Category: 3. Middle East

Iran is seeking a “real and fair” agreement with the United States on its nuclear programme, a senior aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday, setting the stage for a diplomatic showdown this weekend in Oman.

Longtime adversaries…

Lawyer for Salvadoran man Kilmar Abrego Garcia hails Supreme Court’s order, saying that ‘the rule of law prevailed’.

The US Supreme Court has ordered the government to “facilitate” the return of a wrongly deported Salvadoran man, in a…

Liverpool’s Egyptian international has signed a new two-year contract with the Premier League leaders.

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has signed a new contract to extend his eight-year stay at Anfield, the Premier League club said.

The…

The Associated Press news agency has verified footage from Ukrainian and Russian sources depicting the four soldiers.

Ukraine has opened a war crime investigation into the alleged killing of four soldiers captured by Russian forces, according to…

The case marks a first for Taiwan in prosecuting what it alleged is deliberate damage to a subsea cable.

Taiwanese prosecutors have formally charged the captain of a Chinese-crewed cargo ship that Taipei says severed one of its subsea cables…

Johannesburg, South Africa – Last year, Mary* finally had the conversation she had been dreading for more than a decade.

Mary has lived with HIV since 2008.

But the 36-year-old has also carried the burden of another secret: Lita*, her daughter,…

The move is a blow to North Korea, which once counted Damascus as an ally until the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

South Korea and Syria have formally established diplomatic relations, in another milestone for the transitional…

When US and Iranian negotiators meet in Oman on Saturday they will be just the latest to turn to crisis mediation in the Gulf Arab states, whose wealthy rulers are increasingly seeking out the role.

Oman is a long-established venue for Iranian…

These are the key events on day 1,142 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Friday, April 11:

Fighting

• Russia said its aerial defence systems destroyed 48 Ukrainian drones overnight and into the early morning in the Bryansk,…