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PARIS: Global airlines have suspended or reduced flights in the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Iran rages and the United States joins the fight. The US carried out strikes against Iranian nuclear sites overnight Saturday to Sunday after over a week of deadly missile exchanges between Israel and Iran. Here is the…
LONDON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday had lunch with King Charles III at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace said, after he arrived in London ahead of a NATO summit in The Hague. Zelensky, who is seeking to shore up support for his country more than three years after Russia invaded, “visited The King this afternoon…
THE HAGUE: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stressed that Tehran should not be allowed to have a nuclear bomb, as Israel and Iran exchanged fresh strikes on Monday. “When it comes to NATO’s stance on Iran’s nuclear programme, allies have long agreed that Iran must not develop a nuclear weapon,“ said Rutte ahead of a…
JERUSALEM: Israel’s state power company reported supply disruptions on Monday after damage near a “strategic infrastructure facility” at an undisclosed location, as Iran launched a fresh wave of missiles. “Due to damage near a strategic infrastructure facility of the Israel Electric Corporation… disruptions in electricity supply are being reported in several communities in the area,“…
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump thinks Iranians should overthrow their government if it refuses to negotiate on its nuclear program, but the US president is “still interested” in diplomacy, the White House said Monday. “If the Iranian regime refuses to come to a peaceful diplomatic solution, which the president is still interested and engaging in, by the…
LONDON: British interior minister Yvette Cooper announced on Monday that she will ban campaign group Palestine Action, after its activists broke into the UK’s largest air force base last week. Cooper said the vandalism of two aeroplanes at RAF Brize Norton in southern England on Friday was “disgraceful” and the group had a “long history…
DAMASCUS: Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed Monday that those involved in a “heinous” suicide attack on a Damascus church a day earlier would face justice, calling for unity in the country. The shooting and suicide bombing Sunday at the church in the working-class Dwelaa district of the Syrian capital killed 25 people and wounded…
BEIJING: China on Monday slammed Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te over a speech in which he said the island was “clearly a country”, saying his “fallacies” would be “swept into the dustbin of history”, state media reported. Lai, a staunch defender of Taiwan’s sovereignty and detested by Beijing, said in a speech on Sunday that “Taiwan…
The Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign, inspired by the Catholic church, succeeded in getting billions of dollars of developing-country sovereign debt written off 25 years ago. But in 2025, governments aren’t really listening to pleas for development assistance © FINANCIAL TIMES For a second week running I’m going to avoid talking about Donald Trump as…
EU regulators had ordered Apple to revise its rules within two months of its initial €500mn fine © Lucas Jackson/Reuters Apple is locked in last-minute negotiations with Brussels regulators over making changes to its App Store to avoid a series of escalating EU fines due to come into force this week. The $3tn company is…
