Amid US pressure on settler violence, Israel arrests at least 10 suspected of West Bank attacks on journalist, diplomats
October 19, 2026The Philippine foreign ministry on Monday summoned China's ambassador to express its "serious concern and strong objection" about remarks by the envoy that it said conveyed
October 19, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine
October 19, 2026Iran's offer to the United States to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days is still on the table, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told Iranian media outlets on Sunday.
October 18, 2026The United States wants Israel to do more to deter attacks committed by settlers in the West Bank, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday.
October 17, 2026US President Donald Trump's decision to waive sanctions on Russia and tariffs on its goods days before they were to take effect will
October 17, 2026Ukraine on Saturday rejected Russia's claim to have captured more than 1,800 square km (695 square miles) of territory and nearly 100 settlements, including the eastern town of
October 17, 2026The global economy is showing great resilience but there is no room for complacency, the head of the International
October 17, 2026Pope Leo XIV has brought an American style of governing to the Vatican, including in the way it handles health crises
October 17, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday condemned US President Donald Trump's diesel deal with Russia, called Moscow's stance a "parody" of peace negotiations and welcomed
October 16, 2026North Korea's state media KCNA said on Friday that an opening ceremony was held for the Amnok River bridge linking to China, which is also called New Yalu River Bridge.
October 15, 2026The United Nations has become too risk-averse and its next leader must be prepared to bear the cost of diplomatic failure and try again, Rebeca
October 15, 2026Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery on Thursday after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering
October 15, 2026China is aiming to spur more effective and accessible global governance solutions at a forum next week, convened under its push for an alternative governance system for the
October 16, 2026The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are about more than Yemen.
October 15, 2026Exclusive: US considering using ‘mother of all bombs’ against Iran, sources say
October 15, 2026Colombia opened its embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, becoming the 10th government to do so, as new President Abelardo De La Espriella reversed his predecessor's break
October 14, 2026Poland's foreign minister asked Elon Musk if he was "playing politics" with Starlink in Ukraine on Wednesday, after Kyiv said Space X had introduced a limit on some services
October 14, 2026A new bridge linking China and North Korea is set to open Thursday after more than a decade of delay
October 14, 2026US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington was still sharing intelligence with Ukraine, even as Kyiv reported new Russian
October 13, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had proposed new talks in the coming days with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as Washington steps up efforts to
October 14, 2026Eleven sailors were missing at sea on Tuesday from a ship sunk by a drone attack off the coast of Bulgaria, possibly the second deadly sinking of a cargo
October 13, 2026President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Yemen's Houthi militants of deliberately trying to drive up oil prices ahead of the US midterm
October 13, 2026South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday welcomed home the first South Korean container ship to sail to Europe and back via the Arctic, as Seoul pushes to
October 13, 2026The Trump administration opposes "coercion and aggression" by China against countries for exercising their sovereign rights, the US State Department said,
October 13, 2026China on Monday placed sanctions on Paraguay's communications minister and the foreign minister of Belize over their countries' ties
October 12, 2026President Donald Trump is criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid a US-Russia diesel deal, saying that the country's war with Russia began due to "incompetence" and suggesting that it get a new leader.
October 10, 2026Iran is still reviewing a US response to its proposal regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and will reply to Washington via intermediaries when the review is over,
October 12, 2026South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations
October 12, 2026US President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement of an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine on Sunday that he said
October 11, 2026US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday vowed to cooperate with Japanese authorities investigating allegations that a US Marine murdered a woman in Okinawa, a case
October 11, 2026A conversation on Friday between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was "very substantive and friendly" and neither leader wanted to be the first to end the call
October 10, 2026How a series of miscalculations restarted Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen
October 10, 2026China's maritime actions off Taiwan's east coast are "deeply destabilising" and only worsen tension, the US State Department said, after Reuters reported the first known
October 10, 2026The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal that the U.S. believes has become politicized and attempted to unfairly and illegally prosecute Americans and Israelis on war crimes charges
October 09, 2026Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying on Thursday that Russia agreed with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the Ukraine conflict was in a stalemate.
October 09, 2026U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flatly refused to comment on a new report alleging that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before taking up her post
October 08, 2026Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that Russia's war in Ukraine is at a dangerous stalemate and the United States will keep working toward a
October 08, 2026The US supports an EU-backed undersea power cable scheme in the eastern Mediterranean and will use diplomacy to try to remove any possible hurdles, Secretary of State Marco
October 08, 2026Malaysia hosted Myanmar's junta chief-turned-President Min Aung Hlaing on Thursday, saying it aimed to reintegrate the country
October 08, 2026Britain and Israel announced on Thursday that the nearly 200-year-old British diplomatic mission in Jerusalem would
October 08, 2026Eritrean soldiers have entered the towns of Adigrat and Idaga Hamus in northern Ethiopia, according to a commander allied with Ethiopia’s government
October 08, 2026US President Donald Trump, who waged war with Iran and has yet to broker peace in Ukraine, said on Wednesday that he should win the Nobel
October 08, 2026Syria is carefully considering providing military assistance to key ally Saudi Arabia amid an escalating war against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, a US
October 08, 2026Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will launch a joint motion with the small far-left BSW party in a regional parliament calling for an end to military support
October 07, 2026Taiwan's de facto ambassador to Washington said on Wednesday that ties with the United States remained robust after last month's summit between
October 07, 2026The leader of Myanmar’s military-backed government is traveling to Malaysia for talks with its leaders as the two Southeast Asian nations work to repatriate thousands of Myanmar nationals
October 07, 2026Nearly a month after President Donald Trump signed a sweeping Russian sanctions bill named after Lindsey Graham, bipartisan leadership in the Senate is urging the administration to act to help Ukraine
October 07, 2026US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction in its nuclear enrichment
October 07, 2026US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that "strong and model NATO ally" Greece and the United States are launching new counterterrorism information sharing
October 07, 2026North Korea criticised the United States over its arms sales and military support for Taiwan, accusing Washington of fuelling tension in the Taiwan Strait, state
October 07, 2026President Donald Trump says he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute
October 07, 2026Someone may have hacked the North Korean UN mission’s voicemail
October 07, 2026U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sought to reassure NATO ally Iceland that President Donald Trump's administration has no designs on the island but shares its concerns about Arctic security as tensions between the U.S. and Russia rise in the High North and elsewhere
October 06, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Ankara and Istanbul from October 21 to 23, his office said on Tuesday, in what will be the first dedicated bilateral visit
October 06, 2026Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy said on Tuesday that the Department of Defense denied him access to a key military base in Qatar during a visit to the
October 06, 2026The United States has discussed starting reciprocal visits to nuclear sites with China, and plans to continue pushing in meetings in the coming months, CNN reported on Tuesday,
October 06, 2026Cuba and the United States have maintained “channels of communication” but are not engaged in any formal negotiations, Havana’s top diplomat in
October 06, 2026Problems affecting relations between neighbours Afghanistan and Pakistan can be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy, Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan
October 05, 2026Russia has hosted consultations on Afghanistan that included a delegation of the country's ruling Taliban government along with officials from China, India, Iran, Pakistan and other nations
October 05, 2026US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Iceland, Greece and Portugal next week to discuss economic and security cooperation and other issues, the State Department
October 01, 2026The U.S. military is moving roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East
October 02, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated that Russia will respond to aggression with all available weapons in its arsenal if it comes under a direct attack
October 02, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that international conflicts were highly likely to continue as the world changed, but that the situation would get better as
October 01, 2026The Trump administration has been taking steps to turn China's dependence on US aviation suppliers into leverage for trade
October 01, 2026Representatives of the Syrian government and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have held face-to-face talks in Turkey to try to calm
October 01, 2026Iran is preparing a broader and more forceful response if the United States resumes large-scale military attacks, sources said, while continuing a diplomatic
October 01, 2026South Africa's foreign affairs ministry called in US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III on Tuesday for a third time over what it
September 30, 2026Qatar said on Tuesday it hopes that shuttle diplomacy between Iran and the US can lead to a breakthrough despite US President
September 29, 2026Iran’s currency has fallen to a new record low, with traders exchanging more than 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar
September 29, 2026Malaysia has begun repatriating Myanmar nationals under a voluntary program, despite warnings from the UN refugee agency and rights groups about unsafe conditions in Myanmar
September 29, 2026Taiwan's defense minister says U.S. arms sales to Taiwan remain unchanged, despite a stalled $14 billion package
September 29, 2026Pope Leo on Monday urged Russia and Ukraine to sit down and discuss how to end their four-year war, hours after he had urged European leaders seeking to
September 29, 2026North Korea has used its yearly U_N_ platform to warn other world leaders of “a harsh reality rampant with unprecedented mutual distrust and confrontation.”
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