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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pakistan yesterday urged international community not mix Afghanistan’s 40 million civilians with the Taliban and warned of “grave consequences” for the region if Afghanistan’s economic meltdown continued.

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said yesterday he had “doubts” over a missing camera memory unit from a nuclear complex in Iran.

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq yesterday found a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 11 Iraqi policemen presumed killed by jihadists, a peshmerga security official said.

A third of people in the 420-million-strong Arab world do not have enough to eat, the United Nations said yesterday, highlighting that 69 million suffered from malnutrition last year.

Saudi Arabia has launched a new initiative that will allow Muslims all around the world to touch the Black Stone at the Kaaba in Makkah virtually.

A senior Yemeni military commander was among 28 troops killed in fighting between government forces and Huthi rebels for the strategic city of Marib, defence ministry sources said yesterday.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met Abu Dhabi’s crown prince yesterday after becoming the first leader of the Jewish state to visit the United Arab Emirates, a year after the establishment of ties.

Three members of the Islamist group Hamas were killed and others injured in a shooting on Sunday in the Palestinian camp of Burj al-Shemali in Lebanon, the group said, blaming the bloodshed on rival forces loyal to the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met Abu Dhabi's crown prince on Monday after becoming the first leader of the Jewish state to visit the United Arab Emirates, a year after the establishment of ties.

Over a dozen unmarried women huddled in a jail cell south of Dubai last year, locked up for the crime of giving birth, when a guard entered and declared them free.

Buildings razed, cars overturned, trees ripped from the ground -- there were end-of-the-world scenes in the small Kentucky town of Mayfield.

World powers and Iran have been locked in talks on reviving their nuclear deal, with a European source saying they were working from texts discussed five months ago and Iranian officials saying they were sticking to a tough stance from last week.

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group has finished its combat mission in Iraq and will shift to a training and advisory role, Iraq’s national security adviser said yesterday.