International

24-03-2026 NEW YORK: A California jury on Friday largely sided with Twitter shareholders who accused billionaire Elon Musk of making false statements and intentionally driving down the social media company’s stock ahead of his $44 billion acquisition in 2022 but they absolved Musk of claims of engaging in a “scheme” …

24-03-2026 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Iranian leaders on Nowruz and said Moscow remained a loyal friend and reliable partner to Tehran, the Kremlin said on ‌Saturday. The extent of Moscow’s support for Iran, though, is in dispute. Some Iranian sources have said that they have had little real …

24-03-2026 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said the US was considering “winding down” its military operation against Iran, as Iran and Israel traded attacks on Saturday and Iranian media said the nuclear ‌enrichment facility in Natanz had been attacked. In a social media post, Trump said the US was close to …

24-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ SINGAPORE: Indian refiners plan to resume buying Iranian oil while refiners elsewhere in Asia are examining such a move after Washington temporarily removed sanctions ‌to alleviate an energy crunch caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, traders said on Saturday. Three Indian refining sources said …

24-03-2026 PARIS: Mayors for France’s major towns and cities will be chosen on Sunday, in the last vote before next year’s presidential elections. Excitement is especially high in Paris and Nice. The capital could shift to the right after 25 years under a Socialist-led coalition, if Rachida Dati comes from …

24-03-2026 LONDON/ DUBAI: Iran has fired missiles towards a joint US-UK base on the island of Diego Garcia after warning that British lives were “in danger” after Keir Starmer backed the US to carry out further strikes from British bases. Tehran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the Chagos Islands …

23-03-2026 FLORIDA/ TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he had given orders to postpone any military strikes against Iranian power plants for five days, hours ahead of a deadline that threatened further escalation in the conflict now in its fourth week. Trump added in a post on …

23-03-2026 DUBAI: Iranian strikes on military bases used by the US in the Middle East caused about $800m (£600m) in damage in the first two weeks of the war, a new analysis shows. Much of the damage was caused in initial retaliatory strikes by Iran in the week after the …

23-03-2026 VIENNA: Shortly after the United States and Israel first attacked Iran on February 28, analysts warned that war could drive oil prices above $100 a barrel. Now, less than three weeks into the conflict, market watchers are seriously considering the possibility of prices surpassing $150 or even $200. On …

23-03-2026 WASHINGTON: The United States’ top intelligence official has placed Pakistan alongside Russia, China, North Korea and Iran as a country whose advancing missile capabilities could eventually put US territory within reach. Presenting the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi …