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Qatar says ‘no alternative to diplomacy’ as Belgium and Rwanda restore ties
Doha lauded for mediating Brussels-Kigali rupture, showcasing its trusted role in international peace efforts.
Flying kites in Gaza is a freedom
Flying kites in Gaza is a freedom (machine-translated headline from a Turkish-language source)
Stubb: ‘Russia Is Not Going to Win’ as Ukraine Seeks Ceasefire and Putin Peace Talks
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said Ukraine is in a stronger position militarily, politically, and financially than it was a year ago, arguing that Russia is not winning the war and that the next step should be bringing Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. Speaking to Bloomberg Talks, Stubb said peace negotiations had recently resumed, with US presidential envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff traveling to Moscow before heading to Kyiv. He said the renewed diplomatic activity could lead to a partial ceasefire before winter. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “I think we’re in a much better place in general than we were a year ago,” Stubb said in an interview, published Wednesday, Sept. 23, adding that Ukraine is currently “on top” on the battlefield. Stubb argued that Russia is failing to make decisive territorial gains despite continuing its offensive. “This year the Russians have acquired 900 kilometers [560 miles] of land from Ukraine. But Ukraine has taken 800 km [500 miles] back,” he said, describing the situation on the ground as a stalemate in terms of territorial gains. He also cited what he described as a current “killing ratio” of one Ukrainian soldier to five Russian soldiers, while acknowledging that the comparison was “morbid.” “So I think the message that we have to the Russians is that listen, you guys are not going to win this. So let’s try to end it,” Stubb said. “Zelensky wants peace. Trump wants peace and now we need to get Putin to the peace table.” Europe Warned It Is Running Out of Time to Prepare for Wider War With Russia Stubb backs reciprocal energy ceasefire Stubb also addressed Ukraine’s strikes on Russian oil refineries and Moscow’s calls for a halt to attacks on energy infrastructure. He said any agreement to stop attacks on energy infrastructure would need to be mutual. “If Ukraine doesn’t hit oil refineries, then Russia should not hit energy and electricity installations in Ukraine, especially as winter is coming,” Stubb said. He acknowledged that Russia’s record in such arrangements has been poor, adding that Moscow continues to strike Ukrainian targets while Ukraine has focused some of its long-range attacks on Russian oil refineries and logistics centers. Stubb said he understood the reasoning behind Ukraine’s attacks, describing Russian oil refineries and logistics centers as important sources of revenue and support for Russia’s war effort. Ukraine needs air defense, energy support, and money Stubb said Ukraine’s immediate needs remain largely unchanged from those he outlined during a NATO meeting in July: air defense, support for energy infrastructure ahead of winter, and financial assistance. “There are three things that Ukraine needs. One is air defense and second one is energy installations for the winter and the third one is money,” he said. Finland recently provided a package worth about €300 million ($343 million), which Stubb said was focused on critical air defense, but he acknowledged that more support would be necessary. He specifically pointed to the need for Patriot and other anti-ballistic systems, saying countries that possess such systems should help Ukraine. Stubb was also asked about efforts to allow Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles domestically. He said he did not have the latest information because he had not yet spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following his latest meeting with US President Donald Trump. However, Stubb said he viewed meetings between Trump and Zelensky positively because they allow the US president to receive a direct assessment of the battlefield and Ukraine’s needs. Trump could take stronger role in negotiations Stubb said Trump’s decision to allow his negotiators to become involved again in the peace process could indicate that the US president is preparing to take a stronger role in negotiations. “The president of the United States is extremely active,” Stubb said, adding that Trump is simultaneously dealing with issues in the Western Hemisphere, domestic politics, the Middle East and Ukraine. “But it seems to me that he’s of course allowing his negotiators to get involved again, which would indicate to me as well that President Trump will take an even stronger role now in the peace negotiation,” he said. You can also highlight the text and press Ctrl + Enter
Pakistan’s latest Trump bet is on drone firm already selling to India
The company's cofounder is also an ex-Israeli soldier. Pakistan does not recognise Israel.
Wall Street’s Nasdaq hits all-time high as AI frenzy gathers pace
Investors shrug off AI safety concerns and Iran war, sending market to a new peak.
France rebukes world over Gaza as Canada, UK back Palestinian state at UNGA
France's Macron says suffering in Gaza should 'shame all of us' as Canada's Carney pledges $71m for two-state efforts.
UK Prime Minister vows not to ‘stand by’ as Palestinians suffer
UK PM Burnham condemned Israel’s war on Gaza, and explains why the UK sanctioned illegal Israeli settlements.
Witkoff calls consultations with Iran through mediators successful
US Special Envoy noted that the mediators will continue their work
US must accept new status of Strait of Hormuz for shipping to pass through — Iranian envoy
It will be determined "precisely by the two countries that possess this strait - Iran and Oman," Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali said
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrives in New York for UNGA
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has arrived in New York as the US-Iran war continues.
Iran war live: Trump threat ‘demonstrates America’s strategic dead end’
Tehran says latest threats by US president 'demonstrate America’s strategic dead end' to the nearly seven-month war.
Iran flights to Baghdad, Muscat cancelled ahead of US aviation sanctions
Iran's aviation officials negotiate with Oman and Iraq as US's Bessent targets carriers seven months into the conflict.
UNGA Day 1: US and Iran hold talks despite Trump’s threat
The US and Iran hold talks on UNGA’s first day, despite Trump threatening to ‘annihilate’ Iran in his opening address.
Palestinian Americans meet US lawmakers as Trump seeks $2.8bn for Israel
Organisers say more than 300 constituents met with House and Senate members from 26 states to demand US policy shift.
Iran and US hold talks on sidelines of UN summit, says Trump
Iranian officials held three hours of talks with US special envoy Steve Witkoff on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, Donald Trump disclosed on Tuesday. He said there would a further meeting in the very near future. Witkoff said he felt very good about the meeting, the first such contact since the US vice-president, JD Vance, met an Iranian delegation to agree a memorandum of understanding in Switzerland in June. Iranian officials confirmed the meeting with Witkoff involved its foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, and was mediated by diplomats from Qatar. A senior Iranian official also indicated that the country was prepared to reopen the strait of Hormuz within a week, so long as the US took reciprocal steps to ease the military and economic pressure it is applying on Iran. Previously, Iran had set seven onerous preconditions for lifting its blockade on the strait, one of the world’s key oil shipping routes, including an end to the US war “on all fronts” and a commitment by the US to end all aggressive actions against Iran, including sanctions. The new position, revealed amid frantic backstage negotiations at the UN general assembly in New York and set out by an Iranian official in Tehran to the Japanese news agency Kyodo and then to Reuters, would involve relaxing some of those preconditions. The official claimed the position had been approved by Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, and the country’s supreme national security council, although some Iranian media close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) denied any new position had been adopted, reflecting disputes in Tehran. Diplomats had been testing the ground for possible talks between the US and Iran, with Qatar’s diplomats in talks with Araghchi. A meeting between Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, and Trump had largely been ruled out as too combustible, however. Pezeshkian is due on Wednesday to address the UN general assembly, where most of the Iranian delegation left the hall during Trump’s speech on Tuesday after he described Iran as the bully of the Middle East and the number one terror organisation on Earth. But earlier, the IRGC issued a statement that said there was no contradiction between staging negotiations and waging war at the same time, a position echoed by Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Ghalibaf, in recent remarks delivered online to the Iranian parliament. The official said Iran was seeking signs from Washington that it was prepared to return to negotiations and take steps toward ending its military blockade of Iranian ports and halting military operations related to the strait of Hormuz. In that case Iran was prepared to reopen the strategic waterway within seven days and return to the negotiating table, according to the official. Such preconditions are less stringent than those issued by other senior Iranian figures in the previous 48 hours. Experience has shown that initially appealing Iranian offers can emerge to be more complex once the small print is revealed, and there is a hardly disguised tussle being played out in Tehran between hardliners and figures like Pezeshkian over the value of any talks. Resolving these disputes is not made easier by the low profile kept by the Supreme Leader, normally the arbiter in such internal ructions. Trump, in his remarks to the general assembly, said he had a big decision to make: whether to annihilate Iran, or to help it become a great country. “Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?” he asked, adding he expected Iran to make a deal immediately after the US midterm elections. Overall, his demeanour, and the mixed signals out of Tehran, suggest the two sides are still too far apart to reach a deal, which would have to start with agreement between Iran and Oman on a new route for commercial shipping in the strait of Hormuz that largely goes through Iranian waters. The Gulf states have not endorsed such a deal. Saudi Arabia also wanted to be a signatory and authoriser of the route, but Iran insisted it had to be endorsed only by the two countries in which the strait’s waterways pass – Iran and Oman. Tehran is also under growing pressure as the US blockade of its oil exports plays havoc with its currency reserves and domestic inflation. In his speech, Trump called on other countries to isolate Iran economically, including by demanding that all nations prevent any Iranian civilian planes from landing at their airports. US diplomats have warned Turkey and Iraq to comply or face sanctions. Many of the Gulf states were also planning to urge Trump to do more to press Israel to meet its commitments under the peace plan to withdraw from Gaza. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prompted a walk-out by the Israeli delegation when he described Gaza as “the world’s largest graveyard and the most inhumane and shameful concentration camp of our time”. He added: “Israel refuses to stop the occupation. We are faced with a genocidal mindset that can never get enough of killing. No one with a sense of humanity, mercy, or compassion, no one guided by justice and conscience can possibly remain indifferent to this picture.” Jordan’s King Abdullah, in his address, claimed: “With Israel, resolutions end where they began on paper. This result is a state without restraint. This government’s sense of impunity has reached terrifying levels. It no longer feels compelled to ask: ‘Can we get away with this?’ It already knows the answer.” He added that what was unfolding across the occupied West Bank was not a series of isolated acts but rather “elements of a single policy to compel an entire population to leave their land. And there is a name for that: forced displacement. And that is a war crime.” A statement from eight Gulf foreign ministers also called on Israel to immediately fulfil its outstanding commitments under the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, including by ensuring the immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance and early recovery supplies, and facilitating the rehabilitation of critical infrastructure. The ministers reiterated their categorical rejection of any measures aimed at the expulsion or the forced displacement of the Palestinian people from their homeland or attempts to alter the territorial or demographic character of the occupied Palestinian territory.
Trump heaps praise on Middle East leaders at UN meeting on Iran war
Trump heaps praise on Middle East leaders at UN meeting on Iran war Submitted by Yasmine El-Sabawi on Tue, 09/22/2026 - 20:54 No substantive outcome was announced from the US president's gathering with regional stakeholders US President Donald Trump meets with Arab and Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on 22 September 2026. From left to right: Prime Minister of Iraq, Ali al-Zaidi; President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; King of Jordan Abdullah II; Trump; Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani; President of Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa; and Prime Minister of Egypt Mostafa Madbouly (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via AFP) Off US President Donald Trump held a highly anticipated meeting with Arab and Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, where he showered high praise on the officials but left the meeting with no major announcements on the turmoil in the region. Shortly before his meeting on Tuesday, Trump confirmed to reporters that his envoys had sat down with Iranian officials for a three-hour discussion, as all sides seek a face-saving off-ramp from the war. "They had a very good meeting, a very productive meeting," he said. "They have another one scheduled in the very near future." As he later sat down with regional stakeholders, Trump credited his negotiators, special envoy for peace missions Steve Witkoff, and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has no official role in the administration, as having led the talks. "We'll see what happens with that... We've been mediating for a while, but I think there's a lot of momentum for them to make a deal. That's what we're hearing from everybody," Trump said. This year, the US president was flanked by Jordan's King Abdullah; Qatar's Sheikh Tamim; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa; Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi; Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly; Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam; and Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah. So far, Trump has reserved his highest praise at the UNGA for this particular group of leaders. "It's an honour to be here with some of America's greatest and closest friends, allies, and partners to continue our effort toward a safer and more prosperous Middle East," the president said. "Special place, and it's become more special over the last period of time since I've been in politics... I've got a lot of great friends sitting around this table. They're amazing people, and we make sure their lives are good." Every nation at the table around him, he added, "has been outstanding", and Trump thanked them for what he said has been some $21 trillion in US investments from them since he came into office in January 2025. 'We are settling years of unfinished business': Trump talks up Iran, Gaza, Latin America strategy Read More » He particularly thanked Erdogan, with whom he has shared a close friendship since his first term in office, and called him a "fantastic guy" and a "tough cookie". "Don't mess around with him," Trump joked, as the other leaders around him laughed. This is the second year in a row that Trump has held such a meeting, though last year's gathering on the sidelines of the UNGA included some of the world's most populous Muslim nations, Pakistan and Indonesia, and largely focused on enacting a ceasefire in Gaza. That ceasefire went into effect some three weeks later, but Israel has continued to carry out several air strikes on the enclave every week. This year, Iran is in sharp focus, as these regional leaders deal with the literal blows from Iran's retaliatory actions against US interests. "Operation Epic Fury crippled Iran's Navy... Eliminated its air force. They have no planes. Hit over 90 percent of its weapons factories and destroyed 450 ballistic missile storage facilities and 800 drone storage facilities," Trump said of the US-Israeli war that began on 28 February. "We may have to blow up another one, Pickaxe Mountain," he warned. "We're not seeing a lot of activity there, but if we do, we'll blow it up immediately." The leaders in the room maintained a stoic look. They did not address the reporters who were ushered out after Trump's remarks. Diplomacy News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0
Qatari Emir says country won’t ‘limit’ itself as Gulf ‘mediator’
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani told the UN General Assembly that Qatar is more than a mediator.
Silver leads metals higher as dollar strength caps gold after Fed rate repricing - Kitco PM Report
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold prices were modestly firmer and spot silver prices were sharply higher in late U.S. trading Tuesday, as lower oil prices eased the immediate inflation shock from the Strait of Hormuz while Treasury yields and a firm U.S. dollar kept gold’s upside contained. At the time of writing, spot gold was trading near $4,356.80 an ounce, up 0.32% on the session, while spot silver was trading near $66.970, up 1.63%. U.S. equities finished mixed after Monday’s AI-led rally. The S&P 500 slipped 0.06 point, less than 0.1%, to 7,764.64, leaving the benchmark about 0.4% below its record high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 185.14 points, or 0.4%, to 51,863.69. The Nasdaq Composite rose 122.18 points, or 0.5%, to 27,244.28, a record close, while the Russell 2000 gained 14.56 points, or 0.5%, to 2,889.92. European markets were mixed to slightly firmer, with the pan-European Stoxx 600 up 0.13% at 642.78. Germany’s DAX ended nearly flat, up 0.02% at 25,578.85, while France’s CAC 40 rose 0.20% to 8,154.91. The U.K. FTSE 100 fell 0.29% to 10,708.33, and Italy’s FTSE MIB lost 0.53% to 52,371.54. Market positioning remains centered on whether the Fed’s September rate increase was a one-off adjustment or the start of a renewed tightening phase. Futures pricing put the probability of an October 25-basis-point hike near 53.1% earlier in the session, while the dollar index was near 100.48 and the 10-year Treasury yield remained near the 5.0% area. The next tests are Wednesday’s September flash U.S. manufacturing and services PMIs at 9:45 a.m. ET, Thursday’s weekly jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. ET and Friday’s August durable goods orders at 8:30 a.m. ET and final September consumer sentiment at 10:00 a.m. ET. Stronger activity or firmer price components would keep pressure on gold through yields and the dollar, while softer data would give bullion a clearer path to extend above the mid-$4,300s. The Strait of Hormuz risk premium eased but did not disappear. Iran signaled it could reopen Gulf shipping within days if the U.S. lifts pressure and a blockade on Iranian ports, while Saudi Arabia moved to restore exports through its East-West Pipeline and Yanbu port. Brent crude briefly fell below $98 before settling near $99.25 a barrel, reducing the near-term inflation impulse that had supported gold earlier in the conflict. The shift helped equities and silver, but gold’s safe-haven bid was partly offset by the market’s view that even lower oil does not remove the Fed’s inflation problem. The key outside markets see Nymex WTI crude oil prices lower and trading near the low-$90s a barrel, while Brent crude settled near $99.25 a barrel. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note is trading near the 5.0% area. The U.S. dollar index is slightly firmer. (Kitco Global Index shows how much of today's gold move is the dollar versus the gold market itself.) Technically, spot gold bulls' next upside price objective is to push prices back above the $4,393.68 to $4,400.00 resistance zone, with a sustained move targeting $4,480.00 and then $4,500.00. Bears’ next near-term downside price objective is a break below $4,333.11, with deeper downside targets at $4,300.00 and then the $4,160.00 to $4,180.00 range. First resistance is seen at $4,393.68 and then at $4,400.00. First support is seen at $4,333.11 and then at $4,300.00. Spot silver bulls' next upside price objective is to drive prices back above the $67.231 to $68.000 area, with a move above that zone targeting $70.000 and then the psychologically important $71.000 area. The next downside price objective for the bears is a break below $65.898, with deeper downside targets at the 50-day moving average near $63.280 and then the $61.000 to $62.000 zone. First resistance is seen at $67.231 and then at $68.000. Next support is seen at $65.898 and then at $63.280. See live precious metals prices for gold, silver, platinum and palladium — in USD, CAD and 12 more currencies.
Trump says 'a lot of good thoughts' presented at Iran meeting
The US President said his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff "met with the mediators on Iran deal"
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman slams targeting of Mecca by ‘terrorist’ Houthis
Saudi monarch's rare condemnation hints at sense of urgency in the kingdom amid ramped-up attacks from Yemen.