Category: 2. World

In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump called for a review of Smithsonian Institutions museums, criticising their portrayal of US history as “horrible” and saying they focus too much on “how bad slavery was.” The White House says it…

The Israeli military says it has begun the “preliminary actions” of a planned ground offensive to capture and occupy all of Gaza City and already has a hold on its outskirts.

A military spokesman said troops were already operating in the Zeitoun…

US Vice-President JD Vance and other senior members of the Trump administration were heckled as they met National Guard troops in Washington DC.

Vance, along with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen…

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, discussed the latest developments in the region in a telephone conversation on Wednesday. 

The two top diplomats expressed their deep concern about the…

TEHRAN – US President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with European leaders appears to have left them with egg on their faces.

On Monday, Trump hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor…

Firefighters in Oregon are racing to save the Doerner Fir – one of the world’s tallest and oldest trees – from a fire that has been burning since Saturday.

The giant fir, more than 325ft (99m) tall and estimated to be over 450 years old, has…

TEHRAN – In an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times, American filmmaker Robert Greenwald sheds light on the untold stories of Palestinian journalists who have been systematically silenced during Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. 

Greenwald, a…

The Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a “reading crisis”.

The tax is is one of the highest in the world. Culture Minister Jacob Engel-Schmidt says he hopes scrapping it will lead to…