Oct 30 (Reuters) - Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday as part of efforts to reach a deal between the US and Iran, an official briefed on the talks told Reuters. The mediation talks have been coordinated with the US, the official said. Qatar presented a draft peace
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis denied launching any attack towards Saudi Arabia on Friday, after the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the group over the Mecca region. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree dismissed the
By Huseyin Hayatsever IZMIR, Turkey, Oct 30 (Reuters) - When Turkey's opposition made big gains in local elections in March 2024, its leaders believed they had finally found a way to defeat long-serving President Tayyip Erdogan. More than two years later, the opposition's
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host his G20 counterparts, including Russia's Sergei Lavrov, for talks on Friday that are expected to be fractious, with wars in Ukraine and Iran and surging energy prices fanning discord. The foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta,
Taxi driver Mohammed Kanaan drives his shiny new electric car around Damascus's rundown streets, hoping for higher profits as spiking petrol prices made his old car too expensive to run. He is among some in the Syrian capital who are steering towards electric cars -- mostly
By Antoni Slodkowski UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that the recently signed maritime deal between Libya's eastern parliament and Turkey was "blatantly illegal, null and void," adding that it "completely disregards
It was not immediately clear following Trump’s meeting with top defense officials whether he had decided to restart the war.
By Keith Coffman and Steve Gorman DENVER, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The man who lobbed gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally in Colorado last year, injuring several people including a woman who later died, pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate-crime charges, theUS Department of
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired US Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, a senior military planner on the Pentagon's Joint Staff, over accusations he leaked classified information to the public, officials said on Thursday.
TAIZ, Oct 29 (Reuters) - In a hospital in Yemen's Taiz, a 25-year-old pregnant mother of two lay immobilised after a bullet lodged in her spine while she was trapped inside her home without food or water for two days. The UN and aid agencies say health needs in the besieged
By Bo Erickson Oct 29 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said that Vice President JD Vance's outreach to Iran was about helping the country get medical supplies, after US media reported Vance had written toTehran's top security official to revive peace talks. Iran has
Oct 29 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Wednesday for a global maritime truce aftera drone attack sank a Greek container ship off Bulgaria, the latest of a series of strikeson ships in the western Black Sea this month. Speaking at a high-level
Tehran has little incentive to make concessions that the Trump administration could tout as a win before next week’s election.
HKN Vice President Matthew Zais tells Al-Monitor the company plans to double production at Syria’s northeastern oil fields while tackling pollution, as questions remain over the future of the Kurdish-run Jazira Oil Company.
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it was engaging with Iraqi authorities as it prepares a new bailout program for the country, whose economy has been battered by the war on Iran. The US-Israel war on Iran, launched in late February, plunged the region into
Iran claimed that some of the 16 people it had arrested had entered Iran from abroad.
Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, the Joint Staff’s top planner, has become the latest casualty in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s serial firings of senior officers.
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged on Thursday, without providing evidence, that Arab parties' record gains in anelection this week were driven in part by voter fraud, a charge rejected by Arab leaders who accused
ANKARA, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Two people were killed and one other injured when rocks from a fairy chimney, a volcanic geological formation, fell after heavy rainfall in the popular Turkish resort ofCappadocia on Thursday, the local governor said. A landslide occurred due to heavy
Heavy rain triggered a landslide that sent rocks falling in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, killing at least two people and injuring five others.
Heavy rain triggered a landslide that sent rocks falling in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, killing at least two people and injuring five others.
Germany's far-left Die Linke party scored a historic election win in Berlin last month,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's consummate political survivor, is scrambling for options to hold on to power after hard-fought elections delivered no clear winner. Voters on Tuesday cast their ballots in numbers not seen in decades, in a pivotal vote seen by many
When it was built on the edge of the desert more than four decades ago, one 15-storey building rose proudly above what was then a quiet, unassuming Dubai. Now appearing incongruous against a backdrop of luxury skyscrapers, the so-called Toyota Building is due for demolition,
By Catherine Cartier, Emilie Madi and Raghed Waked ZIBQIN, Lebanon Oct 29 (Reuters) - In a field overlooking a lush valley in southern Lebanon, residents of the village of Zibqin balanced on branches picking their olives while Lebanese Army soldiers stood nearby.
BAGHDAD, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Three French nationals were sentenced to life in prison in Iraq on Thursday for belonging to Islamic State, with their lawyers and French embassy representatives present at the hearing, a court statement said. The three were among 47 French Islamic
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc on Thursday piled pressure on Arab-Israeli
U.S. President Donald Trump has not made a final decision on renewed military action, but regional allies have been warned to prepare for Iranian retaliation against energy facilities and other critical infrastructure, diplomats say
According to sources, Vice President JD Vance sent a letter to Iran's National Security Council head to explore a basis for talks that could avert a U.S. attack in the coming weeks
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Israel's election this week was indecisive and there is no clear winner poised to form a government. Benjamin Netanyahu remains in office as caretaker prime minister, but faces a parliament stacked with an opposition majority vying