US president says Iranian supreme leader’s alleged ‘anger, hatred, disgust’ led him to drop work on sanctions relief. President Donald Trump has hit out at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s claim that Iran won its recent 12-day war with Israel, also saying the United States will “absolutely” bomb the country again if it pursues nuclear weapons. The…
Iran’s defense minister has made his first overseas visit since a deadly 12-day conflict with Israel, traveling to China for a gathering of top military officials from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional security bloc led by Beijing and Moscow. The visit, amid ongoing volatility in the Middle East, signals Tehran’s determination to deepen…
Sustain nuclear expertise Likely harmed Before strikes Over the decades, Iran built up scientific and engineering expertise in nuclear technology. After Israel says it killed at least 14 of Iran’s leading nuclear experts in the recent attacks. But there is another tier of scientists in Iran who share much of that knowledge. If past experience…
Home » TRAVEL NEWS UPDATES » Now, Hong Kong Joins With Iran, Israel, Azerbaijan And Egypt In Enhancing Summer Travel Surge Management And Global Citizen Assistance Saturday, June 28, 2025 As Hong Kong approaches the July 1 holiday, the Immigration Department is anticipating a significant rise in border traffic. Director Benson Kwok has projected around…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has publicly stated that recent U.S. and Israeli airstrikes inflicted serious damage on Iran’s nuclear sites, a sharp contrast to the downplaying by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and one early U.S. intelligence assessment that was leaked to media. Araghchi said key nuclear facilities suffered significant harm and that Tehran is…
Tehran, Iran – The highways leading into Tehran are busy again, filled with cars carrying families, suitcases, and the cautious hope that home might finally be safe. After 12 days of war that killed more than 600 Iranians and displaced hundreds of thousands from the capital, a ceasefire announced on Monday has begun drawing residents…
Was he always so lucky? Yes. Was wealth an aphrodisiac? No. In October 1980, Donald Trump, 34 years old, slender and soft-spoken, had answered a series of such questions from the gossip columnist Rona Barrett when he suddenly shifted the conversation onto a very different plane. When Ms Barrett asked about his destruction of some…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday after U.S. stocks ran up to the edge of another record. U.S. futures and oil prices also logged slight gains. Investors were watching for further details after President Donald Trump said the U.S. and China had signed a trade deal. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick…
The heads of two key American intelligence agencies issued statements Wednesday on what they said was “new” intelligence on the damage resulting from the recent U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, each noting the Iranian program was likely to have been set back by “years.” The statements were released after President Trump decried a leaked,…
Through the 12 days of the recent Israel-Iran conflict, China moved quickly to position itself as a potential mediator and voice of reason amid a spiralling regional crisis. The day after Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran on June 13, Beijing reached out to both sides to express its desire for a mediated solution even as…