BBC: Sir Keir Starmer has said there is a “lot of work to do” to make the two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US hold and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The prime minister arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as part of a visit to Gulf allies to discuss diplomatic efforts to support […]
BBC: People in the Indian states of Assam and Kerala, and the federally administered region of Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry), are due to begin voting soon to choose their next governments in what is seen as a test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party. Two more states – West Bengal and Tamil Nadu – vote later […]
BBC: Israel has carried out a large wave of air strikes across Lebanon, which killed and wounded hundreds of people, while officials say the war against the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah continues despite a ceasefire in Iran. Israel described it as the largest wave of air strikes in this conflict, hitting more than 100 of […]
BBC: Cross-border travel has been affected for the second day in a row by fuel protests in the Republic of Ireland. Slow-moving convoys protesting against high fuel prices caused by the US and Israeli war against Iran are in Dublin and various locations on main roads leading to the city, as well as near other […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, April 8 – President Donald Trump welcomes NATO chief Mark Rutte to the White House on Wednesday, as the war with Iran has pushed U.S. relations with other members of the military alliance to a crisis point. The Republican president has threatened to withdraw from the 32-member transatlantic alliance and denounced Washington’s European allies in […]
BBC: Madagascar has declared a two‑week nationwide state of energy emergency amid severe fuel shortages caused by the US and Israel’s war in Iran. The presidency said the decision was taken following Tuesday’s cabinet meeting over fears the situation could lead to public disorder. The Indian Ocean island, which relies on oil to produce much […]
BBC: The Israeli military has carried out a wave of air strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday morning, an indication that, for Israel, the US-Iran ceasefire deal does not apply to Lebanon, where it is fighting the Iranian-backed armed group Hezbollah. Air strikes hit the Tyre and Nabatieh areas in the south of the country, […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, April 8 – North Korea fired several ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, following a separate launch detected a day earlier as Pyongyang doused Seoul’s hopes of an easing in tensions. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the unidentified missiles were launched […]
BBC: Republican Clay Fuller is projected to have won Georgia’s runoff election to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a once-staunch ally of Donald Trump who resigned earlier this year after breaking with the president. Fuller won the election to replace her on Tuesday, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. He is a […]
BBC: In the end, cooler heads prevailed – at least for now. At 18:32 Washington time, President Donald Trump posted on his social media website that the US and Iran were “very far along” with a “definitive” peace agreement and that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire to allow negotiations to proceed. It wasn’t […]