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Pakistan calls right of free maritime passage an "absolute necessity" after tanker struck in Hormuz
4+ hour, 7+ min ago (530+ words) ISLAMABAD: The right of free maritime passage and freedom of navigation were an "absolute necessity" for the entire world, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday, after a tanker came under fresh attack in the Strait of Hormuz. The…...
Hezbollah rejects US-brokered Israel-Lebanon security deal as "surrender
3+ hour, 50+ min ago (52+ words) Arab News Hezbollah rejects US-brokered Israel-Lebanon security deal as "surrender" BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected a US-brokered security agreement between Lebanon and Israel on Saturday "a day after it was signed, describing it as a surrender to Israel....
Israel deal is not peace treaty but "process to end hostilities" " Lebanese official
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (1079+ words) BEIRUT: The newly signed US-brokered framework with Israel does not amount to a peace agreement but is intended solely to end hostilities between the two countries, a senior Lebanese official told Arab News on Saturday. Speaking after Lebanese and Israeli…...
Israeli drone strike hits southern Lebanon day after security deal
5+ hour, 11+ min ago (203+ words) BEIRUT: Israel "struck southern Lebanon on Saturday, a day after the two countries signed a US-brokered security arrangement aimed at easing "tensions along "their "border after "months "of "hostilities. Lebanon's state news "agency said an Israeli drone struck in Nabatieh…...
Iran accuses US of "blatant violation" of peace deal
10+ hour, 35+ min ago (165+ words) TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday accused the United States of a "blatant violation" of the peace deal reached between the two sides to end the Middle East war after the latest American strikes on the country. "These brutal attacks, which targeted…...
How Lebanon's conflict is putting pregnant women and girls at greater risk
13+ hour, 46+ min ago (1455+ words) NEW YORK CITY: When Anandita Philipose, the UN Population Fund's representative in Lebanon, visited a Beirut shelter in the first days of the crisis, she met a woman who was heavily pregnant, days from her due date, displaced, and entirely…...
Gulf states and the handover of Hormuz to Iran
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (602+ words) The Strait of Hormuz has been opened, and Iran has begun to act as its policeman, controlling maritime traffic and speaking of levying fees. The White House denies this, insisting there are no tolls and that Iran had pledged as…...
UAE foreign minister tells Iran: Shipping must pass freely through Hormuz
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (345+ words) DUBAI: The flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz should not be interrupted, the UAE foreign minister told his Iranian counterpart on Friday, after a ship using a UN-approved corridor in the waterway came under fire. Sheikh Abdullah bin…...
Hezbollah lawmaker warns Lebanese authorities against enforcing Washington agreement with Israel
22+ hour, 35+ min ago (184+ words) BEIRUT: Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said Lebanese "authorities would not be able to enforce a framework agreement signed with Israel "in "Washington "on "Friday "unless, with "US support, "they go "to civil war," Al Mayadeen reported on Friday, after talks…...
IMO chief pauses Hormuz evacuation after ship struck, says guarantees still sought
23+ hour, 51+ min ago (724+ words) NEW YORK: The secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization on Friday said he has temporarily suspended a fledgling evacuation framework for the roughly 11, 000 seafarers stranded aboard some 600 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, after one of the ships using the…...