U.S. Vice President JD Vance and senior Iranian officials arrived in Switzerland to help launch negotiations with Iranian leaders over Tehran’s nuclear program. The talks aim to solidify an interim ...

This customary rule, recognized only by the colonial powers, permitted the strongest naval and commercial fleets to dominate the maritime commons and build global empires while assuring other states ...

Trump says Strait of Hormuz will be open from Friday but there is still confusion about the exact contents of the agreement.

China today faces an imposing list of challenges that it needs to assess and address. Economic growth is slowing, the population is aging, the financial system is under stress, and other countries ...

Agreement calls for Israel to refrain from strikes on Beirut while Hezbollah halts attacks on Israel, Lebanese officials say ...

Renewed fighting in Lebanon, an Israeli attack on Iran or failure on Iran’s uranium enrichment terms could scupper Trump’s peace agreement ...

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The pause in fighting began at 16:00 local time on Friday, a senior US official has confirmed to the BBC.

The Democratic Republic of Congo wants access to a vast colonial-era geological data held in Belgium. A US mining startup ...

The popular Mastra AI framework, used to build artificial intelligence agents, workflows and retrieval-augmented generation ...

Israel and Lebanon agreed to renew their fragile ceasefire and create a number of "pilot" security zones inside Lebanon from which Hezbollah militants would be banned. In a joint statement released ...

Bitcoin has rebounded into the mid-$70,000s since February, but on-chain data show apparent demand has slumped to its weakest level since December 2025, with more coins hitting the market than buyers ...