The deadlock leaves the world's biggest economy and a major oil power locked in a confrontation that has already pushed energy prices to multi-year highs, stoked inflation and darkened global growth prospects.

Donald Trump and Melania Trump rushed out of White House Correspondents' Association ‌dinner after a man armed with a shotgun tried to breach security

Things could get awkward Saturday night when US President Donald Trump takes his seat at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, his first time attending the gala while in office.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday he considered the EU’s common defence clause “stronger” than the one binding Nato together.

US President Donald Trump yesterday announced he had cancelled his envoys’ planned trip to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran yesterday, but said that did not mean an immediate resumption of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic.

Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least six people, officials said yesterday, most of them in an attack on a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro.

Palestinians in the West Bank and central Gaza voted yesterday in municipal elections, the first since the war in Gaza erupted, with low early turnout and a limited political field.

Things could get awkward Saturday night when US President Donald Trump takes his seat at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, his first time attending the gala while in office.

The army in junta-ruled Mali yesterday battled what it called “terrorist groups” that launched surprise attacks around the capital Bamako and other parts of the west African nation.

Iran's foreign minister leaves Islamabad

Iranian state television had said before Araghchi's departure that he had no plans to meet with the Americans, and that Islamabad would serve as a bridge to 'convey' Iranian proposals

Move follows concerns sanctions were blocking right to legal counsel in narcoterrorism case

Washington and Tehran are at an impasse as Iran has largely closed the Strait of Hormuz

It remains unclear, however, whether the Iranian side would meet directly with the US envoys

Nearly 1.5 million people are registered to vote in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as 70,000 people in Gaza's Deir el-Balah area

Iran's foreign minister arrived in Islamabad on Friday and US envoys headed to the Pakistani capital in a bid to kickstart a new round of peace negotiations amid a fragile ceasefire.

US envoys Kushner and Witkoff to meet Araghchi in Pakistan

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has fallen for a seventh week in a row to 65.6 percent, its lowest level since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to state pollster VTsIOM.

A clear majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for surging gasoline prices, which is weighing on his Republican Party ahead of November’s congressional midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The Philippines, chair of the regional bloc Asean, yesterday encouraged more prisoner releases in Myanmar, including ousted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and said a recent amnesty was a positive step towards inclusive national dialogue.