Spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement Mohammad Abdulsalam, who headed a delegation in the UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden, said a ceasefire was reached in the last day of the talks for the western port city of al-Hudaydah. Abdulsalam said the warring parties agreed on Thursday to a ceasefire for the flashpoint city of Hudaydah […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow will continue supporting Russian national Maria Butina even after her deal with a US court. The statement comes a day after Butina pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent without proper registration in the United States. She is facing a prison term of up to […]

Japan on Friday resumed work to relocate a controversial US military airbase in Okinawa, prompting protests and “strong anger” from the local governor. Okinawa residents have for years called for the relocation of a US base in a populated part of the southern island, but they want it moved elsewhere in the country, rather than […]

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will say on Friday that Britain and the European Union should prepare for a second Brexit referendum because parliament will probably fail to agree on a divorce deal and the public will need to break the deadlock. Less than four months before Britain is due to leave the EU, […]

Anticipating a fifth straight weekend of violent protests, Paris’ police chief said Friday that armored vehicles and thousands of officers will be deployed again in the French capital. Michel Delpuech told RTL radio that security services intend to deploy the same numbers and strength as last weekend, with about 8,000 officers and 14 armored vehicles […]

Iranian director Ruhollah Hejazi’s “The Dark Room” was selected as best film at the 23rd International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) in Thiruvananthapuram, India last night. The film is about Haleh and Farhad, who together with their 5-year-old son, Amir, have been recently resided in a new complex. Amir is lost in the desert in front […]

Canada has arrested a senior Huawei technology company official suspected of violating sanctions against Iran at the request of U.S. officials. Meng Wanzhou, who is one of the vice-chairs on the Chinese technology company’s board and is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, was arrested at the request of U.S. officials in Vancouver. […]

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad predicts that Syria’s reconstruction will cost between $250 billion and $400 billion, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov has said after meeting with the Syrian head of state. Borisov’s office said Thursday that the diplomat had discussed industrial, medical, and energy cooperation with Assad in Damascus on Thursday, as a years-long […]

Perhaps Mohammed bin Salman failed to imagine that his credibility and royal reputation, or what’s left of it, would depend on U.S. Senate, which has become a nightmare for him. Bin Salman –, supported by Al Saud’s wealth and undisputed U.S. support for the Yemeni war, repression of domestic opposition, hostage taking of the Lebanese […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Yemeni warring parties have reached an agreement on a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, as a new round of peace talks aimed at ending nearly four years of a brutal Saudi-led war on its southern neighbor came to a close in Sweden. The UN chief […]