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NEW DELHI: Indian security personnel carrying batons and shields and accompanied by riot control vehicles surrounded the site of ​a planned opposition protest in Delhi ​on Sunday that is set to...

TOKYO: World ⁠number one Elena Rybakina ​withdrew from ​the Pan Pacific Open quarterfinals on Friday due to a neck injury, sending Canada's Leylah ⁠Fernandez through to the ⁠last four...

RIYADH: The third attack this week on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday left at least 12 people dead and more than 300 wounded, Saudi authorities said, as Iran-backed Ansar Allah ...

Tehran: Flights from ​Tehran ​to Baghdad and Muscat have been canceled ⁠starting on Wednesday ⁠midnight local time, Iran's Tasnim ‌news agency ​said ⁠on ​Tuesday, citing the...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC) said it has shot down a second MQ-1 drone in airspace east of the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Mehr News Agency. The IRGC said it was the...

Rescue teams in Indonesia were searching Monday for 129 people who were unaccounted for after a passenger ferry sank in the Java Sea, killing at least six people, the authorities said. Another 108...

DUBAI: At least 73 people were injured ​in attacks ​on Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Ansar Allah, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Tuesday, vowing to respond firmly to the latest outbreak...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, said that talks with the Sultanate of Oman on a maritime transit route in the Strait of Hormuz are continuing, and describe the process as...

Muscat: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that Tehran is continuing talks with the Sultanate of Oman on shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz, but warns reopening the waterway will...

Washington: Engine fragments struck a window of a Ryanair plane last month resulting in a man nearly being sucked out of the aircraft mid-flight, according to a preliminary report published Thursday...

Tehran: Iran's foreign ministry on Monday said the United States was not involved in recent talks with the Sultanate of Oman over the administration of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. "These...

Muscat: The death toll has risen to 51 due to the floods and landslides triggered by the heavy rain in Bangladesh. Local officials report that 7 out of the country’s 64 administrative areas have...

Dubai: US military strikes on Iranian targets entered a second day on Monday in a surge of renewed fighting over the status of the Strait of Hormuz that is endangering a fragile interim agreement and...

Oil prices surged more than 3% on Monday after renewed military strikes between the United States and Iran reignited concerns over energy shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude...

 Explosions were heard over Qatar's capital on Sunday, AFP journalists reported, after the United States struck Iran over a vessel coming under attack in the Strait of Hormuz.  AFP...

TEHRAN: The United States said it shot down a pair of Iranian drones threatening the Strait of Hormuz, the latest escalation of violence as the war reached its 100th day on Sunday with no end in...

The annual Hajj pilgrimage officially commenced on Monday, corresponding to 8 Dhul Hijjah, 1447 AH, known as the Day of Tarwiyah, marking the beginning of the six-day spiritual journey undertaken by...

Oil prices climbed, and stocks across Asia fell on Friday after the United States said it had struck Iranian military sites in retaliation for Iran firing on U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz. ...

The power bank of a passenger onboard a stationary IndiGo aircraft caught fire at the Chandigarh airport on Tuesday, and all passengers and the crew were evacuated, according to a source. IndiGo is...

Frankfurt: A humpback whale that had been struggling to survive after beaching off the German coast was released into the North Sea off Denmark after being transported in a barge, Germany's...