Politics

Iran is demanding concrete action from Washington before advancing nuclear negotiations, with a senior official saying Friday that Tehran will no longer rely on written U.S. commitments.

TRIPP is not Donald Trump's personal business project; it is also a business project for the state, Secretary of the Security Council Alen Simonyan said during the Second Global Armenian Summit.

Vice President JD Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff favor diplomacy, while Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and U.S. Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper support renewed military operations, the newspaper reported, citing U.S. officials.

US President Donald Trump named longtime aide Stephen Miller as his chief of staff on Friday, giving the architect of some of his toughest domestic policies one of the most powerful jobs in Washington after Republicans lost ​control of Congress.

Ararat Mirzoyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Armenia, held a meeting with Asel Zhanasova, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

European leaders push back against Washington’s proposal for a broader security framework, warning that Moscow cannot dictate the continent’s future as US-led peace negotiations over Ukraine prepare to resume in Abu Dhabi.

“I am confident that Armenia and Turkey will establish diplomatic relations in the near future,” Nikol Pashinyan said during the Global Armenian Summit 2026, responding to a question from one of the participants.

President Donald Trump met with his national security team Thursday to discuss whether to resume military operations against Iran, senior officials confirmed to Fox News.

The White House has denied rumours that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio might leave their jobs in a post-election shakeup of the Trump administration.

Santiago Peña resigned as president of Paraguay amid the Ueno Bank crisis and was later impeached over an alleged conflict of interest. Vice President Pedro Alliana will take office, while millions of Paraguayans wait to recover their deposits.

“Armenia's membership in the European Union is our long-term goal,” Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated during discussions on the draft 2027 state budget at the National Assembly.

According to the Minister, just as in previous years, our region and immediate neighborhood will remain a top priority in 2027.

EU foreign ministers will hold a “deep dive” in January on new measures against Georgia, Kallas said, as the European Commission's annual report flags deepening backsliding in democratic standards.

The EU is increasingly tying enlargement to foreign policy and democratic alignment, including with a new gradual integration plan, leaving Serbia, Georgia and Turkey with the lowest scores and signs of backsliding.

The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, has commented on the Democrats sweeping the US midterm elections, saying that the Iranian nation “handed Trump a strategic defeat on the battlefield and in the Hormuz — and a political defeat in Washington”.