Dubai will offer more than $800 worth of discounts and deals to residents who bring friends and family to visit, the emirate’s media office said yesterday, as months of war have battered its tourism sector.

Dubai will offer more than $800 worth of discounts and deals to residents who bring friends and family to visit

Doctors and displaced families in Gaza say the highly contagious disease has surged in recent months as war has forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into cramped tent camps with no clean water for hygiene

Gaza’s civil defence and hospitals said Israeli attacks on Saturday killed 11 people across the territory, among them three children and their parents.

Archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old tomb near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, authorities said on Sunday, the latest in a series of discoveries that officials hope will boost tourism.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Tuesday they had carried out missile and drone strikes on Bahrain, after the Gulf country urged citizens to take shelter as a siren sounded

Fighting paused in the Middle East yesterday after two days of deadly strikes between the United States and Iran, as Qatari negotiators travelled to Tehran in an attempt to get diplomacy back on track.

Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become Iran’s “golden weapon,” a priority that now outweighs its nuclear programme. Tehran is willing to risk new escalations with the United States to secure dominance over the waterway, which carries a fifth of global energy supplies.

Gaza’s civil defence and health officials said Israeli attacks killed nine people in the Palestinian territory yesterday.

Khamenei was killed on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28

After lying in state in Tehran's Grand Mosalla religious complex for two days, Khamenei will be processed through the city for 10 to 12 hours starting at 6:00 am (0230 GMT), organisers said

Khamenei, who ruled Iran for more than three decades, was killed in US-Israeli attacks in late February that sparked a regional war

Iranian authorities anticipate between 15 and 20 million participants in Tehran alone over the next three days for tributes

Huge crowds gather as Khamenei funeral ceremonies open in Iran

Iraqi authorities arrested 47 officials, including members of parliament, yesterday as part of an anti-graft campaign in the corruption-plagued country, state media reported.

Rubio, on his first regional tour since the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding to end the Middle East war, said the US wants a peace deal but not "at any price"

Rights group says fixed midday work bans are failing to protect labourers from heat stroke, kidney failure and death

The Strait of Hormuz had reopened last week, after Washington and Tehran reached an agreement, but Tehran announced on Saturday it had closed it again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon

Iran and the United States agreed on Monday to set up communication lines to keep the vital shipping route open and end fighting in Lebanon, mediators said, after their first round of talks in Switzerland toward ending the conflict that has engulfed the Middle East

A huge blast at a Qatar gas hub killed 13 people and injured 66 others, the Gulf state’s energy minister said on Monday, one of the deadliest accidents at a Gulf energy facility.