Author: Gulf News Week
US President Donald Trump has said he is “not satisfied” yet with the terms of the deal being negotiated with Iran.He said Tehran was “very much intent” on reaching an agreement to end the conflict, but added “so far they haven’t gotten there”, repeating Washington’s willingness to resume strikes if one is not reached.His remarks came after Iranian state TV reported what it said were details of a draft agreement, which included reopening the Strait of Hormuz and the withdrawal of US forces from the region. The White House branded the text a “complete fabrication”.However, Tehran soon cautioned a deal…
Watch: Moment rescuers find five people trapped in Laos caveRescuers in Laos have found five villagers alive inside a flooded cave after they were trapped for a week.3 hrs agoAsia
The live-in personal assistant to Friends star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 41 months in prison, capping a multi-year legal saga surrounding the actor’s death.Kenneth Iwamasa, 60, who injected Perry with ketamine, worked with two doctors to provide the actor with more than $50,000 (£38,000) of the drug in the weeks before his death, prosecutors said. Iwamasa had no medical training.Perry was found dead in his backyard hot tub in Los Angeles in October 2023. Iwamasa pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death and faced a maximum penalty of 15 years…
Ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is hampering the Ebola outbreak response, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Ituri province in the east of the country was at the centre of a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict”.In a statement posted on X, Tedros said the WHO could not “build community trust or isolate the sick while bombs are falling”. He is due to travel to DR Congo this week to spearhead efforts to contain the virus. Meanwhile Uganda has announced it is temporarily closing its border with DR Congo.…
Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was removed from her role last month, has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.Her diagnosis came shortly after President Donald Trump ousted her from the post of America’s top law enforcement officer, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News.Bondi, 60, told CBS she is undergoing treatment, which included surgery a few weeks ago. She is continuing to work despite the diagnosis, and will be joining the White House’s new advisory council on AI, the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.Thyroid cancer has a five-year survival rate of over 98% and most…
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, after carrying out another wave of air strikes that it said targeted the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.The military told residents of Tyre and surrounding areas that it was “compelled to act forcefully” because Hezbollah was violating a US-brokered ceasefire that began five weeks ago.Also on Wednesday, Lebanese media reported Israeli strikes across the south and eastern Bekaa Valley, with three people killed in the town of Choukine.Hezbollah, which has itself accused Israel of breaching the ceasefire, said it was battling Israeli troops north of the Litani…
The footballer setting the record straight after 46 yearsRoly Gregoire, Sunderland’s first black player, sometimes wishes he had never played football because of the racist abuse he found too painful to talk about for 46 years.10 hrs agoSunderland
A former member of the German militant group Red Army Faction (RAF) has been jailed for 13 years for carrying out a string of armed robberies between 1999 and 2016.Daniela Klette, 67, was finally caught in a flat in Berlin in 2024 after more than 30 years on the run. She went on trial last year.Her defence had called for her acquittal but the court in Verden in Lower Saxony found her guilty on Wednesday of aggravated robbery, violating weapons laws and other offences over a 17-year period.The RAF, a violent anti-capitalist group also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, was…
“After 88 days, it felt exactly like a prisoner being released after three months of imprisonment and seeing the sky for the first time.”That is how an Iranian said it felt to be reconnected to the internet, after their government ended what a monitoring group called the longest nationwide shutdown in modern history.”You wouldn’t believe it, but when I clicked on a website and watched it open, I felt as though I could fly with joy,” he told the BBC’s Middle East Daily programme. “And when I realised I could once again send messages through Telegram, WhatsApp, and other platforms,…
Rescuers in Laos have found five villagers alive inside a flooded cave after they were trapped for a week following heavy rain and landslides.Two other villagers who were with them are missing, Lao and Thai rescue teams involved in the operation said.The seven were part of a group of villagers from the central province of Xaysomboun who had gone into the cave on Wednesday last week in search of gold deposits and wildlife, but could not get out as the cave’s entrance was blocked.Footage shared by the rescuers showed cave divers crawling through narrow, muddy passageways that were almost completely…