Iran said on Saturday that US military ships would never be allowed to enter the Gulf “under any circumstances” and President Donald Trump will “take that dream to his grave”. “We will not allow US military ships in the Persian Gulf under any circumstances and at any time,” said Iran’s armed forces chief of staff Ali Abdollahi, according to Iranian state television.
At the proposed summit between Trump, Putin and Xi, those fears could crystallise In the final two years of a US presidency, when Congress has been lost, approval ratings have sunk like a stone and their party has started to think about who’s coming next, the person occupying the Oval Office can feel their power draining away. Barack Obama restored diplomatic ties with Cuba, making a historic visit to Havana, as well as a final, successful push on the Iran nuclear deal.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth alleges Confucius Institutes operating in disguise on US university campuses The US defense department has designated Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses known as Confucius Institutes as a threat to US national security, defense secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday. Washington has long accused Confucius Institutes of being Chinese propaganda tools and has taken steps to crack down on them.
US First Lady Melania Trump said in a surprise announcement Friday she had secured a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the ravaged city of Oleshky, where citizens are trapped and short of food. Melania Trump said she had worked with the Russian and Ukrainian leaderships on the Oleshky plan, and that civilian leaders from both countries would “work together” and visit the devastated city to assess aid needs.
US First Lady Melania Trump has secured a truce that will begin on 29 October in the southern city, the White House says.
No confirmation from Russia or Ukraine as White House says 'localised' ceasefire to take effect in Oleshky.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly arrived in the Chinese border city of Dandong via a newly opened bridge linking the two countries, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.
The visit comes about a week after a major new bridge linking the two countries was officially opened.
The positions of Washington and Tehran have changed dramatically since US-Israeli strikes began the war, analysts say.
As Israel heads to the polls on October 27, its polarising and longest-serving prime minister is seeking re-election.
Residents and analysts doubt October 27 vote will bring any meaningful shift in Israeli policy towards their country.
People living in tents in northern France hoping to find asylum in England face increasing intimidation from police and far-right agitators In the decade since the demolition of the “Jungle”, an area of Calais where thousands of asylum seekers set up makeshift shelters before embarking on Channel crossings to the UK, everything and nothing has changed. This week, in a woodland clearing not far from one of Calais’s busy main roads, several brightly coloured tents are pitched.
Looming over the crowd that has gathered to hear Gadi Eisenkot, the former general who is the lead opposition challenger in Tuesday’s Israeli election, is a man who is not there. Naturally, the warm-up speakers at this evening rally in the modest city of Modi’in, halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, stress the virtues of Eisenkot, a son of working-class Moroccan Jews who rose through the ranks to become chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and entered politics only four years ago.
India says Chinese forces deviating from established patrolling patterns continue to disrupt the border situation, a day after the ITBP chief reported face-offs at multiple locations in Arunachal Pradesh.
A tsunami warning has been issued after two large earthquakes struck off the coast of Vanuatu.
Why is ITBP overhauling its training and combat strategy along the China border? The ITBP was formed on October 24, 1962 after the Indo-China war
Super typhoon weakening but large parts of Taiwan, including Taipei, still mostly closed and flights cancelled Typhoon Champi swept past Taiwan on Saturday killing one person, injuring more than 500, and uprooting trees and severing power as it weakened and headed north toward the Chinese coast. Earlier classified as a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms in the Pacific this year, Champi was still packing gusts of about 126km per hour (78 miles per hour) near its centre, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration (CWA).
Syrians are protesting Israel’s occupation of parts of the country’s south, near the occupied Golan Heights.
Kim Jong-un has opened the borders to both his key allies in Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, but for different reasons For more than a decade, local Chinese residents pilloried it as nothing more than an empty bridge that led to a North Korean vegetable patch on the other side. Fast forward 12 years and dozens of trucks are now traversing the bridge linking China to North Korea, boosting trade for the reclusive regime.
Activision; PC, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox From parkour over Manhattan rooftops and car chases in Paris to the climactic battle at a North Korean air base, the developers have thrown absolutely everything at the game Last year’s Black Ops 7 instalment was a sales disappointment for Activision, and that has no doubt put extra pressure on Infinity Ward, the studio leading Modern Warfare 4 development.
The Israeli military has begun demolishing Palestinian buildings in the city of Hebron, after two Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack by two Palestinian gunmen. Netanyahu’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Israel to launch a campaign in the West Bank “exactly like in Gaza or Lebanon,” while far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called for Israel to dismantle the Palestinian Authority.
Some three quarters of Jewish first-time voters identify as right or centre-right, higher than rest of Israeli society.
President Trump says it was First Lady Melania Trump’s initiative that led to a ceasefire in Oleshky.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 23 — China’s state news agency Xinhua is taking a photo exhibition marking Taiwan’s restoration after World War II to five African countries, using historical images to promote Beijing’s position on national sovereignty, territorial integrity and reunification. Speaking at the Nairobi opening, Xinhua News Agency Africa Regional Bureau Director Ying Qiang said the exhibition was intended to help African audiences understand the historical background of Taiwan’s restoration and China’s position on the island’s future.