United States authorities questioned a person in connection with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of high-profile news anchor Samantha Guthrie, who disappeared earlier this month in a case that has gripped the nation.Local and federal authorities have not confirmed any further details since Pima County Sheriff’s Departme...

Shock, heartbreak after mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in remote town near Rocky Mountains.

Israeli raids and attacks across Gaza and the occupied West Bank have continued as Trump and Netanyahu prepare to meet.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has sanctioned two leaders of Pacific island nations for alleged corruption, accusing them both of creating openings for China to increase its influence in the region.On Tuesday, the US Department of State issued a notice alleging that the president of Palau’s Senate, Hokko...

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said that 10 people, including the suspected shooter, have been killed in a shooting at a high school in the province of British Columbia, with more people injured.The Tumbler Ridge RCMP said in a statement on Tuesday that six people were found dead inside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, whi...

Leqaa Kordia’s family say they were left in the dark when the 33-year-old was rushed from an immigration detention centre in Texas to a nearby hospital late last week.For more than 12 hours, Kordia’s family and legal representation said they were given no information about her whereabouts and condition. Her cousin, Hamzah Abushaban...

United States President Donald Trump has continued to threaten Iran with possible military attacks if Tehran does not accede to his demands on issues ranging from nuclear enrichment to ballistic missiles.In comments to the Israeli outlet Channel 12, published on Tuesday, Trump hinted at aggressive actions if no deal comes together...

Washington, DC – Tom Malinowski, a moderate Democrat, has conceded defeat to progressive Analilia Mejia in a crowded primary race in New Jersey for the United States House of Representatives.But the race is being called a loss not just for Malinowski but also for the influential pro-Israel organisation that opposed him: the America...

The United States has imposed sanctions on a gold firm in Lebanon that it accused of having ties to Hezbollah as Washington pushes to choke off the group’s revenue streams.The administration of US President Donald Trump blacklisted Jood SARL on Tuesday, saying the company is helping convert Hezbollah’s “gold reserves into usable fu...

United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has played down his connections to child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein after newly released emails shared details about their interactions.Facing calls for his resignation, Lutnick told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he “barely knew” Epstein, although emails appear to contradict his...

Washington, DC – No other world leader has visited the United States in an official capacity over the past year more than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.And the Israeli prime minister is set to break his own record when he embarks on yet another trip to the US this week – his sixth since President Donald Trump returned to the White Ho...

More details are emerging daily from the January 30 release of more than three million pages of documents by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), exposing the extraordinary breadth of Jeffrey Epstein’s social and financial circle, which included some of the world’s most powerful people.Epstein was an American financier and convicted...

The United States and Armenia have struck an agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, amid a push by Washington to strengthen ties with the West Asian country that was once a close ally of Moscow.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US Vice President JD ⁠Vance, who is on a two-day visit to the country, signed the multibillion...

A judge in the United States has blocked the deportation of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Tufts University student who was arrested last year as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists, according to her lawyers.Ozturk’s lawyers detailed the decision in a letter filed at the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.Recommended...

Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has arrived in Oman in the wake of talks held in the country between Tehran and Washington over the former’s nuclear programme, Iranian state media reported.Larijani, a close adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is due to meet Omani Foreign Min...

Russia has warned that Cuba’s energy crisis is becoming critical, as it accused the United States of using “suffocating measures” against the socialist island-state.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov raised the alarm on Monday, saying Moscow is discussing “possible solutions” to provide Havana with “whatever assistance” it needs.Recom...

The United States military has attacked a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people, and notifying the US coastguard that one person survived the strike.The US Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said the “lethal kinetic strike” was carried out on Monday against a ves...

United States President Donald Trump opposes Israel’s annexation of ⁠the occupied West Bank, a White House official has said.“A stable West Bank keeps ‌Israel secure, and is in ‌line ‌with this ⁠administration’s goal to achieve peace ‌in the region,” the official said on Monday, according to the Reuters news agency.The comment from...

The United Nations has asked the United States for clarity regarding unpaid budget dues, as declining US engagement puts the international organisation under growing strain.UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday that while the US ambassador, Mike Waltz, said last week that payments would begin within weeks, no further det...

The United States military has announced seizing a Venezuela-linked vessel in the Indian Ocean, a move that Washington said demonstrates its determination to enforce its oil blockade on the South American country even “halfway around the world”.The Pentagon said on Monday that it captured the tanker as part of a campaign by US Pres...

The associate and former girlfriend of convicted late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has declined to answer questions during a deposition before the United States Congress.Lawmakers expressed frustration after Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in helping Epstein abuse teenage girls, invoked h...

Iran’s atomic energy chief says Tehran is open to diluting its highly enriched uranium if the United States ends sanctions, signalling flexibility on a key demand by the US.Mohammad Eslami made the comments to reporters on Monday, saying the prospects of Iran diluting its 60-percent-enriched uranium, a threshold close to weapons gr...

Jeffrey Epstein pressured a media tycoon he did business with to quash coverage of allegations of his sexual abuse of girls, according to documents released by the United States Department of Justice.Epstein leveraged close personal and professional ties with the Canadian-American billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman to try to influence...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will head to the United States to meet Donald Trump as the US president confirmed plans to hold follow-on discussions with Iran after the weekend talks in Oman between the two foes, according to Netanyahu’s office.The talks will address the US’s ongoing negotiations with Iran, said the Isra...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has quit over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States after files revealed the extent of Mandelson’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.“After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government. The decision to appo...

Donald Trump has met with Honduran President Nasry Asfura in Florida, with the US president hailing what he described as a growing alliance aimed at curbing drug trafficking and irregular migration.Trump said he met with his “friend” Asfura, a conservative businessman, at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday. Asfura took office last w...

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has called on the United States to respect his country as the two nations look ahead to another round of nuclear negotiations next week following mediated discussions in Oman.“Our reasoning on the nuclear issue is based on rights stipulated in the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” he wrote...

The Washington Post’s CEO has announced he is quitting the job, days after the newspaper slashed a third of its staff.CEO and publisher Will Lewis shared the decision in a message to employees on Saturday, which was later posted on X by the paper’s White House bureau chief.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Washington Po...

United States President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace”, tasked with overseeing governance in the Gaza Strip as part of a US-led peace plan, will convene in Washington, DC, later this month for its first meeting, according to online news outlet Axios.The outlet, quoting a US official and diplomats from four countries who...

Danish researchers were set to begin a controversial United States-funded vaccine trial on newborns in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau last month when public outrage derailed their plans.The scientists wanted to assess the effects of administering hepatitis B vaccines at two separate times on 14,000 babies. Half of the sam...

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that her country will ship humanitarian aid to Cuba, as she continues to negotiate with United States President Donald Trump to relax the oil blockade he has imposed on the island nation.Speaking on Friday from Michoacan, Sheinbaum added that her government would be delivering the...

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

United States President Donald Trump has again stoked outrage over his online posts, this time for sharing a video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as apes.The reposted clip came as part of a flurry of late-night messages on Trump’s Truth Social account.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1...

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

The United States has sanctioned 14 nautical vessels as part of what it calls a “shadow fleet” circumventing restrictions on the transport of Iranian oil and petroleum products.In addition, the country’s Department of State also announced sanctions against two people and 15 entities — including ship management companies based in co...

The latest Epstein files to be released in the United States have triggered a political storm in Norway after two high-placed figures were revealed to have close ties to the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.The largest tranche yet of legal documents relating to the prosecution of Epstein for sex offences, i...

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

United States President Donald Trump has hailed his Wednesday phone call with his key trade rival, China’s President Xi Jinping, in which they discussed a wide range of issues, as “excellent”.But while Trump, who hopes to persuade China to further isolate Iran, claimed after the call that China had promised to increase the volume o...

Washington, DC – The administration of United States President Donald Trump is entering the latest round of talks with Iran with a list of maximalist demands, even as their wider strategy remains unclear, analysts have told Al Jazeera.The talks in Muscat, Oman, on Friday are the first since the US attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities...

United States President Donald Trump has launched a new website that he says will lower the cost of prescription medicines, which have long stood out for their sky-high prices in the US compared with similar products around the world.Trump announced the launch of the new website called TrumpRx, which allows consumers to buy discoun...

The United States military has said that it killed two people in its latest attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean.US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees US military operations in Latin America, said on Thursday that “two narco-terrorists were killed during this action”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of...

United States President Donald Trump has shot down an offer from Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin proposing a voluntary extension of recently-expired limits on the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons.Trump said on Thursday that he wants negotiators from both countries to sit down and hammer out a new agreement, calling the ol...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing the possibility it could run out of funding next week, as Democrats press for reforms to its immigration enforcement tactics.But Republican leaders on Thursday pushed back against the Democratic proposals, rejecting them as moot.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3ICE ag...

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi is in Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi is in Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi is in Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

United States President Donald Trump has used his social media platform to back fellow right-wing leader Viktor Orban before Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections.Trump’s endorsement came in a Truth Social post on Thursday, where he praised Orban as a “truly strong and powerful leader”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1...

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman; talks scheduled for 06:00 GMT tomorrow.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has faced questions from the United States Senate about President Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign to slash interest rates, despite concerns that such a move could turbo-charge inflation.Bessent appeared on Thursday before the Senate’s Financial Stability Oversight Council.Recommended Stories list of...

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

US’s Witkoff, Kushner, arrive in Doha as Iran’s FM Araghchi sets off for Oman, talks scheduled for 0600GMT tomorrow.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned of the threat of a military escalation in the Middle East before talks between Iran and the United States in Oman on Friday.Speaking in Doha on Thursday, Merz said that fears of a new conflict had characterised his talks during his trip to the Gulf region.Recommended Stories list of 3 ite...

The United States embassy in Poland says it is breaking off contact with the country’s parliamentary speaker over what it calls “outrageous” insults directed at President Donald Trump.US Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose said on Thursday that the decision to end all dealings with Wlodzimierz Czarzasty would take effect “immediately”.Th...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has agreed to reveal the vetting process used by the ruling Labour Party to approve Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States in December 2024 after new revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein files about the relationship between the diplomat and the billi...

An associate of the United States Virgin Islands’ sole representative in the US Congress asked Jeffrey Epstein for help to arrange a meeting between the politician and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, according to documents released by the US Justice Department.The outreach to Epstein was made on behalf of Stacey Plaskett, the...

Russia has declared it is no longer bound by limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy, as the last remaining arms control treaty with the United States nears expiry and threatens to dismantle the final constraints on the world’s two largest atomic arsenals.The comments on Wednesday came as the United Nations called th...

Russia has declared it is no longer bound by limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy, as the last remaining arms control treaty with the United States nears expiry and threatens to dismantle the final constraints on the world’s two largest atomic arsenals.The comments on Wednesday came as the United Nations called th...

Russia has declared it is no longer bound by limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy, as the last remaining arms control treaty with the United States nears expiry and threatens to dismantle the final constraints on the world’s two largest atomic arsenals.The comments on Wednesday came as the United Nations called th...

Russia has declared it is no longer bound by limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy, as the last remaining arms control treaty with the United States nears expiry and threatens to dismantle the final constraints on the world’s two largest atomic arsenals.The comments on Wednesday came as the United Nations called th...

Russia has declared it is no longer bound by limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy, as the last remaining arms control treaty with the United States nears expiry and threatens to dismantle the final constraints on the world’s two largest atomic arsenals.The comments on Wednesday came as the United Nations called th...

The Washington Post has laid off one-third of its staff, eliminating its sport section, several foreign bureaus and its books coverage in a widespread purge that represents a blow to journalism and one of its most iconic newspapers.A spokesperson for the Post said the “difficult” decision would make the paper more dynamic, but repo...

The Washington Post has laid off one-third of its staff, eliminating its sport section, several foreign bureaus and its books coverage in a widespread purge that represents a blow to journalism and one of its most iconic newspapers.A spokesperson for the Post said the “difficult” decision would make the paper more dynamic, but repo...