ROME, April 3 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni flew to Saudi Arabia on Friday for a previously unannounced trip that will also include meetings in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, government sources said. The sources said the visit would reaffirm Italy's
'This Strait must be reopened … but only in consultation with Iran' French Prime Minister Macron said, as a French‑owned ship made the first passage since the war began, a rare transit through the Strait of Hormuz after months of disrupted global shipping
WASHINGTON — Two crew members of a US fighter jet ejected over southern Iran after their fighter jet was shot down Friday, Reuters and other US outlets reported. Combat search-and-rescue efforts were underway, according to the reports. Several videos circulated on social media
ALTYN-EMEL NATIONAL PARK, Kazakhstan, April 3 (Reuters) - With a loud thwack of their wings, the falcons took flight, quickly soaring high above the rocky desert landscape of Altyn-Emel National Park in southeastern Kazakhstan. The 34 birds were on an important mission: to help
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, April 3 (Reuters) - After more than a month of being stalked by targeted assassinations, Iran's leadership has adopted a new tactic to show it is still in control - with senior officials walking openly in the streets among small crowds who have gathered
By Nerijus Adomaitis and Dominique Vidalon PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - A container ship belonging to French shipping group CMA CGM has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, MarineTraffic vessel tracking data shows, in a sign that Iran may not consider France a hostile nation. The
During the war in the Gaza Strip and two wars with Iran in the space of a year, Israel has used artificial intelligence to fine-tune its missile early warning system. In last year's 12-day conflict with Iran, incoming missiles would spark city-wide air raid alerts, and Israelis
The Trump administration has fired army chief of staff General Randy George and two other senior figures, officials said Friday, in a surprise shake-up just as US forces are locked in a major war against Iran. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's ouster of George, the top US
VATICAN CITY, April 3 (Reuters) - Pope Leo spoke on the phone with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Friday and urged him to "reopen all paths of dialogue" to end the Iran war, the Vatican said. The pope, who has emerged as a sharp critic of the regional conflict, also urged
A container ship declaring itself to have a French owner has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, according Marine Traffic data analysed by AFP Friday. The Maltese-flagged Kribi belonging to the French maritime transport group CMA CGM crossed the strait -- which has been
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - World food prices climbed in March to their highest level since September last year and could rise further if the Middle East conflict that pushed up energy prices continues, the United Nations Food and Agriculture
BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - Negotiations between Afghanistan and Pakistan are advancing steadily, China said on Friday following reports that the South Asian neighbours were meeting there to try to end their worst conflict since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. China,
PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, will face trial in July over a comment she posted on X last month about a 1970s attack on an Israeli airport, the Paris prosecutor's office said late on Thursday. Authorities arrested
Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war: - Easter mass cancelled - All masses in Dubai have been cancelled because of the war, two Catholic churches in the United Arab Emirates posted on their websites. - 'France' ship - A container ship declaring itself to have
Iran should make a deal with the United States to end the war by offering to curb its nuclear programme and reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for sanctions relief, a former Iranian foreign minister said. Mohammad Javad Zarif, who served as foreign minister from 2013-2021,
By Christine Chen and Cordelia Hsu SYDNEY, April 3 (Reuters) - Every Easter, Sydney retiree Elsa Ulcak is one of the millions of Australians that hit the road to travel during the four-day-long weekend. But this year, she has cancelled her trip with her husband because she
By Heejin Kim and Joyce Lee SEOUL, April 3 (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday they planned to boost defence cooperation and work together to address the economic and energy crises triggered by the war in Iran.
Israel said Friday it was under attack from a new barrage of Iranian missiles, as President Donald Trump warned the United States had yet to begin "destroying what's left" with more of the Islamic republic's infrastructure in his sights. The war started more than a month ago
Israel said Friday it was under attack from a new barrage of Iranian missiles, as US President Donald Trump warned Washington had yet to begin "destroying what's left" of Iran's infrastructure. The war started more than a month ago with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, triggering
Iran deployed troops and offered a bounty as it launched a hunt for a US pilot whose jet Iranian media said had been downed by the Islamic republic's air defence systems Friday. US Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for military operations in the Middle East, did not
By Gram Slattery, Andrea Shalal, Andrew Gray and John Irish WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS/PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - The NATO alliance has in recent years survived existential challenges - ranging from the war in Ukraine to multiple bouts of pressure and insults from U.S. President
By Kanishka Singh and Enas Alashray WASHINGTON/CAIRO, , April 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said the U.S. "hasn't even started destroying what's left in Iran", reiterating vows to increase the ferocity of attacks on its infrastructure, as dozens of countries sought ways
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump warned late on Thursday about striking and destroying bridges and electric power plants in Iran in his latest threat to hit the country's infrastructure. The U.S. military "hasn't even started
By David Brunnstrom and John Irish April 2 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is to vote on a Bahraini resolution to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz, diplomats said on Friday, but veto-wielding China made clear its opposition to authorizing any
It's not clear what else the United States and Iran have to negotiate over, given Trump's declaration that that most of the war's goals have been achieved - and given Europe does not have the tools to give Tehran what it wants in exchange for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz
Caving in to Tehran will lower oil prices and provide a tailwind for the ayatollah regime, but continuing the war could make the U.S. President's position even worse ■ While one can find some encouragement in the IDF's achievements regarding Iran, the same cannot be said for
The UN Security Council has postponed a vote scheduled for Friday on authorizing the use of "defensive" force to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian attacks, according to the official program. The 15-member body was set to vote Friday morning on a draft
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid thinks sometimes movies can change history; other times they simply narrate it. With his latest production, which hits US theaters Friday, the filmmaker has set himself a different goal. "I hope 'Yes' shakes people's souls," he said. The chaotic
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - Dozens of international law experts in the U.S. have signed an open letter saying that American strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes, after President Donald Trump reiterated his threats this week to strike Iran's power and
Threatening to destroy Iran's electricity grid and to reduce the country of 90 million to destitution, US President Donald Trump is shattering precedent by not just accepting but gloating about acts seen as potential war crimes. The consequences for Trump, at least in the near
April 2 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday offered to provide Ukraine's expertise in dealing with freedom of navigation in the Black Sea to countries considering how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open amid conflict in the Middle East. Zelenskiy, speaking in
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour, who is a Palestinian American, has been detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the mosque said on Thursday. ISM, which is Wisconsin's largest
President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to widen the US military’s aperture to bomb civilian infrastructure if leaders in Tehran continue to refuse his demands for capitulation by April 6.
US President Donald Trump said Thursday the tallest bridge in Iran had been destroyed, hours after threatening to bomb the country "back to the Stone Ages." Ghodratollah Seif, the deputy governor of Alborz province, where the B1 bridge is located, said the strike had killed
In a leafy Tehran park on Thursday, Iranians gathered for picnics on the final day of the Persian new year holidays, shrugging off US President Donald Trump's threats to bomb Iran "back to the Stone Ages". The country has been at war for more than a month and Trump -- who
International Organization for Migration chief Amy Pope told AFP on Thursday in Beirut that the prospects for prolonged mass displacement in Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah are at war, were "very alarming". "I think those prospects are very alarming because you look right
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ahmed Shalaby CAIRO, April 2 (Reuters) - Palestinian militant group Hamas has told mediators it will not discuss giving up arms without guarantees that Israel will fully quit Gaza as laid out in a disarmament plan from U.S. President Donald Trump's
BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - China on Thursday repeated calls for a ceasefire in the Middle East and safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in conversations with Western counterparts, widening its diplomatic effort to end the war that has disrupted the global energy market.
A UK-led meeting of some 40 countries on the strait of Hormuz crisis wrapped up Thursday with a demand for the "immediate and unconditional" reopening of the vital shipping route, but no immediate breakthrough. "Iran is trying to hold the global economy hostage in the Strait of
British foreign minister Yvette Cooper stressed Thursday the "urgent need" to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and slammed Iran's "recklessness" as she convened a meeting of some 40 countries on the vital shipping route. Cooper said Iran's blockading of the waterway was "hitting our
Israeli strikes killed 27 people in Lebanon on Thursday, wounding a further 105, the country's Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, Israeli fire has killed 1,345 in Lebanon since the beginning of the Iran war in late February, including 125 children
By Emma Farge GENEVA, April 2 (Reuters) - Emergency medical needs in Iran are rising exponentially, and stocks of trauma kits and other gear could run low if the war persists, the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies delegation there
Futures traded as high as $1,498 a ton, or more than $200 a barrel, soaring as much as 9.7% in London on Thursday.
WARSAW, April 2 (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into a bomb attack that wounded a Polish soldier who was part of a U.N. peacekeeping patrol in Lebanon, the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw said on Thursday. The March 29 bombing was carried out
Beijing’s push for a ceasefire in the Iran war highlights its diplomatic ambitions — but entrenched actors and limited leverage leave its plan short on real prospects.