Iran-US war latest: Trump announces historic talks between Lebanon and Israel with White House optimistic for peace - ‘We feel good about the prospects of a deal”, White House Press Secretary Karoline

François Picard welcomes Farès Boueiz, former Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Israeli-Lebanese talks in the US cannot be defined as a "breakthrough", explains the former Lebanese minister. He sees this as a technical prelude to meaningful negotiations.

Direct talks between the two sides lasted some 21 hours in the first meeting of its kind since the war began. But there was no deal to end the war.

Vice President JD Vance said the Iranian delegation had not accepted American terms for ending the war after a marathon, face-to-face session in Pakistan.

It is a distant memory now, but in the 1970s, Iran and Israel were close allies. Their friendship was forged in mutual interests – energy security, military and intelligence sharing, a joint bulwark against hostile Arab regimes and Soviet influence in the region.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington, invoked just war theory in a recent interview about the war in Iran, rightly concluding that this war failed to meet several key criteria of that theory. Just war theory is back; not that it ever really left.

Iran has restored electricity in parts of the capital and nearby areas after strikes damaged power grids and briefly disrupted supply, the deputy energy minister said on Monday. "Following last night's enemy attack, the power grid in the provinces of ...

The war is forcing Democrats to confront a question they have long deferred: whether the party can offer a coherent anti-war alternative to Washington’s foreign policy consensus. Ad Policy Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez articulates her vision of ...

The church's oral tradition is moving toward what Pope Leo XIV described as a "disarming peace" in his 2026 World Day of Peace message. He explains that "the Gospels do not hide the fact that what troubled the disciples was his [Jesus'] nonviolent response ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke out against violence and war during his homily on Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square. He issued a strong condemnation of war and rebuked those who used religion as a rationalization for military conflict. We turn our gaze to Jesus ...

War, peace and your cloud risksFrom cloud-first to cloud-selective: the geopolitical case for private cloud.Issued by InfotechJohannesburg, 15 Apr 2026 Mauritz du Toit, Managing Director, Infotech Integrated Solutions (IIS).