United Nations, August 18 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls on Iran and the United States to resume negotiations toward a durable settlement to the conflict, his spokesman said.Asked at a brief
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Washington, August 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that Tehran wants to reach an agreement with Washington but is unwilling to accept the kind of deal he considers necessary, as a 60-day negotiating pe
Washington, August 18 (IANS) A regional conflict in which nuclear weapons are used locally and trigger a wider escalation poses a greater danger than a surprise mass attack on the United States, a senior Pentag
Washington, August 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump cited Indias electoral system as a model for the United States as he renewed his demand for stricter voter identification rules and urged Congress to pass
Washington, August 17 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has urged Iran to raise the white flag of surrender as a 60-day ceasefire understanding expires, while signalling that he is in no hurry to set a deadline
Tehran, August 17 (IANS) Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that Iran and Oman have agreed on the map of the new route for maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.He made the rem
Seoul, August 17 (IANS) The presidential office of South Korea said Monday it expects the friendship between the leaders of North Korea and the United States to help lead to bilateral talks on peace on the Kore
Tehran, August 17 (IANS) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran reached the recent peace memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States with "dignity" and "power," while taking into considerati
Sanaa, August 16 (IANS) Yemeni government forces said Sunday they had launched 181 military operations against targets in Houthi-held areas over the past 24 hours, marking a sharp escalation in fighting between
Washington, August 16 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has posted a photo of himself meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom in 2019 on social media, repeating hi
Jakarta, August 16 (IANS) Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara provincial government has declared a 14-day emergency response status following a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Flores Island, according to a prov
Jerusalem, August 16 (IANS) An Israeli airstrike killed a senior commander in Hezbollah's Badr regional division in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said Sunday. Lebanese media reported that at least four
Tehran, August 16 (IANS) The Iranian Intelligence Ministry warned the French government against "illegal interference" in Iran's internal affairs.In a statement on its website, the ministry said on Saturday tha
Doha, August 16 (IANS) Qatar denied claims that it had detained Iranian pilots, describing them as misleading amid ongoing diplomatic efforts aimed at de-escalating regional tensions."We categorically deny the
Tehran, August 15 (IANS) A senior Iranian diplomat said Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed and opened only under Iran's command.Kazem Gharibabadi, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for legal and in
Pyongyang, August 15 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea, "are actively cooperating in all sectors while making co
New York, August 15 (IANS) President Donald Trump has declared that the US will be taking over as its territory the Hormuz Strait, a key artery for petroleum and gas where his country's almost half-year-long wa
Jakarta, August 15 (IANS) An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 jolted off the coast of Flores Island in Indonesia early Saturday, the country's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said.The ep
Washington, August 15 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States after defeating Iran, making an extraordinary assertion over one of the wor
Washington, August 14 (IANS): US President Donald Trump has opened a path for foreign companies to build ships for the US Navy as part of a sweeping effort to revive Americas shipbuilding industry, accelerate n
