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Saudi Arabia's joining of the Abraham Accords would be a historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the US announced a civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia.
Islamabad has condemned attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Saudi-flagged vessels in the Red Sea. It also warned that any aggressive actions toward Pakistan-flagged vessels or the country's maritime interests would be regarded as a “grave threat” that may result in “lawful use of force.”.
As the Iran-US war continues, the key question remains unanswered about how shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will be managed in future – although the UN has reiterated that charging tolls for safe passage runs contrary to international law.
Nonproliferation experts are raising alarms after Reuters reported that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to ask Congress to approve a deal that could allow Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons., an agreement crafted by the Trump administration would allow the US to share nuclear power technology with the Saudis without proper safeguards that “would stop materia.
The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a record $1.15 trillion military spending authorization bill containing a highly controversial provision to increase cooperation between the US and Israeli armed forces. House lawmakers voted 219-206, almost entirely along party lines, to pass HR 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 202.
Iran has executed Mehdi Khaneki, a young man convicted on charges tied to anti-government protests that swept across the country in January. The execution came as some 1,500 death row inmates at the prison continued a hunger strike demanding an end to executions.
Iran executed a man it accused of carrying out "operational actions" during nationwide protests at the start of the year as the country's leadership ratchets up its crackdown on dissent, sparking a hunger strike among hundreds of death row inmates.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on July 22 that a naval blockade of the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels would be “problematic,” as the widening conflict with Iran disrupted two of the world’s most important energy chokepoints.
History suggests geography can be a nation’s greatest economic asset or its greatest geopolitical liability. Whenever maritime arteries have been disrupted. whether by war, conflict or political confrontation. the economic costs have extended far beyond the countries directly involved. The eight-year closure of the Suez Canal after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war forced ships The post Iran’s Hormu.
The news comes a day after talks between U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on a range of issues, including democratically-governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
A total 453 people had hospital treatment for heat-related issues on Wednesday, the most since records began in 2010, the Tokyo Fire Department said. Emergency callouts were also at the highest level since at least 1963.
To say Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left office in disgrace would be an understatement by any political measure. Ousted following the student-led uprising of August 2024, she fled the country after months of deadly protests and years of increasingly authoritarian rule marked by enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, the suppression of political opponents and The post H.
At the High-Level Open Debate of the UN Security Council on July 22, India was compelled to reply after Islamabad ‘misused’ the discussion to push a ‘false narrative’ said India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish.
Indonesia is building a battery industry and an EV ecosystem as part of its broader nickel downstreaming agenda. The objective is that downstreaming should not stop at smelters. It must move deeper into industrial components, machinery, batteries and, eventually, electric vehicles. Indonesia’s largest battery industrial hub reflects this ambition.
Washington is threatening to impose sanctions on Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies for building their models by distilling outputs from American AI systems, saying it has found evidence of large-scale, covert theft of proprietary US technology. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington would investigate whether China’s leading open-weight models had been built by illegally [.
Flash floods have killed at least 26 people across eastern Afghanistan, including 23 in the mountainous province of Nuristan, where homes, markets and roads were swept away and search teams continued looking for people reported missing.
Foreign minister Penny Wong will deliver speech criticising China’s recent launch of a nuclear-capable submarine-launched missileGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPenny Wong will warn China that Australia and other neighbouring nations will not be bullied by its “provocative” actions, after its involvement in another “destabilising and dangerous” incident this week. The for Australia to warn China it won’t be bulled by ‘provocative‘ actions as it builds military and.
Ukrainian drone-interceptor crews are working around the clock to stop Russian reconnaissance and attack drones approaching the frontline city of Kramatorsk. RFE/RL spent a night with one team defending the skies as aerial attacks intensify.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the United States remains prepared to help broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine but that fresh proposals would be needed after previous peace ideas failed.
As battlefield injuries mount from a long-running war, Ukrainian companies are racing to meet a high demand for prosthetic limbs. One start-up, Allbionics, is making sophisticated prosthetics that it offers to patients at no cost, with the help of government support and private donations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently made the controversial decision to dismiss Mykhailo Fedorov, his minister of defense. Fedorov, admired both by Ukrainian troops and Western allies, was at the forefront of Ukraine’s increasing technological innovations in the war against Russia., however, tension began to emerge over his own desire to replace General The post.
Europe’s strategic environment is changing rapidly. Russia’s war in Ukraine, instability across the Middle East, growing insecurity in the Red Sea and renewed concerns over supply-chain resilience have prompted the European Union (EU) to reassess its external partnerships. At the same time, competition between the EU’s Global Gateway initiative and China’s Belt and Road Initiative The post Why.
The ribbon-cutting celebration of the Gordie Howe International Bridge is no longer taking place after Trump announced a 50% tariff on Canadian goodsA planned joint US-Canada ceremony Friday celebrating the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is no longer expected to take place after Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on most Canadian goods.
US secretary of state says international community should ‘join forces’ against authoritarian Ortega regimeNicaragua’s congress, controlled by the country’s long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has announced a “work plan” to implement the authoritarian leader’s order that the country should no longer hold elections. The UN and the US strongly condemned Sunday’s announcement by Ortega, who has bee.
Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was closeSperm whales produce a specific pattern of clicking noises when they hear the noise of boats, researchers have found. The pattern is so distinct that the scientists who identified it said they can now use it to predict when ships are nearby.
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