President Donald Trump’s administration has rebuffed efforts by Middle Eastern allies to start diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the Iran war that started two weeks ago with a massive US-Israeli air assault, according to three sources familiar with the efforts. Iran, for its part, has rejected the possibility of any ceasefire until US and Israeli […]
Senior officials from China and the United States are beginning a new round of economic and trade talks on Sunday in Paris, which will continue until March 17, with analysts expecting discussions to focus on extending their tariff truce, easing export controls and exploring areas of shared economic interest between the world’s two largest economies. […]
United States President Donald Trump on Saturday urged other nations to send ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, the critical chokepoint for global oil supplies disrupted by the Mideast war. Trump, who has said the US will soon start escorting tankers through the strait, posted on Truth Social that “Many countries, especially those who […]
Juergen Habermas, best-known for his theory of political consensus-building, shaped the discourse of post-war Germany more than any other popular intellectual. He died on Saturday, aged 96, in Starnberg, Germany, the publisher Suhrkamp said. Over the course of seven decades, his public interventions, from searing critiques of fascist thought in the 1950s to more recent warnings […]