Seaport is latest hit by Iran mystery fires
Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted on criminal charges in the coming days in federal court in Virginia, MSNBC reported Wednesday. Comey for years has been a target of President Donald Trump, who fired him as FBI director early in his first term in the White House. News of the potential…
Despite a weeks-long ceasefire in Iran, most Iranians have been without international internet access since the war began. That means almost the whole country has been disconnected from the world for nearly three months. But that started to change on Monday, when Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an order to reopen international internet access. Reports…
AMMAN, May 15 (Reuters) – Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the U.S.-allied kingdom to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, according to two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter. The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a cell of the…
The sanctions relief fulfils the Trump administration’s pledges following the US leader’s May meeting with al-Sharaa in Riyadh, during which he promised to lift or waive decades-old sanctions against Syria. The UN Security Council voted Thursday to lift sanctions on Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa and government members days before his historic White House visit,…
Heavy combat unit of 4,800 soldiers and 200 civilian staff inaugurated in Lithuania on Nato’s eastern flank The German chancellor has visited Lithuania to mark Berlin’s first permanent foreign troop deployment since the second world war, as he called on allies to dramatically expand their efforts to bolster European defences against a hostile Russia. As a crowd…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his reportedly tense meeting with U.S President Donald Trump last week was “positive” — even though he did not secure the Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine — and emphasized what he said is continued American interest in economic deals with Kyiv. Zelenskyy said Trump reneged on the…