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Moscow: The ongoing war in West Asia may increase India's demand for Russian crude oil and could touch the levels of 1.5 million barrels per day, reaching the peak levels in 2024-2025, according to a leading expert on global oil trade. Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister...

Islamabad: Pakistan targeted the famed Bagram airbase in Afghanistan as its operation was going against the Afghan Taliban over their alleged failure to stop terrorist attacks from their soil, media reports said Wednesday. Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil Haq (Righteous Fury) on the night of...

Naypyidaw: China's growing military footprint in Africa now extends beyond nations that have distanced themselves from Paris, with Senegal and Ghana, long aligned with France and Western security partners, having stepped up acquisitions of Chinese defence systems. At the same time, Burkina Faso and Mali,...

Dubai: Iran's judiciary chief Wednesday threatened those who say or do anything in support of the US-Israeli airstrike campaign now targeting the Islamic Republic. Gholam Hosseini Mohseni Ejehei made the comments in an interview with Iranian state television. His remarks raised the possibility of those...

New Delhi: Finnish President Alexander Stubb began a four-day visit to India Wednesday to bolster bilateral cooperation across a wide spectrum of areas, including trade, investment and critical technology. Stubb will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday, following which the two sides are...

Dubai: Israel's defence minister Wednesday threatened whoever Iran picks to be the country's next supreme leader, saying he will be "a target for elimination." Israel Katz made the statement on X. "Every leader appointed by the Iranian terror regime to continue and lead the plan...

Tehran: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been selected as Iran’s new Supreme Leader by the country’s Assembly of Experts, according to a latest media report. “The Assembly of Experts elected Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as the next Supreme Leader,” Iran...

Dubai: Explosions sounded in Iran's capital city Wednesday as its war with the US and Israel entered a fifth day following earlier strikes on an Iranian nuclear site and retaliatory strikes by the Islamic Republic across the Gulf region. Iranian state television reported explosions around...

Dubai: Satellite images of Iran's Natanz nuclear facility have shown several damaged buildings, compared with imagery from the previous day, along with additional damage across the facility's complex. Vantor, an imaging company based in Colorado and formerly known as Maxar Technologies, released images taken Monday...

Dubai: A drone strike near the US Consulate in Dubai triggered a fire as Iran continued a wave of drone and missile attacks targeting American diplomatic missions across the Middle East. The incident in Dubai came late Tuesday night (local time), a day after reported...