When Uzbekistan’s first president, Islam Karimov, died in the late summer of 2016, he left a long list of problems for his successor. That successor turned out to be Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who served as Uzbekistan’s prime minister during the last 13 years of Karimov’s reign. There was nothing to sugge»»»

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a fresh phone conversation on Tuesday, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said. Key statements from Ushakov:🔶 The conversation focused on the settlement of the Ukraine conflict🔶 Putin and Trump exchanged views on the recent visits of Steve »»»

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong backlash from opposition leaders on Tuesday after a report published by Haaretz newspaper said UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major operation days before the attacks on October 7. »»»

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is seeking to expand its access into Venezuela's mineral resources, including gold, Reuters reported on Tuesday citing sources privy to the talks. Aside from its push for a wider stake in the country's fossil fuels, Washington is now attempting to widen its »»»

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tuesday there had been "significant progress" in talks with Oman over the administration of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. According to an Iranian foreign ministry statement, Araghchi "explained the latest status of Iran-Oman talks on the Strait of Hormu»»»

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Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe FM Araghchi: The solution is straightforward: the United States must return to its commitments, paving the way for the situation in the reg»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has many plans for cooperation with Saudi Arabia, with areas of interaction and strategic partnership between the two countries constantly expanding, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. "We have many plans with our Saudi friends. The areas of our cooper»»»

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Britain is set to ban goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in response to an expansion program that is imperiling efforts to establish a Palestinian state, the U.K. government said Tuesday. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is due to give details in the House of Commons later, after»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Al-Manar correspondents across southern Lebanon report Israeli demolition operations in the towns of Tallousah, Bani Hayyan and Al-Mansouri»»»

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The US military and intelligence community are quietly considering a smaller US footprint in the Middle East after months of Iranian attacks exposed vulnerabilities at American bases and killed 18 US service members, the CNN reported on Tuesday. The discussions include reducing troops and facilitie»»»

China's exports jumped 25% in August from a year earlier on strong demand for autos and high-tech goods as its record trade surplus widened further, its customs agency said Tuesday. The data was broadly in line with what economists had expected and comes just ahead of a planned meeting between Chin»»»

Rethinks its regional footprint as Iran war raises questions over what to rebuild Dubai: The Iran war may end up redrawing America’s military map of the Middle East. After months of Iranian missile and drone attacks exposed vulnerabilities across a network of US bases and intelligence facilities bu»»»

GlobalizationUnited States of AmericaUS-Canada tariff dispute weighs on cross-border tiesMauricia ArmitageAs Canada's retaliatory tariffs take effect, Canadian and US car industries fear the trade war will hit them hard, while Canadians are cutting back on travel. https://p.dw.com/p/5KhadThe Gordie»»»

Canada's counter-tariffs on billions of dollars in US products took effect Tuesday, as a trade war between the two countries heated up. Ottawa's pushback comes weeks after US President Donald Trump imposed 50-percent tariffs on a similar value of Canadian products, over what Washington de»»»

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia is ready to continue conversation with the United States about Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. "The fact that the Americans, in all their contacts with us — above all, in their contacts with [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin — proceed fr»»»

US President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to block sales of Canadian planemaker Bombardier in the United States unless it builds aircraft in the country, escalating trade tensions on the eve of Canadian retaliatory tariffs. Trump accused Canada of “unjust and unfair” trade practices but did no»»»

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BusinessUnited States of AmericaTrump threatens to block Bombardier planes from US marketShakeel Sobhan AFP, AP, Reuters, dpaTrump says Bombardier must build aircraft in the US as Canada imposes tariffs of up to 50% on US imports. https://p.dw.com/p/5M7XkBombardier said it supports tens of thousand»»»

US President Donald Trump promised a drop in gasoline prices in the United States after the conflict with Iran ends. Earlier, US Vice President JD Vance said he didn't know when gasoline prices in the country might fall again. "Oil prices will drop precipitously, like everything else is dropping (b»»»

The State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Kyrgyzstan has dismantled a cross-border criminal group that had organized a network for supply and trafficking of narcotics, precursors, and potent psychotropic substances intended for sale in the city of Osh. According to the security services, »»»

François Picard is pleased to welcome Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Director of King’s Brazil Institute at the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London and Associate Professor in Brazil and Latin American Studies. According to Aruska, Brazil’s approaching elections can be viewed through th»»»

Manipuri music icon killed after confronting late-night noise outside Delhi home One of the founding figures of Manipur's rock music movement, guitarist Chongtham Vikram Singh, has died after being attacked outside his residence in South Delhi. The 55-year-old leaves behind his wife and son. Family»»»

Baghaei claims Canada chose to 'appease their bullying neighbour' Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei on Monday launched a scathing verbal assault against Canada, accusing it of "strategic confusion" and endorsing US-Israel military aggression after Canadian Foreign Ministe»»»

“We expect the war will continue,” Zelenskiy said in Kyiv on September 6, after US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left without a deal. The pause the two governments agreed for the visit was widely read as a step towards stopping. It covered aerial strikes on Kyiv city and Moscow city, for t»»»

US forces targets maritime logistics of Ecuador’s Los Choneros cartel US forces intercepted and sank a vessel in the Eastern Pacific that was allegedly being used as a floating refueling station for maritime drug-trafficking operations linked to Ecuador's Los Choneros criminal organisation, US Sout»»»

Ashraf Siddiqui Doha The Royal Thai Embassy in Doha recently launched ‘Thai Restaurant Week 2026: A Taste of Thailand’, a cultural and culinary initiative designed to showcase the rich flavours, traditions and heritage of Thailand to residents and visitors across Qatar. Running from September 3 to »»»

Trump vows to block Bombardier sales in US amid escalating tariff clash President Donald Trump threatened Monday to block US sales of Canadian plane maker Bombardier unless it builds aircrafts in the country, complaining of "unjust and unfair" bilateral trade provisions as he escalates a tariff war»»»

Back on June 4, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were all smiles amid the ceremonial groundbreaking for construction of Uzbekistan’s first cluster of nuclear reactors, to be built by Russia’s nuclear entity Rosatom. “I am confident that you have chosen the best o»»»

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BEIJING, (Sputnik) - China is committed to maintaining peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region and does not seek confrontation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a briefing on Monday. Earlier this day, Philippine Defense Minister Gilberto Teodoro told Reuters that China c»»»

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US backroom diplomacy on Ukraine cannot achieve peace without Washington accepting that it is no longer the world’s sole superpower, economist and public policy scholar Jeffrey Sachs has told RT. The comments follow separate closed-door talks held by US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Don»»»

There is a fatal flaw in the Trump administration’s recently announced “economic D-Day” against Iran. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared that the new US sanctions and pressure campaign was designed to “sever every economic lifeline that sustains the tyrannical regime” in Iran. But Iran’s »»»

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday vowed to press ahead with his reform agenda despite a blistering election defeat for his centre-right CDU in Saxony-Anhalt, where the far-right AfD won almost 44 percent of the vote. Merz called the result his party’s worst defeat in decades. German Chance»»»

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The renewed US diplomatic push for a settlement in Ukraine is driven by recognition that the country's defenses are crumbling with Russian forces breaching the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk fortified area, veteran military analyst Viktor Litovkin tells Sputnik. The fall of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk - the las»»»

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Djuro Macut met on Monday in Belgrade with the CEO of the French Development Agency Christophe Lecourtier to discuss a continuation of exceptional cooperation, especially in the areas of the economy, infrastructure and applied sciences. "Macut highlighted the importance of the»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Al-Manar correspondent: The Israeli occupation carries out two bombings in the towns of Zawtar al-Sharqiya and Houla in southern Lebanon 07»»»