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Israel and Lebanon agree to implement conditional ceasefire
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Ten killed in Iran road crash: state media

Ten people were killed and more than a dozen injured in Iran yesterday when a truck collided with a minibus transporting workers in southwestern Khuzestan province, state media said.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Governor of Iraq’s Najaf resigns after protests

The governor of Iraq’s Najaf province resigned on Friday, a day after another governor also quit following demonstrations against living conditions and corruption.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Iran: Drills in Gulf warning to Israel

War games conducted this week by Iran in the Gulf were intended to send a warning to Israel, the country’s top military commanders said on Friday, amid concerns over possible Israeli plans to target Iranian nuclear sites.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Won’t enrich uranium beyond 60pc if talks fail

Iran has no plans to enrich uranium beyond 60 percent if nuclear talks in Vienna fail, the head of the country’s atomic agency said yesterday.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Coalition launches ‘large-scale’ Yemen operation

The Saudi-led coalition yesterday launched a “large-scale” assault on Yemen after missiles fired by Iran-backed Huthi rebels killed two people in the kingdom, the first such deaths in three years.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Prep for Omicron: Israel orders 100,000 Pfizer’s new Covid pill

Israel has ordered 100,000 units of Pfizer Inc’s anti-viral COVID 19 pill Paxlovid for people aged 12 and older at risk of severe illness, an Israeli official said on Saturday, confirming a television report.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Iran nuclear talks to resume next week: EU

Talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume next Monday, the EU diplomat chairing the negotiations said on Thursday, urging a “picking up of the
24 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Iran nuclear talks to resume next week: EU chair

Talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume next Monday, the EU diplomat chairing the negotiations said yesterday, urging a “picking up of the pace”.
23 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Iraq pays final Kuwait war reparations

Iraq has paid its last war reparations to Kuwait more than 30 years since the invasion of the Gulf country by former autocrat Saddam Hussein,
23 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Saudi-led coalition rejects Iran charges on Yemen envoy

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen yesterday rejected accusations that it was slow to facilitate the evacuation from Sanaa of an Iranian diplomat who later died of coronavirus.
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Libya delays Friday election

Authorities overseeing war-torn Libya’s first presidential election have confirmed that holding it on Friday as scheduled is “impossible” and
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM

‘My children are cold’

Umm Raghad’s children don’t have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria’s bitter winter so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay.
22 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Saudi-led strikes halt aid flights into Yemen’s Sanaa

UN aid flights into Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa have been halted by air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition which supports the government, an airport official said yesterday.
21 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Court orders Dubai ruler to pay $730m in divorce settlement

The ruler of Dubai was ordered yesterday to pay his former wife and children around £550 million ($730 million) in what is thought to be the
21 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Ex-Israeli intelligence chief accepts country's role in Iran general's killing

Israel’s former military intelligence chief says the country was involved in the American airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in January 2020. It was the first public acknowledgement of Israel’s role in the operation.
21 December 2021, 13:34 PM

Philippines death toll hits 375

The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year surged to 375 yesterday, as survivors pleaded for urgent supplies of drinking water, food and medicines.
20 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Egypt jails key revolution figure Abdel Fattah for 5 years

Egypt yesterday sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to five years in jail, with two others receiving four years, his sister and a judicial source said.
20 December 2021, 18:00 PM

UN investigator targeted by spyware

The mobile phone of a UN-backed investigator who was examining possible war crimes in Yemen was targeted with spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, a new forensic analysis has revealed.
20 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Iran says inspecting new IAEA cameras for nuclear site

Iran said yesterday the technical inspection of new surveillance cameras for the Karaj nuclear facility had begun after Tehran said previous cameras were damaged in an attack it blamed on Israel.
19 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Typhoon Rai: Death toll over 200 in Philippines

The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has surged to 208, the national police said Monday, making it one of the deadliest storms to hit the country in recent years.
19 December 2021, 18:00 PM