Epstein. Ahead of his arrival in Riyadh, Kensington Palace broke years of
Israel's military said Monday it had killed four armed militants who attacked its troops as they emerged from a tunnel in southern Gaza, accusing the suspects of a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire. Despite a US-brokered truce entering its second phase last month, violence
LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate said on Monday they were deeply concerned by the revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files amid further damning disclosures about the heir-to-the-throne's uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Mountbatten-Windsor,
By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance will visit Armenia and Azerbaijan this week to push a Washington-brokered peace agreement that could transform energy and trade routes in the strategic South Caucasus region. His two-day trip to
DUBAI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Ali Larijani, an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and secretary of its national security council, will visit Oman on Tuesday following indirect U.S.-Iranian talks there, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. U.S. and
LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William will meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia starting on Monday, an official trip on behalf of the government to deepen ties with the country. The royal's visit follows a 2025 trip to
Sydney police used pepper spray on protesters on Monday as a rally against a visit to Australia by Israel's President Isaac Herzog turned violent. The head of state's tightly secured, four-day visit was aimed at consoling Australia's Jewish community in the wake of the December
Sydney police deployed pepper spray and scuffled with protesters on Monday as a rally against a visit to Australia by Israel's President Isaac Herzog turned violent. Herzog's tightly secured, four-day visit was aimed at consoling Australia's Jewish community in the wake of the
People of all faiths will overcome "evil" together, Israel's President Isaac Herzog said on Monday as he laid a wreath at Sydney's Bondi Beach to commemorate victims of a shooting that killed 15 people at a Jewish festival. The Israeli head of state paid homage under rain and
Feb 9 (Reuters) - The death toll from the collapse of a residential building in the Lebanese city of Tripoli rose to 13, as rescue teams continued to search for missing people beneath the rubble, Lebanon's National News Agency reported on Monday. Rescue workers in the northern
Trump appears dissatisfied with his options on Iran, while Netanyahu's circle is wary of the president's close envoys. A flurry of Israeli visits to Washington suggests close coordination, but the U.S. appears unwilling to strike Iran before exhausting diplomacy. How much sway,
By Renju Jose SYDNEY, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Pro-Palestine demonstrators plan to rally in Sydney on Monday to protest the visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, as authorities declared his visit a major event and deployed thousands of police to manage the crowds. Police have urged
The death toll in a building collapse in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sunday climbed to nine, a civil defence official said -- the second such incident in weeks. The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported "the collapse of an old building" in Tripoli's Bab
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is in "deteriorating health" after ending a nearly week-long hunger strike, her supporters said Sunday, as authorities handed the campaigner a fresh prison sentence. Mohammadi, who won the peace prize in 2023, has spent the last
Jadallah Jadallah was shot by a paratrooper unit in the al-Far'a refugee camp. Videos show him abandoned as he pleaded for help, while his family watched helplessly from a distance. Israel is now holding his body. According to the IDF, "a terrorist who posed an immediate threat
By Nora Buli OSLO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Norway's foreign ministry on Sunday said a prominent ambassador, Mona Juul, would step down due to a "serious failure of judgement" over ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, part of a growing scandal in the Nordic country and across
Israel's President Isaac Herzog starts a tightly secured visit to Australia on Monday to honour the victims of an antisemitic gun attack on Sydney's Bondi Beach that killed 15 people. While the head of state seeks to console the Jewish Australian community, his four-day trip
DUBAI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Iranian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned repeatedly in her three-decade campaign for women's rights, was sentenced to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years, a group supporting her said on Sunday. Mohammadi, 53,