Trump Bought Streaming Giants’ Bonds During Paramount Media Deal Fight
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds over the last three months as the streaming giant unsuccessfully fought Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros Discovery, according to government disclosures. Trump bought more than…
State Department Moves to Label Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood a Terror Group
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is designating the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood as a specially designated global terrorist and intends to designate it as a foreign terrorist organization effective March 16, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.
Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Received 11 Requests for Help Against Iran’s Shahed Drones
KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine had received 11 requests from countries neighboring Iran as well as European states and the United States for drone interceptors, electronic warfare systems and training. “We also reviewed in detail…
Pentagon, FAA to conduct testing on high-energy anti-drone laser system in New Mexico
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said on Friday it will conduct testing with the Federal Aviation Administration this weekend in New Mexico of a high-energy laser used to address threatening drones. “This upcoming event will specifically address FAA safety concerns while…
White House says US well on way toward controlling Iran airspace
WASHINGTON – The United States is well on its way toward controlling Iranian airspace, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Friday, adding that Washington expects the achievable U.S. objectives to be completed in four to six weeks. Speaking…
Boeing close to 500-Jet Order with Trump-Xi Summit, Bloomberg News reports
Boeing is closing in on one of the largest sales in its history, a 500-aircraft order for 737 Max jets set to be unveiled when U.S. President Donald Trump travels to Beijing for his first state visit to China since…
US files complaints for $15.3 million in proceeds allegedly linked to Iranian oil network
The United States on Friday filed two civil forfeiture complaints for more than $15.3 million used to allegedly fund an illicit Iranian oil distribution network, the Justice Department said in a statement. The complaints by the Justice Department allege that…
Hezbollah saw new war with Israel as inevitable and rearmed for months, sources say
BEIRUT – Lebanese armed group Hezbollah spent months restocking its arsenal of rockets and drones, using support from Iran and its own weapons factories to prepare for a new war with Israel, six sources familiar with the group’s preparations said….
Trump Says U.S. Should Help Decide Iran’s Next Leader After Khamenei
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters in a telephone interview on Thursday that the United States will have a role in choosing Iran’s next leader. Trump said it was very early in the process of picking a new…
Britain Says It’s Up to U.S. to Justify Iran Strikes Amid Global Backlash
LONDON – Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey on Sunday declined to explicitly back strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran, saying it was for the U.S. to “set out the legal basis of the action it took”. Iran’s…
Israel Strikes Tehran Again After Killing Iran’s Supreme Leader — Leadership Council Takes Over
JERUSALEM/TELAVIV/DUBAI – Israel launched a new wave of strikes on Tehran on Sunday and Iran responded with more missile barrages, a day after the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei pitched the Middle East and the global economy into deepening…
Who might succeed in Iran’s theocratic system of power?
The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S. and Israeli strikes throws the survival of the country’s theocratic system into jeopardy, and it is hard to predict who might succeed him or what will happen next. Strikes…
Merz Pushes ‘Day After’ Plan for Iran as Europe Weighs Fallout of Strikes
BERLIN – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on U.S. and European partners to start planning for the future of Iran and the region, saying the people of Iran deserved a better future after U.S. and Israeli strikes killed its supreme…
Global Markets Turn to Safe Havens as Iran Strikes Lift Yen and Swiss Franc
LONDON – The safe-haven Swiss franc and Japanese yen firmed, while the euro slid as trading resumed after a weekend that saw the United States and Israel launch their most ambitious attacks on Iran in decades, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah…
Trump Says U.S. Forces Sinking Iranian Navy Amid Intensifying Iran Conflict
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. military was sinking Iran’s Navy, having destroyed nine Iranian warships so far and “going after the rest.” Trump made the announcement in a social media post as the…
Trump Claims Iran Open to Talks Amid Escalating Conflict
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s new leadership wants to talk to him and that he has agreed, according to an interview with the Atlantic magazine. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to…
Global Travel Chaos Worsens as US-Iran Conflict Grounds Thousands of Flights
DUBAI – Global air travel remained heavily disrupted on Sunday as the war in Iran kept major Middle Eastern airports, including Dubai, the world’s busiest international hub, closed for a second day in one of the sharpest aviation shocks in…
Trump Says US Operations Against Iran Moving ‘Ahead of Schedule’
U.S. President Donald Trump told CNBC on Sunday that U.S. military operations against Iran are “ahead of schedule.”
US says it sinks Iranian warship
WASHINGTON – The U.S. military said on Sunday it has sunk an Iranian warship and called on Iranian forces to lay down their arms and leave their posts. The U.S. Central Command, which is overseeing ongoing U.S. attacks on Iran,…
Trump Claims 48 Iranian Leaders Killed in US-Israeli Iran Strikes
WASHINGTON- U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News on Sunday that 48 leaders have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. “It’s moving along. It’s moving along rapidly. This has been this way for 47 years,” he was…