WASHINGTON, March 4 - President Donald Trump is discussing with his advisors what role the U.S could have in Iran after the military campaign while U.S. intelligence is monitoring reports that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's slain supreme leader, has emerged as a
AMSTERDAM, March 4 - The Netherlands summoned the Iranian ambassador on Wednesday over the Iranian attacks on Gulf countries and the wider region, Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen said on Wednesday.
WARSAW, March 4 - Iran's government is making a strong case for its demise by indiscriminately attacking its neighbours, EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas told reporters on Wednesday.
DUBAI, March 4 - The New Zealand government said on Wednesday that it would send two Defence Force C-130J Hercules aircraft to the Middle East in case they were needed for evacuating New Zealanders from the region.
A key deliverable is China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, which will outline the country's development goals until 2030.
WASHINGTON, March 4 - Iran is firing fewer missiles than it did at the start of the war on Saturday, the top U.S. general said on Wednesday, as he argued Iran's military capabilities were greatly diminished as the United States expands its strikes inside Iran.
WASHINGTON, March 4 - The U.S. military said on Wednesday that it killed an Iranian official who headed a unit behind an alleged assassination plot against President Donald Trump.
A Sri Lankan navy spokesman said 32 people had been rescued.
WASHINGTON, March 4 - The U.S. military carried out a strike that sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka's coast and triggered a rescue for dozens of Iranian sailors by Sri Lanka's navy, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
The Met Police suspect three men of assisting Chinese intelligence services in the UK.
BUDAPEST, March 4 - Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday that he hopes two ethnic Hungarian prisoners of war will be freed by Russia during his talks in Moscow, where he is scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin later.
BEIJING, March 4 - Chinese Communist Party elder and the longest-lived member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee, Song Ping, died on Wednesday at the age of 109, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
LONDON, March 4 - Britain needs to keep a cool head over the conflict in the Middle East to address the public's concerns about escalation, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday.
ANKARA, March 4 - NATO air and missile defence systems stationed in the eastern Mediterranean destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Iran as it headed into Turkish airspace after passing Syria and Iraq, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
LONDON, March 4 - Two men went on trial in London on Wednesday accused by British prosecutors of carrying out hostile surveillance on well-known pro-democracy dissidents for Hong Kong and, ultimately, China.
One of the accused was a Defence Ministry staff who said he wrote opinion stories in exchange for pay.
LAL PUR, Afghanistan/PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 4 - Several people living along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan said they were considering fleeing their homes as heavy shelling and explosions marked a seventh day of fighting between troops from both sides on Wednesday.
South-east Asian governments are warning of risks to regional stability and its citizens abroad.
A new coalition government led by Bhumjaithai is expected to begin working in April.
MANILA, March 4 - The Philippine government said on Wednesday it had apprehended some of its citizens on suspicion of spying for China in a \"serious national security matter\" that underscores the need for stricter laws against espionage and foreign interference.
Zhang Youxia, China’s highest-ranking general, was not among the party’s 23-member politburo at the opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The two doctors had placed the baby in a freezer to end its life.
One of Iran’s closest allies, China kept silent about the business and trade impact of the attacks.
RIYADH, March 4 - Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura, which houses its largest domestic refinery and a key crude export terminal, was struck again on Wednesday by an unknown projectile, four sources said, two days after a source said a drone attack on the complex shut the refinery.
BEIJING, March 4 - Weeks before U.S.–Israeli strikes in Iran, wide swathes of state-backed Chinese companies were eyeing projects in areas from energy and heavy industry to trade promotion, data showed, spotlighting the risks the war presents for business in China.
BEIJING, March 4 - Two senior Chinese officials were absent on Wednesday from the ranks of China's highest tier of power at the opening of the country's two largest political events of the year, with top Communist Party cadres ensnared in a wave of purges.
JAKARTA, March 4 - Indonesia's foreign minister said talks on U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza \"Board of Peace,\" of which the Southeast Asian nation is a key troop-contributing member, were on hold due to the Middle East war.
MOSCOW, March 4 - Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of using an imaginary threat from Iran as a pretext to overthrow its constitutional order, and said Washington's calls for Iranians to seize power from their leaders were cynical and inhumane.
MOSCOW, March 4 - Russia's transport ministry on Wednesday accused Ukrainian naval drones of attacking a Russian liquefied natural gas carrier, the Arctic Metagaz, which caught fire in the Mediterranean a day earlier.
The US-Israel attack on Iran has redrawn the Middle East’s map, and India has already managed to lose. For decades, New Delhi cultivated a “reputation” for its so-called “strategic autonomy”, maintaining parallel relationships with Israel, Iran and the Gulf emirs and sheikhs
JOHANNESBURG, March 4 - South Africa is willing to play a mediating role in the Middle East conflict if asked, President Cyril Ramaphosa told local media on the sidelines of an energy conference in Cape Town.
In 1953, the US and the UK staged a coup in Iran that deposed Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, the first democratically elected leader of a major Muslim country. The intervention, staged to regain control over Iranian oil, was a milestone in the transition from colonialism to
The authorities did not say what caused the Iranian warship to sink.
SYDNEY/TORONTO, March 4 - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday the ongoing conflict in the Middle East was a \"failure\" of the international order, and the United States had not consulted its allies before striking Iran.
Global conflicts over the past year have pushed the world towards a watershed moment, a spokesperson for China’s National People’s Congress said ahead of its annual meeting to be held from Mar 5 to 12.
"An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo," said US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Jakarta hopes to be a diplomatic player while ensuring the Middle East crisis does not spill over into domestic instability.
Experts said the lesson for Kim may be less about fear than survival.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said that it was tracking down Chai Jin Shern, also known as James Chai, and had appealed to the public to provide any information on his whereabouts.
GALLE, Sri Lanka, March 4 - An Iranian warship has sunk off the coast of Sri Lanka, with the Sri Lankan authorities saying on Wednesday they had rescued 32 people who were on board and recovered several bodies from the sea.
State-run TV broadcast images of the sculpture depicting him smiling with his right hand tucked in his coat pocket.
If convicted, Ms Duterte would be removed from office and disqualified from holding any future government position.
Former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin also said he will oppose all efforts for his former Bersatu deputy, Hamzah Zainudin, to rejoin Perikatan Nasional (PN) under a new party.
Iran has attacked US bases in the Gulf States on the pretext that they were used to some extent by the US in its joint campaign with Israel against Iran. By that standard, however, it’s notable that Iran hasn’t attacked the two US bases in Turkey, namely its airbase in Incirlik
Authorities have reported hours-long jams over the weekend while photos show buses lining highways.
The fatal shooting comes amid heightened scrutiny of police conduct and use of force in the country.