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Abu Dhabi: The UAE witnessed its heaviest rainfall in 75 years, surpassing anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949, WAM news agency said. The UAE National Centre of Meteorology...

DUBAI - Several Iranian airports including Tehran's Imam Khomeini International have canceled flights until Monday, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, as tensions flared in the Middle East with...

Baghdad - Iraq reopened its airspace on Sunday hours after suspending all air traffic as Iran had launched a drone and missile attack on Israel, the Iraqi aviation authority announced. Jordan, which...

An attacker who fatally knifed five people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in Sydney's beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene. The assailant was shot...

Sydney - Australian airline Qantas said on Saturday it would redirect its long-haul flights between Perth and London to avoid Iran's airspace amid Middle East tensions. A Qantas spokesperson told AFP...

Foreign tourist passengers jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand early on Thursday, and all 108 people onboard survived. The overnight ferry from Surat Thani...

Gold hit another fresh record high Monday as investors grow confident that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year. In Oman's jewelry market, gold was trading at RO28.8 per gram for...

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early on Tuesday after a container ship smashed into a pylon, with the six people missing presumed dead after falling into the frigid water below. ...

The acute food shortage in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip has become so severe that “famine is imminent” and the enclave is on the verge of a “major acceleration of deaths and malnutrition,” a...

Moscow - Russia's election commission on Monday hailed a record victory for President Vladimir Putin after a vote with no opposition, saying it showed the country was united behind the longtime...

Global condemnation flowed on Friday after Israeli forces in war-ravaged Gaza opened fire as Palestinian civilians scrambled for food aid during a chaotic incident which the health ministry said...

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in jail, local media said, after being found guilty of graft in a case involving gifts he received while...

THE HAGUE - The World Court on Friday ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war in the Gaza Strip, but it stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire. Ruling on...

The health ministry in Gaza said Sunday at least 25,105 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since October 7. A ministry statement said some 62,681 people were also wounded in the...

New Delhi: The new round of talks for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between India and Oman will start on January 16 and the negotiations for the pact are progressing well, according to...

Washington - The US air safety regulator announced Saturday it was grounding some Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes pending inspections, a day after a panel blew out of one of the planes over the western...

CAIRO: The Arab Parliament has unequivocally expressed its unwavering support for the Palestinian cause, denouncing the international community's silence and the Security Council's failure to issue a...

Buenos - A powerful storm packing heavy rain and fierce winds killed at least 14 people in Argentina and two more in Uruguay, authorities said Sunday. The storm-packing winds clocked at up to 150...

Paris - After nearly three decades of dancing around the chief driver of global warming, UN climate negotiations in oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Wednesday called for the first time for the world...

Long-distance trains and hundreds of flights in and out of the German city of Munich were cancelled on Saturday because of heavy snowfall, according to statements by Deutsche Bahn and Munich Airport. ...