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Iran's Embassy in Indonesia posted an artificial intelligence-generated photograph comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler on its official X/Twitter account on Wednesday.
A 20-year uranium enrichment moratorium on Iran is not long enough, US President Donald Trump has claimed.
U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves on Wednesday called for an immediate de-escalation of the war in the Middle East, and sharply criticized the U.S. administration's handling of it.
Washington says regime change is not its goal in Iran. But that claim obscures a harder truth: if the current system in Tehran remains intact, the deeper sources of instability in the Middle East are likely to persist.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Even as Israeli bombs rained down on Lebanon, most of the world breathed a cautious sigh of relief when news broke that Pakistan had mediated a ceasefire between the United States and Iran, with the goal of reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
In Iran, people are struggling to afford meat and eggs — thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, many from the same country are building real estate empires.
Iranian regime authorities arrested a "separatist terror group" across six provinces, accused of being linked with Mossad, and other "American-Zionist enemy services," the regime's Intelligence Ministry announced on Wednesday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned the US-Israeli strikes on Iran from the outset. Then Iranian missiles entered Turkish airspace, and Israeli officials accused Ankara of directing more fury at Jerusalem than at Tehran. Those exchanges have sharpened the already damaged Israel-Turkey relationship and t…
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is threatening to make the dire state of government finances around the world even worse, the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday.
The Iran war is starting to show up in the U.S. economy in ways both obvious and not so much, with soaring energy costs leading the impact and potential hits on broader growth simmering beneath the surface.
In the rolling hills of the occupied West Bank, a group of children sat and waited on Monday alongside the newly erected fence as their parents and leaders in their village, Umm al-Khair, demanded their passage. They were met by plumes of tear gas and the blasts of sound grenades hurled downhill from a nearby Israel…
Senior Hezbollah official Ibrahim al-Moussawi says diplomatic efforts by Iran and other regional states could produce a ceasefire soon
Senior Hezbollah official Ibrahim al-Moussawi says diplomatic efforts by Iran and other regional states could produce a ceasefire soon
US cyber director Sean Cairncross on Wednesday described Iran as a "perpetual bad actor” but said Iranian hackers are not avoiding consequences.
Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir has landed in Tehran, where he was welcomed by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
If a full naval blockade of Iran proves successful, it would, on the one hand, increase the immediate risk of war between Iran and the United States - potentially drawing in all countries in the region - and, on the other, trigger an unprecedented crisis in the global economy, particularly affecting China.
Tehran, Iran – Iranian authorities say a continued United States naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz could end the current pause in fighting as mediators try to secure a diplomatic solution.
The United States is sending more than 10,000 additional troops to the Middle East before the end of April as Washington tries to increase pressure on Iran, US officials have told The Washington Post.
FILE -President Donald Trump greets Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)
President Donald Trump said that the war in Iran may soon come to an end, even with the U.S. military now several days into a blockade at the Strait of Hormuz and oil prices continuing to roil the global economy.
The head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that the world must prepare for a major economic hit should the Iran conflict continue to disrupt energy supply chains.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Vaccination programs across Africa have saved tens of millions of lives over the past two decades, but progress is slowing in some countries, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, amid warnings that cuts to United States aid risk leaving millions of children unprotected.
At least nine oil tankers have transited the Strait of Hormuz this week as the U.S. and Iran contest control of the vital sea lane.
The American military depleted its entire stock of untested Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) early in its attack on Iran last month, a US Army official has said.
Although Germany is not involved in the war on Iran, the country is feeling its economic impact directly, German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said on Wednesday.
Price of jet fuel has climbed by 125% since start of Iran war – giving Qantas and Virgin a big challenge as fuel accounts for a fifth of expenses
This year's IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington are unlike any in recent memory. The Iran war has given the annual gathering a geopolitical charge that has drawn an unusually broad crowd, not just the traditional ministers of trade, investment and finance, but foreign policy officials and venture capita…
The International Monetary Fund's managing director Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday that she hopes that the ceasefire between the US and Iran will lead to a durable peace.
Oil largely held onto a sharp drop from this week’s highs as the US and Iran seek further talks to end a war that has brought the vital Strait of Hormuz waterway to a near-halt.
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has said the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is "very close to over," a report said Wednesday, amid speculation that peace talks between Washington and Tehran could resume in the near future.
Keir Starmer insists the UK will not be dragged into the Iran war despite Trump’s threats to scrap a bilateral trade deal
Keir Starmer insists the UK will not be dragged into the Iran war despite Trump’s threats to scrap a bilateral trade deal
Another flight attendant has been detained in Dubai after sharing a photo privately on WhatsApp during Iranian attacks on the UAE.
As tensions in the Middle East continue and threats from Tehran intensify, the Jewish community in Baku marked Holocaust Remembrance Day earlier this week with a ceremony that included references to ties with Israel and current regional developments, according to participants.
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Fighting between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has continued after Israel and Lebanon held direct talks in Washington aimed at easing the conflict.
As the world waits for peace talks between the US and Iran to resume, Russia says it can help solve the problem of Iran's enriched uranium.
Item 1 of 3 Motorists queue for fuel at a TotalEnergies petrol station ahead of an announced fuel price hike, as fuel costs rise amid global disruptions caused by the Iran war, in Nairobi, Kenya April 14, 2026. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Several clocks are ticking for the American president as he looks for a way out of the deadlock, observers suggest
Several clocks are ticking for the American president as he looks for a way out of the deadlock, observers suggest
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On Tuesday, Donald Trump suggested that talks with Iran could resume this week. The US President’s apparent desire to end the war against Tehran is understandable, having found himself in a box with no easy way out.
Japan's two biggest passenger airlines are facing headwinds caused partly by the Iran war. (Photo by Mizuho Miyazaki)
A renewed diplomatic push is under way to revive talks between the United States and Iran amid a fragile two-week ceasefire agreed last week following nearly six weeks of fighting in the US-Israeli war on Iran.
While the Rich Starry didn’t visit an Iranian port, it is on a US blacklist for allegedly helping Tehran evade sanctions
While the Rich Starry didn’t visit an Iranian port, it is on a US blacklist for allegedly helping Tehran evade sanctions
Millions have died as a result of disastrous US-led military adventurism. But there have been no consequences for those who championed it for so long
As momentum builds for a second round of talks between the United States and Iran aimed at ending their war, one central issue has emerged as a bone of contention: Tehran’s frozen assets held in other countries.
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Iraq is facing a crisis as it has seen around 80 percent of its oil exports collapse. This was because of the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Now, there's also a US blockade of Iran. Iraq is thus seeing many of its normal maritime oil exports via the Persian Gulf interdicted. As such, Iraq has sought to se…