US President Donald Trump yesterday defended his interim agreement with Iran, saying it had averted a global economic catastrophe, while warning he could launch fresh attacks if Tehran failed to honour its commitments.

Leaders of the G7 have pledged at a summit in France to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences and increase pressure on Moscow’s war economy, including by tightening sanctions on the Russian oil and gas sectors.

A $300 billion private investment fund aimed at spurring economic recovery in Iran has been outlined in the US-Iran framework agreement, with more than half of the commitments already secured, according to a source familiar with the deal.

A Ukrainian drone hit a bus carrying a children’s football team from Belarus in Russia’s border Bryansk region, local authorities said yesterday.

Trump's presence has dominated the summit in the spa town of Evian on Lake Geneva

Several Rajapaksa family members and close associates have been charged with a range of offences over the years

WFP says it wants to reach 110 million people in the most acute need around the world this year

Talks on a final US-Iran settlement to end the conflict are set to begin Friday

More than three months later, with a preliminary peace deal in place, what has Trump achieved?

Trump said Tuesday he had accepted Macron's offer of dinner at Versailles as the palace of the French Sun King Louis XIV is "not gold leaf" but the "real deal".

The June 15 brief defends the gas turbines used by a giant data center belonging to the trillionaire's company xAI, which are the target of an environmental lawsuit.

China is stepping up yuan internationalisation efforts, in a bid to reduce its dependence on a global payment system dominated by the US dollar.

Investment fund vehicle contains no government money

The US military is planning a permanent war-ready weapons stockpile for its Marine Corps on Australia’s southeast coast beyond the range of most Chinese missiles, tender documents show and officials confirmed to AFP.

Eight people died when a US B-52 bomber crashed and erupted into a catastrophic fire shortly after takeoff at an air force base in California on Monday, officials said.

Scientists have identified nearly 166,000 sq km (64,000 sq miles) of coral reefs that are capable of surviving and recovering from climate change, three times more than previously estimated, research showed yesterday.

Doubts swirled around the US‑Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East, although US President Donald Trump said yesterday the accord makes clear that Tehran would never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.

A drone hit a major oil refinery just outside Moscow yesterday, triggering a fire and causing damage, Russian authorities said, as Ukraine claimed the attack was retribution for Russia’s own strikes.

Almost 2.4 million refugees will need resettling next year, the United Nations said yesterday, at a time when a number of countries have slashed resettlement spots.

Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday asked a court to prevent his potential arrest over the Easter Sunday bombings in 2019 that killed 279 people.