BBC: The US military said it carried out the seventh night of strikes on Iran since President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was “over”. In a statement shared on X, US Central Command (Centcom) wrote that its forces “hit surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities”. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards […]
BBC: US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose new tariffs on Canada after hundreds of wildfires have left much of the northern US choked by a blanket of smoke. The threat follows complaints by US lawmakers over the wildfires and Ontario’s premier Doug Ford asking the US to send support to fight the fires, […]
BBC: Russian authorities have continued to clamp down on dissent against the war by detaining a well-known blogger and moving to prevent a local politician from running for parliament. Blogger Ilya Remeslo was a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin until he staged a dramatic about-turn last March, calling the president a “war criminal and thief” […]
(Reuters) BEIJING, July 17 – The United States is set to restore Hong Kong’s special trading status, revoked in a 2020 order by U.S. President Donald Trump in response to Beijing’s imposition of a national security law in the financial hub, China said on Friday. The year-long executive order, implemented on July 14, 2020 during […]
(Reuters) ISLAMABAD, July 17- Pakistan has been negotiating an expanded defence pact with Kuwait in exchange for energy cooperation and investment, according to five sources with knowledge of the talks. Several other Gulf nations have also reached out to Pakistan with requests after Islamabad signed a mutual defence agreement with Saudi Arabia last year. Here is a […]
BBC: At least two people have died in flooding across central Texas – the same area that saw more than 130 deaths in flash floods last summer. “Large and deadly” flooding from the Guadalupe River is expected to ravage the region, following days of torrential rain, the National Weather Service (NWS) in San Antonio reported. […]
Al Jazeera: Tehran reported several deaths as the United States attacked Iran for a sixth consecutive night, with strikes targeting infrastructure in the country’s south. Iranian media reported explosions and attacks in Qeshm Island, Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Iranshahr and Bandar-e Khamir. US Central Command said the latest assaults began at 18:00 GMT on Thursday, describing the operation as an […]
BBC: The Japanese parliament has approved a bill to relax imperial succession rules, amid concerns over the dwindling size of the imperial family. The bill, passed by the upper house on Friday, allows the imperial family to adopt distant male relatives over the age of 15 and lets women keep their royal status after marrying […]
(Reuters) DUBAI, July 17 – Iran said it launched fresh attacks on U.S. facilities in the Gulf on Friday after a sixth consecutive night of U.S. strikes on Iranian military facilities, as last month’s truce descended into daily attacks and counterattacks. The U.S. military said it completed another night of strikes on Iran “to further […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON, July 16 – President Donald Trump has ramped up U.S. air strikes on Iran and threatened broader escalation, but there is little sign that a military strategy that has already failed to extract concessions from Tehran will succeed this time. With the collapse of an interim ceasefire deal reached a month ago, Trump […]
