
Variety - 1 hour 57 min ago
Sony’s blockbuster “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” held onto the top spot at the mainland China box office during the Aug. 7 9 weekend, pulling in RMB196.6 million ($28.9 million) in its second full frame. The film has now amassed a cumulative total of $185.4 million since its July 29 opening. Pearl Studio's animated fantasy feature “All […]...

The Independent - 2 hours 52 min ago
Hmeimem air base and Tartus naval base will serve as joint Syrian-Russian training centres under new bilateral deal...

The Independent - 3 hours 33 min ago
Iran has warned the Strait will remain shut until the US meet six crucial conditions...

NPR - 10 hours 15 min ago
NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Peter Salisbury, professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, about how Iran and its allies have reshaped the war in the Middle East.

The Guardian - 13 hours 7 min ago
In rare public break with Trump, Israel's prime minister says IDF will not withdraw until Hamas is disarmed Middle East crisis live latest updates Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , has rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza in a rare public break with Donald Trump. In a statement on Sunday, Netanyahu said that he was confronting a "wave of rumours about Israeli weakness and Israeli withdrawals on all fronts" and rebuked US pressure to end wars in Gaza, Lebanon...

The Independent - 18 hours 55 min ago
Israel and Hamas continue to insist the other must make the first move towards disarmament and withdrawal...

The Guardian - 19 hours 12 min ago
Drone strike comes after Riyadh signs defence pact and Iran issues tough demands to reopen of strait of Hormuz Middle East crisis live latest updates Yemen's Tehran-aligned Houthis have claimed responsibility for an attack on a refinery in Saudi Arabia, two days after the kingdom signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan in response to growing regional instability caused by the US-Israel war on Iran. The attack early on Sunday came after Iran issued tough new demands to reopen the strait...

The Independent - 19 hours 40 min ago
Mr Trump claimed there had been a breakthrough in his plan to end the war which both Israel and Hamas agreed...

The Guardian - 19 hours 41 min ago
IRGC says strait is a theatre of war for us and not just a waterway' Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp said they will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the United States meets Tehran's conditions, including compensation for war damages. The IRGC said their strategy was to maintain the closure "until the enemy accepts all our conditions ... the strait is now actually a theatre of war for us and not just a waterway". Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian has said he believes...

The Independent - 21 hours 26 min ago
Struggling to find food, work or any semblance of normality - as well as living with the daily risk of bombing under a shaky ceasefire - the people of southern Iran tell Amirhossein Miresmaeili how they feel entirely on their own...

NPR - 21 hours 58 min ago
Meanwhile, Iran has made new demands about the restart of negotiations and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons.