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The crescent moon was sighted on the evening of March 19 over Mecca, and by midnight the messages had already begun moving. From palace communications offices and city hall press rooms, from foreign ministries and mosque podiums, the words went out in Arabic and English and Turkish and Urdu: Eid Mubarak. Blessed festival. The month…
Top executives from some of America’s largest oil companies warned officials in US President Donald Trump’s administration that the energy crisis sparked by the war with Iran might worsen, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said that chief executives of Exxon, Chevron and ConocoPhillips…
The United States State Department on Friday offered a $10 million reward for information about Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei and several other senior Iranian officials.The move comes amid rising tensions following joint US-Israeli strikes on Iranian military sites and retaliatory missile and drone attacks across the region on February 28.The announcement was made…
Iranian state media on Thursday said the wife of late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is alive, dismissing earlier reports claiming she had died in February 28 attack by the United States and Israel.News agency Reuters reported the clarification quoting Iranian media that came hours after first statement by Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei.In his…
Amazon is reportedly introducing new rules for how its engineers write, review and deploy code. These changes are reported to be a direct response to recent outages that have affected the company’s e-commerce operations in recent months, some of them linked to its own AI coding tools. Citing internal documents, Business Insider claims that the…
US President Donald Trump on Saturday warned that Iran “will be hit very hard,” adding that because of “Iran’s bad behaviour,” new targets inside the country were being considered for “complete destruction and death.”Trump also claimed credit for Tehran’s apology to its Middle Eastern neighbours following a week of intense conflict in the region triggered…
KATHMANDU: For many young Nepalis, Friday’s historic verdict came with a clear call for the Himalayan country’s new leaders: ‘We voted for you. Now get to work’.In Kathmandu, there were no dhols or gulal left over from Holi to be sprayed in celebration. The city moved in its usual rhythm even as the scale of…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi continued to lead India’s efforts to ensure the well-being of the Indian community and offset any negative impact of the conflict on India as he spoke to the leaders of Qatar, Oman and Kuwait and condemned the Iranian attacks on these countries. With this latest round of talks, PM Modi…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke to the Sultan of Oman and the Crown Prince of Kuwait amid escalating tensions in Middle East, expressing concern over recent attacks and reviewing the security of the Indian community in the two Gulf nations.PM Modi held a phone conversation with Sultan Haitham bin Tarik of…
Middle East is burning. US, Israel and Iran are engaged in a military conflict, de-stabilising the whole region. The targeted killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, by the United States and Israel marked one of the most consequential escalations in the region in decades.In Washington and Tel Aviv, the expectation appears clear: remove the…
