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Iran said it was ready to respond to a US ground attack, accusing Washington on Sunday of preparing a land assault even as it sought negotiations and as regional powers held talks in Pakistan to try to end the fighting. The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt were set to meet in Islamabad to discuss ways to ...

Iran-linked hackers have allegedly compromised the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel, publishing photos and documents online, according to the group and US officials. The hacking group, calling itself Handala Hack Team, claimed responsibility, stating Patel had been added to its list of targets. The group released a series of personal images along with a sample of more ...

Nepal’s rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah was sworn in as prime minister on Friday after sweeping the first election since deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government last year. The 35-year-old reformist and his Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) dominated polls this month on a platform of youth-driven political change. “I, Balendra Shah, in the name of the country and people, pledge that I ...

US President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that Iran was taking part in peace talks, suggesting Tehran’s denials were because Iranian negotiators fear being killed by their own side. “They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly. But they’re afraid to say it, because they figure they’ll be killed by their own people,” Trump ...

The global energy crisis is deepening as emergency measures by governments worldwide have fallen short of plugging the huge shortfall in oil and gas supply caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, executives and oil ministers said on Tuesday. Costs for energy, fertilisers and petrochemicals are soaring as the world is losing as much as 20 million barrels of oil ...

A plane and an official vehicle collided on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, authorities said early Monday, forcing a halt to flights at the transport hub. The New York police department told AFP that an Air Canada plane “collided with a port authority vehicle”. Separately, the fire department said it had “responded to a reported incident involving a ...

The global economy is under “major threat” from the energy crisis caused by the Middle East war, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol said Monday, warning that “no country will be immune” to its effects. Speaking at the National Press Club in Australia’s capital, Birol compared the current energy crisis to those of the 1970s and the impact of Russia’s ...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping or face the destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launched its most destructive attack yet on Israel. The ultimatum, made just a day after the US leader said he was considering “winding down” military operations after three weeks of war, came ...

The Strait of Hormuz remains open to all shipping except vessels linked to “Iran’s enemies”, Iran’s representative to the U.N. maritime agency said on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to target Iranian power plants if the waterway was not “fully open” within 48 hours. The threat of Iranian attacks during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has kept most ...

A drone attack targeted Iraqi intelligence services in an upscale residential neighbourhood in central Baghdad on Saturday morning, a senior security official said. “A drone targeted the headquarters of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service in the Mansour district” at around 10:00 am local time (0700 GMT), General Saad Maan, head of the Iraqi government’s security media unit, said in a ...