UNCTAD data shows Brent crude oil prices rose above $90 per barrel, while natural gas prices also increased sharply after...
Manama, Bahrain --- Bapco Energies BSC (Closed), Bahrain’s integrated energy company, announced force majeure on its group operations on Monday....
New Delhi, India - India's six-week election resumes Saturday, with top rivals of Prime Minister Narendra Modi due to vote in...Modi, 73, remains roundly popular after a decade in office and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely expected to win a third term next month
His prospects have been further bolstered by several criminal investigations into his opponents, sparking concerns from UN rights chief Volker Turk
- Palestinian Territories - Israel launched devastating air strikes on Gaza Thursday, while also expressing readiness to resume stalled talks on...
The Gaza Strip's civil defence agency said two pre-dawn air strikes had killed 26 people, including 15 children, in Gaza City
Israel has angrily rejected those moves, voicing "disgust" over the ICC request and labelling any recognition of Palestinian statehood a "reward for terrorism."
- Men and women thronged the main boulevard of Mashhad, Iran's second city in the northeast where Raisi was born, bidding...
Posters of Raisi were raised along the streets of Mashhad, particularly around Raisi's final resting place
Massive crowds had gathered for a funeral procession in the Iranian capital on Wednesday to pay their final respects to the president
- The announcement is the second diplomatic blow this week after the International Criminal Court prosecutor said he would seek arrest...
Norway, Ireland and Spain announced that they will recognize a Palestinian state
The three nations hope other countries will follow but Europe remains split over the issue
- Israel reacted with fury after three European countries said Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state, more than seven months...
Ireland, Norway and Spain said they would formally recognize the State of Palestine on May 28.
Israel strongly opposes the move, arguing that it amounts to "rewarding terrorism"
- North Gaza's last two functioning hospitals, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, are barely operational, doctors and the World Health Organization said...
Israeli forces had fired on the facilities and that snipers had been deployed near one of them.
Israel's military accuses Hamas of using hospitals as command centers to plan and launch attacks against its forces
- After shutting down offices and confiscating equipment of the Al Jazeera news channel in Israel, Netanyahu's government has shut down...
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid reacted to the decision on X, saying the government "went crazy".
US news agency Associated Press has won 53 Pulitzer Prizes - one of the highest honors in news journalism
Israel and Hamas, engaged in heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip, both angrily rejected on Monday moves to arrest their...Israel slammed as a "historical disgrace" the demand targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
US President Joe Biden denounced the ICC bid as "outrageous"
- Washington, United States - Amal Clooney helped the International Criminal Court weigh evidence that led to the decision to seek arrest...
The British-Lebanese barrister posted a statement on the website of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which she founded with her husband, American actor George Clooney
Clooney said she was asked by prosecutor Karim Khan to join an expert panel to "evaluate evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza."
- "The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi, had an accident while serving and performing his duty...
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was also on board along with the governor of East Azerbaijan
Vice-president Mohmmad Mokhber should take over presidential duties if Raisi's death is officially confirmed
