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A senior Russian diplomat accused Ukraine on Thursday of timing the oil cutoff to coincide with Hungary’s upcoming general elections as part of an effort to interfere in the vote. Speaking in an interview with the Russian state news agency RIA, head of the 3d European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Oleg Tyapkin said Hungary was “justifiably outraged” after Kyiv halted oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline. “It can hardly be considered a mere coincidence that this provocative act was organized precisely now, during the final stage of the election campaign,” he noted. The bugging of Hungarian Minister of…

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Tufan Erhurman released a statement Wednesday condemning an attack by certain groups from the Greek Cypriot Administration who targeted civilians sitting in a park near the border area dividing the capital Lefkosa. Erhurman also called on the UN and the Greek Cypriot Administration’s leadership to “urgently launch an investigation into the incident.” In the statement, Erhurman recalled that around 13.30 pm (1030GMT), stones and explosives were thrown by a group gathered on the Greek Cypriot Administration side at TRNC citizens in Yigitler Bastion. “This attack took place in an area that bears responsibility…

Hopes for a swift end to the Middle East war faded on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed more aggressive strikes on Iran, sending oil prices sharply up again ​in a blow to consumers around the world. Stocks slid and the dollar gained after Trump said military operations would be intensified without offering the timeline that investors had sought for ending hostilities against Iran. “We’re ‌going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong,” Trump said in a Wednesday evening prime-time speech. Trump said the U.S. would achieve its…

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a televised speech on Wednesday night that the U.S. military had ​nearly accomplished its goals in Iran, but offered no clear timeline for ending the monthlong war and vowed to bomb the country back into the “Stone Ages.” Facing a war-wary ‌American public, sliding approval ratings and pressure from some allies to outline his war aims in more precise and consistent terms, Trump said the U.S. had destroyed Iran’s navy and air force, and crippled its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. But he declined to lay out a concrete plan to wind down the war,…

Students across Russia are being offered large financial incentives to join drone units fighting in Ukraine as operators and engineers, while companies in Russia’s ​central Ryazan region have been given quotas to sign up workers for the army, documents show. The recruitment effort, which comes as Russian forces continue to grind forwards ‌on the battlefield in Ukraine and as U.S.-brokered peace talks are on ice due to the Iran war, suggests Moscow is diversifying its push to replenish its army’s ranks in what is the fifth year of its war. But it is not part of a general mobilisation drive, something the Kremlin…

 A diplomatic outcast a year ago, Pakistan has become a trusted regional partner and a mediator between the U.S. and Iran to end the war in the Middle East, a remarkable transformation for the South Asian nation driven mostly by its powerful military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. Munir has had several meetings with President Donald Trump, including an unprecedented one-on-one lunch at the ​White House, while the government has apprehended an Islamic State bomber accused of killing American troops and handed him over to the U.S. In other moves to restore the Islamic nation’s credibility, its diplomats have launched a…

Britain will host talks ​on Thursday aimed at forming a coalition of countries to explore ways to reopen ‌the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. President Donald Trump said securing the vital waterway was a problem for other nations to resolve. British foreign minister Yvette Cooper will chair the virtual meeting of about 35 countries including France, Germany, Italy, Canada and ​the United Arab Emirates around midday in London to explore ways to restore freedom of ​navigation in the area. The United States is not due to attend. The meeting takes ⁠place after Trump said in an address to his nation on Wednesday evening that…

Russia is ready to contribute to resolving ​the Iran conflict and President Vladimir ‌Putin is continuing to talk with regional leaders, Kremlin spokesman ​Dmitry Peskov said on ​Thursday. “The president is continuing these ⁠contacts, and if our ​services are somehow required, we ​are, of course, ready to make our contribution to ensuring that ​the military situation transitions ​to a peaceful course as soon as ‌possible,” ⁠Peskov told reporters. Peskov was responding to a question about U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech ​to the ​nation ⁠about the Iran war and his separate ​comment that he was ​considering ⁠pulling the United States out of…

Government and allied forces in Burkina Faso have killed more than twice as many civilians as Islamist militants have since 2023, according to a tally of incidents documented in a report, opens new tab published on Thursday by Human Rights Watch. The pattern is broadly consistent with data shared ​with Reuters by Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), a conflict monitoring group, and also applies to neighbouring Mali. In that country, which like Burkina Faso is ruled by a military-led government ‌that seized power in a coup, government forces and their partners have been responsible for three to four times as…

Eastern Libya’s military leader, Khalifa Haftar, has acquired what appear to be Chinese and Turkish combat drones, Reuters reporting has found, despite a long-standing U.N. embargo on supplying weapons to the divided North African country. Commercial satellite images show at least three drones at Al Khadim airbase, located in the desert about 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of the city of Benghazi, between late April and December. Their arrival has not previously been reported. What appeared to be ground control equipment for the aircraft was still visible this year, according to three weapons experts who reviewed the images. Unmanned aerial vehicles…