12-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India does not expect inflation to rise substantially from a jump in global crude oil prices triggered by the war in the Middle East, as domestic price levels remain near the lower end ‌of the central bank’s tolerance band, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on …

12-03-2026 DUBAI: Iranian missiles and drones continue to target Gulf countries, with Bahrain’s state oil company declaring force majeure on Monday for its shipments after its refinery caught fire in an Iranian attack. Gulf airspace has been shut and oil production and supply disrupted after Iran targeted US assets located …

12-03-2026 BEIRUT: More than half a million people in Lebanon have been registered as displaced after fighting restarted between Israel and Hezbollah following the United States and Israel’s war on Iran. Lebanon’s Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed told a press briefing on Sunday that the total number of people who …

12-03-2026 LONDON: As anti-Muslim hate crimes rise in Britain, so too does biased coverage of Muslims in the media, a new study suggests. The Centre for Media Monitoring, a nonprofit organization that examines how Muslims and Islam are portrayed in the media, said in a report released on Monday that …

11-03-2026 BEIJING: China has warned against seeking government change in Iran amid the ongoing US-Israeli offensive, saying any such move lacks public support. “Plotting a ‘color’ revolution or seeking government change will find no popular support,” China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a news conference on the sidelines of an …

11-03-2026 LONDON: The Iranian ambassador in London has warned the UK to be “very careful” about becoming further involved in the war. Seyed Ali Mousavi told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg his country would have a “right to self-defence” if the UK directly joined US-Israeli attacks on Iran. He warned that …

11-03-2026 WASHINGTON: Trump made a simple promise again and again during his last election campaign, and repeated it once more in his presidential victory speech: “I’m going to stop wars.” Yet the US president, who covets the Nobel Peace Prize, has used the US military to strike at targets in …

11-03-2026 CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: The Federal Government of Australia is considering a request for military assistance from Persian Gulf States targeted by Iranian attacks as the war in the Middle East enters its second week. All six Gulf States including Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar have been …

11-03-2026 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Top Indian refiner, Indian Oil Corp, opens new tab, has booked some oil cargoes for loading from the Red Sea port of Yanbu, ‌a company source said on Saturday. The US-Israel war with Iran has disrupted oil and natural gas exports from the …

11-03-2026 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s National Security Council, claimed that his country has captured United States soldiers since the outbreak of war last week. The comments came in a post on Saturday on the social media, in which Larijani suggested the US was concealing the captures. …