NewsFeed Israel has continued to attack Lebanon, despite Iran saying it was included in a potential memorandum of understanding with the US. Fresh forced displacement orders were issued on Saturday morning, following Israeli bombardment throughout Friday night on towns and villages in the south. Published On 13 Jun 202613 Jun 2026 Click here to share…
Melinda French Gates has entered a new phase of life, and it is “beautiful”, she says. It is five years since her painful, public divorce from the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and two years since she stepped down from their charity, the Gates Foundation, to focus her full attention on Pivotal, the philanthropic organisation she…
Last week, Vladimir Putin responded with characteristic disdain to an open letter from Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling for face-to-face talks. Declining to mention Ukraine’s president by name at an economic forum in St Petersburg, he said that he saw “no point” in a meeting and insisted that all Russia’s war aims, including the annexation of the…
MADRID (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV made an appeal to cast aside polarization in his address on Saturday (June 6) to political and diplomatic heads in Madrid, the first leg of his six-day papal visit to Spain. The pope encouraged Europeans to become proponents of a more nuanced political and social discourse. “Today, the temptation…
Investing.com — The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) sharply cut its global growth forecast, warning that the economic fallout from the U.S.-Iran war could deepen significantly without a swift and lasting peace agreement. The organization projected world growth slowing to 2.8% this year from 3.4% in 2025, with a partial recovery to 3.1% penciled…
“Let’s see how long that lasts,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night, addressing his attempts to de-escalate in Lebanon following Israel’s intensified military campaign. Within hours, Israeli drone strikes had killed eight people in the south, including a father and his two children, and damaged a hospital. Hezbollah continued launching rockets and…
US President Donald Trump waves as he returns to the White House in Washington, DC, on May 31, 2026 after golfing at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at critics as a potential agreement with Iran remains elusive,…
Officials have indicated that negotiators for the US and Iran have agreed a framework of a deal that would extend their ceasefire for 60 days and launch negotiations on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme. The agreement is yet to be approved by Donald Trump or Iranian leadership. This announcement follows weeks of conflicting reports…
Oil prices fell on Thursday and stocks moved higher on hopes that, despite rapidly shifting signals from Iranian officials and the Trump administration over the war, the two sides would once again restart peace talks. President Trump said Washington had held “very good talks” with Iran in the last 24 hours, but Iranian officials said…
Oil prices were marginally lower Thursday amid stalled peace talks between Iran and the United States, and continued restrictions through the Strait of Hormuz. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Oil prices fell Friday after Iran sent an updated peace prososal to mediators in Pakistan, raising hopes again that a settlement with the U.S. is still…
