Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman led efforts to talk US President Donald Trump out of an attack on Iran, fearing “grave blowbacks in the region”, a senior Saudi official told AFP on Thursday.
A senior Hamas official on Thursday welcomed the formation of a technocratic committee to govern post-war Gaza, saying it would help consolidate the ceasefire and prevent a return to fighting.
Tensions between the White House and the U.S. Federal Reserve boiled over this weekend after federal prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell related to renovations to Federal Reserve buildings. Powell issued a response by video Sunday evening, accusing President Trump of threats and political pressure.
The Kremlin said Thursday that Ukraine was running out of options to strike a deal to end almost four years of war with Russia, as thousands were without heating in Kyiv in -12C temperatures following waves of Russian strikes on the country’s energy grid.
Denmark’s prime minister said Thursday that the US ambition to take control of Greenland remained “intact” and that there was still a “fundamental disagreement” between the countries, despite high-stakes White House talks.
Britain’s Foreign Office on Thursday rejected as “malicious and baseless” Russian accusations that one of the United Kingdom’s diplomats in Moscow was a spy.
Irregular arrivals in the European Union dropped by more than a quarter last year to reach the lowest level since 2021, the bloc’s border agency said on Thursday.
Turkey’s top diplomat on Thursday called for dialogue to the crisis in Iran, rocked by mass protests which rights group say have left thousands dead and which prompted US warnings to Tehran.
Germany’s air traffic control authority said Thursday it was recommending planes avoid Iranian airspace after the United States has in recent days warned of a possible military intervention in Iran.
Russia said it was seriously concerned by the arrival of NATO military personnel in Greenland, a mineral-rich island in the Arctic that US President Donald Trump has threatened to seize.
