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Dubai: Iran offers proposal to US to reopen Strait of Hormuz without nuclear agreement Iran is offering to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear programme, two regional officials with knowledge of the proposal said Monday. Iran also wants the...

Washington: The latest US military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday, according to a social media post by US Southern Command. The Trump administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American...

Dubai: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that his trip to Russia offered an opportunity to coordinate with Moscow after the war with Israel and the United States. Araghchi made the comments in a pre-taped interview posted by the state-run IRNA news agency. It...

Islamabad: Iran's foreign minister arrived in Islamabad again Sunday as Pakistan's political and military leadership scrambled to reignite ceasefire talks between Tehran and Washington. Abbas Araghchi had left Pakistan's capital late Saturday, creating confusion around an expected second round of talks, but he returned to...

Washington: Social media posts that appear to match the California man arrested Saturday in the shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner show he is a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer. A May 2025 profile photo of Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance,...

Beijing: China launched a Pakistani satellite from its Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province Saturday night. The satellite named PRSC-EO3 was lifted off at 8:15 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-6 carrier rocket and successfully entered its planned orbit, China's state-run...

United States: A shooting incident at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner has triggered widespread concern over political violence in the United States, with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk issuing a sharp reaction to the attack. Musk took to social media platform X to condemn the...

Washington: Investigators have identified the suspect in the shooting near the White House Correspondents' Association dinner as a 31-year-old man from California, believed to have acted alone and now facing multiple federal charges linked to firearms and the attack. Law enforcement officials identified the suspect...

Washington: President Donald Trump was uninjured, and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents Saturday night after an unspecified threat. There did not immediately appear to be any injuries, and one law-enforcement official said a...

Washington: President Donald Trump said Saturday that US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will no longer be going to Pakistan for talks with Iran, contending that Washington held all the cards on the matter. Trump told Fox News that it's not worth the US...