Category: World

BEIJING: China and Uruguay should work together to advance an “equal and orderly multipolar world”, President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Yamandu Orsi on Tuesday, according to a media pool report. Orsi’s visit is the first by a South American leader to the Chinese capital since the United States invaded Venezuela in January and kidnapped then-President Nicolas Maduro in a raid. China and Uruguay should “work together to advance an equal and orderly multipolar world and an inclusive, universally beneficial economic globalisation,” Xi said in his remarks, aiming to build…

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A group of civil rights organisations on Monday sued the State Department over its recent pause on the processing of immigrant visas for citizens from 75 countries, arguing the policy “eviscerate[d] decades of settled immigration law.” The lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan asked a judge to issue a court order blocking the policy, which took effect on January 21. The complaint asserted that the State Department’s policy is “based on an unsupported and demonstrably false claim that nationals of the covered countries migrate to the United States to…

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US President Donald Trump continued to raise the spectre of doom if negotiations with Iran do not pan out, saying Monday that “probably bad things will happen” without a deal. “We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones, the biggest and the best, and we have talks going on with Iran. We’ll see how it all works out,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “But right now, we’re talking to them. We’re talking to Iran, and if we could work something out, that’d be great. And if…

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President Donald Trump said on Thursday he believed Tehran wanted to make a deal to avoid military action, adding that the United States “armada” near Iran was bigger than the one he dispatched to topple Venezuela’s leader. “We have a large armada, flotilla, call it whatever you want, heading toward Iran right now, even larger than what we had in Venezuela,” the Republican president told reporters in the Oval Office. “Hopefully we’ll make a deal. If we do make a deal, that’s good. If we don’t make a deal, we’ll see what happens.”…

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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump predicted on Friday that Iran would seek to negotiate a deal rather than face American military action, despite Tehran warning that its arsenal of missiles would never be up for discussion. “I can say this, they do want to make a deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Asked if he had given Iran a deadline to enter talks on its nuclear and missile programmes, Trump said “yeah, I have”, but refused to say what it was. “We have a large armada, flotilla, call it…

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GENEVA: The UN chief has told member states that the organisation is at risk of “imminent financial collapse,” citing unpaid fees and a budget rule that forces the global body to return unspent money, a letter seen by Reuters on Friday showed. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has repeatedly spoken about the organisation’s worsening liquidity crisis, but this is his starkest warning yet, which comes as its main contributor, the United States, is retreating from multilateralism on numerous fronts. “The crisis is deepening, threatening programme delivery and risking financial collapse. And…

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Press Release Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Petr Macinka took part in a foreign working visit to Brussels on 28–29 January 2026. As part of the programme, he held meetings with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, and Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos. He subsequently attended the EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) and the EU–Morocco Association Council. “At my meeting with the NATO Secretary General, I presented the priorities of the new Czech…

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United States President Donald Trump urged Iran on Wednesday to come to the table and make a deal on nuclear ‍weapons or the next US attack would be far worse. “Hopefully Iran will quickly ‘Come to the Table’ ‌and negotiate a fair and ‍equitable ‌deal — no nuclear weapons — one that is ⁠good for all parties. Time is running out, it is truly of the essence!” Trump wrote in a social media post. The Republican US president, who during his first White House term pulled out of world powers’ 2015 nuclear ⁠deal with…

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President Asif Ali Zardari explored avenues for enhanced multi-domain cooperation in a meeting with Dubai’s ruler on Wednesday during a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirate. President Zardari arrived in the UAE on Monday for the visit. According to a statement issued by the President’s Secretariat, he met UAE Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at Dubai’s Zabeel Palace today and congratulated him on completing two decades of leadership as the city’s leader while commending the emirate’s transformation into a global centre for…

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MEITAR, ISRAEL: Israel on Wednesday laid to rest the last hostage from Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned at the funeral that the country’s enemies would pay a heavy price for any future aggression. Netanyahu’s threat came as Hamas told AFP it was prepared to carry out a full transfer of governance in Gaza to a 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee established under a US-backed ceasefire plan. Hundreds of mourners packed a stadium in southern Israel on Wednesday for the funeral of Ran Gvili, the last…

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