US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran could be over “very quickly,” while Vice President JD Vance pointed to progress in ongoing negotiations with Tehran. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said Iran was seeking an agreement and warned that if talks failed, the United States could launch new More
Chinese President Xi Jinping and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Beijing on Wednesday, according to media reports. Xi welcomed Putin to the Chinese capital, where the two leaders shook hands outside the Great Hall of the People before beginning official talks, Al Jazeera reported, citing footage released by Russian media. Before entering the More
Anoush Dastgir, a Dutch-Afghan football coach and former head coach of Afghanistan national football team, has been appointed as the new head coach of Almere City Football Club in the Dutch Premier League. Almere City announced late on Monday that it had signed a two-year contract with Dastgir. Fok Booy, head of scouting and staff More
At least four people have been killed and 30 others wounded in nationwide protests against a sharp increase in fuel prices in Kenya, a media report said on Tuesday. Protests began on Monday in various cities across the country following the fuel price increase, disrupting movement and triggering a widespread public transport strike, Al Jazeera More
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran will not retreat from the legal rights of its people and national interests in negotiations with the United States. Pezeshkian wrote in a post on X that Iran would under no circumstances retreat from the legal rights of its people and country and would defend its national interests in More
Pakistan has deployed 8,000 military personnel, fighter jets and air defence systems to Saudi Arabia under a joint defence pact between the two countries, according to reports. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia announced in September last year that they had signed a defence agreement under which any “aggression” against either country would be considered a hostile More
US President Donald Trump says he has postponed a planned strike on Iran at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), adding serious negotiations are now taking place, a media report said on Tuesday. Trump announced on Monday that he had ordered a halt to the planned attack on Iran More
Five people, including two attackers, have been killed after two armed teenagers opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the area in the US state of California. According to Reuters, the two armed teenagers carried out the shooting on Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing a More
Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov has said that the security of Central Asia is inseparable from stability in Afghanistan. Japarov made the remarks in an address to heads of state ahead of the election of non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which will be held on June 3 in New York, News Brief More
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that on the occasion of World Hypertension Day, high blood pressure is a “silent killer”, but early detection, regular monitoring and continued treatment can prevent most complications and deaths caused by the disease. World Hypertension Day is observed every year on 17 May and forms part of Hypertension Awareness More
