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June 9, 2026 4:55 PM

US helicopter crew who went down in Strait of Hormuz rescued by drone

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that two U.S. helicopter crew members were "fine" following their rescue by a U.S. Navy drone after their Apache gunship went down in the Iranian-controlled Strait of Hormuz. A U.S. Navy surface drone found and rescued the two crew from the waters of the strait, the U.S. military's Central Command told Reuters. The pair were rescued within about two hours and were in stable condition, Centcom said in a statement. It was not immediately clear whether the ...

June 6, 2026 11:18 AM

Trump pardons former US congressman convicted of securities fraud

President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Representative Stephen Buyer, an Indiana Republican, who was convicted of securities fraud for engaging in insider trading in 2018 as a T-Mobile US consultant ahead of a $23 billion merger with Sprint. The proclamation, issued on Thursday and announced by the White House on Friday, gave no specific rationale for the pardon other than to assert that Buyer's service as a U.S. Army judge advocate general and member of Congress "was distinguished and ...

June 1, 2026 1:01 PM

Trump says Iran really wants to make a deal with the US

President Donald Trump on Monday said that Iran really wanted to make a deal with the U.S. and that it would be a good one for Washington and its allies. His post comes only hours after the U.S. military said it struck Iranian military sites at the weekend and Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had targeted a U.S. base in response, the latest in a series of exchanges amid negotiations to end the three-month-old war. "Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A....

May 26, 2026 10:33 PM

Rubio aide Mike Needham promoted to top White House national security post, source says

U.S. State Department Counselor Michael Needham, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has been promoted to the post of assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. In the post, Needham would serve along with Rubio, who is President Donald Trump's acting national security adviser as well as the top U.S. diplomat. Needham was chief of staff to Rubio in the U.S. Senate, and before that, served as chief executive ...

May 25, 2026 8:29 PM

Doha hosts fresh round of Iran-US talks amid regional tensions

Iran's top negotiators have arrived in Doha for high-stakes talks, even as both Washington and Tehran downplay hopes of an imminent breakthrough. Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in the Qatari capital on Monday, with discussions focused on two central sticking points , the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile. Iran's central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati is also part of the delegation, with Iran's frozen fu...

May 25, 2026 2:50 PM

Iran says focus of negotiations on ending the war, nuclear issue not being discussed at this stage

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei on Monday said that the negotiations underway are presently focused on ending the war and that details about the nuclear issue have not been discussed, as reported by ISNA. According to the semi-official Iranian news agency ISNA, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, "The focus of the negotiations is on ending the war, and at this stage, we are not discussing details of the nuclear issue." Earlier, on Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rub...

May 22, 2026 10:45 AM

Supreme Leader says enriched uranium must stay in Iran : Report

Hardening Tehran’s position on a key U.S. demand in the ongoing peace talks, Iran’s Supreme Leader has directed that the country’s near-weapons-grade uranium must not be sent abroad, Reuters reported, citing two senior Iranian sources. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's order could further frustrate U.S. President Donald Trump and complicate talks on ending the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Trump vowed on Thursday that the United States will not allow Iran to have its stockpile of highly en...

May 22, 2026 10:08 AM

Rubio: likelihood of negotiated agreement with Cuba ‘not high’

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday the chances of a negotiated settlement with Cuba were “not high”, as Washington steps up pressure on the island’s communist government. Rubio said the United States would prefer a diplomatic solution. "That remains our preference with Cuba," he told reporters. "I'm just being honest with you, you know, the likelihood of that happening, given who we're dealing with right now, is not high. But if they have a change of heart, you know, we...

May 21, 2026 10:28 AM

Trump administration pressures Palestinian UN envoy to drop General Assembly vice presidency bid

President Donald Trump's administration threatened to revoke the visas of the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations if the Palestinian ambassador refuses to end his candidacy for the vice presidency of the U.N. General Assembly, according to an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters. In a cable dated Wednesday, U.S. diplomats in its embassy in Jerusalem are instructed to deliver the message that Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. Riyad Mansour's general assembly bid "fuels tensi...

May 20, 2026 9:48 AM

Trump says US may strike Iran again but that Tehran wants deal

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States may need to strike Iran again and that he had been an hour away from ordering an attack before postponing it. Trump made the comments a day after saying he had paused a planned resumption of hostilities following a new proposal by Tehran to end the U.S.-Israeli war. "I was an hour away from making the decision to go today," Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. Iran's leaders are begging for a deal, he said, adding th...