US President Donald Trump will welcome five African leaders to a White House lunch on Wednesday, with commerce and trade expected to feature prominently amongst a mixed bag of potential agenda items. The presidents of Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon — five nations located along Africa’s Atlantic Coast — will convene at Trump’s behest….
BRICS leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday are expected to decry US President Donald Trump’s “indiscriminate” trade tariffs, saying they are illegal and risk hurting the global economy. Emerging nations, which represent about half the world’s population and 40 per cent of global economic output, have united over “serious concerns” about US import…
In a sweeping foreign policy overhaul, the United States has dissolved the Agency for International Development (USAID), ending over six decades of global development work. Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, announced the decision in a statement on July 1. USAID was founded in 1961 under the late President John Kennedy and has long been…
Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions for a 60-day ceasefire in the Gaza war and it is now up to Hamas to accept the deal, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. During the two-month period, the United States will work with all parties to end the conflict, Mr Trump wrote on his platform,…
An Israeli airstrike has killed Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa, a senior Hamas military commander and key architect of the October 7, 2023, attack that ignited the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, the Israel Defence Forces announced Saturday, The New York Post reported. Al-Issa, one of the last surviving founding members of Hamas’ military wing,…
United States President, Donald Trump, on Friday, declared he would bomb Iran again “without a question” if intelligence reveals the country is enriching uranium beyond a threshold he finds acceptable. “Without a question. Absolutely,” Trump told reporters during a briefing at the White House. The president insisted that Iran is currently in no shape to…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “historic victory” against Iran despite a US intelligence report concluding that American strikes set back Tehran’s nuclear program by just a few months. Iran and Israel agreed a ceasefire on Tuesday ending 12 days of tit-for-tat strikes, after US President Donald Trump joined the conflict with bunker-busting bombs…
Russia’s Vladimir Putin is ramping up the number of hypersonic missiles amid fears of WW3. Tensions in the Middle East are continuing to rise after Iran struck American military bases in Qatar on Monday (June 23). It came after America dropped six “bunker buster” bombs into its nuclear facilities over the weekend. Now, with the…
A senior Iranian official has confirmed to reporters that Tehran has agreed to a ceasefire with Israel following a U.S.-backed proposal brokered by Qatar. According to the report, Qatar’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, secured Iran’s agreement during a phone call with senior Iranian officials. The call reportedly took place shortly after…
Israeli rescuers said on Tuesday that three people were killed in an Iranian strike, as Tehran’s state media reported new waves of missiles heading for Israel after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between the two Middle East foes. Neither Iran nor Israel has confirmed the agreement touted by Trump on ending the conflict…