Archives for May, 2026

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte walks into the White House, as seen through a fence, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 8, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci

Analysis-Trump's Germany troop cuts show limits of NATO efforts to keep US on board

Reuters

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Iran strikes UAE’s Fujairah oil hub as US pushes Hormuz reopening

The United States launched an initiative to restart commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday as the UAE braced for fallout amid new missile and drone attacks.

United Arab Emirates

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a press briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 15, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci/File Photo

Bessent urges China to step up diplomacy on Iran ahead of Trump-Xi summit

Reuters

NATO chief Mark Rutte said Europeans had 'heard the message' of frustration from US President Donald Trump over the Iran war

Allies jolted on defence as Trump pulls troops from Germany

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023. NTB/Javad Parsa via REUTERS/File Photo

Iran Nobel laureate Mohammadi needs urgent heart treatment in Tehran, brother says

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (not seen) in Beirut, Lebanon October 18, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo

Lebanon's most senior Shi'ite politician says no to negotiations with Israel until war stops

Reuters

Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 4, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer

Most Strait of Hormuz shipping at a standstill despite latest US pledge

Reuters

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Tibnit on May 4

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 1, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveil new map of Strait of Hormuz under their control, state media says

Reuters

Commuters make their way past an anti-US billboard referring to President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, installed on a building at the Valiasr Square in Tehran

US-Iran ceasefire on brink as UAE reports attacks

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: U.S forces patrol near the Iranian-flagged cargo ship M/V Touska after it was boarded and seized by U.S. forces on Sunday, at a location given as the Arabian Sea, in this handout image released April 20, 2026. U.S. Central Command via X/Handout via REUTERS/ File Photo

US evacuates 22 crew members on seized Iranian ship to Pakistan

Reuters

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks next to Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis (not pictured) during a press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, April 16, 2026. REUTERS/David W Cerny

NATO's Rutte says Europeans have 'gotten message' from Trump

Reuters

Sheina Gutnick (left), whose father was killed in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, arrives to give evidence at a hearing of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, in Sydney, Australia, May 4, 2026. REUTERS/Izhar Khan

Australia begins hearings into Bondi Beach attack and rising antisemitism

Reuters

The European Political Community (EPC) held its eighth summit in Yerevan -- for the first time attended by a non-European leader, Canada's Mark Carney

Europe, Canada pull together in Yerevan in Trump's shadow

Agence France-Presse

A woman walks past an anti-U.S. billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, in Tehran, Iran, May 2, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Trump says US to help ships stranded in Strait of Hormuz as tanker hit by projectiles

Reuters

The golden-domed Imam Ali Shrine in Iraq's holy city of Najaf is the ornate burial place of the first Shia Imam

'No pilgrims': regional war hushes Iraq's holy cities

Agence France-Presse