FIRST CAME the announcement on June 1st from Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and his defence minister, Israel Katz, that they had ordered the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to “attack terror targets” in Dahiyeh in Beirut, Lebanon’s capital. Then came more threats of attacks and a warning from the IDF telling residents of Dahiyeh, a…
US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Iran’s Supreme Leader is not possible, a close aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has said. Mohsen Rezaei, a senior military adviser to Khamenei, said such a meeting would not happen and accused Trump of bringing the negotiations to a standstill. The US and Iran peace deal is…
Unfreezing of Iranian assets by the United States has been one of the constant demands of Tehran while negotiating a peace deal to end the ongoing war. However, the US’ treasury department seems to have different plans for those assets. Scott Bessent has reportedly asked the treasury department to take a comprehensive measure of the…
Israeli agencies have increased their surveillance on US negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran, recent US intelligence reports have suggested. A New York Times report has said that Israeli has increased espionage against US officials working on Iran peace plan. (AFP) Israel has ramped up its efforts to spy on senior US officials,…
Gaza’s civil defence service reported that Israeli strikes killed nine people on Saturday, with Israel’s military saying one of the dead was a Hamas “terrorist cell commander”. Gaza civil defence reports nine killed in Israeli strikes In Gaza City, a drone strike killed seven people and wounded 15 others in the Jawazat camp for displaced…
A drone strike hit a market in central Sudan on Saturday, killing 11 civilians and wounding dozens more, a rights group said, as escalating aerial attacks deepen the toll of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Drone strike on central Sudan market kills 11: rights group The attack targeted the main market in Abu…
FOR MUCH of 2025 America’s labour market was a source of anxiety for policymakers. Hiring slowed sharply, job openings tumbled and payroll growth slowed to a crawl. The economy added a meagre 10,000 jobs a month, prompting the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates three times. Christopher Waller, a Fed governor, captured the mood in…
By David Jeans NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) – A year ago, Ryan Tseng, the head of U.S. defense tech startup Shield AI, announced his company had turned a new page. After a gory incident that partially severed a U.S. Navy official’s fingers during a test of its V-BAT drone, Shield AI had addressed safety…
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A spearfisher was killed on Saturday in Australia’s third fatal shark attack in four weeks, police said. The 35-year-old man was spearfishing with family off Michaelmas Island near the port city of Albany in Western Australia state when he was attacked before noon, a police statement said. The man was brought…
Residents of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, were told not to leave their homes after a “large-scale” Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city Saturday morning, local officials said, underscoring Kyiv’s growing ability to hit deep inside Russia. St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov advised St. Petersburg residents not to go outside and warned of possible disruptions…