U.S. President Donald Trump has told his top advisers he does not want to get the United States involved in a war with Iran, three U.S. officials said on Thursday. “He doesn’t want to go to war. It’s not who he is,” one official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ...

The President of the Council of Ministers Saad Hariri condemned the terrorist sabotage acts that targeted oil tankers off the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates, considering them a dangerous threat to the safety of navigation in one of the most important waterways in the world. He said that ...

Four commercial vessels were targeted by “sabotage operations” near the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates without causing casualties, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, without giving details of the nature of the sabotage. The incident occurred near the UAE emirate of Fujairah, one of the world’s largest bunkering ...

Pentagon officials suggest Tehran preparing attack on American forces   The US is to install an air defence missile system in the Middle East to counter the “escalating” threat posed by Iran, the Pentagon has said. The Department of Defence confirmed it was sending the Patriot surface-to-air missile system to the region in ...

Iran announced Wednesday it was partially withdrawing from a landmark nuclear deal, marking a serious escalation in Tehran’s faceoff with the United States.President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech that Iran would reduce its “commitments” to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, but would not fully withdraw, ...

US president tells rally China ‘broke the deal’ and publishes list of imported products that will face higher tariffs from Friday   Donald Trump has warned that China has “broke the deal … so they’ll be paying” as the US and China moved to within 36 hours of a full-scale ...

  Android Auto — the in-car platform that brings the look and functions of a smartphone to the vehicle’s central screen — is getting a new look and improved navigation and communication features that will roll out this summer. The improvements and new look were revealed Monday during Google I/O ...

The Trump administration is deploying a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East in response to troubling “indications and warnings” from Iran and to show the United States will retaliate with “unrelenting force” to any attack, national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday. With tensions already high ...

Secretary of state chides China’s ‘aggressive behaviour’ Pompeo also accuses Russia of ‘provocative actions’   The US plans to beef up its Arctic presence to keep Russia’s and China’s “aggressive behaviour” in check in the resource-rich region, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has warned “The region has become an ...

Insects are ‘the glue in nature’, says Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, underpinning the food and water we rely on   Humanity must save insects, if not for their sake, then for ourselves, a leading entomologist has warned. “Insects are the glue in nature and there is no doubt that both the [numbers] ...