US President Donald Trump says helping to bolster the Japanese currency is a sign of friendship. Published On 3 Aug 20263 Aug 2026 Japan and the United States have confirmed a rare, coordinated yen-buying intervention to halt the Japanese currency’s slide to 40-year lows, with Tokyo signalling it is willing to take further action if…
The senior legal counsel to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — the principal military adviser to President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — is stepping down nearly a year before his term is over, the latest in an exodus of the military’s top leaders and lawyers over the last 18…
Guatemala has agreed to carry out joint strikes with the United States military inside its territory to target drug trafficking groups, according to three people familiar with the talks, in a further expansion of the Trump administration’s military campaign across Latin America. Last week, President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala agreed to both airstrikes and other…
French independent music giant Believe has teamed with former 300 exec Az Cohen for a new joint venture, called AZTEC, that will mark Believe’s first U.S.-based record label, the company announced Thursday (May 7). Cohen, the son of industry legend and current YouTube global head of music Lyor Cohen, will spearhead the new venture as…
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here. The cruise missile-killing high-energy laser weapon the U.S. Defense Department envisions as part of its “Golden Dome for America” domestic missile defense shield is beginning to take shape. The new Joint Laser Weapon…
Shorouk Express ASTANA, Kazakhstan, December 6. Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Transport has announced that a joint Kazakh–Uzbek meeting on grain export logistics will take place on December 8–9 in Saryagash and Tashkent, Trend reports via the ministry. The decision was made following an operational meeting between the representatives from the Ministry of Transport, Samruk-Kazyna, and Kazakhstan…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 24. A cooperation agreement on the construction of small modular reactor plants in Iran was signed in Moscow between the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and the Russian Rosatom Company today, Trend reports via the AEOI. The agreement was signed by Iranian Vice President, Chairman of the AEOI Mohammad…
Shorouk Express A spokesperson for the Commission told POLITICO the delegation would be led by David O’Sullivan, the EU’s sanctions envoy. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the EU’s 19th package of sanctions against Russia — designed “to bring President Putin to the negotiation table” — would be unveiled in early September. Ukraine and its allies have…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 17 August 2025 22:31 (UTC +04:00) Iran has drilled and upgraded a new well (No. 43) in the Yadavaran oil field shared with Iraq. The well was delivered to the Petroleum Engineering and Development Company under the second development phase. Another well (No. 42) will be completed and handed…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 5. Azerbaijan is considering the establishment of a joint research and development center in the field of artificial intelligence with the UAE, the Azerbaijani Minister of Digital Development and Transport Rashad Nabiyev wrote on his X page, Trend reports. “We held a meeting with the UAE Minister of Industry and…
