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Dubai: Iran's culture minister Sunday dismissed President Donald Trump's latest threats, calling the US leader an "unstable, delusional figure." "Iranian society generally does not pay attention to his statements, as it believes he lacks personal, behavioral and verbal balance, and constantly shifts between contradictory positions,"...

Washington: The US government has asked top providers of satellite imagery to stop publishing photos from parts of the Middle East because of the Iran war, the company Planet Labs has said. Planet Labs and companies like it provide near-daily imagery crucial to reporting on...

Islamabad: Pakistan Sunday said nearly 800 Afghan Taliban terrorists have been killed in the ongoing operation launched by the security forces in Afghanistan. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar shared the latest update on operation Ghazab lil-Haq, giving a summary of the losses suffered by the Tehreek-e-Taliban...

New York: A US Air Force officer whose jet was shot down in Iran hid in a mountain crevice and hiked up to 7,000 feet to evade the enemy before he was rescued by the American forces after a two-day life-or-death mission, the New York...

Tokyo: India's Ambassador to Japan, Nagma Mallick, held a meeting with Yamanashi Prefecture Governor Kotaro Nagasaki Sunday, discussing ways to further strengthen the partnership between the two nations, with a focus on deeper engagement with the Prefecture. During her visit to Yamanashi Prefecture, Nagma Mallick...

Dubai: Authorities say a fire has broken out at a petrochemicals plant in the United Arab Emirates following an attack Sunday. Abu Dhabi authorities responded to multiple fires at the Borouge petrochemicals plant. They say the fires were caused by falling debris following successful interceptions...

Damascus: Syrian authorities announced that a key border crossing with Lebanon will be temporarily closed due to security concerns following Israeli warnings of possible strikes on the area. The General Authority for Land and Sea Borders and Crossings Saturday (local time) said the Jdeidet Yabous...

Washington: A US service member who had been missing since Iran shot down a fighter jet has been rescued, President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post early Sunday. The crew member had been missing since Friday, when Iran downed a US F-15E Strike...

Tel Aviv: US President Donald Trump warned Iran to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz by his Monday deadline and Tehran called his threat "unbalanced and foolish". The search for a missing US military pilot continued Saturday in a remote part of the Islamic Republic....

Lahore: Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif Saturday warned India that it would respond with a strike in Kolkata to any "future misadventures." "If India tries to stage any false flag operation this time, then God-willingly, we will take it to Kolkata," Asif said while talking...