2+ hour, 50+ min ago  (673+ words) WASHINGTON: The US is demanding that Iran make a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and that ships crossing the vital corridor won't be attacked anymore, senior US officials said Friday, adding that internal Tehran power struggles…...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago  (433+ words) BEIRUT: An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed a young motorcyclist on Friday, Lebanese state media reported, the latest attack despite a truce in the Israel-Hezbollah war. "A young man from the city of Nabatieh was martyred in a raid…...

4+ hour, 17+ min ago  (362+ words) Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff and mayor of Chicago, has ambitions to become US president and hopes to compete in the 2028 presidential primary. As a student of politics, this possible Democratic Party contender seems good at…...

5+ hour, 36+ min ago  (260+ words) ROME: An "Italian court has acquitted former crew members of the migrant rescue vessel Aquarius eight years after "they were accused by prosecutors in Sicily of illicit waste trafficking, the charity SOS Mediterranee said on Friday. The ship was seized…...

6+ hour, 46+ min ago  (336+ words) NEW YORK CITY: More than 18, 000 new cases of chickenpox, ectoparasitic infestation and impetigo, a bacterial skin infection, were recorded in Gaza last week, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Friday, as communicable diseases continue to spread widely across the besieged…...

6+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1585+ words) LONDON: French President Emmanuel Macron has become the first European head of state to visit Damascus since the fall of President Bashar Assad in late 2024, marking another pivotal step in Syria's emergence from years of diplomatic isolation. With Syria's political…...

8+ hour ago  (215+ words) LONDON: Israeli settlers demolished the Yanoun Mixed Basic School in a hamlet south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Friday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education. In a statement, the ministry said the school…...

6+ hour, 53+ min ago  (406+ words) NEW YORK CITY: Bahrain's UN envoy has accused Iran of using diplomatic agreements to "manage crises and gain time" while attacking Gulf states. Jamal Al-Rowaiei was speaking in the Security Council on Friday as it reviews the latest report on…...

12+ hour, 26+ min ago  (159+ words) MOSCOW: Russia's state "nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Friday that first six employees "of Iran's "Bushehr "nuclear "power "plant "have begun "returning to the plant, Russia's RIA said "citing its "CEO Alexei "Likhachev. Rosatom, "which "is "building two new units…...

11+ hour, 44+ min ago  (385+ words) TEHRAN: Iran will respond to any attack against its infrastructure, including by striking Israel, the head of the country's top security body said on Friday, after Tehran and Washington resumed fighting this week. "Any attack on infrastructure will be retaliated…...