53+ min ago   (295+ words) Doonbeg: U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday at the close of a golf tournament in Ireland that he plans to remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey. Trump said during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he had been…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (781+ words) Cairo: An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said, a day before Tehran plans to brief countries in the region on its contested efforts to manage shipping traffic…...

14+ hour, 55+ min ago   (224+ words) Jakarta: Indonesian ​rescuers were searching on Sunday for 140 people from ​a passenger ship that sank in the Java ⁠Sea after 103 others were evacuated, one of whom died, ​a search and rescue agency official said. An Indonesian passenger ship carrying ​243 people…...

9+ hour, 14+ min ago   (249+ words) Kyiv: United States President Donald Trump has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop targeting Russian diesel infrastructure, stressing that such operations are leading to a shortage of the fuel. Trump made the remarks on Sunday while interacting with journalists…...

11+ hour, 27+ min ago   (680+ words) Cairo: Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen overnight claimed new attacks on neighbouring Saudi Arabia, as Yemen's Saudi-backed government described the rebels' swift advance along the Red Sea coast as a “painful” development in a new front in the Iran war. The…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (838+ words) ADEN: The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thursday took over Yemen’s port city of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said. The takeover gives Iran another potential point of leverage in…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (424+ words) Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei on Thursday rejected accusations made by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Yemen's Houthi operates as a proxy for Tehran, stating that the group acts independently and takes orders from no one....

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (213+ words) Ankara: A volunteer firefighter died on Wednesday in Turkey after helping local emergency services tackle a large wildfire in the Mediterranean coastal province of Antalya, an official said. The fire broke out on Monday in Antalya’s Aksu district and, fanned…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (523+ words) Manila: Gilberto C Teodoro, the Philippines' defense secretary, publicly attacked China after being handed a note with Beijing's position on the South China Sea while speaking at a defense symposium in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday. The strange interruption occurred…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (517+ words) New Delhi: A major technical glitch in Britain’s air traffic control system disrupted air travel across the United Kingdom on Tuesday, with around 1,300 flights cancelled and hundreds more delayed, leaving thousands of passengers stranded at major airports. The disruption was…...