By Jonathan Saul and Renee Maltezou ATHENS, June 1 (Reuters) – Shipping executives meeting in Athens on Monday said that any peace deal worked out between the United States and Iran would need to offer clear rules allowing vessels to resume normal business via the Strait of Hormuz. Shipowners and maritime industry officials met at …
2m ago Kuwait army says air defences intercepted Iranian missile, drone attacks as Iran says it launched assault Kuwait’s air defences intercepted missile and drone attacks, the military said Monday, with the country later blaming Iran. “The General Staff of the Army wishes to advise that any sounds of explosions heard are the result of …
A suspected shell left over from World War II exploded under a stilt house in an Indonesian fishing village, killing five people and wounding nearly 20, police said Monday. The blast in Indonesia’s restive eastern Papua region startled locals with a thunderous boom on Sunday afternoon, emitting a ball of flames followed by a thick …
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s government ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, a day after its ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon in 26 years and as Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel including the outskirts of coastal city of Haifa. A joint statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
The Trump administration is developing a plan that would allow U.S. immigration officials to quickly reject some asylum applications without interviewing the applicants, according to internal federal government documents obtained by CBS News. The Department of Homeland Security regulation described in the internal documents would be the latest effort by President Trump’s White House to …
MANILA, June 1 (Reuters) – A Philippine senator who is the son of a former president surrendered to police on Monday after a court ordered his arrest over a charge that he received illicit payouts as part of an infrastructure scandal that sparked public protests last year. The anti-graft court ordered the arrest of Senator …
DUBAI, June 1 (Reuters) – Iran on Monday blamed the slow pace of efforts to end the U.S.-Iran conflict on a lack of trust, contradictory positions from Washington and continued Israeli attacks in the region. “Negotiations have started amid severe suspicion and mistrust, and the exchange of messages is taking place in this atmosphere,” foreign …
MILAN, June 1 (Reuters) – A caver whose leg had been trapped under a boulder at a depth of about 120 metres (394 feet) has been rescued from a cave in north-west Italy, emergency services said on Monday, adding that the effort involved 53 people in total. The overnight rescue operation took place in the Grotta dei …
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — At least 282 confirmed cases of Ebola have now been reported in Congo’s ongoing outbreak, the central African nation said late Sunday, as patients who recovered from the disease spoke of their indescribable joy in interviews with The Associated Press. The outbreak remains focused in Congo’s eastern Ituri province, where 264 …
BUDAPEST, June 1 (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Monday, after meeting President Tamas Sulyok, that if the president does not resign the government will launch legal proceedings to remove him from office. Magyar’s centre-right Tisza party ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a landslide election victory in April and pledged to …