Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
Russia’s Defence Ministry on Saturday accused Ukraine of attacking Russian energy facilities in the past 24 hours despite a moratorium on striking each other’s energy infrastructure. The ministry said Ukraine attacked power grids in the Belgorod region several times leaving about 9,000 residents without power supply. Reuters could not immediately confirm the account.
Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil will remain behind bars in Louisiana at least until a U.S. judge decides whether the Palestinian activist should challenge his imprisonment in a federal court there or in New Jersey. President Donald Trump’s administration argues that Khalil’s challenge should be heard in Louisiana where he is now detained and where any appeals would be heard by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the most conservative in the country. U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz in Newark, New Jersey, did not say on Friday when he would rule but said it was his hope that “judges…
Iran has sent a response through Oman to U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter in which he urged Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was cited as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Thursday. “Our policy is still to not engage in direct negotiations while under maximum pressure and military threats, however, as it was the case in the past, indirect negotiations can continue”, IRNA cited Araqchi as saying. Earlier on Thursday, Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said that Tehran has not closed all doors to resolve its disputes with…
Iran has sent a response through Oman to U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter in which he urged Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was cited as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Thursday. “Our policy is still to not engage in direct negotiations while under maximum pressure and military threats, however, as it was the case in the past, indirect negotiations can continue”, IRNA cited Araqchi as saying. Earlier on Thursday, Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said that Tehran has not closed all doors to resolve its disputes with…
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched a nuclear-powered submarine equipped with hypersonic Zircon missiles capable of travelling at several times the speed of sound. Russian news agencies, referring to a video link from the Arctic port of Murmansk, said Putin launched the vessel, named Perm after a city in the Urals, with the order: “I hereby authorise!” The Russian agencies, quoting documents associated with the launch, said the Perm is the first nuclear-powered submarine to be equipped with Zircon missiles as a standard feature. Zircon missiles have a range of 900 km (560 miles) and their speed renders them very…
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched a nuclear-powered submarine equipped with hypersonic Zircon missiles capable of travelling at several times the speed of sound. Russian news agencies, referring to a video link from the Arctic port of Murmansk, said Putin launched the vessel, named Perm after a city in the Urals, with the order: “I hereby authorise!” The Russian agencies, quoting documents associated with the launch, said the Perm is the first nuclear-powered submarine to be equipped with Zircon missiles as a standard feature. Zircon missiles have a range of 900 km (560 miles) and their speed renders them very…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Kyiv’s forces had taken “certain steps” in Russia outside the Kursk region to ease pressure on Ukrainian troops in the area. Zelensky did not elaborate. His comments, made to reporters in Kyiv, followed reports from Russian military correspondents that Ukrainian troops were also inside the adjacent Belgorod region and were fighting battles with Russian forces there.
The UN agency issued a stark warning on Friday, cautioning that nearly 13 million displaced people, including children, could be left without access to life-saving health services unless urgent funding gaps are addressed. “Without adequate resources, an estimated 12.8 million displaced people, including 6.3 million children, could be left without life-saving health interventions in 2025,” Allen Maina, UNHCR’s chief of public health, told a press briefing at the UN in Geneva, referring to the US foreign aid cuts. Maina said health and nutrition programs for refugees and their host communities are deteriorating rapidly, with reduced spending by host governments compounding…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had spoken with officials in Myanmar about the earthquake that hit the country and that his administration would be providing some form of assistance. “We’re going to be helping,” he told reporters at the White House.
The dollar weakened on Friday ahead of a planned announcement next week by U.S. President Donald Trump on reciprocal tariffs, which has left traders uncertain of how to trade the currency. “The one word that I keep hearing over and over from clients, and on earnings calls and things, is uncertainty. And you hear this from the central bankers as well,” said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex in New York. “The one thing we do know is that on April 2, we’re going to get reciprocal tariffs. We don’t know exactly what that means,” Chandler said.…