US Vice President JD Vance has departed Washington for Islamabad for their first peace talks of the war in what could be the most consequential diplomatic encounter between the United States and Iran in over four decades. Before boarding Air Force Two, Vance said on April 10 that he expects “positive” negotiations even as disputes…
Hungarians are voting in parliamentary elections on April 12 as war continues to rage in neighboring Ukraine and their government’s relationship with Russia is under intense scrutiny. Opinion polls suggest that after 16 years in office, Prime Minister Viktor Orban may be about to lose power to opposition leader Peter Magyar. But Orban has defied…
Should Lynn need any inspiration, he need not look far across the office. Wales men’s head coach Steve Tandy helped his side end a three-year Six Nations losing streak with a final-round victory over Italy last month, while performances in defeat offered plenty of encouragement. It is hoped the women can turn a similar corner…
A former top Russian Defense Ministry official was sentenced to 19 years in prison for his role in a snowballing, politically charged corruption investigation that has rattled the top levels of Russia’s military amid the war on Ukraine. Pavel Popov, a former general who served as deputy defense minister until he was sacked by President…
US President Donald Trump announced a two-week cease-fire with Iran after he said the Islamic Republic agreed to the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint in the transit of oil, gas, and many other commodities and goods vital to the global economy. Shortly after US-Israeli strikes against Iran began on February 28,…
LONDON – Britain’s agreement to hand Mauritius the Chagos Islands that are home to a strategic U.K.-American military base is on indefinite hold because U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has withdrawn its support for the deal. The British government acknowledged Saturday that legislation to ratify the agreement for the islands in the Indian Ocean has…
Arild Syvertsen is one of many retired sailors reliving traumatic memories of the Strait of Hormuz amid the current crisis in the waterway. “We have this [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] flashing up again during this war,” he told RFE/RL from his home in Norway, “seamen that were there in the 1980s are having a bad…
David Schenker, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Affairs, told Current Time that all options are on the table for President Donald Trump as the US and Iran remain “very far” apart as they head into negotiations in Pakistan. In an interview on April 10, Schenker, who served as Assistant Secretary…
Earlier this year, a relatively unknown startup from Finland made a startling announcement: It had finally solved solid-state batteries. Not only that, but Donut Lab, a spinoff of Verge Motorcycles, said that its solid-state battery — long considered the “Holy Grail of batteries” for their high-density, durable, fast-charging abilities — would go into production later…