US to boycott UN tribute to Iran leader killed in helicopter crash
The UN General Assembly traditionally meets to pay tribute to any world leader who was a sitting head of state at the time of their death
US...
China could arrange Russia-Ukraine peace conference, Lavrov tells RIA
Russia has repeatedly called for talks with a precondition that Kyiv and the West recognize its territorial gains in Ukraine
Lavrov criticized the United States for aiding...
Venezuela revokes invitation for European Union mission to observe presidential election in July
Venezuela’s electoral authorities on Tuesday revoked an invitation for a European Union mission to observe the country’s upcoming presidential election, in which President Nicolás Maduro is seeking reelection.
The head of...
China hosts Arab leaders at forum aimed at deepening ties
Beijing has sought to build closer ties with Arab states in recent years
Last year it brokered a detente between Iran and Saudi Arabia
Netanyahu frequently makes claims of antisemitism. Critics say he’s deflecting from his own problems
After the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister and top Hamas officials, the Israeli leader accused him of being one of “the great...
Israeli strikes kill at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents, near Gaza’s Rafah as...
Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight and on Tuesday — pummeling the same area where strikes triggered...
Saudi Arabia condemns Israel’s continued acts of genocide in Rafah
Saudi Arabia condemned on Tuesday the Israeli forces’ continued “genocidal massacres against the Palestinian people without deterrence” by targeting the tents of defenseless Palestinian refugees in Rafah.
The Kingdom...
Japan, South Korea, China to pursue North Korea denuclearization: Kishida
Japan confirmed with South Korea and China the importance of North Korean denuclearization at a trilateral summit on Monday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said, hours after Pyongyang announced a plan to launch...
Spain will give weapons to Ukraine for a record value of 1,129 million euros
The head of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, will sign this Monday in Madrid a bilateral agreement on security that guarantees that Spain will continue supplying weapons...
Kyiv hampered by limits on using Western arms in Russia: NATO chief
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that Western powers should reconsider restrictions on Ukraine using weaponry they supply to strike inside Russia as it is hampering Kyiv’s ability to defend itself.“The time...