At a victory press conference, prior to her announcement as prime minister, El Mansouri was asked whether the state would need to make changes to accommodate her in Muslim religious ceremonies attended by the king, including Friday and Eid prayers, where men and women pray in separate sections. She did not directly answer the question,
US negotiators have not officially responded to Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s foreign minister said, despite President Donald Trump publicly rejecting the offer on Saturday. Trump told reporters at the White House that Iran’s proposal was not “acceptable” and that Tehran wanted to make a deal to open the strait
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something that heads of state on trade missions don’t typically do. In front of roughly 250 founders, investors and operators, he said openly that he doesn’t have answers to many of the AI questions leaders around
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to address the EU in Strasbourg, shortly after von der Leyen’s proposal was made, was “to build the alliance of the future”, Champagne said. Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, has previously talked about an alliance of “middle powers” working together on economic growth, resilience and
Prosecutors in Colombia have accused former foreign minister Laura Sarabia of abusing her power after she made her nanny take a lie detector test. The scandal erupted in 2023, when Colombian news weekly Semana reported that a woman Sarabia had employed to look after her son had been hooked up to a polygraph and questioned
Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli co-directors of Naza, a documentary that accuses the Israeli army of mass civilian killings in Gaza, to be stripped of their citizenship over “treason against the state”. Named for the Hebrew military acronym for collateral damage, the film speaks to 24 unidentified Israeli military and intelligence
