U.S. President, Donald Trump, on Wednesday said Washington does not expect to need Beijing’s help to end the war with Iran and ease Tehran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz. Trump is in China for a high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping. Speaking before departing from Washington, Trump played down the role China could have…
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday evening for a state visit to China. At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump is visiting China from May 13 to 15. This is the first U.S. presidential visit to China in almost nine years and Trump’s second since November 2017. The two leaders…
New estimates from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicate that 43,000 people in the Gaza Strip have suffered life-altering, severe injuries as a result of Israeli attacks since October 2023. Reinhilde van de Weerdt, the WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territories on Tuesday said the supplies needed to help them have been stuck at…
Tokyo’s policy in recent years has destroyed the positive groundwork in Russian-Japanese relations, reducing bilateral ties to an “ice age,” Russian Ambassador to Japan Nikolai Nozdrev said Monday. “We are witnessing a decline unprecedented in the entire post-war era, if I may call it that, a deep ‘ice age’ in bilateral relations,” he said. “The…
The Nigerian Union South Africa (NUSA) has urged Nigerian citizens residing in the country to remain law-abiding and unite against division, xenophobia, and social instability. Chief Ike Anyene, NUSA Grand Patron, made the appeal at the official inauguration of the Springs Chapter of the union, a statement issued on Sunday by George Omagbemi, his spokesman,…
The United Arab Emirates has accused Iran of carrying out a drone attack on commercial vessels linked to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in the Strait of Hormuz. The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that the attack, involving two drones, breached international law and violated United Nations Security Council resolutions…
Donald Trump has claimed that Iran is seeking the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz by the United States, amid heightened tensions over security in the Gulf. Posting on social media on Tuesday, the U.S. president also said Iran had described itself as being in a “state of collapse”, without providing supporting evidence or identifying…
Iran seized two ships in the Strait of Hormuz tightening its grip on the strategic waterway on Wednesday. Iran’s local media said the Revolutionary Guards had seized two vessels for maritime violations and escorted them to Iranian shores, after U.S. President Donald Trump called off attacks indefinitely with no sign of peace talks restarting. It…
Pope Leo on Wednesday spoke out against wealth inequality in Africa urging believers to work to bridge the gap between rich and poor as he traversed oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. The pope, who has attracted the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump after becoming more outspoken against war and despotism, was also due to visit a…
A man has killed eight children and injured two women in a shooting described by police as a domestic incident in Shreveport, in the US state of Louisiana. Christopher Bordelon, speaking on behalf of the Shreveport Police Department, said the violence unfolded early on Sunday morning at approximately 6:00 a.m. local time. Seven of the…
