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EU Calls on Houthis to Halt Red Sea Threats as Brussels Runs Out of Diplomatic Tools

BRUSSELS, June 9 -- The statement lasted less than a minute at the podium, but it carried the full weight of what the European Union cannot do. Anouar El Anouni, the European Commission's foreign affa... Read More


Five Western Nations Target Financiers of Israeli Settler Violence in Coordinated West Bank Sanctions Push

New Delhi, June 9 -- The sanctions have moved up the supply chain. For the first time, Canada and four allied governments did not simply name the settlers wielding the rifles and setting the fires. On... Read More


Iran Calls US IAEA Draft Resolution Absurd, Says Bombing Made Compliance Impossible

VIENNA, June 9 -- The demand, as Iran's diplomats in Vienna framed it Tuesday, was self-canceling: the United States had drafted a resolution calling on Iran to account for nuclear material at facilit... Read More


Trump Holds the Blockade, Not the Bombs - and That Is the Real Leverage in the Iran Deal

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The explosions in Haifa and the petrochemical fires along the Iranian coast have commanded most of the attention. What has not is the thing Donald Trump keeps returning to, with ... Read More


Trump Said He Calls All the Shots. Then Israel Bombed Iran.

That night, June 9 -- On Sunday afternoon, Donald Trump told The Financial Times that he alone controls the direction of the war with Iran. "I call the shots," he said. "I call all the shots. Netanyah... Read More


A US Resolution Scolds Iran for the Inspectors It Lost, and Says Nothing About the Bombs That Drove Them Out

New Delhi, June 9 -- The resolution moving through Vienna this week asks the world to hold Iran accountable for a year of locked doors at its nuclear sites. What it does not ask, Iranian officials wer... Read More


Grossi: Attacking Any Nuclear Facility, Anywhere, Is a Red Line That Cannot Be Crossed

New Delhi, June 8 -- The director general of the world's nuclear watchdog opened the IAEA Board of Governors meeting Monday with a blunt declaration that he said was directed at every combatant in eve... Read More


Bangladesh Seeks Deeper Nuclear and Space Ties With Russia as Rooppur Plant Enters Power Generation Phase

MOSCOW, June 8 -- Six days after winning election as president of the UN General Assembly, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman sat down with Sergey Lavrov at Zinaida Morozova's Mansion in Mos... Read More


Bangladesh's New Foreign Minister Invites Lavrov to Dhaka, Completing a Diplomatic Circle Under a Changed Government

MOSCOW, June 8 -- The last time a senior Russian diplomat stood in Dhaka, it was September 2023, Sergey Lavrov had flown in to meet Sheikh Hasina, and Bangladesh's foreign policy was effectively tethe... Read More


Israel Stops Iran Strikes at Trump's Request but Vows Full-Force Campaign in Lebanon

New Delhi, June 8 -- The order came from Washington, and for once Israel obeyed. A senior Israeli official confirmed to Channel 12 on Monday that Israel has halted its strikes on Iran at the explicit ... Read More