TEHRAN: Tehran has granted permission for some Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz after repeated requests from Baghdad, state media reported Saturday. “Despite being subjected to the most severe military measures and insecurity created in the strait due to the hostile…
ONLY AVAILABLE IN PAID PLANSDAMASCUS: Israel carried out a fresh strike in Syria on Saturday and lambasted US envoy Tom Barrack for criticising an earlier attack on an air base in the nor…
YANGON, (Myanmar): A Myanmar military airstrike on a monastery where civilians were gathered for a meditation retreat marking Buddhist Lent killed 14 people, t…
CAIRO/WASHINGTON: The United States and Iran exchanged defiant messages ahead of Monday’s scheduled announcement of new US economic sanctions that could impact…
FRANKFURT, (Germany): Six EU countries are stepping up calls for a bloc-wide windfall tax on oil companies as profits soar due to the Middle East war, accordin…
BUSAN NEW PORT, (South Korea): South Korea was set Saturday to send its first trial container through the Arctic, as the Middle East war rattles global shippin…
GEDAREF, (Sudan): Along the bone-dry riverbanks of the Nile in Sudan, farmers struggle to pull water to their crops. Others gather to pray for rainfall over cr…