Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi has said that “good progress” has been made in indirect nuclear talks with the United States, as Washington warned that military action remains an option if diplomacy fails. The talks, mediated by Oman in the Swiss city of Geneva on Tuesday, were aimed at averting the possibility of US military intervention to curb Iran’s nuclear programme, weeks after a deadly Iranian...

UN warns that Israel’s plan will lead to widespread dispossession of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Listen to this article Listen to this article | 4 mins info More than 80 United Nations member states have condemned Israel’s plan to expand control over the occupied West Bank and claim large tracts of Palestinian territory as Israeli “state property”. “We strongly condemn unilateral Israeli decisions and measures aimed at...