Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Monday that she has formed a new left-leaning minority coalition after months of negotiations following inconclusive elections in March. The agreement secures her third term in office, bringing together four parties that hold a slim parliament»»»

The US naval blockade continues to choke Iran, with 121 ships redirected and five "disabled" so far as of June 1, according to the Central Command (CentCom), which oversees US military operations in the Gulf and Middle East. The move ensures "compliance" to the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, i»»»

Dubai: As negotiations between Iran and the United States falter and fighting in Lebanon escalates, attention is turning to another strategic waterway that could become the next flashpoint in the Middle East conflict: the Bab Al Mandab Strait. According to a report by CNN, Iranian media reported on»»»

BOGOTÁ: The hard-right Donald Trump fan and leftist senator vying to become president of Colombia traded insults on Monday as they threw themselves into campaigning for the June 21 election runoff. Right-wing lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella was the surprise winner of the first round of the presiden»»»

KYIV: A major ‌Russian attack targeted Kyiv early on Tuesday, with at least four people injured and an apartment building in the Ukrainian capital heavily damaged, according to witnesses ​and officials. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a suspected missile strike on a 24-story apartment building cau»»»

Pro-Trump lawyer Aberaldo de la Espriella pulled ahead as a leader in Colombia’s race for the presidency in the first round of elections over the weekend, capitalizing on a growing appetite for heavy-handed crackdowns on criminal groups across Latin America. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Chr»»»

WASHINGTON, United States: The US Defense Department has designated its press office a classified space, the Pentagon said Monday, making it off-limits to journalists who used to be able to enter the area. “The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Fac»»»

PRESS REVIEW – Monday, June 1: Piles of trash are flooding Havana, as Cuba struggles under US President Donald Trump's oil blockade. Next, papers look at the latest cancer research breakthrough and the industry of hair transplants. Also: US farmers find alternative ways to make money. Finally,»»»

Far-right defence attorney and businessman Abelardo de la Espriella topped the first round of Colombia’s presidential election Sunday, followed closely by leftist senator Ivan Cepeda. A fervent supporter of US President Donald Trump as well as the authoritarian crime crackdown of El Salvador’s Pres»»»

About that four-week campaign that the Pentagon promised… Overnight volleys between Iran and the United States met by many with a shrug…so often has the current ceasefire been violated. Even the deal in the works is mostly to roll over that fragile truce and open more talks… not to permanently sett»»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he told US President Donald Trump that his country would strike Beirut if Hezbollah doesn't stop attacking Israel. Earlier, Trump had said that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to dial back fighting. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, B»»»

The status of ongoing US-Iran peace negotiations remained unclear Tuesday as both sides issued conflicting statements on whether talks were advancing or on the verge of "collapse", deepening uncertainty over the future of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. Fresh doubts emer»»»

The Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said it carried out a retaliatory strike on an air base used by the US after American forces attacked targets in southern Iran over the weekend. The latest exchange has further strained a fragile ceasefire reached in April after more than a mon»»»

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday pulled the brakes on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to bomb Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs after Iran threatened to abandon its negotiations with the U.S. over Israel's actions in Lebanon. An Israeli official told U.S. news por»»»

Share: Photo- Trump and Netanyahu last December at Mar-a-Lago. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images President Trump on Monday pulled the brakes on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to bomb Hezbollah targets in Beirut after Iran threatened to abandon its negotiations with the U.S. over Isra»»»

With much of the world’s attention on the still unresolved conflict between the US and Iran, the average consumer of news may be forgiven if they had forgotten that the US had, on January 3 of this year, launched a mini-invasion of Venezuela which resulted in the death of scores of people, includin»»»

WASHINGTON: The State Department plans to drastically slash the number of US embassies and consulates in Africa that can process visas for foreigners seeking to come to the United States. The almost 50 US embassies and consulates that are processing visa applications will be reduced to 20 in the co»»»

BRUSSELS, Belgium: The EU reached a deal Monday on a new tightening of migration rules allowing for so-called “return hubs” to be set up outside the bloc, as countries seek to boost deportations. European lawmakers and countries struck a provisional compromise on the reform, which was launched in r»»»

Traders work last week on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York City. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo June 1 (UPI) -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic confidentially filed Monday for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commi»»»

Lebanon's U.S. embassy said on Monday that Hezbollah had accepted a U.S. proposal for a "mutual cessation of attacks", after Israel threatened more strikes on south Beirut on the eve of a fourth round of Israel-Lebanon negotiations. The announcement came after U.S. President Donald Trump said Monda»»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he told U.S. President Donald Trump that Israel would strike Beirut if Hezbollah doesn't stop attacking Israel. "I spoke this evening with President Trump and told him that if Hezbollah does not cease attacking our towns and our citizens, Isr»»»

The US President Donald Trump said that the negotiations with Iran are continuing at a “rapid pace”. His social media comments appeared to contradict an earlier report by the semi-official Tasnim news agency, which said Tehran was suspending talks with Washington over Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. T»»»

1 of 2 | Florida is suing OpenAI and its CEO and founder Sam Altman over safety and design concerns about ChatGPT. File photo by Wu Hao/EPA-EFE June 1 (UPI) -- Florida's attorney general announced Monday that the stateis suing OpenAI and its founder and CEO, Sam Altman, saying the company chose "pr»»»

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he had persuaded Israel and Hezbollah to de-escalate, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreeing not to send warplanes to bomb Beirut's southern suburbs and the Lebanese group promising to stop attacks. "There will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any T»»»

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that Democrats will force a vote on the Trump administration’s Anti Weaponization Fund, seeking to block it. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo June 1 (UPI) -- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that Democrats will force a vo»»»

Pro-Donald Trump conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella unexpectedly topped the first round of Colombia’s presidential election, prompting incumbent left-wing President Gustavo Petro to question the preliminary results and the victor to accuse the government of planning a coup. The independen»»»

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had not heard from Iranians that they were suspending talks with the Washington, but added that silence would be fine and he was willing to wait. "I think we've ‌been talking ‌too much if you ‌want ⁠to know the truth. ⁠I think going silent would be v»»»

Iran is pushing for a limited interim agreement with the United States in a bid to ease mounting economic pressure and stabilize the situation at home, while avoiding major concessions on its nuclear program, according to sources and analysts. The approach reflects a familiar playbook for the Irani»»»

A ceasefire agreed between Iran and the United States in early April is very likely to end if Israeli attacks on Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon persist, Iranian state TV said on Monday, without providing further details. Earlier, the Iranian state news agency Tasnim said Tehran was halting indi»»»

Britain's government released reams of documents on Monday relating to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, offering a glimpse into the often acerbic world of Westminster and his messy clearance for the job. The Mandelson saga, which forced the departure of Prime M»»»

Iranian Commander of the Mohammad Rasoolullah Corps Hassan Hassanzadeh attends an event with Iranian officials, military commanders, families of war victims and their supporters at the Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran, Iran on May 24. Photo by Behnam Tofighi/UPI | License Photo June 1 (UPI) -- Iran h»»»

Crisosto said criminal groups have altered their traditional routes to evade intensified international enforcement efforts, leading them to focus on the Strait of Magellan, which connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. File Photo by Jose Caviedes/EPA SANTIAGO, Chile, June 1 (UPI) -- Chilean prose»»»

PRISTINA - A Pristina-based so-called special prosecutor's office on Monday indicted five Serbs in absentia on suspicion of the criminal offence of a war crime against civilians in Kosovo Polje, Kosovo-Metohija, during the 1999 conflict in the province. Identifying the indictees with the initials P»»»

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk who was jailed for scheming to tamper with the 2020 election results. Peters is scheduled to be released from prison on Monday. File Photo by Tannen Maury/UPI | License Photo June 1 (UPI) -- Tina Peters is »»»

US conservative political commentator Candace Owens has brushed off criticism of her recent visit to Russia, after posting photos from what she described as an “unbelievably beautiful” Moscow. Owens described the trip to her 6 million YouTube subscribers as a “family vacation.” Some fellow commenta»»»

June 1 (UPI) -- Members of the United Auto Workers union walked off the job at the American Axle plant in Three Rivers, Mich., on Monday after failing to reach a contract agreement. UAW President Shawn Fain joined members of UAW Local 2093 on Sunday to announce nearly 1,000 members would go on stri»»»

New Delhi: Senior Advocate V Mohana, the lawyer who argued one of India’s most significant gender-equality cases in the armed forces, is set to join the Supreme Court after the Centre notified her appointment on Monday. Mohana, who represented women officers in the landmark permanent commission cas»»»

Dubai: Authorities in Islamabad have ordered markets and shopping malls to close by 8pm as part of energy-saving measures introduced amid rising fuel costs and supply pressures linked to the US-Iran conflict. The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration issued the notification on Monday, with the»»»

Pro-Trump lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella secured a narrow lead over left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday. With votes counted from more than 99% of polling stations, de la Espriella received 43.72% of the vote, while Cepeda secured 40.92%. C»»»

BELGRADE - US President Donald Trump is by far the most popular US political leader in Serbia in a very long time, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has told Breitbart News in an interview. Trump’s popularity in Serbia in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential elections reached astronomical propor»»»

The US military has been covertly guiding vessels through the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing officials familiar with the matter. Iran closed the vital waterway, which previously handled around 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplie»»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yisrael Katz issued on Monday a joint statement threatening to bomb the southern suburbs of Beirut, Dahiyeh, in what appears to be a green light by the Donald Trump Administration. “Following the repeated violations of the ceasefire in »»»

France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had encouraged his US counterpart Donald Trump to pursue his "determined efforts" to reach a ceasefire deal with Iran to end the Middle East war. In a phone call on Sunday night, "I welcomed the determined efforts he is making to swiftly reach an»»»

Dubai: A Bengaluru man's dramatic roadside protest after being stranded in traffic with his pregnant wife has gone viral, reigniting debate over VIP culture in India, according to reports by NDTV and The Times of India. When traffic ground to a halt on Bengaluru's busy Old Airport Road, one commute»»»

A meeting between Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy and Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev drew attention after details emerged not through official institutions, but via a post on the social media platform X. The visit had not been publicly announced in advance by Bulgarian authorities. The encounter was »»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, signaling further escalation of a war that has complicated mediation towards resolving the US-Iran conflict. Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Mon»»»

TAITEI: Taiwan’s main opposition leader said Monday she hopes to “gain deeper trust” from the United States, before departing for the country where she is expected to be grilled over her party’s stance on China and defense spending. Kuomintang chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s trip comes two months after h»»»

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ordered attacks targeting Beirut in response to alleged cease-fire allegations by Hezbollah. Pool File Photo by Ilia Yefimovich/UPI | License Photo June 1 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to attack the predo»»»

U.S. push for Lebanon ceasefire stalls as Israel eyes Beirut strikes The latest U.S. push for a ceasefire in Lebanon has fizzled just as Israel is expanding its ground invasion and seeking a U.S. green light to conduct massive strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs, sources told »»»

The United States and Iran said Monday they had again traded strikes, straining an already fragile ceasefire as negotiations between the two sides have stalled. Weeks of complicated talks marked by sharp rhetoric and occasional flare-ups of violence have not managed to reach a deal to end the war a»»»