2026

Iran renewed attacks on the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, causing oil loading at the port of Fujairah to be at least partly halted after the third attack in four days. FILE IMAGE: PIXABAY Oil prices jumped on Thursday as Tehran declared the critical energy chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz, closed ‌after the US launched additional…

Oil prices rose nearly $3 following Trump’s threat of escalation and extended gains in early Asian trade on Thursday Iranian missiles are launched, as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they had carried out attacks against a U.S. base in Jordan and 21 other targets in the Gulf on Wednesday in retaliation for American strikes around the…

. BARCELONA: Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday blessed a giant new tower at Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia Basilica after celebrating mass inside what is now the world’s tallest church. A fireworks and light show illuminated the exterior of the temple at the end of the ceremony, bathing the unfinished basilica in shifting colours that highlighted…

. The terrorism in Balochistan shows how an armed separatist movement comes apart over time. For more than twenty years, Pakistan’s largest province has lived with low-intensity conflict: scattered violence, a steady separatist message, and long stretches of uneasy quiet. The recent operational record, the shift in tactics, and the regional politics around it point…

Rescue workers extinguish fire on a van near Khajut on the Islamabad-Murree Expressway. PHOTO: EXPRESS RAWALPINDI: At least 10 people were killed and 13 others injured on Wednesday when a passenger van carrying members of the same family plunged into a stormwater drain and caught fire on the Rawalpindi–Murree Expressway near Khajut, Motorway Police spokesperson…