New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Foreign Affairs expert and veteran journalist Waiel Awwad said on Sunday that the talks between Iran and US that were held amid the two-week ceasefire agreement between the two countries, have not “failed”. Rather, he called the negotiation “inconclusive”.His reaction comes following US Vice-President JD Vance’s announcement that no agreement was reached between Washington and Tehran in the latest round of talks held in Pakistan’s Islamabad.Speaking to IANS, Awwad said…
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London, April 11 (IANS) Britain will hold talks with allies next week on reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping without paying tolls to Iran.British foreign ministry officials are set to meet next week with counterparts from countries that joined a virtual April 2 meeting hosted by British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.The talks will include “coordinated economic and political measures, including possible sanctions” and the release of ships and sailors tra…
London, April 10 (IANS) The Russian Embassy in Britain dismissed a claim by British Defence Secretary John Healey of Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic as neither credible nor verifiable.Earlier Thursday, Healey said Britain and Norway had led a month-long operation to track Russian submarines near key undersea cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic, Xinhua news agency reported.The Russian embassy said in a statement that it was “impossible to either believe or verify” Healey’s…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) President Penpa Tsering has inaugurated a four-month long exhibition titled “Frontier Diplomacy: Britain, Tibet and Sir Basil Gould” at the Tibet Museum. Among the exhibits are two rare historical documents that once belonged to Sir Basil Gould and offer documentation of Tibet’s diplomatic and political status prior to China’s invasion of Tibet, a report said. Sir Basil Gould worked as British Political Officer in Sikkim from 193…
United Nations, April 2 (IANS) With a firm message to Israel, the United States, and Iran to immediately stop the conflict, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for supporting diplomacy to stop the threatened “spiral of death and destruction”. He told the media that he was “dispatching my Personal Envoy Jean Arnault to the region to support these efforts.”The diplomatic efforts “to find a peaceful path forward”, he said, “deserve the space and support to succ…
New York, April 2 (IANS) Britain’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper called on Thursday for joint action to exert diplomatic and economic pressures to open the Strait of Hormuz, which has been “hijacked” by Iran. Speaking at the meeting of about 40 countries, including India, convened from London on the Strait, she said, “We have seen Iran hijack an international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage”.She condemned Iran’s reckless actions in the Strait that are “hitting globa…
London, March 23 (IANS) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said there was no indication that mainland Britain was being targetted by Iran, while stressing the need to protect British interests and avoid further escalation in the Middle East. “We carry out assessments all the time in order to keep us safe, and there’s no assessment that we’re being targetted in that way,” Starmer told reporters on Monday while visiting a school in southeast London, according to The Guardian.He made the remarks w…
Seoul, March 21 (IANS) South Korea will join seven countries, including European nations and Japan, in their joint statement condemning Iran’s attacks in the Gulf and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the foreign ministry said.The joint statement, issued by Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Canada, calls on Iran to cease its attacks and attempts to block the strategic waterway, and comply with the principle of freedom of navigation.They also state that they …
Washington, March 13 (IANS) The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has opened investigations into 60 economies, including South Korea, China and Japan, to determine whether their governments have taken sufficient steps to ban the importation of goods produced with forced labour.The office said the investigations were initiated under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration pushes to roll out new tariffs to replace the country-specific emergency…
Indian Wells, March 12 (IANS) The 24-time Grand Slam champion, Novak Djokovic, has described his fourth-round exit at the 2026 Indian Wells Masters as ‘a tough night in the desert. The Serbian’s campaign ended after he suffered a shock defeat against Britain’s Jack Draper on Thursday. Draper came through a gripping match lasting more than two-and-a-half hours in a deciding tiebreak to win 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) as he beat Djokovic for the first time in his career.After the loss, Djokovic congratulate…