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20.05.2026 14:31 Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said the Iranian government's financial resources are "running out" and that the country's economy is "in a state of collapse."

20.05.2026 14:31 Today, the United States sanctioned several Iranian regime currency exchange houses, associated personnel, and front companies, as well as 19 vessels that collectively enable Iran's regime to evade international sanctions and fund its destabilizing activities across the Middle East.

20.05.2026 14:31 Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi have exchanged views on the ongoing efforts to end the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran.

20.05.2026 14:31 The fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran may have eased fears of a wider regional war, but persistent instability around the Strait of Hormuz continues to disrupt global trade, drive up energy costs and fuel a growing jobs and cost-of-living crisis.

20.05.2026 14:31 After two days of talks in Paris, the finance ministers of the Group of Seven -- the world's seven industrialized countries -- called for a "rapid return to free and safe passage" of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, citing the numerous challenges facing the world economy.

20.05.2026 14:31 Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back pays tribute at the Korean War Veterans Memorial Park in Washington, D.C., on May 12, local time, after laying a wreath, honoring soldiers who gave their lives for the freedom and peace of the Republic of Korea.

20.05.2026 14:31 In early April, Hamid Ali Shah was ordered by his employer, Etihad Rail, the operator of the United Arab Emirates' national railway network, to report to the police. The civil engineer was questioned for several hours, held in detention for several days, and then deported to his homeland, Pakistan.

20.05.2026 14:31 Washington remains deeply divided over the latest US sanctions waiver for Russian oil, which allows at-risk nations to buy Russian shipments already loaded at sea, as disruptions tied to the US-Israeli confrontation with Iran roil global energy markets.

20.05.2026 14:31 After US President Donald Trump said he is postponing potential strikes on Iran, questions are mounting over whether Washington and Tehran are edging closer to a deal or simply buying time before a wider regional confrontation.

20.05.2026 14:31 A nuclear disaster with potentially harrowing human and environmental impacts was narrowly averted this week in the United Arab Emirates, as Iranian drones struck a functioning nuclear power plant, the senior UN nuclear safety official told an emergency meeting of the Security Council today.

20.05.2026 14:31 France condemns in the strongest possible terms the May 17th drone attacks on the Barakah nuclear plant in the United Arab Emirates. They must stop.

20.05.2026 14:31 Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Chargé d'Affaires to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East.

20.05.2026 14:31 Above the pine forest of the Pabradė Training Area, Lithuania, roughly 30 kilometers from the Belarusian border, a small quadcopter rises into a sky shared with dozens of other drones. Friendly and adversary, sensor and strike, American and British. Below it, soldiers are learning, in real time, what it takes to fight as a squadron in three dimensions.