As Israel trades fire with Hezbollah, calls for mass evacuations and sends ground troops deeper into Lebanon, its leaders have hinted at a long-term occupation modeled on the devastating conquest of much of Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Israel says it needs to establish a zone of control »»»

As Israel trades fire with Hezbollah, calls for mass evacuations and sends ground troops deeper into Lebanon, its leaders have hinted at a long-term occupation modeled on the devastating conquest of much of Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Israel says it needs to establish a zone of control »»»

Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Thursday that an Israeli airstrike had killed Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' navy. "Last night, in a precise and lethal operation, the IDF eliminated the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' navy, Tangsiri, along with sen»»»

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Wednesday evening Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian President Vladimir Putin were due to hold a conversation within the next few days to discuss, among other topics, a new natural gas arrangement between Serbi»»»

Dubai: Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways is planning more than 1,000 flights and over 200,000 seats through April 30 as it stabilises operations following recent disruptions, its CEO Barathan Pasupathi announced. “We are planning our operations on a rolling basis of four to six weeks… covering more than 20 »»»

During the Eid holiday (23 March), the Hafter-controlled National Development Agency (NDA) announced that it had signed two contracts for the construction of what it referred to as two strategic projects in the city of Sirte. These are the Sirte International Equestrian Track and the new government»»»

The Constitutional Court said on Thursday it had opened a case at the request of the Council of Ministers to establish the unconstitutionality of a National Assembly resolution of March 13 concerning measures to address the price shock caused by high crude oil and natural gas prices. The draft reso»»»

Amid rising Middle East tensions, Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif has offered Islamabad as a neutral venue for US–Iran talks, a move experts say reflects strategic positioning rather than a simple diplomatic gesture. Dr. Maria Sultan, an adviser to Pakistan's Ministry of Defense, explained in an inter»»»

Greece’s highest administrative court rejected a revised plan for a large tourism development on Paros, citing constitutional concerns but referring the judgment to its plenary due to the importance of the legal issues. The Council of State outlined five reasons the amended proposal by EKTER for a »»»

Share: FILE- Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary guard (IRGC) flags . Both bare a hand holding up a rifle and a globe. IRGC operatives fired the first rockets at Israel on March 2 , 2026 and Hezbollah is now being commanded by IRGC according to Lebanese PM . Lebanon decided the Iranian ambassador f»»»

Dubai: One of the UAE’s most anticipated public holidays is approaching, with residents set to enjoy an extended break for Eid Al Adha in 2026, offering one of the longest holiday periods of the year and a peak time for travel, family gatherings and leisure activities. Eid Al Adha, the second of Is»»»

Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah group said Thursday that it struck10 Israeli Merkava tanks in three southern towns along the border. In a series of separate statements, Hezbollah said that its members targeted the advanced Israeli tanks with guided missiles in the towns of Deir Siryan, Debel, and »»»

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Dubai: Dubai’s Airport Show will now take place in October instead of May, with organisers shifting the dates to give the aviation industry more certainty and flexibility in planning. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The event, which was scheduled for May 12 to 14, will»»»

Bangkok: Nuclear power is getting a second look in Southeast Asia as countries prepare to meet surging energy demand as they vie for artificial intelligence-focused data centres. Several Southeast Asian nations are reviving mothballed nuclear plans and setting ambitious targets and nearly half of t»»»

Britain's economic ‌growth prospects this year received the sharpest downgrade of any major economy in the OECD's interim forecast update on Thursday following the US-Israeli war ​on Iran, while inflation is set to rise faster too. The Paris-based international body cut its 2026 forecast for Britis»»»

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) has released an updated edition of its Outcome-Based Evaluation Framework (OBEF) University Guidebook, reinforcing a strategic shift toward performance measurement rooted in outcomes, skills acquisition, and real-world impact. The en»»»

Thursday’s news coverage spans a wide range of topics, with fuel prices emerging as a central theme across television programmes. Speaking on Bulgarian National Television, Atanas Katsarchev, Chief Economist of the Podkrepa Confederation of Labour, and Vassil Velev, Chairman of the Governing Board »»»

Amid energy lockdowns from Australia and Bangladesh to New Zealand and Slovenia — the war-induced oil crunch is imposing travel limits on an unprecedented scale. Result: Reduced workweeks, exposing the downside of a fossil-dependent planet. It's all "temporary", or at least until Hormuz Strait gets»»»

Israel took Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf off its hit list after Pakistan requested that Washington not target them, a Pakistani source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters on Thursday. "The Israelis had their coordinates and want»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Tifn base east of the occupied city of Acre with a squadron of attack drones: Hezbollah Military M»»»

Secretary's SpeechLebanon PalestineZionist EntityRegional and International International More Video Language Ar En Fr EsSubscribe for Weekly Updates Subscribe “Iran Has Upper Hand, Washington Lost the Initiative”: Ex-Head of UK’s M16 26-03-2026 11:42 AM Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger in an inte»»»

Ahmedabad, India: India's government says there are adequate fuel stocks despite shortages due to the Middle East war, but panicking citizens have triggered long queues at filling stations. In retaliation for US strikes that began more than three weeks ago, Iran has virtually closed the strategic S»»»

The situation regarding child safety in Kyrgyzstan remains critical at the start of 2026. As a result of criminal acts in January and February, 13 minors were killed and another 55 sustained injuries. Report by the National Statistical Committee says, citing data from the Prosecutor General’s Offic»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian armed forces have liberated the settlement of Shevyakovka in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. "As a result of active and decisive actions, Battlegroup Sever established control over the settlement of Shevyakovka in the Kharkov region,»»»

Dubai: Dubai has reached its highest-ever position in the Global Financial Centres Index, climbing to seventh place worldwide and reinforcing its standing among the world’s leading financial hubs. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The latest ranking places Dubai alongsid»»»

U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to "unleash hell" if Iran does not accept a deal to end the nearly four-week Middle East war, the White House warned Wednesday, but a defiant Tehran said it did not intend to negotiate. The ramped-up rhetoric dashed hopes of any imminent de-escalation as violenc»»»

The Trump administration is again seeking to prosecute Letitia James, attorney general of New York, after failing to do so several times last year. File Photo by Derek French/UPI | License Photo March 26 (UPI) -- The Trump administration is again seeking to prosecute New York Attorney General Letit»»»

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Americans have had to skip meals due to rising prices linked to the US campaign against Iran, US Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said. "Americans are already skipping meals thanks to [US President Donald] Trump’s reckless war of choice in Iran, and this is»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Germany does not want to be involved in military action in the Middle East, as the US and Israeli conflict with Iran is not its war, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday. Earlier in March, Pistorius did not rule out German military participation in ensuring sa»»»

MINSK (Sputnik) - Relations between Belarus and North Korea are entering a fundamentally new phase, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday. "Friendly relations between our states, which originated during the Soviet era, have never been interrupted. Today, as a result of comprehe»»»

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran has threatened to open a "front" in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait to counter the United States, the Iranian news agency Tasnim reported, citing a military source. Earlier, Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Tehran could open new fronts of hostilities with the United »»»

Dubai: Families are scrambling for information and medical help after a deadly bus fire in Andhra Pradesh killed at least 14 people and left more than 20 injured, prompting authorities to set up control rooms and helplines for victims. The accident, one of the deadliest in recent months in the regi»»»

Dubai: Dhurandhar actress Sara Arjun isn’t letting her Rs 10 billion box-office triumph slow her down. The young actress, whose compelling turn in the spy thriller has won hearts, is proving she’s far from a one-hit wonder. In Dhurandhar franchise, she played Ranveer Singh’s feisty on-screen girlfr»»»

As military tensions continue to reshape the Middle East, Egypt is moving to solidify its financial defenses through deeper strategic cooperation with Beijing. In a high-level diplomatic call on Thursday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, discussed an ur»»»

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States’ use of oil from its strategic reserve may indicate the risk that the conflict with Iran could drag out, George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor to the first Trump presidential campaign, told Sputnik. "These reserves are designed to only access during »»»

Iranian Ambassador to South Korea Saeed Koozechi speaks during a press conference at the Iranian Embassy in Seoul on Thursday. Photo by Yonhap Iran's top envoy to Seoul said Thursday South Korean ships can pass through the Strait of Hormuz, but only with prior coordination with Tehran, saying that »»»

Dubai: Pakistan’s Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) has partially postponed its Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations in several Gulf countries, in the wake of ongoing regional conflict. The decision was taken during a high-level meeting chaired by FBISE Chairm»»»

Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will appear Thursday in a New York court for the second time since his capture by US forces in an extraordinary nighttime raid. Maduro, 63, and wife Cilia Flores have been held in a Brooklyn jail for almost three months after American commandos snatched th»»»

Walking on the Moon by 2030, building a lunar base, and then perhaps on to Mars: after 30 years of honing its expertise, China is challenging the United States' supremacy in spaceflight. As US space agency NASA prepares for its crewed lunar flyby mission, Artemis II, we take a look at China's ambit»»»

Abu Dhabi: Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Chairman of the Supply and Transport Committee, affirmed that the transport system and supply chains in the UAE continue to operate efficiently and regularly within an integrated framework characterised by resilience a»»»

The Church of England has enthroned Dame Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury since the church’s establishment in 1534. The ceremony took place in Canterbury Cathedral on Wednesday, and was attended by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as well as Prince William and his wife, Ca»»»

Archaeologists say they may have discovered the skeletal remains of the legendary D’Artagnan, the figure immortalized by French writer Alexandre Dumas in ‘The Three Musketeers’, Dutch regional broadcaster L1 reported on Wednesday. The remains were found in the Dutch city of Maastricht. Historical a»»»

An Israeli soldier was killed in fighting in south Lebanon on Thursday, the military said, after the army announced it was conducting ground operations against Iran-backed Hezbollah. "Staff sergeant Ori Greenberg, aged 21, from Petah Tikva, a soldier of the Reconnaissance unit, Golani Brigade, fell»»»

The gaping holes torn in a road to Mandalay by last year's devastating earthquake have been filled in, and the route in northern Myanmar partly resurfaced. But only a few of the broken spans of the historic Ava Bridge have been removed, while the others still droop into the river where hundreds of »»»

With the war in Iran leading to a near-total internet blackout in the country, activists around the world -- especially in the United States -- are mobilizing to help Iranians stay connected via Starlink. Despite being banned, billionaire Elon Musk's satellite internet system has gained ground in I»»»

Australia and Germany agreed Thursday to simplify hosting each other's troops and cooperate on space defense during a visit by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to Canberra. Australia's Defense Minister Richard Marles said the two countries would sign a status of forces agreement making it "m»»»

Foreign ministers from the G7 meet outside Paris from Thursday with European nations and allies seeking to narrow differences with the US on the Middle East war while keeping other crises like Ukraine and Gaza high on the agenda. The two-day meeting of seven leading industrialized democracies at th»»»

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