Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan says diplomatic push intensifying to prevent further escalation

European carriers are bracing for similar disruption after Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz cut off nearly 21% of global seaborne jet fuel supply, according to Kpler.

Iran’s hardline regime is known to have compromised only twice in its 47-year history. And US president is well known to climb down after issuing outsized threats, all in the name of negotiations

Trump ended the call by inviting the astronauts to the White House

After securing another term as the party's general secretary in January, Lam will now take over the number two position in Vietnamese politics -- unifying leadership of the party and state as President Xi Jinping did in neighbouring China

Iran resists reopening Strait, seeks lasting end to war amid US pressure

Trump's remarks at a White House press conference represented a significant escalation of the administration's attacks on the press.

Responding to a US proposal through mediator Pakistan, Tehran rejected a ceasefire and said a permanent end to the war was necessary, the official IRNA news agency reported.

The four astronauts embarking on Nasa’s lunar flyby yesterday became the humans to travel furthest from our planet, as they get set to view areas of the Moon never before seen by the naked eye.

Nigeria’s military has killed more than 60 members of criminal gangs known as bandits, blamed for most of the country’s mass kidnappings, said a Sunday security report seen by AFP.

Rohingya representatives and a rights group yesterday filed a complaint with Indonesia’s attorney general against Myanmar’s president-elect Min Aung Hlaing for alleged rights abuses against the minority group, the prosecutor’s office in Jakarta told AFP.

Lawmakers in Vietnam re-elected Tran Thanh Man as chairman of the National Assembly yesterday, giving him a second term as head of the country’s top legislative body.

President Donald Trump yesterday said the US military can destroy all of Iran’s bridges and power plants in four hours, or even take out the entire country, if Tehran does not meet his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran pushed back against pressure to accept a ceasefire.

The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign against alleged voter fraud, taking new steps toward building a national citizen database and ramping up its hunt for suspected noncitizen voters — all under the banner of “election integrity.”

The US military has successfully evacuated a pilot and an airman from Iranian territory after an American F-15E Strike Eagle jet was shot down inside the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s foreign ministry said yesterday that a US operation to rescue a downed airman may have been a cover to “steal enriched uranium” from the Islamic republic.

Striking civilian infrastructure installations during war is illegal, EU chief Antonio Costa said in a social media post yesterday.

Russian strikes on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed three people, including a two-year-old child, and cut power to thousands of residents in the early hours of yesterday, officials said.

UAE official Anwar Gargash said any settlement of the US-Iran war must guarantee access through the Strait of Hormuz, warning that a deal that fails to rein in Iran’s nuclear programme and its missiles and drones would pave the way for “a more dangerous, more volatile Middle East.”

US President Donald Trump has drawn sharp criticism after launching an expletive‑laden attack on Iran, hours after a downed American airman survived