Benjamin Netanyahu says 'last minute crisis' with Hamas holding up approval of Gaza truce and hostage dealIsraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu revealed a "last-minute crisis" with Hamas delaying an expected ceasefire and hostage release deal. Despit...
16 Jan, 2025, 05.27 PM IST
Telangana public holidays 2025 announced: Check Telangana state govt holiday list for 2025Telangana public holidays 2025: The Telangana government has announced the holiday list for all state government general holidays in 2025, ...
16 Dec, 2024, 06.15 PM IST
Calls for revenge at Iran funeral for Hamas chief HaniyehIran held funeral processions on Thursday with calls for revenge after the killing in Tehran of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a s...
01 Aug, 2024, 03.31 PM IST
ICC convicts al-Qaida-linked leader of atrocities in MaliAl Hassan convicted of war crimes in Timbuktu for reign of terror by insurgents in 2012. Victims faced corporal punishment, imprisonment. P...
26 Jun, 2024, 04.48 PM IST
Iraq's competing Shi'ite armed factions and partiesA visit by the commander of Iran's Quds Force to Baghdad led to a pause in attacks on U.S. troops by Iran-aligned groups in Iraq. The rulin...
18 Feb, 2024, 11.43 AM IST
US, Iraq begin first round of talks to end US-led military coalitionThe US and Iraq held their first round of talks on the future of US military presence in Iraq, with Baghdad discussing its expectations to ...
28 Jan, 2024, 11.50 AM IST
Iraq orders the expulsion of Sweden's ambassador as a man desecrated the Quran in StockholmThe diplomatic blowup came hours after protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Islamic holy book stormed the Swedish Emb...
21 Jul, 2023, 11.58 AM IST
In Iraq, an old United States foe grows his political powerOver the past two years, Sadr's political organisation, the Sadrist Movement, has quietly come to dominate the apparatus of the Iraqi state...
29 Jun, 2021, 04.39 PM IST
Israel strike in Gaza destroys building with AP, other media officesThe owner of the building had been warned in advance of an impending Israeli missile strike, a Reuters reporter said, and the building had ...
15 May, 2021, 10.53 PM IST
Iran to execute man who allegedly spied on US-slain generalJudiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili offered little information about the convicted man, beyond giving his name as Mahmoud Mousavi Maj...
09 Jun, 2020, 05.08 PM IST
Iraq appoints third PM-designate, after second withdrawsThe upheaval prolongs a leadership vacuum at the helm of the government amid a severe economic crisis and viral pandemic. In December, care...
09 Apr, 2020, 11.49 PM IST
Oil cools off, but US sanctions on Iran set to be a big deciderThe direction of WTI will likely be determined by traders' reaction to the $68.54 level.
07 Dec, 2018, 04.25 PM IST
Gold for archer Harvinder at Asian Para GamesMonu Ghangas claimed the silver in the men's discus throw F11 category, while Mohammed Yasser fetched a bronze in the men's shot put F46 ca...
10 Oct, 2018, 01.06 PM IST
Not just Indians, fuel prices to soon pinch Saudis tooGasoline prices in Saudi Arabia are likely to increase by about 80 per cent in one go.
11 Dec, 2017, 08.20 PM IST
Saudi Aramco's valuation could be cut drastically and puncture Saudi dreams of a killingIndustry executives, analysts and investors said their analysis suggests Aramco is worth no more than half, and maybe as little as a fifth,...
24 Feb, 2017, 06.12 PM IST
Oil falls on global glut even as US growth picks up momentumBrent crude declined as much as 2.9% in London, extending this year’s decline to 46%. Opec will have to “step in” if prices continue to fal...
25 Dec, 2014, 04.29 AM IST
- British journalist rescued in Basra after two months in captivity
Iraqi troops freed a kidnapped British journalist Monday after finding him hooded and bound in a house during a raid in a Shiite militia st...
15 Apr, 2008, 12.35 AM IST