Iran is ready to negotiate with the U.S. and is optimistic that a deal can be reached if the goal is to get to a place where the country has no nuclear weapons.

Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened on Monday for limited traffic, a key step in the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic development on the ground as few people will be allowed to travel in either direction and no goods will be going into the war-torn territory.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday (February 2) said he had agreed on a trade deal with India that slashes U.S. tariffs on Indian goods in exchange for India lowering trade barriers and halting its of purchases of Russian oil and shifting them to the United States and potentially Venezuela.

Iran says it has had summoned all of the European Union ambassadors in the Islamic Republic to protest the bloc’s listing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terror group. Iranian

Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has lifted its ban on the Grok AI chatbot after X Corp shared plans to prevent its misuse.

Russian cargo plane reportedly lands at Cuban military base amid escalating U.S.-Cuba tensions and Trump's national emergency declaration over Havana.

Washington and Caracas have moved quickly to open Venezuela’s oil sector to U.S. investment. Ordinary Venezuelans will wait longer to feel any benefit.

China has become the first nation to outlaw the Tesla-style concealed door handle. Demanded by Elon Musk against the safety concerns of his own engineers, the handle and its electronic opening mechanism have been implicated in multiple fatal incidents where trapped passengers couldn’t open their doors from the inside,