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Jared Kushner

Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner: The son-in-law and Senior Advisor to US President Donald Trump, married to Ivanka Trump.
Copies of the Iranian daily newspaper Hamshahri carrying a title that reads in Persian “The Strait of Hormuz remains closed” on display outside a kiosk in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday. Photo: EPA
US, Israel war on Iran

Iran warns Gulf nations against helping US as UAE halts trade ties

Armed forces chief of staff Ali Abdollahi says ‘any assistance or facilitation provided’ will amount to participation in US military activities.

US, Israel war on Iran

Trump posts map with Hormuz as ‘new US territory’, says no Iran talks planned

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Middle East

Kushner talks with Israel, Hamas end without breakthrough on Trump Gaza plan

Israel-Gaza war

US envoy Kushner meets Hamas leader in push for Gaza road map

Israeli PM Netanyahu last week rejected the US-backed 15-point plan in a rare public show of defiance against the Trump administration.

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Jared Kushner in Washington in February. On Sunday, the US negotiator held a rare meeting with Hamas’ chief Khalil al-Hayya. Photo: Getty Images / TNS
Donald Trump

BBC asks US court for help with testimony from Trump family in defamation suit

Trump is seeking US$10 billion in damages from the UK broadcaster, alleging that a documentary edited a speech he gave on January 6, 2021.

United States

Russia frees ailing ex-US marine after Putin’s ‘goodwill’ pardon

Robert Gilman was released on humanitarian grounds with no prisoner exchange after intervention by the White House.

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Indonesia

Offside move? Why Indonesia’s football chief backed Fifa privatisation plan

Erick Thohir said the Indonesian football association should back Fifa’s proposal because of its contributions to the local game.

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Erick Thohir attends the pre-Olympic play-off match between Indonesia and Guinea at Paris 2024. Photo: AFP
Israel-Gaza war

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ conditions Israel’s Gaza withdrawal on Hamas disarmament

US-backed panel seeks to calm Israeli pushback over framework for war-torn enclave.

Fifa

Infantino forced to scrap World Cup sell-off plan, senior Fifa adviser quits

Fifa president scraps plans to sell off World Cup hours after former Goldman Sachs banker Carlos Cordeiro calls it ‘bad deal for football’.

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Fifa

Fifa not ‘selling football’ as Uefa vows World Cup boycott over Infantino plan

World governing body says ⁠it will not create subsidiary without ⁠majority support after widespread condemnation of president’s idea.

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin (right) and Fifa head Gianni Infantino at the Uefa Congress in Brussels in February. Photo: Reuters
Fifa

Asian body joins opposition to Fifa, Infantino’s World Cup private equity plan

Asian Football Confederation aligns with Uefa, Concacaf against plan to sell stakes in World Cup, says new management style needed.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino (centre) at the Asian Football Confederation Congress in Manama, Bahrain in 2023. Photo: AFP
Fifa

Fifa miscalculated Uefa leverage, now football’s ‘American century’ under threat

Proposed sale of private equity stake has caused split in the game, and highlighted the risks associated with involving US money men.

Fifa

Uefa votes to boycott World Cup if Fifa goes ahead with private investor plan

The core investor would be a US investment firm created by Joshua Kushner, the brother of US President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

US, Israel war on Iran

Trump claims Iran wants to resume talks with US despite ceasefire breaches

US president’s remarks underscore the increasingly contradictory state of relations between Washington and Tehran.

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US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington had agreed to resume discussions with Iran despite military exchanges resuming this week. Photo: Getty Images via AFP
US, Israel war on Iran

Trump sees progress as US and Iran hold talks in Qatar

Both sides agreed to establish a communication channel to report and record violations of their initial memorandum of understanding.

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Women talk in front of a banner depicting slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei kissing head of the late commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard expeditionary Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, in downtown Tehran on Monday. Photo: AP
US, Israel war on Iran

Ship runs aground in Strait of Hormuz, not using Iran-approved route: state TV

The vessel was described as a foreign container ship in a report apparently aimed at underlining Tehran’s claims to control the strait.

US, Israel war on Iran

US, Iran officials hold indirect talks in Qatar to try to end war: diplomat

US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are apparently not taking part in the technical talks. They met Qatar’s PM on Tuesday.

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United States

Iran agrees to invite IAEA inspectors back, says US

This is ‘the first step in permanently ending a nuclear weapons programme in Iran’, said US Vice-President J.D. Vance.

Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, in June 2025 before the start of a special meeting on US attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. Photo: dpa
US, Israel war on Iran

Could Iran replace China as US soybean market? Farmers aren’t buying Trump pitch

American growers sceptical, dismissing claims of a new Iranian market for their exports as unrealistic and misleading.

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US, Israel war on Iran

US and Iran embark on ‘historic’ nuclear peace talks at Swiss resort

With help from Pakistani and Qatari mediators, teams from Washington and Tehran try to shore up a ceasefire.

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US, Israel war on Iran

Vance in Switzerland for US-Iran talks as Hormuz closed again

Making ‘progress’ on Tehran’s nuclear programme and Lebanon ceasefire are expected to top the agenda.

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Smoke billows after an Israeli drone carried out a double strike on a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on Saturday. Photo: ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
US, Israel war on Iran

Trump threatens US tolls on Hormuz after Iran says strait is closed

Peace talks in Switzerland could be off to a rough start, with Tehran warning that Israel’s attacks in Lebanon must stop.

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The Strait of Hormuz near Khasab, a small town in northern Oman. Photo: Xinhua
Ukraine war

Putin and Zelensky hold calls with Trump as US president marks 80th birthday

Trump said ending the Ukraine war could open the door to a ‘new quality of US-Russian relations’, according to a Russian presidential aide.

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Albania

Fury over Jared Kushner’s Albania project reaches doors of political elite

Protesters want the entire political establishment to step aside, including PM Rama, who insists the development will create jobs.

Albania

Protests grow over Trump family-linked resort project in Albania

Luxury project linked to Jared Kushner is planned for an uninhabited island and pristine coastline, sparking resistance.

A demonstrator is hit with a water cannon used by police during a protest in Tirana, Albania, against the luxury resort. Photo: Reuters
US, Israel war on Iran

Vance says Iran talks making ‘good progress’, but US forces ‘locked and loaded’

Vice-President J.D. Vance said US and Iran are working together positively; however, military campaign will restart if negotiations collapse.

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US Vice-President J.D. Vance speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Photo: AFP
2026 Xi-Trump summits

Eric and Lara Trump – the new US first family faces making the trip to China

The American president’s wife may be absent but his son appears in the entourage in a ‘personal capacity’.

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US, Israel war on Iran

Trump and Iran trade red lines as Putin enters the diplomatic crossfire

Message via Pakistan outlines terms on nuclear work and Strait of Hormuz, as Moscow signals support and Washington considers next move.

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