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US unable to secure Hormuz alone, Trump seeks global help. Allies hesitate!

NEW DELHI: Amid rising tensions in the Middle East, Donald Trump has called for a multinational naval coalition to secure the Strait of Hormuz...

Iran Warns of Strikes on U.S. Oil Assets Following Kharg Island Attack

TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi issued a stark warning on Saturday, stating that any further U.S. aggression toward Iran’s energy infrastructure...

Israeli soldiers fire on family car in occupied West Bank, killing 4

RAMALLAH (WEST BANK): Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people, including two children, the...

OpenAI Chairmanstruggles to let go of coding amid AI revolution

NEW DELHI: As chatGPT maker-OpenAI is racing to build the most advanced AI coding agent, its chairman Bret Taylor admits that he still finds...

Seoul PM says Trump thinks Kim Jong Un meeting would be ‘good’

SEOUL: South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said Saturday that US President Donald Trump thinks a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...

‘Great honour to kill Iranians’: Trump escalates rhetoric as tensions with Tehran rise

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has sparked fresh controversy after declaring that it is a “great honour” for him, as America’s 47th President, to...

Bodies of 45 Iranian sailors handed to Iran embassy in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Friday handed over the bodies of 45 Iranian sailors killed in an attack on an Iranian warship off the island’s...

Russia welcomes US sanctions waiver

DUBAI: Russia sees a US sanctions waiver on its oil as ‌an ‌attempt by ‌Washington ⁠to stabilize global energy ⁠markets, and the two countries...

No end to war in sight, Iran’s attacks on shipping, energy infra send oil price past $100

DUBAI: Iranian attacks on shipping traffic and energy infrastructure pushed oil above $100 a barrel Thursday as American and Israeli strikes pounded the Islamic...

Thai-flagged cargo ship sailing through Strait of Hormuz struck by Iran

‘Ignored warnings,’ says IRGC NEW DELHI: In a major escalation amid the ongoing US-Iran war, a Thailand-flagged cargo ship came under attack while sailing through...

Bangladesh gets Iran’s waiver in Hormuz Strait

China gets 12 million barrels from Tehran NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing war with the US and Israel, Iran on Wednesday said it was...

Nasa to reveal when Artemis-II will launch to Moon after multiple delays

WASHINGTON: Nasa is holding a major press conference on March 13 to update the world on the status of Artemis II, the space agency's...

Tipsy traveller: Interstellar comet 3I/ Atlas is loaded with alcohol

NEW DELHI: Astronomers studying the rare interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS have discovered that the comet is unusually rich in methanol, a type of alcohol, offering...

Iran launches new attacks at Israel, Gulf countries

Keeps up pressure on Middle East DUBAI: Iran launched new attacks on Tuesday on Israel and Gulf Arab countries as it kept up pressure on...

UAE consulate in Iraq damaged in drone attack

Saudi condemns targeting of diplomatic premises DUBAI: A diplomatic mission of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Iraq was struck by a drone attack early...

Trump, Putin discuss Ukraine, West Asia tensions over phone

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he had a “very good call” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the two leaders discussed the...

Iran war rages, oil prices skyrocket, govts across world scramble to limit fallout

A mourner throws flowers during a funeral ceremony for victims of Israeli and U.S. strikes, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran,...

Putin congratulates new Iranian Supreme Leader

Offers Russia’s ‘unwavering’ support to Tehran in war against US, Israel MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Zelensky on Monday extended his country’s ‘unwavering’ support to Iran...

US employee groups representing 700,000 workers from Amazon, Google, Microsoft demand tech giants reject Pentagon’s military AI contracts

Workers call for transparency, resilience against military use of AI Urge companies to uphold ethical standards, ban repressive govt partnerships NEW DELHI: A number of letters...

China blasts Middle East war, urges US to manage ties

BEIJING: China’s top diplomat condemned on Sunday the war in the Middle East and urged the United States to iron out its differences with...

Israel bombs Iran’s fuel storage complexes in Tehran

IRGC escalates missile, drone attacks TEL AVIV: The Israeli military today announced that its air force carried out targeted strikes on several Iranian military-linked facilities...

Pope Leo calls for dialogue amid Iran, Middle East violence

VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo said on Sunday that deeply troubling news continued to arrive from Iran and across the Middle East, urging an end...

US-Israel attacks on Iran breach int’l law: Swiss defense min

ZURICH/FRANKFURT: The United States and ‌Israel have broken international law with their attacks on Iran, Swiss Defense Minister Martin Pfister said in an interview...

Sri Lanka hospital releases 22 rescued Iranian sailors

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka discharged from hospital 22 Iranian sailors who were plucked from life rafts after their warship was sunk by a US submarine,...

Nearly 2 million people cross Makkah miqats during Ramadan

RIYADH: Nearly two million people have so far passed through the miqats of Makkah — the points past which all must enter the state...

Webb confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 will not crash on Moon

NEW DELHI: Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to the Moon, putting to rest months of...

Iran promises to stop attacks on neighbours, tells US to take ‘surrender dream to grave’

TEHRAN: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that the country’s temporary leadership council had approved the suspension of attacks against neighbouring countries unless...

Iran threatens US: ‘Before escorting ships through Hormuz, remember 1987 Bridgeton’

TEHRAN: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued a warning to the United States amid rising tensions, invoking the 1987 mining of the...

Trump: ‘Iran will be hit very hard!’

DORAL (FLORIDA): US President Donald Trump has warned in a social media post that more Iran officials will be targets in war, saying: ‘Today...

Putin calls for immediate halt to Iran conflict

MOSCOW: Russian ‌President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Iran’s president over the numerous civilian casualties resulting from “the armed Israeli-American aggression against Iran”...

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