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SINGAPORE: The ⁠tally of vessels tracked in the Strait of ​Hormuz fell ​to a one-week low of eight on Tuesday, shipping data showed, as owners avoided the key waterway amid continued...

The ​United ​Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations ⁠said on ⁠Tuesday it ‌received ​a report ⁠of ​an incident involving ‌a ​tanker and military forces ‌in ​the ​Gulf ‌of Oman. ...

DUBAI/WASHINGTON/CAIRO:  Iran said it ​was nearing a final pact with Oman defining new shipping lanes between them through the Strait of Hormuz but repeated that the U.S. must meet other...

SYDNEY/LONDON:  Global equities inched higher on Monday as oil prices held broadly steady after Iran said it was nearing a final pact with Oman defining new shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz,...

Iran has changed its ⁠secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, appointing former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezaei ​as second-in-command on the body that ​coordinates the...

JERUSALEM: Israel has rejected ​U.S. President ​Donald Trump's Board of Peace 15-point plan for Gaza, and will not withdraw until Hamas fully ⁠disarms, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Ansar Allah said they had attacked Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery on Sunday, two days after the kingdom signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan. The Saudi energy...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden's prostate cancer has ​spread beyond his ​bones and is very painful, his son, Hunter Biden, said in an interview with the BBC. * "The cancer has spread,...

Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out early on Sunday ​at a facility ​at Aramco's Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Energy Ministry said, adding that there...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard said ​on Saturday that ​re-opening the Strait of Hormuz is not related to Iran-Oman negotiations but is conditional ⁠on the U.S. accepting Iran's...

Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will sign a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, sources with knowledge of the matter said, amid regional turmoil with Gulf states coming under fire from...

 Iran has made a ​concerted diplomatic push with Gulf states, warning them explicitly that Tehran will hit their oil, power and water plants unless they convince Donald Trump to end U.S. strikes...

VISAKHAPATNAM: Work to build Google's planned ​Indian data centre hub is in full swing, with a hillside above the site stripped to red earth and terraced into steps, but mounting opposition...

NEW DELHI: Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the ​Bab-el-Mandeb strait, ​the key maritime chokepoints in the Gulf, reduced significantly on Wednesday from the previous day,...

Siemens Energy, opens new tab reported record third-quarter sales, margins and orders on Wednesday, driven by demand for gas turbines from expanding AI data centres in the United States and power...

MADRID: Spain's Ceuta, still reeling from a rush of ⁠72,000 migrants arriving on its shores in one week, is seeking the transfer of hundreds of unaccompanied minors still in ​the enclave to...

  DUBAI: The ​geographic ​coordinates for a shipping route through the Strait of ⁠Hormuz have been ⁠agreed by Iran and Oman, and ‌a joint ​announcement is ⁠being ​finalised,...

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said his ​administration had "very good discussions" with Iran during all-day negotiations on Tuesday, fuelling expectations of an imminent end to the...

Jetstar, the budget arm of Australia's national carrier Qantas, will ​require passengers who want to ​store carry-on bags in overhead lockers to pay extra from February, as the airline...

Shipping traffic at the key Middle Eastern maritime chokepoints of the Strait of ​Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb ​was little changed on Tuesday from the previous day, ship-tracking data showed....