Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for those protesting the law
Kuwait has released 10 American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related charges, in a move seen as a gesture of goodwill between two allies
An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start talks over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program has met with Iran’s foreign minister
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have warned shippers that “any Israeli vessel” traveling through nearby Mideast waters is now a target as Israel continues to block aid to the Gaza Strip
Ukrainian officials said Russia had targeted energy facilities with dozens of missiles and drones in a nighttime attack
President Donald Trump says he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a development that was not immediately confirmed by the supreme leader
Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant Aramco has reported a $106.25 billion profit in 2024, down 12% from the prior year on lower energy prices
The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hackers of conducting one of the largest known thefts of cryptocurrency — worth some $1.5 billion — from a Dubai-based firm
A U.S. air base in Italy went on lockdown for several hours after security forces received word of a possible car bomb targeting the facility
Long-haul carrier Etihad Airways has announced it made a record $427 million profit in 2024, part of a financial rebound for the Abu Dhabi-based airline
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Russia's war
A Saudi educator known for his charity work and instructing prisoners has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize
Elon Musk has called for the United States to “delete entire agencies” from the federal government
Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for its people after the nations backed autocratic President Bashar Assad during its long war
A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in Britain has been freed after seeing her 34-year sentence for her activity on Twitter in Saudi Arabia drastically reduced
Iran’s supreme leader says that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran
President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents has been swiftly rejected and denounced by American allies and adversaries alike
Iran’s government seems to be welcoming decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate
Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus’ shift away from Iran as its main regional ally
Officials say Dubai International Airport saw a record 92.3 million passengers pass through its terminals in 2024
An explosion has struck a Hong Kong-flagged container ship traveling north through the Red Sea
Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unilaterally released 153 war detainees
Fighting around Sudan’s largest oil refinery has set the sprawling complex ablaze, sending thick, black smoke over the country’s capital, Khartoum
The United Nations on Friday suspended all travel into areas held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels after seven more of their staff were detained by the rebels
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Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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