•Currency dealers monitor exchange rates in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul Asian stocks were mixed, and oil prices edged up as reports said the United States and Iran had agreed to stop attacking each other following a weekend of strikes that threw their fragile truce into question. Investor […]...
•Iran defenders Shojae Khalilzadeh, Hossein Kanani and Belgium’s midfielder Kevin De Bruyne fight for the ball during the match, yesterday Belgium were held to a scoreless draw by Iran in a frustrating encounter Sunday that saw the Red Devils reduced to 10 men and facing the possibility of group-stage elimination for a second straight World [...
•US airstrike on Iran Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United States government revealed in a legal briefing seen yesterday by our correspondent. 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 [&hellip...
•Iran’s midfielder Mohammad Mohebbi celebrates goal against New Zealand with teammate Mehdi Ghayedi, yesterday Iran twice battled back for a 2-2 draw with New Zealand yesterday in their frenetic opening match of a World Cup campaign that has been utterly overshadowed by war, politics and protests. The Iranian team’s very presence at the Los A...
Iran has executed at least 40 people, including 18 protesters, on “national security grounds” since the start of 2026, the United Nations said today. UN rights chief Volker Turk said he felt “deeply for the people in Iran, caught between war and cruel repression”. Since the start of the year, the Iranian authorities “have executed […]...
•Donald Trump US President Donald Trump yesterday said he was calling off strikes on Iran and flagged the signing of a possible deal with Tehran after top-level talks. “Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have… cancelled […]...
•Trump President Donald Trump vowed yesterday to respond after he accused Iran of shooting down a US military helicopter the previous night, hours after he said negotiations to end the Middle East war were in their final stages. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and its chief negotiator in talks with Washington, meanwhile war...
•Trump US President Donald Trump today said negotiations over a peace deal to end the Middle East war were in their final stages, after Iran and Israel halted attacks that threatened to reignite the months-long conflict. Iran fired missiles at Israel on Sunday in response to strikes against Lebanon’s Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of [&hell...
•Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, yesterday Iran threatened to retaliate against the United States and Israel for fresh strikes in Beirut yesterday, further dampening hopes for a lasting peace as the Middle East war reached its 100th day. Efforts to turn a ceasefire into a settlement have repeatedly stalled, wh...
•US President Donald Trump Iran still has “21, 22 percent” of its missiles left, US President Donald Trump said yesterday, in a week in which Tehran fired dozens of them toward regional neighbours, despite a sputtering ceasefire. “They still have capacity. They have some missiles, they have some drones. I would say, percentage wise, maybe [&he...

