Syria’s foreign minister held a rare direct meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris on Tuesday (August 19, 2025), talks that were brokered by the United States as part of a diplomatic push for Syria and Israel to normalise relations despite a recent surge in tensions between them. Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said Foreign … Read more
Local residents look a damage home which filled with rocks following Monday’s flash flooding due to heavy rains, in Dalori village in Swabi, a district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Rescuers and residents resumed searching on Tuesday for survivors as the death toll from five days of … Read more
President Donald Trump speaks as France’s President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, listen during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, foreground left, and European leaders in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP The White House on Tuesday (August … Read more
As India and China commemorate 75 years of diplomatic engagement this year, strong signs of a diplomatic thaw have emerged. The meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart, Admiral Dong Jun, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Defence Ministers’ meeting in January; resumption of the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra in June; … Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with the media after a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders, amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, at French Ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C., U.S., on August 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday (August … Read more
A senior Israeli official on Tuesday (August 19, 2025) said the government stood firm on its call for the release of all hostages in any future Gaza deal, after Hamas accepted a new truce proposal. Mediators are awaiting an official Israeli response to the plan, a day after Hamas signalled its readiness for a fresh … Read more
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, seated from background left, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump listen during a meeting in the East Room of the White House on August 18, 2025, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump said Tuesday (August 19, 2025) that U.S. … Read more
Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday (August 18, 2025) that foreign legislation did not have jurisdiction in its country, after the United States used a law to sanction a judge on the court. Washington used the Magnitsky Act, a US law which provides for sanctions against individuals accused of human rights violations around the globe, … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron stand for a photo as they meet with European leaders, amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that Geneva could … Read more
