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Iraq's Ruling Pro-Iran Bloc Races To Choose PM, While US Rejects Main Candidates Via The Cradle The US has suspended all funding and security coordination with Iraq, and shipments of dollars the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), until a new Baghdad government acceptable to Washington is formed, Saudi state-owned Al-Hadath reported Monday. The US is also conditioning continued security cooperation on the disclosure of those involved in the bombing of its embassy, the news channel added.  President Trump previously with the current Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani Nevertheless, on Monday, the CBI released a statement rejecting the Al-Hadath report....

Germany, France, UK See Opportunity To Revive Putin Talks Without Washington Europe's most influential powers of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom are trying to again jump-start Ukraine war peace talks, collectively operating as the E3 group. They seek to implement a new framework aimed at engaging Russian President Vladimir Putin in direct negotiations to end the war. Reuters on Wednesday reports that "A window for dialogue is slowly opening between Russia and Europe on Ukraine, ​although it is likely to be months before talks can ‌begin, a German government official...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that President Donald Trump agreed that any peace agreement with Iran must include Tehran abandoning nuclear enrichment. “President Trump and I agreed that any final agreement with Iran must eliminate the nuclear danger,” the Israeli leader wrote on X Sunday. “That means dismantling Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites and removing […]