11-05-2026 TRIPOLI: Libya’s largest operational oil refinery at Zawiya has been shut down and ‌an emergency declared following fighting between armed groups nearby. The National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Zawiya Refining Company announced a “precautionary halt” to operations and evacuated employees from the oil complex and port. NOC confirmed the …

11-05-2026 PREAH VIHEAR/ SIEM: When asked how she spends her day, 11-year-old Sokna rattled off a list of chores. She first fetches water, then washes dishes and sweeps the leaves and dust from around the blue tarpaulin tent her family now calls home, in the grounds of a Buddhist pagoda …

11-05-2026 BEIRUT: Israeli air raids have martyred dozens more people in southern Lebanon, including a civil defence rescuer, according to Lebanese state-run media, despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. A Lebanese health ministry statement said an Israeli air strike killed four people, including two women and injured eight others …

10-05-2026 WASHINGTON/ CAIRO: Efforts to end the war between the US and Iran appeared to stall as the two sides traded fire in the Gulf on Friday, while a US intelligence analysis concluded Tehran could withstand a naval blockade for months. A CIA assessment indicated that Iran would not ‌suffer …

10-05-2026 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced on social media that there would be a three-day ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine from May 9 until May 11 to mark ‌the end of World War Two for the Russians. Trump had said after a phone call with Putin …

10-05-2026 NAIROBI/ GENEVA: Somalia faces a severe malnutrition crisis and urgently needs more aid funding to avert a catastrophe, the United Nations World Food Program said on Friday, warning it may be forced to halt humanitarian support from July without additional financing. A combination of multiple failed rain seasons, which …

10-05-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress party drew increasingly strong backing from Muslim voters while Hindus overwhelmingly voted for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, results from recent elections in four states have shown. This voter trend highlights hardening religious polarization in the officially secular ‌nation, and the …

10-05-2026 LONDON/ DUBAI: As households across the globe count the costs of the US-Israel war in Iran, some companies have been counting bumper profits instead. The uncertainty sparked by the conflict, and Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, is driving up the cost of living and hitting the …

10-05-2026 JOHANNESBURG: South African opposition leader Julius Malema has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign after the Constitutional Court ruled that parliament had violated the constitution by blocking moves to impeach him in 2022. The judgement follows a legal challenge by Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and others, and …

10-05-2026 DUBAI: Oil prices rose after the US and Iran exchanged fire in the key Strait of Hormuz waterway. The US said it made self‑defence strikes in response to “unprovoked” Iranian attacks as US ships were heading out of the Gulf through the strait, which is south of Iran. Iran …