PARIS: From the outset, China wasn’t included when major powers gathered in 1975 at a chateau outside Paris to fix the slumping global economy, the first of what have become annual summits by the G7 club of wealthy nations to forward their interests. No surprise there. Imagining Chinese revolutiona»»»

Cairo: Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Yamahi, Speaker of the Arab Parliament, has condemned what he described as misleading media reports and allegations that lack accuracy and objectivity and target the United Arab Emirates and the State of Qatar in a futile attempt to undermine their efforts, standing and»»»

Iran has agreed not to charge tolls on ships in the Strait of Hormuz as part of a settlement agreement with the United States, Fox News claims citing a source. Iran will open the strategic strait where tolls will not be charged, the news channel said.A senior US administration official told the cha»»»

Paris: Dozens protested Saturday outside a foreign ministry office in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad, chanting slogans against top diplomat Abbas Araghchi after a televised interview in which he discussed signing a peace deal with the US. In a video shared by Fars news agency, women in black c»»»

Events move fast in Britain nowadays. Just as I finished writing this article, Sir Keir Starmer lost one of his most important ministers. When the news came in that his Defence Secretary, John Healey, had resigned, it was clear I’d have to go back to the beginning and start again. Soon after, Minis»»»

On 7 June, US President Donald Trump remarked in an interview that he would “like to see a more surgical attack on Hezbollah...we can help with that, or we can recommend Syria...They have a very good leader (President Ahmed al-Sharaa)...and he would love to help.” In the days that followed, multipl»»»

Cairo: Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Yamahi, Speaker of the Arab Parliament, has condemned what he described as misleading media reports and allegations that lack accuracy and objectivity and target the United Arab Emirates and the State of Qatar in a futile attempt to undermine their efforts, standing and»»»

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will meet leaders from the Middle East and join a working session with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during next week's Group of Seven summit in France, senior US administration officials said on Saturday. Trump is scheduled to travel to Evian on Monda»»»

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump celebrates his 80th birthday in typically forceful style on Sunday, as the oldest US president ever to take office holds a bloody cage match on the White House lawn. The unprecedented “UFC Freedom 250” event will see 14 Ultimate Fighting Championship stars beat each other t»»»

Dubai: The war was meant to weaken Iran. Nearly four months after the war began, it may have done the opposite. Instead of regime change or nuclear rollback, analysts say Tehran has emerged more militarised, more risk-tolerant and still firmly in control of its strategic programme, according to The»»»

PARIS: Dozens protested Saturday outside a foreign ministry office in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad, chanting slogans against top diplomat Abbas Araghchi after a televised interview in which he discussed signing a peace deal with the US.In a video shared by Fars news agency, women in black ch»»»

Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups appealed to the international community in France on Friday to keep pursuing a two-state solution, warning that the window for peace is narrowing. The call came as world powers gathered amid mounting concern over settlement expansion and violence in the »»»

The Israeli army on Saturday issued evacuation warnings for the southern city of Nabatieh and more than 20 other locations across Lebanon as strikes were reported in the country's south and east. The latest strikes came as the US and Iran indicated they were close to reaching a deal on en»»»

Recent Russian strikes have exposed a critical weakness: Ukraine does not have enough Patriot interceptors to keep up with the barrages, Western media reports. Russia's ballistic missile stockpile remains deep, allowing it to conduct sustained barrages that exhaust Ukrainian air defense systemsPatr»»»

QNA Doha Qatar’s International Media Office (IMO) has strongly rejected allegations published by The Washington Post on June 12 claiming that the country’s energy production decisions were coordinated with the Islamic Republic of Iran or intended to influence regional developments. In a statement, »»»

Five people died Saturday when an Indian Air Force cargo plane crashed during training. Image courtesy of UPI June 13 (UPI) -- Five Indian Air Force personnel are dead after a transport plane crashed during training in Assam, officials said Saturday. "The Indian Air Force deeply regrets the loss of»»»

Doha Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani received a telephone call from Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait HE Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah. During the call, they discussed deepening and expanding cooperation »»»

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani received a telephone call from Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait, HE Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. During the call, they discussed deepening and expanding coo»»»

A high level meeting between two senior American and Iranian officials is reportedly set for next week in Switzerland, BFMTV reports. The Pakistani foreign minister is planning to fly Switzerland soon to prepare for the talks, report says. President Trump previously stated that a final agreement wi»»»

For the first time, the chances of the US and Iran reaching an agreement are greater than 50%, despite Iran’s lingering distrust of Washington, Tehran-based Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi told RT. The comments come after Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Friday: “the Islamabad»»»

AI giant Anthropic said in a statement released Friday that it had disabled its most advanced AI models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the US government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing unspecified national security concerns.  Anthr»»»

Exactly one year ago, on June 13, 2025, the world entered a new reality. A new chapter was opened in the history of the Middle East, in the history of Iran, and in the long-running confrontation between Iran and Israel. What had spent decades unfolding as a covert, hybrid, and indirect struggle sud»»»

NAIROBI: The war in Iran is driving up jet fuel prices and worsening supply strains for African airlines, forcing carriers to review routes and raising fresh concerns about the stability of the continent’s aviation network. The African Airlines Association says the crisis has exposed its heavy depe»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his counterpart from Pakistan Muhammad Ishaq Dar spoke on the phone on Saturday, the Saudi Press Agency reported. During the call, they discussed the latest regional developments and the efforts being made in this regard, SPA added. The tw»»»

Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), expressed his condemnation and denunciation of the malicious media allegations and undocumented information circulating that target the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the State of Qatar, which seek to cast doubt on th»»»

An Iranian woman attends a rally in support of the Iranian government's negotiations to end the war with the United States at Enghelab Square in Tehran, Iran, on Friday. Photo by Behnam Tofighi/UPI | License Photo June 13 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump and Pakistan have said that a memorandum of u»»»

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The signing of the deal on ending the conflict between the United States and Iran is scheduled for Sunday, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday. He wrote it would be better than the 2015 agreement struck between Iran, the European Union and the US under former US presid»»»

An Indian national, Nishanth Uirthanathan, has died due to medical complications onboard the MT Celestial at Duqm Port in Oman, the Indian Embassy in Muscat said. The embassy said it is in contact with the ship management company and coordinating with relevant authorities to complete necessary form»»»

Washington, United States: US President Donald Trump said a long-awaited deal to end the regional tension in the Middle East is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, paving the way for the opening of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. "The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Hezbollah Military Media: And the Hand is Still Outstretched — with More Yet to Come 13-06-2026 20:06 PM Hezbollah Military Media released »»»

Pakistan, which has been acting as a mediator between the United States and Iran, said on Saturday that an electronic signing ceremony for a peace agreement is expected to take place on Sunday. In a statement posted on X, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said that during a telephone conversation, the Sa»»»

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia reiterated its commitment to regional peace, collective security and a two-state solution to the Palestinian issue during the Oslo Forum 2026 on Saturday, one of the world's leading platforms for conflict mediation and peace diplomacy. The Kingdom participated in the forum, hel»»»

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran does not rule out that signing of the memorandum on ending the conflict with the United States will take place in the coming days, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Saturday. "Considering the exact timing of the memorandum signing, we need to wait. Ev»»»

Momentum for a deal to end the Iran war appeared to grow Saturday as key mediator Pakistan said an agreement was closer than “ever before,” while US President Donald Trump is expected to discuss demining the Strait of Hormuz at next week’s G7 summit. A senior US official, speaking on condition of a»»»

Washington: US President Donald Trump will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other world leaders during next week's G7 Summit in France, with discussions expected to focus on economic growth, supply chains, Artificial Intelligence (AI), investment partnerships and a range of global security cha»»»

Share: Illustration- Iran’s FM is insisting that strait of Hormuz will remain under Iran’s control . Iran’s “sword will remain poised over the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely”, he said and insisted that Iran will charge service fee for using it . Iran recently changed the fee name from Toll fee to na»»»

CAIRO: Iranians are living between confusion and exhaustion as the country and its economy are squeezed between war and multiplying crises at home. US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he called off fresh strikes on Iran as he claimed a deal to end the war was imminent. Back-and-forth strik»»»

BRICS nations adopted a joint declaration rejecting unilateral trade restrictions that threaten food security and agreed to launch new mechanisms for seed and fertiliser cooperation, a move welcomed by Egyptian Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Alaa Farouk during the bloc’s ministerial m»»»

Doha Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Pakistan HE Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, during which the two leaders discussed bilateral relations and ways to further strengthen cooperat»»»

“All of the Ukrainian bioweapons labs are administered by the US military,” Bioweapon Truth Commission co-founder Jeff J. Brown told Sputnik, commenting on DNI Gabbard’s bombshell confirmation that everything Russia’s NBC Protection Troops have been saying about these labs is true. The US “benefits»»»

“Unless the US offers terms that address Iran’s fundamental security concerns rather than simply demanding unilateral concessions, waiting remains a rational strategy” on Tehran’s part, political analyst and Anti-Zionist America PAC director Dr. Michael Rectenwald told Sputnik. “Any deal that emerg»»»

A long-awaited agreement between the United States and Iran could be finalised within 24 hours, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who said both sides are closer than ever to ending months of conflict in the Middle East. Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the Gulf News app»»»

Empires tend to last about a hundred years, and true to form the Pax Americana has passed its peak. What follows is several decades of instability and lower growth as the leading countries of the world vie to fill the void. The Interregnum has started.  The Chinese, Dutch, Portugese and B»»»

A tanker was struck by an unknown projectile in its port bow off the coast of Oman, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday, around six nautical miles (11km) east of Oman, according to the advisory. Get updated faster and for FREE: Down»»»

Dubai: Kuwaiti authorities have arrested five Bangladeshi nationals accused of operating a forgery network that produced and distributed counterfeit government stamps, in a case officials said targeted expatriates and businesses seeking official document verification. The Ministry of Interior said »»»

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of a US–Iran peace deal within the next 24 hours. Other statements:Technical-level talks are planned for next week after the signingPakistan praised the US and Iran for their commitment to the talks in IslamabadShar»»»

Islamabad, Pakistan: Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose government has mediated between Iran and the United States to end their war, said on Saturday, a peace deal would "likely" be finalised within 24 hours. "We are closer to a peace deal than ever before. With finalisation likely exp»»»

June 13 : ‌Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz ​Sharif said on Saturday that the United States and Iran ‌have ‌agreed ​to a ‌framework ⁠for ​a peace deal ⁠that would end the months-long conflict in the ⁠Middle East, ‌with ‌a ​final ‌text ‌of the deal reached. Pakistan is now preparing for ‌an electron»»»

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed for Europe on Saturday to participate in the Group of Seven Summit, where India is expected to call for unrestricted navigation through the Strait of Hormuz following US attacks on vessels carrying Indian seafarers. Modi will be visiting France and S»»»

DUBAI: Funeral for Iran's ​late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin in Tehran on July ‌4 and ‌conclude with ​his ‌burial ⁠in ​the northeastern ⁠city of Mashhad on July 9, state media reported ⁠on Saturday. Khamenei, ‌was ‌killed ​in ‌Israeli and ‌U.S. strikes on Iran in February. His death ‌mark»»»