By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Friday he might support a ceasefire in the week-old aerial conflict between U.S. ally Israel and its regional rival Iran “depending on the circumstances”. Asked by reporters if he would support a ceasefire while negotiations are ongoing, Trump said: “I might, depending on the circumstances”….
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday repudiated Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s assessment that Iran has not been building a nuclear weapon, publicly contradicting his spy chief for the first time during his second term. In rejecting his top spy’s judgment, Trump appeared to embrace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
By Sudipto Ganguly and Shivam Patel AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s aviation regulator has ordered all Boeing 787s being operated by local carriers to be inspected after an Air India crash killed 270 people this week, the aviation minister said on Saturday, adding the authorities were investigating all possible causes. The aviation regulator had on Friday…
By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities from Israel’s initial wave of air strikes early on Friday appeared to be limited, experts who have reviewed commercially available satellite imagery said. Israel’s attacks succeeded in killing Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists and in striking military command and control…
By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel has gutted Iran’s nuclear and military leadership with airstrikes that leave a weakened Tehran with few options to retaliate, including an all-out war that it is neither equipped for nor likely to win, four regional officials said. The overnight strikes by Israel – repeated for second…
By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Moscow said on Wednesday that military options were “on the table” for its response to Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia and accused the West of being involved in them. Russia also urged the United States and Britain to restrain Kyiv after the attacks, which Ukrainian officials have…
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea enabled Russia to increase missile attacks against critical Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and supplied more than 20,000 containers of munitions, according to a report by the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team, a group comprising 11 UN members. The group, launched in October last year to monitor U.N. sanctions against North Korea after…
By Saeed Azhar NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner was sentenced to two years in prison by a judge in a New York court on Thursday after he pleaded guilty in 2018 for his involvement in a multi-billon dollar scandal involving Malaysia’s sovereign fund 1MDB. Leissner’s conduct was “brazen and audacious,” judge…
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight, including the capital Kyiv, in the largest aerial attack of the war so far, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more, officials said. The dead included three children in the northern region of Zhytomyr,…
By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s Chief of Defence, Carsten Breuer, has ordered the German military to be fully equipped with weapons and other material by 2029, a document seen by Reuters on Sunday shows. By 2029, Russia may have reconstituted its forces sufficiently to attack NATO territory, according to estimates by Breuer and other…
