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The United States has seen reports that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s slain supreme leader, has emerged as ‌a frontrunner to succeed him, and U.S. intelligence agencies ...

Iran’s government is making a strong case for its demise by indiscriminately attacking its neighbours, EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas told reporters on Wednesday. “Iran’s strategy is ...

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday insisted that the United Kingdom had not been left unprepared for the possibility of a conflict in the Middle East or attacks ...

A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington’s pursuit of the Iranian navy. Sri ...

The Trump administration is quietly building a legal case against Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodriguez including readying a draft criminal indictment, one of several tools it is using to strengthen ...

A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday. Sri Lankan Foreign minister Vijitha Herath ...

Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of using an imaginary threat from Iran as a pretext to overthrow its constitutional order, and said Washington’s calls for Iranians to ...

A British chartered flight will leave Oman on Wednesday evening, prioritising vulnerable UK nationals who want to leave the region after the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East, the ...

The Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a swathe of southern Lebanon on Wednesday, telling residents to move north of the Litani River on a third day of full-blown hostilities ...

Mojtaba Khamenei, the powerful son of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is alive and favoured to emerge as his father’s successor, two Iranian sources told Reuters on ...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday doubled down on his opposition to the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, warning that the conflict risked triggering a ...

Iranians will bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in Tehran late on Wednesday, a senior Iranian official told state media. Hojjatoleslam Mahmoudi, head of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a full U.S. trade embargo on Spain on Tuesday after the European and NATO ally refused to let the U.S. ...

U.S. forces continued a round-the-clock assault on Iran and Israel mounted a “broad wave” of strikes on Wednesday targeting Iranian missile sites and air defence systems in a campaign ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday evening confirmed that the frigate Languedoc was due to arrive in Cypriot waters imminently, with the aim of acting as a deterrent after the ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he ordered US forces to join Israel’s attack on Iran because he believed Iran was about to strike the United States, his latest ...

A US judge granted preliminary approval on Tuesday to an agreement for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to pay as much as $35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused ...

Explosions tore through Tehran and Beirut on Tuesday and stock markets around the world tumbled while oil prices soared at the prospect of a prolonged disruption to global energy supplies ...

Russia warned on Tuesday that the war launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran could result in the very outcome they were seeking to prevent, by spurring both ...

Greece’s shipping minister on Tuesday called for the protection of global shipping and seafarers, amid an “alarming” situation that has left dozens of ships stranded in the Strait of ...

Airline stocks in Asia and Europe extended losses on Tuesday as the U.S. and Israeli air war against Iran escalated, with carriers monitoring fuel price spikes and passengers scrambling ...

Former President Bill Clinton told lawmakers that President Donald Trump told him he had “some great times” with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before their relationship soured, according to a ...

Ratings agency Morningstar DBRS said crude oil prices have risen sharply since coordinated attacks by the United States and Israel against Iranian military targets began on February 28, heightening political risk ...

A fuel tank at Oman’s Duqm commercial port was hit on Tuesday when the facility came under attack from several unmanned aircraft, the state news agency said, citing a ...