Author: Prima News

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten on Sunday arrived in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in what is only his second foreign visit since taking office late last month. The visit was announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who posted a picture of the two laying flowers at the Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine. “We thank each and every one. We remember and honor the feat of our heroes – all those who stood up to defend Ukraine and gave their lives in this fight for independence,” Zelenskyy wrote alongside the picture on US social media company X. Meanwhile, the…

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a veteran Vatican diplomat as the Holy See’s new ambassador to the US, a post considered one of the Vatican’s most significant diplomatic assignments, media reports said on Saturday. Italian Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, 68, currently serving as the Holy See’s ambassador to the UN in New York, will replace French-born Cardinal Christophe Pierre, who is retiring at age 80 as apostolic nuncio in Washington, according to CBS News. The appointment comes as relations between the Vatican and Washington face strains over issues including the Trump administration’s war in Iran and its aggressive immigration crackdown. Caccia…

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Saturday that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was right to resist pressure from US President Donald Trump to join strikes on Iran. “Keir Starmer is right to resist pressure from US President Donald Trump to join strikes on Iran,” Khan said in a statement posted on social media. Khan described the conflict as a “war of choice” that risks causing “needless killing and suffering abroad” while also bringing serious economic consequences for the United Kingdom. He said Britain should not take part in US-led military action against Iran, warning the conflict could deepen the cost-of-living pressures…

Thousands of anti-war demonstrators on Saturday marched through central London, calling for an immediate halt to US and Israeli military operations against Iran and an end to arms sales to Israel. According to the Manchester Evening News, the protest drew between 5,000 and 6,000 participants, based on estimates from the Metropolitan Police. The rally began at Millbank near Victoria Tower Gardens at noon and was organized by a coalition of activist groups, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Protesters marched toward the US Embassy carrying placards reading “Stop Trump’s Wars”…

Israeli forces expanded their bombardment of Iran overnight, striking fuel ​depots near Tehran, while Bahrain said an Iranian attack had damaged one of its desalination plants, signalling a widening assault on vital infrastructure across the region. As the fighting escalated on day nine of ‌the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran, Tehran moved closer to naming a new supreme leader after the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with every indication suggesting his powerful son could take charge. Israel’s military threatened to kill any replacement for Khamenei, while U.S. President Donald Trump said the war might only end once Iran’s military and rulers had been wiped out. BLACK SMOKE…

The Israeli ​military warned it would ‌continue pursuing every successor of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah ​Ali Khamenei, who was ​killed in U.S. and ⁠Israeli strikes on Iran. In ​a post on ​X in Farsi, the Israeli military also warned it would pursue every ​person who seeks ​to appoint a successor for ‌Khamenei, ⁠referring to the clerical body charged with choosing the Islamic Republic’s ​supreme ​leader. The ⁠warning comes as the clerical body ​is set to ​meet ⁠to choose Iran’s next supreme leader.

Just days ago, Hussain Khrais was proudly showing off his newly restored home in south ​Lebanon, fixed up after being badly damaged in 2024 clashes between Israel and Hezbollah. But a new war has since erupted ‌and his home is in the line of fire again. Khrais fled his hometown of Khiyam, about five km (three miles) from the border with Israel, as Israel pounded Lebanon with heavy airstrikes last week in retaliation for Iran-backed group Hezbollah’s rocket and drone fire into Israel. “Is the house I worked so hard to build, or the business I started, ​still there? Or is it…

The clerical ​body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a ‌majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday. The Mehr news agency quoted him as saying “some obstacles” still needed to be resolved regarding the process. On Saturday, a senior cleric in the Assembly of Experts said its members would meet “within one day” to choose the leader. NEXT SUPREME LEADER MUST ‘BE HATED BY ​THE ENEMY’ Two members of the panel, Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir and Ahmad Alamolhoda, said the assembly had chosen a successor,…

U.S. President Donald Trump praised Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ​and said she was willing to ‌help the United States and Israel in their war with Iran, Italy’s Corriere della ​Sera reported on Sunday. Speaking to ​the newspaper in a telephone call ⁠on Saturday, Trump described Meloni as “a ​great leader” and said Italy was ​doing what it could to assist.  “I love Italy, I think she is a great leader,” ​Trump was quoted as saying of ​Meloni. “She always tries to help, she is an ‌excellent ⁠leader and she is a friend of mine,” Trump said, according to Corriere…

At least four people were killed ​when an Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut early on Sunday, ‌with Israel saying it targeted Iranian commanders operating in the Lebanese capital. The attack marked the first Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut since Israel-Hezbollah hostilities resumed last week, and prompted fears the scope of Israel’s strikes would expand outside areas where Hezbollah has traditionally operated. Israel said it targeted key commanders ​of Iran’s elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards but did not name them. “The commanders of the Quds Force’s Lebanon ​Corps operated to advance…