Category: World

By Sohail Ahmed Jan Marian, a career diplomat and former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed the new head of the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic in Vienna. He has already received his letter of credence from Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský and will take up his post on December 1, 2025. On December 4 and 5, he will attend the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Vienna in his new role. He will replace Ivo Šrámek, who has been in office since September 2018, as the Permanent Representative…

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US President Donald Trump on Thursday evoked the death penalty for Democratic lawmakers who urged the military to refuse illegal orders, calling them traitors and accusing them of sedition. The group of Democratic senators and representatives, who all have military or intelligence service backgrounds, made the comments in a video posted Tuesday on X. They did not specify which orders they were referring to, but Trump’s administration has come under fire for its employment of US forces both at home and abroad. “This is really bad, and Dangerous to our…

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The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Thursday saying Iran must inform it “without delay” of the status of its enriched uranium stock and bombed atomic sites, diplomats at the closed-door meeting said. The resolution’s purpose was primarily to renew and adjust the International Atomic Energy Agency’s mandate to report on aspects of Iran’s nuclear programme, but it also stated Iran must quickly provide the IAEA with the answers and access it wants, five months after airstrikes by Israel and the US. Iran, which says…

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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he will host New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for a meeting on Friday, after fiercely attacking the 34-year-old self-described Democratic Socialist during his recent campaign. Trump said on his Truth Social platform the mayor-elect “asked for a meeting” and it “will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st.” Mamdani, for his part, did not immediately confirm the meeting. Trump’s meeting with Mamdani marks the coming together of two men raised in the Queens borough of New York, but their similarities may…

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US President Donald Trump told a Saudi investment conference on Wednesday that he had stepped in to prevent a potential nuclear showdown between Pakistan and India, which he warned might have cost “millions” of lives. Trump expressed these views with a familiar boast about being able to settle disputes, before drifting into an anecdote about how he handled what he described as an imminent armed clash in South Asia. According to the US president, both countries were “going to go at it, nuclear weapons,” and he said he had warned…

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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to end Sudan’s grinding civil war at the request of Saudi Arabia´s crown prince, condemning “tremendous atrocities” in a conflict he has previously overlooked. Trump admitted that the devastating civil war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was “not on my charts” before de facto Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman pushed him to get involved. But Trump said he would now work to “stabilize” the conflict with regional powers, notably including the United Arab Emirates, which denies accusations of…

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By Muhammad Sohail The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský, will attend the meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Brussels on 20 and 21 November 2025, which will be followed by the Ministerial Forum of the European Union with the Indo-Pacific countries. The main points of discussion of the ministers will be the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East, the Sahel region and Sudan, and the further development of relations with the Indo-Pacific countries. As part of the…

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WASHINGTON: Tech mogul Elon Musk and football star superstar Cristiano Ronaldo were among the guest attending a high-profile White House dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump for the visiting Saudi crown prince on Tuesday. Ronaldo plays for Saudi club Al Nassr, one of a number of ageing players who have been attracted to the desert kingdom’s heavy spending on stars despite its rights record. The 40-year-old, whose contract with the Saudi club ends this summer, took his place near the head of Trump’s table a few seconds before the…

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The United States and Saudi Arabia signed agreements on civil nuclear energy and the sale of advanced US-made F-35 fighter jets during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington on Tuesday, the White House said. The two countries ratified a “joint declaration” on civil nuclear energy that “builds the legal foundation for a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar nuclear energy partnership” in line with “strong nonproliferation standards,” the White House said in a statement. In addition, President Donald Trump approved a “major defence sale package,” which includes future deliveries of F-35 advanced…

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Donald Trump on Tuesday praised Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s pledge to invest $1 trillion in the United States, as the Saudi royal received a grand reception at the White House. Trump moved to consolidate his growing bromance with the Saudi leader, who is at the Oval Office for the first time in seven years, giving him a parade of soldiers on horseback and a military flypast featuring F-35 jets that he said Washington would soon sell to Riyadh. Trump opened their White House meeting with praise for the prince’s…

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