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International powers must keep talking with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin until he is ready to end his invasion of Ukraine, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday. Le Drian told a conference in Doha that Putin had not achieved…
War-torn Yemen faces an “extremely troubling outlook” after a serious escalation between Iran-backed Huthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, the head of the United Nations Development Programme warned on Sunday. Achim Steiner, the UNDP’s administrator, also told AFP the impoverished country…
Iran on Sunday said it has the “right” to showcase its military equipment, after it was criticised by the US for displaying military hardware at a Qatar defence show. “Iran, like any other country, has the right (…) to upgrade…
The United States will maintain sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards even if there is a deal to limit the country’s nuclear programme, US special envoy Robert Malley said Sunday. Iran has insisted that a revived nuclear accord, which diplomats say…
Saudi Arabia and Qatar expressed regret Saturday at a lack of attention to Middle East conflicts, as the West pushes them to show more solidarity with Ukraine. “The humanitarian suffering that we have seen in Ukraine, and everyone is talking…
The United States expects the Taliban to reverse its decision to keep girls out of Afghan schools “in coming days”, US special envoy Thomas West said Saturday. The United States called off talks with the hardline administration on the sidelines…
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Saturday that a new deal on Iran’s nuclear programme would be sealed within days. “We are very close but there are still some issues pending,” Borrell told reporters on the sidelines of the…
The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education won’t last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be “empowered”. The hard-line Afghan regime closed girls’ secondary schools just hours after reopening…
The Ukraine conflict has unleashed a “Third World War” over misinformation, an official from the beleaguered country said Saturday, while experts warned of the difficulty in convincing Russians what their army is doing. Russia’s war on Ukraine has also forced…