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Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation President Abdulrahman bin Abdullatif al-Mannai with Team Qatar drivers Abdulla al-Khelaifi, Julian Hanses and Frenchman Giuliano Alesi and Iron Lynx Team Principal and CEO Andrea Piccini. Team Qatar will make their Le Mans 24 Hours endurance debut this weekend in a significant step for a small country with big motorsport ambitions. The team have linked up with Italy-based Iron Lynx to field an LMGT3 Mercedes-AMG entry at the French Circuit de la Sarthe with Qatari driver Abdulla al-Khelaifi partnering German Julian Hanses and Frenchman Giuliano Alesi, son of former Formula One racer Jean. Qatar’s Le Mans entry is part of a plan to grow its local involvement in the sport. The country already hosts MotoGP, Formula One and the World Endurance Championship (WEC) rounds, is a stakeholder in the Audi F1 team via Qatar Investment Authority and is home to Dakar Rally champion Nasser al-Attiyah. “The vision for us...is to have Qatari drivers competing at the highest level of motorsports, whether it’s Le Mans or even Formula One,” Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation President Abdulrahman bin Abdullatif al-Mannai told Reuters. “Qatari drivers picked up by teams and factories - this is what we’d like to see at the end of it. We started very, very small in our national championships and now our regional, continental and now we’re pushing to the worldwide stage.” Qatari driver Abdulla
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President Donald Trump speaks at the White House Wednesday. (Reuters) President Donald Trump Wednesday said the United States would strike Iran again if no peace deal is secured, threatening further escalation following one of the most significant exchanges of hostilities in two months. "We're going to be attacking them, attacking them very hard," Trump told reporters at the White House, saying the strikes were coming.The US and Iran have traded fire several times since a tentative ceasefire took hold in early April, even as negotiators have sought an end to the three-month-old war. Trump has repeatedly said a deal is close, though there has been no sign of a breakthrough. In the latest such incident, the US military targeted air defenses and radar sites around the Strait of Hormuz after a US attack helicopter was downed near the strategic waterway. Iran responded with missile and drone attacks on US bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain. A US official said there was no significant damage.Iran said the US had violated international law by striking reservoirs that supplied drinking water to 10 villages. "This is not collateral damage — it is a calculated war crime and a flagrant violation of human rights," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghei said.Trump, who has threatened before to destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure, did not say whether the coming strikes would target power plants and bridges.The head of the Iranian parliament's national security committee, Ebrahim Azizi, warned in response that the "war won't be limited to the region."Despite the belligerent language from both sides, there were signs of continuing diplomatic efforts.A delegation from Qatar, which has been mediating between the US and Iran, landed in Tehran Wednesday to hold talks on the latest developments, Iranian media reported.The war has killed thousands and disrupted roughly one-fifth of the world's supply of oil and natural gas, sending prices sharply higher. Iran has blocked traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, while the US has maintained its own blockade on Iranian ports.Oil prices rose nearly $3 following Trump's threat of escalation, to $94 per barrel. Trump said vessels carrying 100mn barrels of oil have defied Iran to travel through the strait as part of a secret military mission. He said oil prices would be much higher without the effort.Separately, the US military said it disabled an oil tanker transporting Iranian crude in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday for a second consecutive day.Fighting in a parallel war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon has continued. Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 13 people Wednesday, Lebanese security sources said, while Hezbollah claimed fresh attacks against Israeli forces. Tehran's demands include an end to Israel's attacks in Lebanon, the lifting of sanctions on Iran, the release of billions of dollars in frozen assets, and recognition of its control of the strait.Trump says Iran must end its restrictions on shipping through Hormuz. He also says any peace deal must ensure Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon.Iran denies any such ambition. The UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a US-backed resolution Wednesday telling Iran to declare its remaining enriched uranium stocks and let inspectors verify them. Iran branded the resolution as "political". Related Story
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The leaders of North Korea and China adopted a "far-reaching blueprint" for bilateral ties during Xi Jinping's recent visit to Pyongyang, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Wednesday.China's president made a rare visit to diplomatically isolated North Korea on Monday after hosting a series of world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in Beijing.The trip also came at a time of unusually warm relations between North Korea and Russia, where Pyongyang has sent soldiers and munitions to assist Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.Kim and Xi "expressed satisfaction and deep emotion over the fact that they provided a far-reaching blueprint for the development of the relations", KCNA reported.During the two-day trip, "the countries further deepened the revolutionary friendship and close comradely relationship and affirmed their steadfast will to develop the traditional DPRK-China friendly ties into a model of the most powerful and strategic relations", it added.Xi and Kim toured the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party, where they discussed the training of party officials and planted a commemorative tree, before visiting the Friendship Tower memorial honouring Chinese soldiers who fought in the Korean War.Xi was afforded a lavish welcome on the trip, which he took with his wife and other senior officials.Afterwards, he thanked Kim in a letter, saying the leaders had "made an in-depth exchange of views on the issues of mutual interest and achieved a series of important common understanding", according to KCNA.The talks "showed the firm determination of both sides to add lustre to the traditional friendship, promote development and prosperity together and defend peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world", Xi reportedly wrote.On Tuesday, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Xi as saying he had reached "an important consensus with Kim on developing China-DPRK relations in the new era", using North Korea's official acronym.Xi pushed to strengthen diplomatic, law enforcement and military ties, according to Beijing's state media.By sharing information in the military sector, China appears to want to "directly assess technological changes within the North Korean military and the status of Russian technology transfer", said Hong Min, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification.China may also hope to "collect intelligence for the purpose of monitoring trends in pro-Russian and pro-Chinese human networks within the North Korean military", he added.Nuclear silenceXi's trip came after last month's talks with Trump, during which the White House said the leaders "confirmed their shared goal to denuclearise North Korea".But official media reports from both China and North Korea made no mention of denuclearisation in their coverage of the Xi-Kim summit.Analysts said that suggested Beijing was tacitly accepting Pyongyang's status as a nuclear-armed state.Kim has repeatedly vowed never to give up his nuclear arsenal, and his powerful sister said before Xi's visit that the programme was Pyongyang's "line of no retreat".Despite being historically highly reliant on political and economic support from China, Kim has drawn North Korea closer to Russia in recent years.He has boosted an alliance with Putin by sending troops to fight alongside Russian forces against Ukraine.Still, Beijing remains an economic anchor for North Korea, whose economy has been hobbled for years by international sanctions over its nuclear programme.China accounted for $2.6bn of North Korea's foreign trade — nearly 98% of the total — in 2024, according to Republic of Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance. Related Story
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North Korea and China both walked away claiming major wins from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit this week to the isolated state, which helped elevate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s global stature and pulled Pyongyang more tightly into China’s orbit. The two countries each lavished the other with praise and spoke of deeper co-operation during the two-day trip, which saw Kim greet Xi with a 21-gun salute as well as a performance of Chinese and North Korean songs and avoided discussion of thornier issues such as denuclearisation and the United States. Kim “has often talked about how North Korea is now a pivotal player in reshaping the global order, and its partnership with Russia has been a major catalyst in validating that assertion,” said Jenny Town, director of the Korea program at the Washington-based Stimson Center. “Having Xi now take his first trip out of country this year to visit Pyongyang on an agenda that didn’t include North Korea’s nuclear programme, was a big win for Kim.” The lack of discussion around denuclearisation, which had in the past strained China’s relationship with North Korea, is a significant change. On the eve of Xi’s visit, Kim Yo Jong, the North Korean leader’s sister, slammed the US as spreading false information, after Washington in May said that Xi and US President Donald Trump had confirmed a shared goal to denuclearise North Korea during talks in Beijing. “Beijing has very clearly moved on from that issue and now tacitly accepts North Korea as a nuclear state, which likely puts China on an equal footing with Russia in Pyongyang’s eyes,” said Jeremy Chan, a China & Northeast Asia analyst at Eurasia Group. “I think China achieved its primary goal of this trip, which was drawing North Korea closer and counterbalancing Russia’s growing influence in North Korea.” Asked about whether Kim and Xi discussed denuclearisation on Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry told a regular briefing that China’s position and policy on the peninsula remained consistent and stable. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment if the lack of mention meant an implicit acceptance of North Korea as a nuclear state. Still, analysts noted there were distinct differences in the two sides’ accounts of the leaders’ talks, with N Korea more focused on the pageantry of the event and positioning itself as an equal to Beijing, while China spoke of hoped-for outcomes around trade, tourism and law enforcement. Town said it indicated there were limits to how far the North was willing to go to improve the relationship with China, after moving closer to Russia in recent years by sending military support for the Ukraine war and receiving economic help in return.
