Saudi Arabia is making one of its strongest pushes yet for an enduring peace deal with Iran-backed fighters in Yemen as it seeks to end a war that has unnerved oil markets and devastated the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula.
Kuwait named the prime minister’s fourth government in eight months, as the oil-rich OPEC member faces little let-up from political uncertainty and economic malaise.
China held a second day of military drills around Taiwan, with multiple exercises involving aircraft and ships, after the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, returned from a visit to the US.
Local leaders in Tennessee will decide this week whether to reinstate two young Democratic lawmakers expelled from the Republican-controlled state legislature — and each said on Sunday he’d accept.
Ukraine has laid thousands of anti-tank mines near its border with Belarus and Russia to fortify defensive positions, Ukraine’s defense ministry said. On Sunday, Russia bombed what Ukrainian officials called an “infrastructure facility” in the Chernihiv region. Social media images suggest a direct hit on a bridge near the Russian border.
The Biden administration is weighing every option to strike down a “reckless” ruling by a federal judge in Texas that suspended a US approval of a key drug used in medication abortions, Xavier Becerra, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, said on Sunday.
Germany’s ambassador flew out of Chad late Saturday after the central African nation’s military leadership gave him 48 hours to leave the country.
Huawei Technologies Co. is looking to make Riyadh its headquarters for the Middle East amid a push by the Saudi government to position itself as a regional business hub and growing diplomatic and business ties with China, according to people familiar with the matter.
Rare rocket attacks from Syria embroiled Israel on yet another front after days of escalating regional violence ignited by a clash at a Jerusalem holy site.
South Korea played down any possibility of a rift with the US over a report that American intelligence agencies had eavesdropped on allies’ discussions about Ukraine, reiterating that its alliance with Washington remains strong.
