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MADRID: Formula ⁠One championship leader Kimi Antonelli was fastest for Mercedes in free practice at Madrid's ​new Spanish Grand Prix ​circuit on Friday with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc...

ISLAMABAD: Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas ​Araqchi ​and Pakistani army chief Asim Munir discussed finding ways to restore diplomatic ⁠efforts to de-escalate Tehran's ⁠conflict with...

CAIRO/WASHINGTON/DUBAI:  Ansar Allah seized control ​of Yemen's port city of Mocha on Thursday, military sources said, posing a further threat to global energy supplies hours after President...

 President Donald Trump ​said he expected the war with Iran to end after the November U.S. midterm elections and threatened again to attack a site associated with the Islamic Republic's...

CAIRO/WASHINGTON/DUBAI:  ​Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the ​Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat...

DUBAI: ​Several ​merchant vessels in the northern Gulf were ‌hit by ​disabling fire ⁠during ​military activity in ‌the ​region, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO)...

BERLIN: Germany's Lufthansa ​Group will ​gradually resume flight connections to Dubai starting in late October ⁠2026, the airline ⁠said in a statement on ‌Wednesday. "At peak...

Saudi ⁠Arabia's Civil Defense lifted an alert it had announced in the southern city ​of Khamis Mushait on Wednesday, ​a day after Ansar Allah attacks there and in three other nearby cities...

 Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the U.S. military and attacked 10 ships on Wednesday, after the U.S. said it had destroyed five Iranian...

PARIS: Harry Kane, Erling Haaland ⁠and Lionel Messi have all made the 30-man shortlist for the ​2026 Men's Ballon d'Or, ​while Cape Verde's World Cup hero Vozinha has been...

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool midfielder Alexis Mac Allister expressed sadness ​on Tuesday after ​not receiving a new contract offer, saying he had considered his transfer options as he spoke ahead of...

SINGAPORE: Shipping traffic through the Strait ​of Hormuz slowed ​at the start of this week, after Iran threatened on Monday to retaliate for any new U.S. attacks. The number of commodity...

VALENCIA: Fermin Lopez scored a goal and created two others as champions Barcelona eased to a 5-0 victory ​over hosts Valencia in their LaLiga ​clash on Sunday to maintain their 100 per cent start...

 Five people were killed on Sunday when a Boeing 767-300 cargo plane ​operated by 21 Air for Amazon's Prime Air network ​overran a runway while landing at Miami International Airport, struck...

DUBAI: Iran ​said it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf in the coming days, along with maps of a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, as a weekend exchange of strikes on...

Alexander ⁠Zverev kept his bid for a second Grand Slam title alive with a straightforward win over Alejandro Tabilo, while Coco Gauff stayed strong to reach the fourth ​round of the US Open as...

An eruption of Indonesia's Mount Anak Krakatau caused six airports to suspend flight operations on Sunday, affecting hundreds of flights at Jakarta's main airport, after some school...

OPEC+ is set to keep its oil output policy unchanged for October at a meeting on Sunday, two people familiar with the discussions told Reuters, as the ⁠producer group needs to agree new quotas...

DUBAI: An Iranian tanker was hit by U.S. forces on Saturday near Iran's key oil export hub, Kharg Island, in the Gulf, the semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim reported. According ⁠to a...

NEW YORK: The United Nations on Friday voted for a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map towards one more accurately reflecting countries' true size, a resolution sponsored by...