Category: 3. Middle East

Born to landless Indian farmers, Sunil Pooniya thought a job at sea would be his ticket out of poverty, instead his first voyage saw him diving into the ocean to escape a deadly attack driven by the Iran war.

For hundreds of thousands of Indians,…

Australian activists from the Gaza-bound aid flotilla have arrived back in Sydney, reuniting with loved ones as they describe beatings, sexual assault and torture at the hands of Israeli forces who intercepted their boats in international…

DUBAI, May 25 (Reuters) – Iran’s top negotiator in talks with the United States, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, has been reelected as the country’s parliamentary speaker, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday.

(Reporting by Elwely…

Marco Rubio leads US foreign policy as diplomacy on Iran goes down to the wire, but he is also making time for cultural attractions as divergent as the Taj Mahal and the Village People.

Rubio, who serves as President Donald Trump’s secretary of…

As diplomacy intensifies on ending the Iran war, top US diplomat Marco Rubio was spending Monday not in negotiations but at India’s world-famous monument to love, the Taj Mahal.

Rubio, on his first-ever visit to India, flew to Agra and spent 45…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has insisted President Donald Trump is ‘not going to make a bad deal’ in ending its war on Iran. Earlier, Trump said he instructed his team not to rush into any agreement.

GDP grows 6 percent year-on-year in first quarter as AI boom outweighs rising energy costs.

Singapore’s economy has grown faster than expected in the first three months of the year as furious demand for AI…

Antonelli finished more than 10 seconds ahead of Ferrari’s Hamilton, who secured his second podium finish in 2026.

Kimi Antonelli went from furious to victorious as the 19-year-old Italian star won a wild…

Over 1.5 million Muslims began filling a vast tent city in the holy city of Mecca on Monday for an annual hajj pilgrimage carried out against the backdrop of hopes for an end to the war in the Middle East.

The white-robed pilgrims on buses or on…

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By Xinghui Kok and Greg Torode

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, May 25 (Reuters) – War in Iran, strained U.S. commitments in Asia and rising tensions over Taiwan will likely dominate the agenda at this…