By Parisa Hafezi and Guy Faulconbridge ISTANBUL/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Iran’s supreme leader sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Monday to ask President Vladimir Putin for more help from Russia after the biggest U.S. military action against the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution over the weekend. U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel have publicly speculated…
Russian President Vladimir Putin tours an exhibition at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow, Russia, April 30, 2025. Alexander Kazakov | Via Reuters Russia’s response to Iran’s call for help is being closely watched on Monday after the U.S. bombed Tehran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend — but…
Reporters photograph an operational timeline of a strike on Iran at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images The United States conducted airstrikes on three of Iran’s nuclear sites on Saturday, entering Israel’s war against Tehran. The timing was unexpected. On Thursday, U.S….
A top Labour minister was left squirming this morning after he refused to answer a simple question about Donald Trump’s Iran bombing three times. Defence minister Luke Pollard appeared on Sky News this morning as the world holds its breath following President Trump’s threat of regime change in Tehran. However, Mr Pollard appeared hopelessly unprepared,…
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for bombing Iran, less than 24 hours after saying he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for defusing a recent crisis with India. Relations between the two South Asian countries plummeted after a massacre of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir in April. The nuclear-armed rivals stepped closer to…
Iran had communicated to US President Donald Trump that it could activate sleeper-cells terror inside the United States if the country is attacked. Police departments across the US said that they were deploying additional forces to religious, cultural, and diplomatic sites in their cities. (AFP) The communication was made last week, days ahead of the…
U.S. and Israeli flags projected on the historic walls of the Old City near Hebron Gate in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 22, 2025. Gazi Samad | Anadolu | Getty Images United States on Saturday conducted air strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear sites, entering Israel’s war against Tehran. The timing was unexpected. On Thursday, U.S….
He bombed. Two words and the world went akilter. We get that. Visions blind us: a blocked Strait of Hormuz; $100 per barrel oil; a de-stabilized Iran and mullah revenge; our troops in harm’s way; and no end to Israel-Iran missile volleys. Monday’s reaction in the market? Always the same. Big institutions sell stocks, which…
Challenges and volatility will persist despite a renewed trade truce between the US and China, Hong Kong’s finance chief has warned, as he outlined his strategy to enable the city to navigate continued geopolitical uncertainties. In a media interview last Friday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also revealed his goal for the city to overtake…
A Tennessee judge on Sunday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in President Trump’s immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But he is not expected to be allowed to go free. At his June 13 detention hearing, prosecutors said U.S. Immigration…