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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...

Peshawar: The Pakistan Army has killed the commander of the Afghan Taliban during an operation near Torkham border in northwest Pakistan, security officials said Wednesday. The commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan (TTA), identified as Qahraman, and his associates were eliminated during an operation late last...

Dubai: Israel stepped up airstrikes against Iranian missile launchers and factories Tuesday, and Iran retaliated across the Gulf region, disrupting energy supplies and travel. As explosions rang out in Tehran and in Lebanon - where Israel said it struck Hezbollah militants - the American embassy...

New Delhi: As the conflict in West Asia widened, India Tuesday emphasised the interest of one crore Indian nationals in the region and voiced concern over consequences for the Indian economy due to possible disruptions in energy supplies, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin is making all possible efforts to de-escalate the crisis in the Gulf and is in close contact with the regional leaders as Iran is retaliating with massive strikes on the US facilities and infrastructure on their territories, the Kremlin said...