Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said US President Donald Trump was exerting undue pressure on him in trying to secure a resolution to the nearly four-year-old war pitting Kyiv against Moscow. Zelenskiy, in an interview with US website Axios published on Tuesday, also said any plan requiring Ukraine to give up territory that Russia had not...
New Delhi is set to host the AI Impact Summit 2026 from February 16 to 20 at Bharat Mandapam, bringing together world leaders, technology executives and policymakers to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. The event is being described as the first major international AI summit hosted in the Global South. Several heads of state...
President Donald Trump said Sunday that members of his newly created Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilisation and police forces for the territory. The pledges will be formally announced when board members gather in Washington on Thursday for their first meeting,...
In a big diplomatic victory for New Delhi, the White House has revised its fact sheet issued after a trade deal between India and the United States. Earlier, pulses were mentioned in a list of American products on which it said India will eliminate or reduce tariffs. However, this product has now been removed. The...
Ten people, including the shooter, were killed and at least 25 were injured in a shooting at a school in Canada’s British Columbia on Wednesday, police said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the suspect, identified as a woman in a dress with brown hair in an earlier alert, has been found dead within...
US President Donald Trump said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached no “definitive” agreement on Iran after meeting in Washington, but insisted negotiations with Tehran would continue in the hope of securing a deal. The two leaders held closed-door talks on Wednesday that lasted more than two and a half hours, marking their seventh meeting since...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says he hopes talks with the United States will resume soon, while US President Donald Trump pledged another round of negotiations next week following mediated discussions in Oman. Araghchi told Al Jazeera on Saturday that Iran’s missile programme was “never negotiable” in Friday’s talks, and warned Tehran would target US...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party has won a landslide in Japan’s general election, securing a supermajority in the country’s lower house of parliament. Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 316 of the 465 seats in the powerful lower house in Sunday’s election, well above the 233 needed for a majority, according to results collated...
The United States on Friday announced new sanctions to curb Iran’s oil exports, including targeting 14 vessels, moments after the adversaries wrapped up a day of indirect talks in Oman. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Iran uses oil revenue to “fund destabilising activities around the world and step up its repression inside Iran.” President Donald Trump...
As the United States Navy’s Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG-3) continues to operate in the Arabian Sea, Washington is trying to balance pressure on Iran with persuasion. Ahead of high-stakes talks with Tehran, the White House said President Donald Trump remains committed to diplomacy — but is prepared to use force if negotiations fail. She told reporters...