(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than 12 hours of face-to-face negotiations between the United States and Iran ended without agreement in Islamabad on Sunday, leaving a fragile two-week ceasefire as the only barrier between diplomacy and a return to war.
Pakistan, which spent weeks positioning itself as a mediator and succeeded in bringing both sides into the same room, emerged with its role intact. But officials acknowledge the harder phase now begins — getting American and Iranian negotiators back...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hungary’s longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban has conceded defeat in the country’s parliamentary election after partial official results showed Peter Magyar’s Tisza party winning by a landslide.
“Prime Minister Viktor Orban just called to congratulate us on our victory,” Magyar posted on social media on Sunday as the results rolled in.
With 97.35 percent of precincts counted, Magyar’s centre-right party secured 138 seats in the 199-seat parliament on 53.6 percent of the...
(BBC News) The four astronauts who flew in NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon have splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after a flawless return.
The crew safely boarded a waiting ship and is recovering from a nine-day voyage that took them farther from Earth than any humans in history.
Their Orion spacecraft was travelling at more than 38,600 km/h when it hit the Earth's upper atmosphere and its heatshield was subjected to temperatures...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iraq’s parliament has elected Nizar Amedi as the country’s new president, ending a political deadlock that had paralysed government formation.
Amedi was nominated by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and secured 227 votes in a second round of voting on Saturday, comfortably defeating independent candidate Muthanna Amin Nader, who received 15 votes.
He becomes the sixth Iraqi head of state since the removal of Saddam Hussein in a US-led invasion in...
(BBC News) The Indian government has proposed changes to extend its regulatory framework to a wider range of online news voices, including influencers and podcasters on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and X.
Last week, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) suggested amendments to India's IT rules – which govern digital media content – to include "users who are not publishers" who share content related to "news and current affairs" within a "code...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Opposition leader Cheng Li-wun and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met in Beijing, where both leaders stated their opposition to Taiwan independence and expressed a desire for a “peaceful” resolution to the long-running dispute over the island’s future.
They posed for photos at the Great Hall of the People and exchanged public remarks, in addition to holding their closed-door meeting.
Cheng is the highest-ranking Taiwanese leader to meet Xi since President Ma Ying-jeou...
(BBC News) Sixteen Cameroonians have been killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the BBC has confirmed after a foreign ministry source verified that a recently leaked diplomatic note circulating on social media about the deaths was authentic. The government has faced criticism over its prolonged silence on the issue – and this marks the first recognition of the involvement of its nationals in the conflict.
A recent report by All Eyes on Wagner, a group that investigates...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran and the United States have both claimed victory in their conflict as they both accepted a two-week ceasefire just before US President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic deadline to obliterate Iranian “civilisation” if Tehran did not agree to a deal.
At least 2,076 people have died in US-Israel strikes on Iran that began on February 28, and thousands of others have been killed across the region. The war has disrupted global energy supplies, stranding...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States President Donald Trump has agreed to suspend his planned bombing of Iran for two weeks, following his threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran did not comply with his demands.
On Tuesday evening, within hours of the planned attack, Trump took to his platform Truth Social to announce he had reversed course.
He credited Pakistan for mediating the settlement but warned it came with conditions — namely...
(BBC News) US special forces launched a high-stakes raid into Iran on Sunday to rescue an injured airman left stranded in a remote mountainous region after his aircraft was shot down two days earlier.
While many details remain confidential, some information has begun to emerge about how the US raced against the clock and advancing Iranian operatives to find the officer deep inside hostile territory.
The airman's ordeal began on Friday when an F-15E Strike Eagle...
