International

05-11-2025 TEHRAN: Iran is “not in a hurry” to resume talks with the United States over its nuclear program, Tehran’s foreign minister has told Al Jazeera. Iran remains prepared to engage in indirect negotiations with Washington if the US chooses to talk “from an equal position based on mutual interest”, …

05-11-2025 ABUJA: Nigeria has said it would welcome assistance from the United States in fighting armed groups, as long as its territorial integrity is respected, as US President Donald Trump continued to threaten military action in the West African country over what he claimed was the persecution of Christians there. …

04-11-2025 NEW YORK: As Zohran Mamdani walked the streets of the Upper East Side for a campaign event to greet early voters, he could barely walk a few steps without being stopped by his supporters. Two smiling young women looked stars-truck and told him they followed him on Instagram. The …

04-11-2025 KINGSTON/ LONDON: A flight chartered by the UK government to evacuate British nationals from Jamaica in the wake of Hurricane Melissa is due to land at London’s Gatwick Airport on Sunday. The flight, which left Kingston’s Norman Manley International Airport on Saturday, comes after the UK flew in aid …

04-11-2025 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday the Lebanese government must fulfill its commitment to disarm Hezbollah and remove it from southern Lebanon, as Israel continued to intermittently attack the group in the south of the country. The Israeli military said that it had killed four …

04-11-2025 HUKOU: Taiwan does not want China’s “one country, two systems” and must uphold its freedom and democracy, and resolve to defend itself, President Lai Ching-te said on Friday, rejecting Beijing’s latest push to get the island to come under Chinese control. China said this week it “absolutely will not” …

04-11-2025 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States and China have agreed to set up military-to-military channels to “deconflict and deescalated any problems” following the “historic” meeting between the countries’ leaders, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, according to the US defence secretary. In a statement on social media on Saturday, Pete Hegseth …

04-11-2025 TEHRAN: President Masoud Pezeshkian unveiled a “Gen Z adviser” about a month ago, posing for a smiling photo with him that went viral online. The adviser, Amirreza Ahmadi, told local media that he sees his mission as listening to the youth of Iran, “from Tehran to the borders of …

04-11-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israel has only allowed a fraction of the aid deliveries agreed on as part of the US-brokered ceasefire, an average of 145 trucks per day instead of the 600 it pledged to allow into the besieged Gaza Strip. An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon has killed four …

03-11-2025 DODOMA: President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been declared the winner of Tanzania’s presidential election, securing another term amid days of unrest across the country. Samia won 98% of the votes in Wednesday’s poll, the electoral commission said. In her Saturday victory speech she said the election was “free and …