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Wednesday's call comes in the wake of a flurry of visits by Western leaders to China in recent months
DUBAI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Talks with the U.S. should be pursued to secure national interests as long as "threats and unreasonable expectations" are avoided, President Masoud Pezeshkian posted on X on Tuesday. "Taking into account demands from friendly regional countries to respond to the U.S. President's suggestion for talks, I instructed the foreign minister to prepare the ground for equitable and fair negotiations . should an atmosphere free of threats and unreasonable expectations arise," Pezeshkian said. (Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Tom Hogue)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has set his sights on the Middle East to try and diversify energy supplies for Europe’s biggest economy and reduce dependency on LNG imports from the US
As the US and Colombian presidents meet, Orla Guerin joins a police unit tasked with finding and destroying jungle cocaine labs
According to media reports, the Greek patrol boat issued a warning signal after spotting the migrant boat, which then tried to escape. For reasons that are still unclear, the two boats collided
Both sides downplay chances of immediate breakthrough in US-brokered talks as western allies reportedly weigh new defence pact
One Palestinian woman said members of the Israel-linked militia searched them and their belongings at an Israeli checkpoint inside Gaza
The company’s rapid e-commerce growth and push into automation and artificial intelligence propelled its stock into the trillion-dollar club
Abbas Araghchi warns adversaries against ‘miscalculation’ as Trump mulls military response to protest crackdown
From regime change to retaliation, the BBC's Frank Gardner outlines possible outcomes of US strikes on Iran
Three months after paramilitary fighters overran the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, a doctor is providing a rare first-person account of the attack
William Brydson, who was "head of care" at a Newton Stewart boarding school, has been jailed for a litany of offences