Trump’s statements about Iran's request for a ceasefire are false and baseless, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman says

Unemployment could rise by 4% points as millions risk falling into poverty

A Russian Antonov-26 military plane crashed while flying over the occupied Crimean peninsula, killing 29 people, the TASS state news agency reported Wednesday, quoting Russia's defence ministry.

First crewed lunar journey since 1972

The foreign resident population rose by 188,000 to 5.56 million

Incident in Fujairah near Strait of Hormuz follows drone interception, reports WAM

US would have to occupy Kharg for months before Iran completely runs out of revenues

Rights group urges Gulf states to ensure wages, safety, and support return travel

Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war

Lower courts blocked the move as unconstitutional, ruling that under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment nearly everyone born on US soil is an American citizen

A ​total of 60% of respondents said they disapproved of US military ​strikes on Iran, while 35% approved in the survey of 1,021 people

The remarks underscored the shifting and at times contradictory statements from Washington about how the war, now in its fifth week, might end.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino told AFP on Tuesday that Iran “will be at the World Cup” and will play their group matches in the United States as scheduled, despite the Middle East war.

Israel’s parliament passed a law on Monday evening making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right allies.

Iranian media yesterday reported that a wave of US-Israeli strikes hit military bases, a cancer drug plant and a religious site -- a day after President Donald Trump threatened to destroy the country’s oil wells and power grid.

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected a vice-president by the lower house yesterday, parliament officials said, with the coup leader edging closer to becoming president and maintaining his rule.

Japan has deployed long-range missiles in a southwest region near China, its defence minister said yesterday, at a time when ties with Beijing are at their lowest in recent years.

Italy last week denied permission for US military aircraft to land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily before heading to the Middle East, sources said yesterday, because Washington had not sought prior authorisation from the government in Rome.

Ukrainian drones yesterday struck Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga for the fifth time in 10 days, and sources told Reuters an oil loading terminal was hit, likely adding to Russia’s difficulties in exporting crude.

US President Donald Trump has indicated that he may send troops to seize control of Iran’s key oil export terminal at Kharg Island in the northern Gulf. So what’s behind this, how would it work and what are the risks?