French President Emmanuel Macron will visit ‌Syria to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral relations and issues of mutual interest, Syria’s presidential media directorate said on Sunday. Macron, accompanied by a delegation of investors and ‌representatives from French comp
U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin by telephone for nearly 90 minutes, offered ‌to help find a solution to the Ukraine war, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said in comments made public early on Sunday. Ushakov said Trump made the offer during the ca
A priest from a Catholic splinter sect that was excommunicated ‌earlier this week told worshippers on Sunday that the breakaway group would be welcomed back to the Church under a different pope. The Society of St. Pius X - a rebel group of ultra-conservative Catholics - was excommunicated af
Maritime trade between Iran and Qatar has resumed after a roughly five-month suspension, Iran’s commercial attaché ‌in Doha told state media on Sunday. An interim deal between Tehran and Washington signed last month announced the end of hostilities after a four-month conflict
At least eight people, including four children, were shot and injured late on ‌the U.S. Independence Day holiday in New York City’s Coney Island neighbourhood, ABC News said on Sunday, citing the New York City Police Department. Officers from the NYPD responded to reports of a shoot
Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four ‌other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba, the son who has succeeded him as Iran's supreme leader, did not make an appearance. State TV showed Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud Khamenei praying be
The Iran war has created the largest oil supply shock ever in terms of daily production losses but the 1979 Iranian Revolution remains the biggest oil crisis by cumulative supply loss, according to Reuters calculations based on International Energy Agency, OPEC and US Department of Energy data. Th
Russia's biggest jobs website, HeadHunter, is advertising for drone operators to protect the skies above Moscow, with no previous experience required. The online ad says candidates are being ‌sought for a volunteer unit called the Combat Army Reserve Force that is tasked with "ensuring the c
