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Iran defies US blockade as oil prices soar

Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al Busaidy, Foreign Minister, on Thursday received Jean-Noël Barrot, French Republic’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs. The meeting took place at the General Diwan of the Foreign Ministry...

Iranian women walk at the Revolution Square in Tehran on Thursday. — AFP

Trump says US airman rescued in Iran

People walk on a street, near an anti-US billboard, in Tehran. — Reuters

Israel renews strikes on Lebanon

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs. — AFP

Iran attacks energy infrastructure across Gulf states

Aftermath of the impact of falling debris from an intercepted Iranian drone in Sitra, Bahrain. — Reuters

Deadline to open Hormuz is on Tuesday evening

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Iran internet blackout is longest nationwide shutdown on record: NetBlocks

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US rescues airman as Trump, Israel pressure Iran ahead of deadline

An F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln

Israel says it hit Iranian weapons-linked chemical facility

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US' C-130 aircraft downed in Isfahan: Iran

A C-130 plane

Abu Dhabi says Borouge factory operations suspended

A general view of Abu Dhabi city is seen from the observation deck of the Emirates Towers in Abu Dhabi,

Power, desalination plant, and oil sector complex damaged: Kuwait

A Kuwaiti woman holds her phone displaying an alert message as sirens sound during an Iranian missile or drone attack in Kuwait City

US aircraft searching for a pilot was destroyed: Iran

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Trump says two US airmen rescued in Iran

The Iranian state media said to show fragments of a downed U.S. jet in this picture said to be taken in central Iran

Make deal or face 'Hell'

A girl looks on during a demonstration in solidarity with Iran and denouncing the US-Israeli war against it, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on Saturday. — AFP

UN Hormuz vote now expected next week

China's UN envoy Fu Cong opposed authorizing force.

Strike hits near Iranian nuclear plant

Media representatives gather around the damaged building of the Shahid Beheshti University following a strike, in Tehran. — AFP
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