•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...
Oil prices jumped and equities struggled yesterday as Middle East peace talks stumbled and tensions mounted between Iran and the United States. Crude futures shot around seven per cent higher after an Iranian news agency announced Tehran had suspended the negotiations with Washington via mediators, reports AFP. The United States and Iran had t...
•Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon, yesterday The United States and Iran said today they had again traded strikes, straining an already fragile ceasefire as negotiations between the two sides have stalled. Weeks of complicated talks marked by sharp rhetoric and occasional flare-ups of violence have not managed to r...
•Trump and a vessel near Strait Of Hormuz The United States Treasury has announced sanctions against Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, Tehran’s new agency that collects fees for travelling through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. “The Iranian military’s latest attempt to extort global maritime trade is proof that Economic Fury has left the ...
•Mojtaba Khamenei, son of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (date and time of photo undisclosed) Iranian authorities partially restored internet connectivity today after an almost three-month shutdown imposed against the backdrop of the war against Israel and the US, said a monitor, a senior official and sources inside the country. The ...
•Trump US President Donald Trump said he was planning a major new assault on Iran today, but held off as he saw hope for securing a so far elusive agreement to end the war. Trump said that he stopped his purported attack plan at the urging of Gulf Arab allies, which Iran has threatened with […]
•Members of Iran’s national football team attend a ceremony ahead of their departure for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in Tehran, yesterday Iran’s football federation chief today said no visas had yet been issued for the national team to participate in the 2026 World Cup in the United States, state media reported. “Tomorrow or the […]...
•China’s President Xi Jinping (L) looks at US President Donald Trump as they attend a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, today US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a “good” meeting today in which they agreed that the Strait of Hormuz “must remain open”, the […]

