Petersburg Post Home

The Petersburg Post



US   POLITICS  
US-Iran ceasefire talks: What are the key sticking points?
- High-stakes talks between the United States and Iran have ended without a deal, and Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has blamed the US for the failure of talks held in Islamabad, Pakistan, during a two-week ceasefire in their war. Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's parliament, said on Sunday that his delegation raised "forward-looking" initiatives during the talks on Saturday but the US failed to ...

Source: aljazeera.com
US   POLITICS  
As Swalwell's campaign unravels, his rivals in California governor's race scramble for an opening
- against Rep. Eric Swalwell are , with former allies revoking their endorsements and a growing list of prominent Democrats telling him to withdraw. Less clear is who can claim the support he had amassed — and how they will do so. "Now it's pretty much back to ground zero," said Garry South, a longtime California Democratic strategist. "I don't know how this works out." scrambled an already wide-open field ...

Source: news.yahoo.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
Mauritius vows to 'decolonise' Chagos Islands after Starmer shelves handover
- Mauritian foreign minister pledges to 'spare no effort' to regain control of islands, as US fails to give approval of deal A senior official in Mauritius' government has vowed that the Chagos Islands will be "decolonised" after Keir Starmer was forced to shelve legislation to hand the islands back to Mauritius. On Friday, UK government officials acknowledged that they had run out of time to pass legislation within ...

Source: theguardian.com