Pakistan Warns Iran Over Houthis, Says Saudi Attacks Could Activate Mecca Pact By The Media Line Staff Pakistan has warned Iran to rein in the Houthis in Yemen following an escalation in attacks on Saudi Arabia, Reuters reported, citing Iranian and Pakistani sources, as Islamabad Indicated continued
Pakistan Orders Afghan Medical Students Home, Bars New Afghan Admissions By Arshad Mehmood / The Media Line Staff The Embassy of Afghanistan in Islamabad has expressed deep concern over the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) decision concerning the forced return of Afghan medical students c
Yemeni Government Says Campaign To Retake Sana’a Has Begun Government forces say their counteroffensive against the Houthi movement is expanding, while battlefield gains and prospects for foreign intervention remain unclear By Hudhaifa Ebrahim / The Media Line Yemeni government forces have launched
By Kanishka Singh and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – The Trump administration said tens of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador will for now keep their temporary protected status that had been scheduled to expire on Wednesday. Temporary protected status allows people already in th
By Mike Stone and David Jeans WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Iran’s capture of a U.S. military underwater drone gives Tehran an opportunity to study and potentially reverse engineer the vessel, delivering a setback for the Pentagon and drone maker Anduril. The U.S. military and Anduril have downplay
SEOUL, Sept 10 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used celebrations marking the 78th anniversary of the country’s founding to praise troops engaged in “overseas military operations”, state media KCNA said. In a speech at Pyongyang’s assembly hall on Wednesday, Kim thanked workers and soldie
Sept 9 (Reuters) – The departure from Moldova of a plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Norway was delayed when authorities closed the country’s airspace over a drone alert, a Moldovan government spokesperson said on Wednesday. The president’s aircraft was cleared for take-off o
Sept 9 (Reuters) – U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe is preparing to take a bigger role in Washington’s negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, U.S. officials told their European counterparts, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. CIA spokesperson Liz Lyons denied the report, calling it “false” in
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national intelligence agency issued multiple warnings before the Ceuta border crisis about a potential mass crossing of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave in late July, according to declassified documents released by the government on Wednesday. The trove of 40 docu
Sept 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would consider a pardon for Michael Cohen, his former fixer whose testimony contributed to a 2024 conviction against Trump, but who has more recently said that he “felt pressured and coerced.” Asked by reporters on Wednesday wh
ANKARA, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Pakistan has delivered a Saudi warning to Iran to rein in its Yemeni Houthi allies after they stepped up attacks on the kingdom, in a coordinated effort to prevent the crisis from spiralling, Saudi, Pakistani and Iranian sources said. The Houthis struck an airbase in Khami
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Israel opened its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday, boosting relations with the small European Union nation even as ties sour with some longtime allies over its policy on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar travelled to
VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog’s board on Wednesday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years, citing it for failure to cooperate in a long-running investigation into uranium traces detected by inspectors at undeclared sites. Western officials suspect that the
KAMPALA, Sept 9 (Reuters) – A traditional Ugandan kingdom selected a television news anchor on Wednesday to succeed King Oyo Nyimba, who died last month aged 34 after becoming the world’s youngest reigning monarch when he took the throne at age 3. Oyo Nyimba died on August 27 in the United States wh
By Steve Holland and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had a “great” conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in the week and that the Russian leader wanted to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine. “He is wanting to
By Krishna N. Das and Jennifer Rigby NEW DELHI/LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia head and daughter of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, resigned on Wednesday, according to her resignation letter seen by Reuters, following fraud inve
By Emma Pinedo, Jesús Aguado and Victoria Waldersee MADRID, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Spanish intelligence services warned their Moroccan counterparts and Madrid of migrants’ plans to storm Ceuta a day before more than 70,000 people crossed into Spain’s North African enclave, according to documents release
Sept 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday boarded the Qatar-gifted Air Force One en route to Texas after saying that an emergency slide that had deployed on one side of the aircraft was being checked. The slide appeared to have deployed shortly before Trump was due to board to trav
EL ALAMEIN, Egypt, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Russian state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport showed off drone-like missiles for its Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation stealth jet fighter in Egypt on Wednesday as the warplane made its African air show debut. The jet roared over the arid landscape outside the E
Sept 9 (Reuters) – A Russian drone strike on a shopping centre in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed three people and injured two, Regional Governor Oleh Hryhorov said. Hryhorov, writing on Telegram, said a fire had broken out, and a photo posted online by the governor showed a badly damaged
LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – A British man has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service and preparing an act of sabotage after alleged contact with a group linked to Russian military intelligence, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The Crown Prosecution Service said Joshua Cammidge, 31,
Israel Opens First Embassy in Slovenia as New Government Reverses Boycott By The Media Line Staff Israel is set to open its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday, marking a new stage in diplomatic relations that have improved since a change of government in Ljubljana. Relations between the two coun
Saudi Arabia Launches Over 30 Airstrikes Across Yemen After Houthi Attacks By The Media Line Staff Saudi warplanes carried out 32 airstrikes across four Yemeni governorates Wednesday morning, according to Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah television, following Yemeni strikes on southern Saudi energy faci
Iran Renews Claims of Missile Barrage Toward US Sites in Jordan By The Media Line Staff Iran has renewed claims that it fired a new missile barrage toward US military positions in Jordan, according to a fresh regional report, though neither Jordanian nor US authorities had confirmed the reported att
VIENNA, Sept 9 (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation board of governors has passed a resolution reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years for breaching its non-proliferation obligations, diplomats said on Wednesday. The resolution follows up on a previous
By Luc Cohen Sept 9 (Reuters) – Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate lost their bid for release from a Miami jail on Wednesday as they contest extradition to Britain, where they are wanted on rape charges. In denying bail for the Tate brothers, Miami-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Lo
VIENNA (AP) — The board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Wednesday adopted a resolution ending its investigation into past secret nuclear activities in Syria that revealed a reactor configured to produce fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons. Under ousted former President Bashar Assad,
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino restored two senior police officials to their posts on Wednesday, overruling a fellow justice and escalating a power struggle inside the country’s highest court. The rift between Supreme Court judges perceived as occupying opposing ends of
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Ecuador on Wednesday on the second leg of a three-nation tour of South America aimed at boosting security cooperation with conservative leaders who have cozied up to President Donald Trump, especially in the administration’s push to cr
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Nigeria has appointed a new commander to lead military operations against Boko Haram and its Islamic State-backed splinter faction in the northeast, replacing the head of the operation less than two years after his appointment, an army spokesperson said on
