New Delhi: The Indian government has dismissed rumours suggesting a possible nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing Iran conflict, calling the claims “completely false”. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said there is no proposal under consideration for any such restrictions, urging the public not »»»

Dubai: Dubai gold prices moved higher on Friday morning, reversing part of the previous day’s decline and drawing renewed attention from buyers tracking short-term swings. Sign up for our daily business newsletter, Cheques & Balances.At 9:22 am, 24-karat gold was priced at Dh535.50 per gram, up fro»»»

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky said the US is conditioning post-war security guarantees on Kyiv ceding the Russian-occupied Donbas, as Washington pushes for a swift end to the war. Zelensky warned such terms would weaken Ukraine’s defences and embolden Moscow, amid uncertainty over future U»»»

A crude oil tanker sailing from the Russian port of Novorossiysk to Istanbul was hit by a naval drone near Istanbul's Bosphorus strait Thursday morning, Turkey's Transportation Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said. No one was injured in the attack, which Uraloglu said had targeted the s»»»

A NATO report on Thursday said military spending by European allies and Canada rose by 20 percent in 2025. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly demanded that NATO partners significantly boost defence expenditures, with leaders agreeing at a summit last year to spend 5 percent ​of»»»

G7 nations want to "create the conditions for lasting peace and stability" in the Middle East, ‌France's foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said at a two-day conference outside Paris on Thursday. The talks aim to narrow differences with the US on the Middle East war.  ‌France's foreig»»»

The debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of an escalating US-Israeli attack is getting louder, more public and more insistent, sources in the country say. With the Revolutionary Guards now dominant following the killing of veteran Supreme Leader»»»

US President Donald Trump has pushed back his deadline for strikes on Iran's energy assets, saying talks on ending the war were "going very well" as Israel announced fresh strikes on Tehran early Friday. As the conflict that has roiled energy markets nears its second month, US Secretary of State Ma»»»

Elon Musk's profitable rocket and satellite internet company SpaceX is reportedly preparing to raise $75 billion on public equity markets as its subsidiary xAI burns cash. But first: a pair of US court verdicts against social media giants could signal the sector's Big Tobacco moment, and France's f»»»

France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets. Lescure warned it could take up to three y»»»

The proliferation of AI-generated images has created demand for a new kind of tool: sites and apps that claim to determine whether an image was created or modified by AI. We tested 10 of the tools on the same image. There are dozens of AI detection tools claiming to identify images generated o»»»

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, March 26: We look at reactions after Meta and YouTube were found guilty of social media harms in what is being hailed as a "landmark" trial. Will it give impetus to thousands of other lawsuits in the waiting? Also: Italy's Giorgia Meloni headed to Algeria in a lig»»»

As tensions between the US, Israel and Iran choke the Strait of Hormuz, cutting global energy and fertiliser flows, markets face rising prices and food insecurity. We discuss the global fallout with Carlos Razo from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), exploring the risks for t»»»

Concern that the Iran war could plunge the world into stagflation is rising as hostilities in the Middle East continue with no end in sight. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)'s chief economist Beata Javorcik tells France 24's Yuka Royer that while the world is not yet»»»

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Since the October 7 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the balance of power in the Middle East has changed profoundly. Iran’s regional ‘Axis of Resistance’, once seen as a coherent network of influence stretching from Tehran to Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut, has been dealt a series of devastating blows. »»»

Rising energy and fertiliser prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East are expected to push up inflation and dampen economic growth across the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD’s) regions of operations, the development bank said in a new assessment released on March»»»

Rising energy and fertiliser prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East are expected to push up inflation and dampen economic growth across the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD’s) regions of operations, the development bank said in a new assessment released on March»»»

China is well on the way to becoming the world's first “Electrostate”. The nature of the global economy is changing. The carbon-based economy that has dominated since the industrial revolution giving away to a silicon-based economy which is driven by energy consumption and data. »»»

China is well on the way to becoming the world's first “Electrostate”. The nature of the global economy is changing. The carbon-based economy that has dominated since the industrial revolution giving away to a silicon-based economy which is driven by energy consumption and data. »»»

Rising energy and fertiliser prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East are expected to push up inflation and dampen economic growth across the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD’s) regions of operations, the development bank said in a new assessment released on March»»»

Saudi Arabia has sharply increased crude exports from its Red Sea terminals at Yanbu as it diverts shipments away from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, where flows have been severely disrupted since late February, according to Bloomberg. »»»

US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran's power grid into oblivion. However that could prove more difficult to do than say as the Iranian electricity grid is one of the most decentralised in the world making it extremely resistant to attack, says bne IntelliNews’ military analyst Patricia»»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

Donald Trump has extended a pause on US military strikes targeting Iranian energy infrastructure. In doing so, the US president is now lengthening the initial five-day halt to a two-week period. Trump first announced the s»»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

Rising energy and fertiliser prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East are expected to push up inflation and dampen economic growth across the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD’s) regions of operations, the development bank said in a new assessment released on March»»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

Iran's senior armed forces spokesman has claimed that at least 1,321 Israeli soldiers and between 600 and 800 US military personnel have been killed since the conflict began, figures that cannot be independently verified and which Washington and Tel Aviv have not confirmed. »»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

Rising energy and fertiliser prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East are expected to push up inflation and dampen economic growth across the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD’s) regions of operations, the development bank said in a new assessment released on March»»»

Iran's senior armed forces spokesman has claimed that at least 1,321 Israeli soldiers and between 600 and 800 US military personnel have been killed since the conflict began, figures that cannot be independently verified and which Washington and Tel Aviv have not confirmed. »»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

  Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and populated areas in an attempt to depopulate southern Israel, according to reports. »»»

Iran has driven the US military out of all thirteen of its Gulf military bases, The New York Times (NYT) reported on March 25. “Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable…»»»

Rising energy and fertiliser prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East are expected to push up inflation and dampen economic growth across the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD’s) regions of operations, the development bank said in a new assessment released on March»»»