Over the weekend, 2,500 Marines arrived in the Middle East

Russia is pleased that a shipment of its oil reached Cuba despite a de facto US blockade of the island, the Kremlin said yesterday.

Chile’s new right-wing government said yesterday it will cancel plans to grant legal status to tens of thousands of migrants who entered the country irregularly.

Domestic production of urea has been impacted, making the current situation “very vulnerable”, an Indian government official said yesterday as the Israel-Iran war entered its 31st day, even as the government steps up efforts to secure supplies ahead of key agricultural months.

US President Donald Trump brushed aside concerns about surging fuel prices yesterday and threatened to destroy Iran’s oil wells, power plants and main export terminal if Tehran does not quickly accept a peace deal.

US Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican, has said Congress should have a say in any decisions to deploy troops to Iran, further underscoring division within President Trump’s political party.

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said yesterday.

Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s military chief who led a coup in 2021, stepped down yesterday to stand as president in a parliamentary vote following the first polls in the Southeast Asian nation since the takeover that triggered a civil war.

When Iran’s covert nuclear programme came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop weapons.

The American University of Armenia said yesterday it was moving all classes online over Iranian threats to target US universities in West Asia.

Some of Ukraine’s allies have sent Kyiv “signals” about the possibility of scaling back its long-range strikes on Russia’s oil sector amid a spike in global energy prices, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday.

An Israeli air strike killed at least three people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, local health officials said, in the latest round of violence since a US-brokered ceasefire took effect more than five months ago.

A statement carried by the Guards' Sepah News website said Tangsiri "succumbed to severe injuries" from the attack

The vehicle and the merchandise remain unaccounted for. Nestle did not reveal where exactly the truck was lost

"I think we'll make a deal with them, I'm pretty sure, but it's possible we won't," Trump told reporters on Sunday evening as he traveled aboard Air Force One to Washington.

After five years of hardline rule, he oversaw heavily restricted elections that criminalised protest or criticism of the vote and returned a walkover win for pro-military parties in late January

Pakistan said on Sunday it was preparing to host "meaningful talks" to end the conflict over Iran in coming days

Iran launched strikes on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, meanwhile after Iranian electrical facilities came under attack, cutting power to parts of Tehran and surrounding areas

Australia charges a sales tax of 52 cents on each litre of petrol sold at the pump, which will be halved for three months

IAEA said that Iran's heavy water production plant in Khondab was no longer operational after an Israeli military strike