Category: 3. Middle East

Barcelona, Spain — Draped in club flags and with their faces painted blue and maroon, Barcelona fan Max Dour and his father Nico joined thousands of others celebrating their team’s crowning as La Liga champions under the glow of flares…

United States President Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s response to his latest peace proposal to end the war, which has upended the global economy.

Responding to the counterproposal Iran sent to the US via mediator Pakistan, Trump accused Iran…

Video shows the moment French President Emmanuel Macron pauses a speaker mid-presentation at Nairobi University to demand silence from the audience. Macron is in Kenya for the ‘Africa Forward’ summit.

By Antoni Slodkowski and Mei Mei Chu

BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) – The Iran war has strained U.S.–Chinese ties further and looks set to dominate the May 14 to 15 summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart and host Xi…

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei says Iran’s latest response to the US had asked for an end to the war, removal of the naval blockade, and release of assets.

The US had dismissed the Iranian response, Baqaei said, as…

ISLAMABAD, May 11 (Reuters) – Pakistan blames Afghanistan-based militants for the attack on a police post that killed 15 personnel over the weekend, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said on Monday, signaling fresh tension between the neighbours whose…

The European Council says the move ‘sends a clear political signal of the EU’s commitment to re-engage with Syria and support its economic recovery’.

The European Council has terminated the partial…

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will prove ‘doubters’ wrong, as he faces growing calls to resign after disastrous local election results for Labour.

He has vowed to ‘put Britain at the heart of Europe’ and to…

Russian ⁠President Vladimir ⁠Putin has suggested that former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder could coordinate talks with the European Union to secure a ⁠peace deal in Ukraine – a proposal met with scepticism by EU officials.

European…

The United States-Israel war on Iran is not the result of a sudden escalation but the culmination of a long-term Israeli agenda to violently reshape the Middle East, former Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al…