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Oil prices rose on Thursday, recouping some of the heavy losses from the previous session as the market rebalanced after the United States and Iran looked to defuse a potential Middle East crisis. Prices had soared in response to the killing of an Iranian general in an American air attack last week and Iran's retaliatory attack on US forces in Iraq on Wednesday, before diving more than 4...

The energy minister of the United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday he saw no immediate risk to oil travelling through the vital gateway of the Strait of Hormuz after Iran attacked bases hosting United States' forces in Iraq. The situation is not a war, and what is happening now should not be exaggerated, Suhail al-Mazrouei said on the sidelines of a conference in...

Tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated dramatically after a top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was killed last week in a US air strike in Iraq. Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops early on Wednesday, a move it said was in retaliation to Soleimani's assassination on January 3. More: US-Iran tensions after...

A Ukrainian airliner with 176 passengers and crew on board has crashed near Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport. Iran's state television said all those on board, most of whom were Iranians, were killed. According to Iranian media, the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed early on Wednesday near Parand, a suburb southwest of the capital Tehran, shortly after takeoff. More: In Pictures: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes...

Iran has fired more than a dozen rockets at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops, the Pentagon confirmed. The rockets fired at the Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and a base in Erbil early on Wednesday came amid escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran following the US killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in  Iraq  last week. Iran had pledged severe retailiation. More: Iran...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called his country's missile strike on US targets in Iraq a "slap in the face" for the US and said Washington's troops must leave the region. Khamenei's televised remarks on Wednesday came hours after the missiles were fired at the Ain al-Assad base in Anbar province and a facility in Erbil amid escalating...

Iran has fired more than a dozen missiles at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops, the Pentagon confirmed. The missiles targeted the Ain al-Assad airbase in Anbar province and a facility near Erbil's airport in northern Iraq early on Wednesday morning; they were fired in retaliation for the killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by the United States, Iran said. More: Iran attacks...

Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan's upper house of parliament has approved a law that allows the government to extend the term of the country's army chief, despite the objections of some parties and rights activists, a move that could further tighten the military's grip on power in the South Asian nation. Pakistan has been directly ruled for roughly half of its 73-year...

Iraq's caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi was alerted by Iran that its response to the US assassination of its top military general was either imminent or under way, according to his spokesman. Iran on Wednesday fired missiles at Iraqi bases housing US and other foreign troops amid escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran following the US assassination of Iranian military...

Washington, DC - Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated dramatically last week after US President Donald Trump ordered the killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq. Iran promised to retaliate, and delivered late on Wednesday with missile raids against two Iraqi bases housing US troops. Trump had previously threatened to "fully strike back" if Iran attacked any US citizen or site belonging to the US. He has not publicly...

Montreal, Canada - It has happened, it will happen again and Wet'suwet'en land defenders say it could be worse than before. Canada's federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), enforced an interim injunction in January 2019 against Wet'suwet'en group that had set up checkpoints and encampments on their traditional territories in northern British Columbia (BC) to block the construction of the contentious Coastal...

Sydney, Australia - With more than 7,000 men, women and children in migrant detention centres across Australia, the country has earned notoriety for its tough border protection policies, which have been condemned for breaching international human rights. Behind the barricades are refugees and migrants, who have fled from across the world in the hope of building a new home in Australia. For many, however, Australia's...

Sidra Medicine is providing the most appropriate treatment for babies born with Micrognathia, a genetic craniofacial condition which manifests with an undersized jaw, it was announced yesterday. Every year one in 8,000 babies worldwide is born with the condition. As a result, their tongues roll backward, leaving the babies struggling to breathe clearly as well as feed properly. Baby D, a...

AlBahie Auction House has announced its 2020 auctions and exhibitions beginning with the return of The Amber Auction on January 14 at 7.30pm, coinciding with the conclusion of the Kahraman Festival at Katara - the Cultural Village. “Highly coveted and valued from antiquity to the present, amber has been prized as a gemstone in jewellery-making and as a healing agent...