Political déjà vu as US President Donald Trump says negotiations with Iran are back on.
Iran rejected Trump’s claim that ships damaged by Iran in the Gulf would be compensated from frozen Iranian funds.
US president says Iran talks progressing, reups threats if diplomacy fails before sit down with Israeli prime minister.
The struggle between the US and China over who will lead in artificial intelligence is one of the defining competitions of our time. In the third part of our exclusive interview with a key player defining Washington’s policy on AI, Jacob Helberg, US undersecretary of state for economic affairs, gives a commitment to the Philippines on the Pax Silica Initiative. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr used his State of the Nation address in Manila on Monday to staunchly defend a proposed...
US President Donald Trump says talks with Iran are continuing during a pause in US military strikes
US diplomats walked out as their French counterparts were speaking at the United Nations on Monday after America’s close European ally criticised the Trump administration’s human rights record. The surprise move during a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine followed US opposition to giving UN human rights chief Volker Turk another four-year term. The reappointment on Friday got overwhelming support, including from France. The US walkout reflects not only the more strained relations between...
The US president says "there is a good chance that something could happen", as Iran denies direct talks are taking place.
Mediators from Qatar and Pakistan work to restart ceasefire talks amid fragile pause in hostilities.
A congressional advisory panel focused on China has returned from a trip to Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, with commissioners pledging to make the visits an annual event to strengthen engagement and inform their work on US-China relations. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), an independent advisory body established in 2000, provides annual reports and recommendations to lawmakers on trade and national security-related policies. “We are committed to seeking to return at...
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in prison for at least two more weeks until their next hearing as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge said on Monday. US Magistrate Lauren Louis set a detention hearing for August 13 to determine whether the Tates should stay in jail or be released during what could be a months-long extradition process. The brothers were not in court on Monday or...
Why have US-Lebanon direct flights been banned for 40 years?
Marc Lamont Hill speaks with sociologist Ali Kadivar on what history shows about the risk of a US forever war in Iran.
A major new bridge linking Canada and the United States at Detroit, Michigan opened on Monday to lorries, cars and other vehicles, the climax of a years-long project that lately had been bruised a bit by international politics. Descendants of Gordie Howe, the hockey legend whose name is on the bridge, were among the first to cross over the Detroit River, which separates Detroit from Windsor, Ontario. The span, which was built by Canada at a cost of C$6.4 billion (US$4.5 billion), now becomes a...
The US-Iran war has slowed, with both sides giving diplomacy a chance through regional mediators.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Monday that Iran is not seeking negotiations with US.
With less than three months to go until Brazil’s presidential election, China is closely watching a high-stakes political duel between a Beijing-friendly incumbent and his pro-Washington challenger. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who maintains close ties with Beijing, is seeking a fourth non-consecutive term. His rival, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro – son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was jailed last year for attempting a military coup – was confirmed on Saturday as the...
Successive Israeli governments have undermined diplomatic efforts and stoked tensions between Washington and Tehran.
US criticism of Malaysia’s entry ban on Israeli nationals is unlikely to force a major shift in the country’s foreign policy, analysts have said, after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim rejected accusations that the move was antisemitic. The remarks escalated a dispute that has drawn in members of the US Congress, Malaysia’s long-standing refusal to recognise Israel and the widening international debate over where criticism of Israel ends and hostility towards Jewish people begins. “We are not...
China’s Ministry of Commerce has objected to Washington’s latest tariff on the country’s goods but signalled it will hold off on retaliation for now, noting the 12.5 per cent duty keeps the United States within the ceiling that the Trump administration promised in earlier talks. Washington was manipulating the issue of forced labour, the ministry said in a statement on Monday, calling the Section 301 investigation and the subsequent tariffs “a textbook act of unilateralism and protectionism”. It...
Tit-for-tat strikes have halted in the Middle East even as the scope of the US-Israel war on Iran widens.
The US says attacks on Iran have been halted to give "talks some space", raising hopes of a resolution to the conflict.
Malaysia has won a small victory in Washington’s tariff wars, securing a 10 per cent rate that leaves it better placed than four of its Southeast Asian neighbours in the scramble for US orders. Economists warn the narrow advantage may prove fleeting, however, as it hinges on Kuala Lumpur fulfilling its promised trade reforms. The new duties, which fall under Section 301 of the US Trade Act and took effect on Friday, keep Malaysia in the lower tier of a new American tariff regime alongside...
The relative calm comes amid reports of renewed efforts to restore diplomatic talks.
Iran says it has stopped retaliatory operations in the Gulf, but warns the war could expand if US strikes continue.
Iran said on Sunday it had made progress in talks with Oman on management of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway crucial for oil and gas trade that both countries border. The latest talks come after the United States resumed attacks on Iran in an effort to end Tehran’s control of the strait, following a June memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war that had briefly eased tensions. Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said several rounds of negotiations were held in...
Skirmishes between Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia intensified, as a pause in the nearly two-week run of nightly US strikes on Iran raised fresh questions about President Donald Trump’s strategy in the war. The Houthis, Islamist militants based in Yemen and backed by Iran, said they fired missiles and drones at facilities linked to oil giant Saudi Aramco in the Red Sea port towns of Jizan and Yanbu. There was no immediate confirmation from the Saudi government or Aramco. Saudi authorities briefly...
US President Donald Trump says Washington remains ‘locked and loaded’ while pursuing diplomatic talks with Tehran.
Visit will be Netanyahu's seventh to White House, underscoring US commitment during war with Iran, genocide in Gaza.
It comes as Iran condemned the US plan to use frozen Iranian assets to pay for war damages.
After devoting the first half of 2026 to an ineffectual, expensive and inconclusive military adventure in Iran, it seems US President Donald Trump is about to turn afresh to the wars he loves best – the tariff wars he still believes can make America great again. He can’t quite walk away from the war in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s refusal to capitulate has left Trump with an awkward obligation to fight on, despite the widespread unpopularity of the conflict, even among his base, and the need to...
The US imposed tariffs as high as 12.5 per cent on 60 trading partners, including China, after President Donald Trump adopted a different method for pursuing his global trade war. The levies, which are related to forced labour, replaced a temporary 10 per cent global tariff that expired on Friday. The 10 per cent tax was imposed after previous Trump tariffs were struck down by the US Supreme Court. Trump’s new taxes, targeting imports from 80-plus countries, can probably withstand legal...
The US military says it has completed its 13th night of strikes against Iran.
The number of tanker crossings in the Strait of Hormuz dropped to lowest levels in two months on Thursday.
President Trump says damages will be paid for by Iranian money that the US has 'in its possession, and controls'.
The new tariffs will come into effect as U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary worldwide tariff of 10% expires
Malaysia’s ambassador to the United States was summoned by the US State Department to explain Kuala Lumpur’s position on Israel, state media reported, citing the country’s foreign minister. Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said Ambassador Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Yaakob told the State Department that Malaysia’s long-standing policy of not recognising Israel was not new. “It has always been Malaysia’s policy. Our immigration policy does not recognise the State of Israel or the Zionist regime....
A $1.15 trillion US defence bill passed by the House includes plans to expand military cooperation with Israel.
The tariffs target around 60 trading partners over claims they failed to properly stop forced labour.
President Trump said a proposed US-Saudi civilian nuclear deal is subject to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Brazil that Beijing would continue to support its sovereignty, security, and development interests, hours after a 25 per cent US tariff on Brazilian goods took effect. Wang met Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira on Wednesday in Manila, on the sidelines of the 59th meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) foreign ministers, where Vieira is also attending the third Brazil-Asean ministerial. China would go on to “support Brazil in...
Concerns are growing over a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
The US and Saudi Arabia have reached a civilian nuclear cooperation deal.
The future of diplomacy between the US and Iran depends on giving mediators the backing needed to make agreements stick.
The US president says the landmark agreement to help Saudis develop nuclear energy is dependent on it joining the Abraham Accords.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that there will be no change to the remaining sanctions on 39 Hong Kong and mainland Chinese officials in the “near future”, while acknowledging the issue came up in a meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Rubio, Washington’s top diplomat, also said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump had allowed a national emergency declaration on Hong Kong to expire last week after determining that the “circumstances had changed”, though he did not elaborate...
The global AI community has pushed back against the Trump administration’s claims that Moonshot AI’s groundbreaking Kimi K3 distilled US models, citing a lack of justification and arguing that the practice does not constitute intellectual property theft. In separate posts on X on Thursday, a number of AI experts called the accusations “political” and “reckless”, pointing out that an AI model’s output was not copyrighted. A Moonshot employee on Thursday hit back at the US officials’ claims that...
After a truce, the US has returned to war with Iran. Alex Gatopoulos looks at what’s different this time
Secretary of state says US has 'a head for an eye' policy as strikes hit Iran for a 12th straight night.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov 'reaffirmed readiness' for political and diplomatic settlement to Russia-Ukraine war.
India’s envoy to the U.S. Vinay Mohan Kwatra discussed the vital defence partnership between the two nations and appreciated U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy’s support for the India-U.S. partnership
Renewed fighting between the US and Iran has overshadowed the ASEAN gathering in Manila.
Strikes from the US on Iran are raining down for the 12th night in a row.
The US and Saudi Arabia have agreed to a civilian nuclear deal allowing Riyadh to build nuclear reactors.
With Lula polling ahead and tariffs squeezing Brazil's economy, the Bolsonaro family's Washington strategy is faltering.
The BBC's Sarah Smith explains the implications of the landmark cooperation agreement between both countries.
The US on Wednesday announced a landmark deal with Saudi Arabia that would establish a civilian nuclear programme in the Gulf country, with Washington insisting the agreement includes safeguards against non-proliferation. The move comes as the US under President Donald Trump fights a war with Iran that began in large part over concerns with Tehran’s nuclear programme – an issue that remains a key point of contention during now-stalled peace talks. Two agreements – one on “peaceful nuclear...
Rubio met his Chinese counterpart to discuss managing tensions ahead of President Xi Jinping's upcoming US visit.
Griffiths: Diplomacy requires US and Iran to accept they have ‘lost‘
Malaysia would not be intimidated into changing its decades-old policy of not allowing Israeli nationals into the country, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Wednesday. Anwar said Malaysia was also not in contravention of any international laws for having such a policy in place. “I would like to respond to the United States lawmakers, some of them at least, who stated categorically that Malaysia is in contravention of international laws and was disrespectful of the rights of nations. “This is...
The agreement would fulfil a long-held Saudi ambition but could attract concern in Israel and from some US lawmakers.
US Secretary of State say Iran is in ‘a lot of trouble’
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signalled potential action against open source artificial intelligence (AI) models amid accusations that Chinese developers are creating low-cost systems using stolen US intellectual property. “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft,” Bessent said on Fox Business on Tuesday. “If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them.” Watermarks from...
Al Jazeera reports from anti-US protest outside ASEAN summit
The US president's threat to target a key Iranian nuclear site came ahead of the 11th consecutive night of attacks.
The hearing was disrupted by protests and a shouting match as Hegseth testified at a pivotal time in the war.
The struggle between the US and China over who will lead in artificial intelligence is one of the defining competitions of our time. In the second part of our exclusive interview with a key player defining Washington’s policy on AI, Jacob Helberg, US undersecretary of state for economic affairs, discusses America’s efforts to rally its allies and cut dependence on China by securing alternative rare earth and critical mineral supply chains. By the time US President Donald Trump signed his...
Trump threatens to bomb a suspected Iranian nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain 'very heavily'.
With every new round of attacks raising political cost of compromise, analysts warn the window for peace may be closing.
For years, Washington has fixated on the gap between US and Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models as AI has increasingly taken centre stage in the strategic competition between the world’s two leading powers. The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022 established a clear early lead for the US, with the first batch of export controls on advanced semiconductor chips introduced in October that year, putting American tech ahead by three years or more, some experts estimated at the time. But...
US President Donald Trump’s administration is using another tariff threat to put fresh pressure on Canadian provinces to end their boycotts of American alcohol. But provincial leaders are not backing off. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he would not lift his province’s ban on the sale of American wine and spirits in government-run stores unless the US removes sectoral tariffs on cars and steel. “We have to negotiate through strength, not weakness. And we need to throw everything on the table,” he...
Chinese researchers have called for more coordination among the country’s maritime authorities to counter an American strategy that has put pressure on Beijing across three critical waterways in the first island chain. By synchronising operations across flashpoints in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, Washington’s “three seas linkage” strategy aimed to force Beijing into multi-front operations and strategic overextension, warned Yue Shengsong, an associate professor...
The White House told Al Jazeera that the US would continue its attacks unless Trump decides otherwise.
We explain how the war has changed for all the parties since their MoU unravelled and as the conflict has escalated.
Iran praises Spain's win over Argentina after Spanish government's condemnation of policies on Gaza and war on Iran.
Iran's IRGC claims an attack on Jordan while the US embassy issues a warning to Americans in Bahrain.
US strikes target Iran's IRGC after two of its soldiers were killed in Jordan, as Tehran attacks Kuwait and Bahrain.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will make his first trip to the White House this week to present a plan to US President Donald Trump on how to disarm Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and secure Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon. Aoun, who served as the commander of Lebanon’s US-backed army before being elected president last year, is the first Lebanese head of state in nearly 20 years to visit the White House, where he will meet Trump face-to-face for the first time. Tuesday’s meeting comes...
The Crown Prosecution Service said it would seek to extradite the brothers from the US, while their lawyer dismissed the new charges as "slander".
Mohsen Rezaee has warned that if the US continues bombing Iran, Tehran will escalate its response into full-scale war.
The US struck bridges in Iran, and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait on Friday, as the two sides risked further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure. At sea, where the renewed conflict has again cut off energy supplies from the Gulf, US Marines boarded a tanker near the Strait of Hormuz. Armed men seized another vessel off Yemen, raising concern over security in the Middle East’s other big choke point for oil shipments at the mouth...
Newly declassified US intelligence records show Chinese actors collected or acquired voter information covering millions of Americans and that Beijing developed capabilities that could be used to influence political opinion, but the documents do not substantiate US President Donald Trump’s claims that China stole the records of 220 million voters or manipulated the 2020 election. In a nationally televised address on Thursday, Trump accused China of carrying out a sweeping campaign to interfere...
Washington's pursuit of James 'Fergie' Chambers for supporting 'terror' seen as a warning to other left-leaning donors.
The United States struck Iran and Tehran attacked US allies in the Gulf on Thursday as the foes battled over the vital Strait of Hormuz in the renewed Middle East war. The rekindled fighting came a month after the signing of a preliminary deal that aimed to end the conflict, which broke out in late February with massive US-Israeli strikes on Iran. US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it was conducting a new wave of strikes on Thursday evening to “further degrade Iranian military capabilities”...
The US says its attacks aim to "further degrade Iranian military capabilities", as fighting continued for the sixth day in a row.
Iranian media reports airport, bridge and communications tower targeted.
Beijing has condemned the latest efforts by US lawmakers to curb Chinese access to leading semiconductor chips and chipmaking equipment, warning that they would lead to “arbitrary disruption and damage” to global supply chains. The stark assessment followed reports on Tuesday that three major export control bills targeting China – the AI Overwatch Act, the Match Act and the Chip Security Act – are set to be folded into the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) in the US Senate, the annual...
Wildfires in Ontario have blanketed US and Canadian cities with dangerous smoke.
The vague language of the US-Iran MoU made the present escalation in the Strait of Hormuz all but inevitable.
Nightly strikes between the US and Iran have been the heaviest since the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement.
Oil prices rise as the US renews a blockade on Iranian ports and carries out a wave of air strikes.
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Marc Lamont Hill challenges former United States diplomat Heino Klinck on the US-Israeli war in Iran.
Sources tell Al Jazeera that talks are focused on establishing mechanism for first of two so-called "pilot zones".
Vice-President JD Vance is among US officials expected to take part in negotiations resuming on Saturday in Oman.
US said to be pushing for public statement that Iran will not fire at commercial ships passing through Strait of Hormuz
Islamabad urges both sides to honour their MoU as renewed attacks raise fears of a wider regional conflict.
Iran says it attacked sites linked to the US military in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar after US bombarded targets in Iran.
The fate of the strait is directly linked to what happens next to the world economy.