12+ hour, 50+ min ago   (432+ words) • Manama refuses any talks with Tehran until diplomatic ties restored• Senior Iranian official signals no deal will be signed at tomorrow’s meeting• Pezeshkian says region doesn’t need US as ‘policeman’ MANAMA: Bahrain will not attend Monday’s meeting between Iran and…...

8+ hour, 50+ min ago   (892+ words) A ship was struck in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, killing one person and injuring three, local Iranian authorities said, as Tehran and Washington clash over the strategic waterway. “A merchant vessel was struck around 5am this morning off the…...

11+ hour, 52+ min ago   (385+ words) US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has predicted that the Iran war will end “very soon”. Yet the facts on the ground belie this assumption. While speaking in Ireland on Saturday, the American leader repeated that in his calculation, the conflict would…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (314+ words) Shafqat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first ambassador to Armenia, presented his letters of credence to President Vahagn Khachaturyan at a formal ceremony at the presidential palace, it emerged on Saturday. President Khachaturyan warmly welcomed Ambassador Khan, congratulated him on his appointment,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (431+ words) Saudi authorities said on Friday drones launched from Iraq led to the temporary closure of a crucial oil export route used to bypass the lockdown of the Strait of Hormuz. Riyadh has increased its use of the East-West pipeline, which…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (374+ words) • Identifies cell of threat actors running three weapons development programmes• Claims it banned accounts as soon as it detected illegal activity PARIS: A group in Yemen attempted to use Anthropic’s Claude chatbot to build guided rockets and missiles, the US…...

2+ day, 28+ min ago   (323+ words) Satellite imagery showed smoke in the vicinity of Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline, which has become a vital means for the kingdom to divert its crude exports from Hormuz....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (348+ words) Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday ordered that there should be no loadshedding for more than two hours in any area of the country, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The premier was chairing a meeting…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (944+ words) United States President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would pay every American adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans retain control of Congress in November’s midterm election, an extraordinary attempt to persuade voters to back his party. Trump made the…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (627+ words) • Araghchi says US return to Islamabad commitments could restore ‘normal conditions’• Insists ‘significant progress’ made in talks with Oman over Hormuz• Iranian security official warns of maritime exclusion zone if US ‘economic warfare’ continues• Pezeshkian vows continued resistance ‘until aggressors…...