Monday June 30, 2025 / 05 , Muharram , 1447

Leading The Way

SG

Saudi Arabia

Opinion

Discover Saudi

World

Sports

Business

Life

Advertisements

Home
World

451 - 460 from 50594 . In "World"

Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa keeps cool during Trump's choreographed onslaught

WASHINGTON — Three months into Donald Trump's second term, foreign leaders should be aware that a coveted trip to the Oval Office comes with the risk of a very public dressing down, often straying into attempts at provocation and humiliation.Wednesday's episode with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was a classic of its kind, with the added twist of an ambush involving dimmed lights, a lengthy video screening and stacks of news story clippings.As television cameras rolled, and after some well-tempered discussion, Trump was asked by a journalist about what it would take for him to be convinced that discredited claims of "white genocide" in South Africa are untrue.Ramaphosa responded first, by saying the president would have to "listen to the voices of...

May 22, 2025

Ramaphosa keeps cool during Trump's choreographed onslaught

Iranian women walk past a banner showing missiles being launched from an Iranian map in Tehran, 19 April, 2024

Fifth round of US-Iran nuclear talks to take place on Friday in Rome, Oman says

MUSCAT — Oman's foreign minister has said the fifth round of indirect talks between the United States and Iran to discuss Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program take place on Friday in Rome.So far, neither Tehran nor Washington has confirmed the meeting or announced whether they will attend.Abbas Araghchi made the announcement in a post on the social media platform X after insisting that Tehran will never stop enriching uranium, further underlining the Islamic Republic's red line in negotiations with the US.The comments by Araghchi come after several rounds of negotiations, including at an expert level over the details of a possible deal.However, no agreement has been reached yet and American officials including President Donald Trump, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and...

May 22, 2025

Fifth round of US-Iran nuclear talks to take place on Friday in Rome, Oman says

Demonstrators gather in front of Italian parliament to demand end to war in Gaza, Rome, Italy, May 21, 2025

Dozens of protesters gather in front of Italian parliament in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

ROME — Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Italian parliament on Wednesday in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza and to demand an end to the Israel-Hamas war.They waved Palestinian flags and held banners to call for a ceasefire.Many protesters accused Israel of genocide, destroying hospitals and of manufacturing a humanitarian catastrophe in the enclave, such as widespread famine.“There is a crime against humanity ongoing, a real genocide, therefore I think right to cry out our pain so that this savagery of war can stop,” said protester Giorgia Prosperi.“When you starve a people, when you besiege it, and you don’t provide them with health care, but instead you destroy hospitals - there were 36 hospitals in Gaza and now there are only four left after all those were...

May 22, 2025

Dozens of protesters gather in front of Italian parliament in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU defence ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, 20 May 2025

Kallas demands probe after IDF fires 'warning shots' near foreign diplomats in West Bank

BRUSSELS — The EU foreign policy chief has called on Israel to investigate after IDF troops fired what the Israeli military said were "warning shots" near a delegation of foreign diplomats in the West Bank on Wednesday."I've heard about the incident in Jenin today where Israel Defence Forces shot warning shots but still shots at a group of diplomats approaching the refugee camp within a visit organized by the Palestinian Authority," Kaja Kallas said."Any threats on diplomats' lives are unacceptable. So as Israel is also a signatory to the Vienna Convention, I mean the obligation to guarantee the security of all foreign diplomats, I think this is important."A group of regional, European and Western diplomats was standing near the entrance of the Jenin...

May 22, 2025

Kallas demands probe after IDF fires 'warning shots' near foreign diplomats in West Bank

President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington

Trump confronts South Africa's Ramaphosa with baseless claims of systematic killing of white farmers

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump's baseless claim of the systematic killing of white farmers.In an astonishing display, Trump even dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a far-left politician singing a song with the lyrics “kill the farmer.”He also reviewed news articles to emphasise his argument, stating that the nation's white farmers have encountered “death, death, death, horrible death.”Trump had previously terminated all US aid to South Africa and extended a welcome to numerous white South African farmers, granting them refugee status in the United States, while advocating the notion that a...

May 22, 2025

Trump confronts South Africa's Ramaphosa with baseless claims of systematic killing of white farmers

Palestinians inspect a house destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Deir al-Balah, 21 May, 2025

Netanyahu says Israel will control all of Gaza Strip at end of current military offensive

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Wednesday that the war on Gaza will persist until Hamas is disarmed and the Palestinian territory is entirely under Israeli control.The Israeli premier laid out some of his conditions to bring the war that started in October 2023 to an end.“I am ready to end the war but with clear conditions that will ensure Israel's security. All the hostages return home, Hamas hands over its weapons and leaves power,” said Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem.Netanyahu noted that Hamas’ leadership must all leave Gaza and Israel must ensure that the enclave is free of weapons. He also asserted that after all these conditions are met, Israel will move ahead and proceed with Trump’s proposed plan for the future of...

May 22, 2025

Netanyahu says Israel will control all of Gaza Strip at end of current military offensive

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Israel Katz at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem (File Photo)

Israel 'completely rejects' EU decision to review trade and cooperation deal

JERUSALEM — Israel has said it rejects a decision by the European Union to review the bloc's wide-ranging trade and cooperation pact with the country over its intensified offensive in Gaza.The EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas stated on Tuesday that the bloc would examine if Israel has violated its human rights obligations under Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which defines the trading and diplomatic relations between both sides.In a statement shared on X late on Tuesday, Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein dismissed Kallas' announcement."We completely reject the direction taken in the statement, which reflects a total misunderstanding of the complex reality Israel is facing," Marmorstein wrote on X."This war was forced...

May 21, 2025

Israel 'completely rejects' EU decision to review trade and cooperation deal

Police officers cordon off the area outside The American School of Madrid shortly after the former senior aide to ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was shot

Ukrainian ex-politician shot dead outside Madrid’s American school

MADRID — Former Ukrainian politician Andriy Portnov, who worked as a senior aide to pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych, has been shot dead just outside the Spanish capital Madrid, a Spanish national police source told CNN.Portnov, 51, was shot several times as he was getting into a car around 9:15 a.m. local time (3:15 a.m. ET), the police source said. Various assailants shot him in the back and the head, and later fled into a wooded area, the source said.The shooting took place outside The American School of Madrid, located in Pozuelo de Alaracon, an affluent suburb just west of Madrid. It has just over 1,000 students from the United States, Spain and several dozen other countries.The school sent out various urgent messages to parents following the incident, which took place...

May 21, 2025

Ukrainian ex-politician shot dead outside Madrid’s American school

Russian ministry of defence video showed the training ground shortly before the missile strike

Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in Russian strike on training exercise

KYIV — A Russian missile strike on a training exercise in Ukraine's Sumy border region has killed six servicemen and wounded more than 10 others, says Ukraine's National Guard.Russia's defense ministry had earlier released a video purporting to show an Iskander missile attack on a training camp, and state news agency Tass said up to 70 people had died.The Sumy region has come under repeated bombardment, and Ukraine launched a months-long occupation of part of Russia's neighboring Kursk region from there.The Ukrainian military said the aim of the offensive had been to help create a buffer zone to protect Sumy, but some have complained of the scale of military losses.Separately, the Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin had visited officials in Kursk the previous day, in...

May 21, 2025

Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in Russian strike on training exercise

File photo of a member of Pakistan's security forces

School bus attack kills at least five in Pakistan

SINGAPORE — A bomb attack on a school bus in Pakistan's Balochistan region has killed at least five people and injured dozens.The bus was carrying around 40 school children when it exploded at about 07:40 local time (02:40 GMT) just outside the remote town of Khuzdar, police told the BBC.Three of the five people killed are children, police said. Pictures circulating on social media show the charred wreckage of a large bus, with backpacks scattered around it.No group has claimed responsibility for the incident so far, but Balochistan, a turbulent province in the country's southwest, has long been plagued by a long-standing insurgency and human rights violations.Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the incident as "sheer barbarism", calling the...

May 21, 2025

School bus attack kills at least five in Pakistan

< Previous Next >

COPYRIGHT © 2025 WWW.SAUDIGAZETTE.COM.SA - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Powered by NewsPress

NEWS CATEGORY

saudi arabia world opinion business sports esports life

COMPANY

advertisements about us Epaper contact us Archive privacy policy