Move aims to ease pressure on travellers affected by flight disruptions

For decades, Dubai's sales pitch featured gleaming skylines, tax-free salaries, ease of doing business and something far more intangible: the unspoken promise that whatever was happening elsewhere in the Middle East, this city was different

Quake's epicentre was at a depth of 13 kilometres, agency says

"At the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be," he wrote on Truth Social

US Central Command wrote in an X post.

He later qualified that the conflict "may take some time, but it's not going to take years."

The strait is especially key to the world energy markets, with around 20 percent of global seaborne oil passing through.

Six US service personnel have been killed so far, all in Iran's retaliatory attacks over the weekend on Kuwait.

Six US service members killed in the conflict so far

Trump says that his attack on Iran could extend longer than a month

New strikes were reported Tuesday across the Middle East, including Israeli strikes on Lebanon and a drone attack on the US embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam said yesterday it had uncovered a new painting by Rembrandt, using advanced scanning technology and stylistic analysis to confirm it was crafted by the Dutch master.

Oil prices surged, the dollar jumped and shares slid yesterday as military conflict in the Middle East looked set to last for weeks, threatening to upend a global economic recovery and perhaps reignite inflation.

The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran spread across the Middle East and beyond yesterday, with Lebanon’s Hezbollah entering the fray and a British air base in Cyprus targeted.

Following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, many senior US officials remain skeptical that the US and Israeli military operation against the Islamic Republic will lead to a regime change in the near term.

More than 100 Bangladeshis have been recruited into Russia’s war against Ukraine, and dozens have been killed on the front lines, according to rights groups that say many of the men were misled, exploited, or financially trapped before ending up in combat.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday that 26 of its staff were “unaccounted for” after a surge in violence in South Sudan in recent weeks.

The strait is the world's most vital oil export route, connecting the biggest Gulf oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the UAE, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea

Fifteen US aircraft have left the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain since the US and Israel launched weekend attacks on Iran, maps by flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed yesterday.

US President Donald Trump suggested the conflict with Iran could go on for the next four weeks, the Daily Mail newspaper reported on Sunday.