07/23/2026July 23, 2026 Houthis ‘snookered’ into joining US-Iran conflict — Rubio Rubio accused Iran of violating previous deals with the US, saying Tehran would “pay the price for it”Image: Brendan Smialowski/Pool AFP/AP Photo/dpa/picture alliance US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he believed that Yemen’s Houthi rebels had been tricked into joining the conflict … Read more
Their death sentences over the botched 2024 coup effort have been commuted to life imprisonment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United States citizens convicted for taking part in a failed coup attempt last year, reducing their punishments to life imprisonment. Tshisekedi issued the … Read more
Speaking in China, the UN secretary-general called for an ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Israel and Gaza. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Israel-Gaza war. Speaking in Beijing just hours after the bombing of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, Guterres said that Hamas “attacks cannot justify the … Read more