Dubai: Jazeera Airways has set up an alternative supply route into Kuwait to keep essential food items flowing amid ongoing regional disruption, marking a shift in how airlines are adapting to pressure on traditional logistics channels. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.»»»

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Tuesday that Iran must compensate Lebanon for all war losses. "It was not the Lebanese government that made the decision for war, and we will not accept a single penny being paid from the state treasury and the pocket of the Lebanese citizens to compensate f»»»

Manama: Amazon's cloud arm told AFP on Tuesday that its service in Bahrain had been disrupted, after drone attacks hit the region. An Amazon Web Services (AWS) spokesperson said the disruption was ongoing, without specifying the exact location affected or any potential damage done. "The AWS Bahrain»»»

BELGRADE - On behalf of the Government of Serbia, Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Milica Djurdjevic Stamenkovski on Tuesday laid a wreath at a Belgrade memorial to children killed in the 1999 NATO aggression on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which Serbia was a par»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The European Commission has postponed the submission of the plan to ban the import of Russian oil, but has given no new date, European Commission Spokesperson for Climate Action and Energy Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said on Tuesday. "I do not have a new date to give [for presenting the p»»»

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The situation around the US-Iran talks is "fluid," with no speculations about possible meetings as part of these arrangements advisable until an official announcement is made, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "These are sensitive diplomatic discussions, and »»»

Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz needs fewer votes than the opposition Tisza party to stay in power, as the electoral system favours the incumbent. We examine the most likely developments after the Hungarian elections on 12 April. “Let us not rule it out logically,” Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán answe»»»

Skopje, 23 March 2026 (MIA) - The price of Eurodiesel (D-E V) is set to rise by Mden 3.5 per liter as of Monday midnight, while gasoline prices will remain unchanged, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has said. The new retail price of Eurodiesel BS (D-E V) will be Mden 95.5 per liter. A liter »»»

The Socialist Party of Albania has finalized a draft law on referendums, but consultations will continue before it is formally submitted. Speaking to media, parliamentary group head Taulant Balla said the legislation is necessary to strengthen public participation in decision-making. “The focus is »»»

Edi Rama, together with Deputy Prime Minister Albana Koçiu, has begun a series of one-on-one meetings with each minister of the government at “Villa 30” since Thursday. The first meeting was held with Enea Karakaçi. According to Top Channel journalist Muhamed Veliu, the sessions continued Tuesday w»»»

Tunis, March 24 (TAP) – The turnover of Tunisia’s telecommunications sector, particularly internet service providers, reached TND 4,101.35 million over the full year 2025.Recent statistics released by the National Telecommunications Authority...»»»

Possible mechanisms and measures to mitigate the economic consequences of the conflict in the Middle East were discussed by President Iliana Iotova and the leadership of the Commission on Protection of Competition (CPC) during a meeting on Tuesday, the President’s press secretariat reported. The me»»»

Manila: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared a state of "national energy emergency" on Tuesday, citing risks to the domestic fuel supply and energy stability created by the Middle East conflict. The state of emergency was declared just hours after the country's energy secretary said the P»»»

Dubai: President Donald Trump’s claim that the United States and Iran have discussed a “15-point” framework to end the war has sparked intense curiosity — and confusion — as neither Washington nor Tehran has revealed what those points actually are. Tehran has even denied that any talks are taking p»»»

Geneva: The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an urgent debate Wednesday on Iran's military attacks against Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan, which have targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure and resulted in casualties. In a statem»»»

Berlin: The health of a humpback whale stranded on Germany's Baltic Sea coast is deteriorating, conservationists said Tuesday, as efforts to free the animal continued. The 10-metre (33-foot) long whale was first spotted stuck in shallow water close to Niendorf near the city of Luebeck early on Mond»»»

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the country can pose a credible nuclear threat to the US as opposed to being a target for American attempts to project power. Speaking during a policy address to newly elected lawmakers on Monday, Kim emphasized the role of nuclear weapons in ensuring nation»»»

Bulgargaz has defended its previously submitted proposal for a 5% rise in natural gas prices for April before the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, with CEO Veselin Sinabov stressing that there is currently no justification for any further increases. Sinabov noted that significantly higher ga»»»

Employees in the roadside assistance sector staged a protest against the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) on Tuesday. The demonstration was prompted by an investigation by the non-governmental Anti-Corruption Fund Foundation, which contains data on alleged misappropriation of state budget funds thr»»»

Dubai: IndiGo has issued a travel advisory warning of possible changes to flight schedules amid the evolving situation in the Middle East, urging passengers to verify their flight status before heading to the airport. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.The airline said fl»»»

Bulk carriers sit anchored at Sultan Qaboos Port in Muscat, Oman, upstream from the Strait of Hormuz, on Monday. Elke Scholiers/Getty Images An end to the Iran war will bring immediate relief to oil and natural gas markets, but it could take months before prices fall back to the levels they stood a»»»

New York: United Airlines said Tuesday it will add more than 250 planes in the next two years as the major US carrier accelerates efforts to upgrade its fleet. New Airbus, Boeing and Bombardier aircraft ordered by United include features such as lie-flat seats, luggage closets and suite dividers, t»»»

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on defence and interior affairs Milovan Drecun said on Tuesday the 1999 bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) had been the strongest successful attempt of violating the UN Charter and international law, and noted that the prec»»»

Israeli troops will control a large swathe of southern Lebanon as part of their campaign against Hezbollah, Defence Minister Israel Katz says. Katz told said troops would establish a security zone up to the Litani River, about 30km (19 miles) from the Lebanon-Israel border and displaced residents w»»»

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Australian Parliament in Canberra on Tuesday after addressing a joint session of both houses. Photo by Lukas Coch/EPA March 24 (UPI) -- The European Union finalized a landmark $9 billion free tr»»»

March 23 (UPI) -- A small Texas town called Bug Tussle is no longer receiving new road signs from the Department of Transportation due to rampant thefts. Local officials said more than 70 Bug Tussle road signs have been stolen over the years by thieves who apparently appreciated the town's unusual »»»

March 23 (UPI) -- An Austrian man took his unusual party trick to a German TV series and broke the Guinness World Record for the most balloons passed through the nose and out the mouth in one minute. Malte Dünser, the self-proclaimed "King of the Freaks" who amassed an Instagram following for his u»»»

Dubai: The UAE's largest private education group has applied to reopen select schools from next week, with a focus on supporting senior students ahead of crucial examinations. GEMS Education, which operates dozens of schools across the country, confirmed to Gulf News on Tuesday that it has formally»»»

Dubai: Indian rapper Badshah may have quietly married Punjabi actress Isha Rikhi, if social media frenzy over an alleged wedding portrait is to be believed. The rumours gained momentum after several photos and videos, believed to be from a private wedding ceremony, surfaced online, showing the coup»»»

Paris, France: Migratory freshwater fish populations crucial to river health and sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people are in freefall and risk collapse, a major UN assessment warned Tuesday. Habitat destruction, overfishing and water pollution from the Amazon to the Danube threaten the »»»

A working meeting between representatives of the Crisis Response Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan and the National Defense Management Center of Russia was held in Bishkek. The event was opened by Colonel Mirbek Dzhuzumaliev, head of the Crisis Response Center of the Gen»»»

The ongoing chaos in the Persian Gulf contributes to the emergence of new Asian energy hubs, Guilherme da Conceicao, researcher at the Center for Research on Russia, Eurasia and the Post-Soviet Space (CIRE), tells Sputnik. With the Strait of Hormuz energy bottleneck plugged, new energy routes from »»»

A donation box meant to help a sick child was stolen from the entrance of Stara Zagora Zoo, authorities confirmed after reviewing CCTV footage that led to the arrest of the suspect. The box had been collecting funds for young Georgi, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe genetic co»»»

At an archaeological site in southern Lebanon's Tyre, small signs bearing a blue and white emblem provide a symbolic shield, meant to protect the ancient ruins from bombardment. One of the oldest cities on the Mediterranean coast, Tyre is located around 20 kilometers from the Israeli border, and ha»»»

Danes are voting in an election with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats aiming for a third term. Frederiksen, 48, called the vote months earlier than expected, buoyed by popular support for her handling of US President Donald Trump's threat to annex Greenland, an autonomous Danish »»»

Caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gurov conferred with the Heads of Mission of the European Union Member States at the invitation of the Cypriot Presidency of the EU Council, the Bulgarian government said on Facebook on Tuesday. Gurov briefed the diplomats on the caretaker government’s preparations f»»»

New Delhi: Harish Rana, the first person in India to be granted passive euthanasia, died on Tuesday at AIIMS Delhi, marking the country’s first real-world implementation of the right to die with dignity, Indian media reports said. He was 31. Rana had been in a permanent vegetative state since 2013,»»»

Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates defense systems have engaged multiple projectiles, the country's defense ministry has announced amid escalating regional tensions. A ministry statement on Tuesday said five ballistic missiles and 17 drones launched from Iran were successfully intercepted. The min»»»

Capitals, March 24 (SANA) Countries worldwide are taking emergency and precautionary measures to absorb the impact of the US–Israeli–Iranian war on the global economy, as energy prices surge following Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on Gulf oil and gas facilities. Japan Turns to »»»

Dubai: Unstable weather continues to affect the UAE, with rain, strong winds and thick cloud cover expected to persist until Friday, according to the National Centre of Meteorology. Authorities have issued safety advisories nationwide, warning that vehicles parked in flood-prone areas may be at ris»»»

Two bodies were recovered in the Mahamaytala area of Garia, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata, on Tuesday, in West Bengal.​ A woman was hacked to death inside her beauty parlour by a Kashmiri man, who later committed suicide. ​ Police said the incident appears to stem from a strained relationshi»»»

Long security lines stretching for hours, missed flights and mounting frustration — US airports are facing widespread disruption as a funding standoff leaves key security operations understaffed at the peak of the spring travel season. The chaos has been compounded by broader pressures on global av»»»

Dhaka: Bangladesh hiked jet fuel prices by 79 percent on Tuesday as costs surge in the wake of the Middle East conflict. The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) order, the second this month, means aviation fuel prices have leapt by 111 percent since the start of the war, with the price n»»»

A batch of medications intended for illegal trafficking from one neighboring country to another has been seized in Kadamdzhai district of Batken region, the Internal Affairs Department of the region reported. Among the confiscated items were nystatin, ceftriaxone, cefekon D, azithromycin, ampicilli»»»

BELGRADE- Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic said on Tuesday the conditions were in place for introducing 75-day compulsory military service and that a decision on whether that would happen in December this year or March next year depended on global developments. In an appearance on K1 TV, Ga»»»

Share: Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Reza Sheibani who was appointed last month to replace Mojtaba Amani BEIRUT — Lebanon on Tuesday withdrew the accreditation of Iran’s ambassador to Beirut and declared him persona non grata in the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two co»»»

Bengaluru, India: Indian Premier League champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru will keep 11 seats at their M. Chinnaswamy Stadium empty in memory of the fans crushed to death in title celebrations last year, the team said Tuesday. Eleven supporters aged between 14 and 29 died in a stampede outside t»»»

The Israeli aggression against Lebanon continued on Tuesday, with airstrikes and drone attacks across multiple regions leaving several civilians dead and wounded, according to Lebanese health authorities and local media. The Lebanese Ministry of Health’s Emergency Operations Center reported that an»»»

Kyrgyzstan is expanding its vegetable exports. The Ministry of Water Resources, Agriculture, and Processing Industry reported. According to it, the Perm Regional Office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision authorized the import of the first batch of fresh carrots from»»»

US President Donald Trump has ordered a five‑day delay in planned strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure, claiming “very good and productive” talks with Tehran are under way and will continue through the week. The move follows his threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power network if it»»»