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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


Trump Says Iran Is 'Virtually Decapitated' - but Admits 100 Days of War Left Tehran Able to Fight

New Delhi, June 8 -- The most revealing thing Donald Trump said on the hundredth day of the Iran war was not the phrase the White House let run on every cable ticker. It was what came immediately befo... Read More


On Day 100 of the Iran War, Netanyahu Defied Trump and Israel Struck Anyway

New Delhi, June 8 -- The phone call from Washington came first. Then the missiles. a conflict that President Donald Trump once promised would end fast, launched on February 28 when the United States ... Read More


IAEA Has Gone a Full Year Without Access to Iran's Key Nuclear Sites, Grossi Says

"We have a gap, June 8 -- What Rafael Grossi cannot say is almost as telling as what he can. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency stood before reporters on Monday and acknowledged what h... Read More


Trump Refuses to Unfreeze Iranian Assets Before a Deal, Leaving Both Sides Demanding the Same Concession First

New Delhi, June 8 -- The two sides negotiating an end to the US-Israel war with Iran agree on almost nothing. But on one question - who must give first - they are, improbably, mirror images of each ot... Read More


Israel Strikes Iran Despite Trump's Direct Call for Restraint, Betting a Peace Deal Is Already Dead

New Delhi, June 8 -- The phone call happened before the bombs fell. that if Israel struck back at Iran, the retaliatory cycle that has defined Middle Eastern conflict for decades would simply resume.... Read More


Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf Warns US Bases Are Legitimate Targets After Dahiyeh Strike

New Delhi, June 8 -- The warning came not from a general or an IRGC commander but from the man who chairs Iran's parliament. Hours after Israeli aircraft struck the Dahiyeh district of southern Beirut... Read More


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

India, 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 every a... Read More


Trump Tells NBC He Wants a More 'Surgical' Hezbollah Strike, Breaking With Netanyahu in Public

New Delhi, June 7 -- The word he chose was surgical. Not ceasefire, not restraint, not even the softer diplomatic formulations his own State Department has been using for weeks. On Sunday morning, wit... Read More