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South Korean stocks closed higher Monday as investors awaited for Samsung Electronics' first-quarter earnings guidance this week, while they digested Washington's renewed threat on Iran. The Korean won fell against the US dollar.
United Arab Emirates official Anwar Gargash said any settlement of the U.S.-Iran war must guarantee access through the Strait of Hormuz, warning that a deal that fails to rein in Iran’s nuclear program and its missiles and drones would pave the way for "a more dangerous, more volatile Middle East."
Sales of electric heavy-duty cargo trucks surged by 182 per cent in 2025, with more growth forecast as oil and gas prices soar
Sales of electric heavy-duty cargo trucks surged by 182 per cent in 2025, with more growth forecast as oil and gas prices soar
Iran and the United States have received a plan to end hostilities that could come into effect on Monday and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a source aware of the proposals said on Monday.
How much fuel does Australia have left today, and when could we run out? Check how much petrol and diesel prices have risen near you in Sydney, Melbourne and across the country since the US and Israel’s war on Iran began in late February
SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed higher Monday as investors awaited for Samsung Electronics' first-quarter earnings guidance this week, while they digested Washington's renewed threat on Iran. The Korean won fell against the U.S. dollar.
The escalating confrontation with Iran is putting one of NATO’s core principles to the test: inter-alliance solidarity. While US President Donald Trump is leading a hardline approach, in cooperation with Israel, to curb Iran’s nuclear progress, key European countries are adopting a cautious, restrained, and critical…
Israel’s health ministry said 163 people were taken to hospitals over the past 24 hours with injuries linked to the conflict with Iran and Hezbollah, The Times of Israel reported.
Iran executed a man named Ali Fahim convicted over an attempt to storm a military facility and access an armoury during unrest in January, state media said on Monday, after the Supreme Court upheld his sentence.
In 2018, Emirati academic Abdulkhaleq Abdulla published a book titled The Gulf Moment, arguing that states such as the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia had eclipsed countries such as Egypt and Iraq - the historical core of the region - and were now projecting political, economic and cultural power on the world stage.
Israel and the United States carried out a wave of attacks on Monday that killed more than 25 people in Iran.
Pyongyang has not sent weapons and supplies to its long-time ally , nor has it issued messages to mark Iranian leadership changes
Pyongyang has not sent weapons and supplies to its long-time ally , nor has it issued messages to mark Iranian leadership changes.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Monday that US President Donald Trump's threats to strike power plants and bridges in Iran could amount to war crimes.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears cautious of not provoking the US, to the extent that Kim has remained silent on the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, South Korea's spy agency was quoted as saying by lawmakers Monday.
Dozens of people were reported killed in US-Israeli attacks across Iran as heavy bombardment struck multiple parts of Tehran overnight, Al Jazeera reported.
South Korea’s spy agency on Monday assessed that the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran could enter a lull by late April, depending on the outcome of Washington’s intensive airstrikes in the coming days.
Equipos israelíes de rescate buscan desaparecidos entre los escombros de un edificio residencial alcanzado por un misil iraní el día anterior en Haifa, Israel, el lunes 6 de abril de 2026. (AP Foto/Ariel Schalit)
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Iran is firing missiles from dozens of tunnel silos in remote mountain regions that are proving hard to destroy pre-emptively
Iran is firing missiles from dozens of tunnel silos in remote mountain regions that are proving hard to destroy pre-emptively
Japan has been bearing the brunt of the Iran war as the resource-poor nation relies on the Middle East for most of its crude oil imports
Japan has been bearing the brunt of the Iran war as the resource-poor nation relies on the Middle East for most of its crude oil imports
Investors are caught between positioning for a swift deal that ends the war and a significant escalation that could send oil prices and bond yields soaring further as they start a holiday-thinned trading week.
The US, Iran, and regional mediators have been discussing terms for a potential 45-day ceasefire, Axios reported on Sunday evening, citing four US, Israeli, and regional sources.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline, after American forces rescued a wounded aviator whose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines. A defiant Iran struck infrastructure targets in neigh…
Ignorance and arrogance were his drivers. The idea that the regime plays by different rules, with its own goals, never occurred to him
The UAE is preparing a significant support package for the tourism sector as it grapples with a deepening impact from the Iran war, the Minister for Economy and Tourism said.
Iran’s culture minister on Sunday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threats, calling him an “unstable, delusional figure. (AP video shot by Bassam Hatoum)
The United States and Iran are discussing a potential 45-day ceasefire through a group of regional mediators, Axios reported early Monday morning, citing four US, Israeli, and regional sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
Israeli rescue services said they were responding to impacts in central Israel following Iran’s latest ballistic missile attack, with the military assessing that at least one missile carried a cluster munition warhead, Times of Israel reported.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray during the priestly blessing on the Jewish holiday of Passover at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem’s Old City, largely empty due to restrictions linked to the Iran war, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A US-Israeli attack on a residential area in eastern Tehran killed at least four people and wounded seven others, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported.
Ukraine and Syria pledged greater security cooperation in talks Sunday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as Kyiv seeks to promote its military expertise across the region following the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker decries US president’s ‘reckless moves’ after expletive-ridden threat; Israeli PM says Trump ‘expressed his appreciation for Israel’s help’
The Strait of Hormuz will never return to its pre-war state, the Iranian navy command announced on Twitter/X on Monday morning.
As the war with Iran rages, a consequential battle is unfolding between the High Court of Justice and Israel’s law enforcement authorities over the limits of protest and freedom of speech in wartime.
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US President Donald Trump has published an expletive-laden post on social media in which he threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges if it failed to meet his Tuesday deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping.
The skies over Abu Dhabi and Dubai seemed just as dangerous last weekend as they were two or three weeks earlier. The air defences across the United Arab Emirates engaged 23 ballistic missiles from Iran on Saturday alone, and 56 drones on the same day, according to the nation’s defence ministry.
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China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, and Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, discussed the escalating war in Iran and the broader Middle East situation in a phone call, according to China’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Senior figures in the garment industry -- a lynchpin of the Bangladeshi economy -- say an Iran war-linked price surge has "already kicked in." © Reuters
German has given English many useful words. Some are valuable in the current crisis: schadenfreude, joy in the misfortunes of others, or Energiewende, the transition to low-carbon energy. We could add another, schwerpunkt, the decisive point of a military campaign. In the war the US is waging against Iran now, this …
Iranian diplomats have spoken a great deal in recent weeks about betrayal. Tehran accuses Washington of using negotiations as a ploy while preparing strikes on Iranian cities and admonishes Gulf neighbours hosting American bases. The sense of grievance is loud, theatrical and conspicuously one-directional.
Several Democratic senators sharply criticised President Donald Trump’s latest threats on Iran, warning they could amount to war crimes and increase risks for US troops.
A production line at a Skoda Auto factory in Ha Long in Vietnam's northeast. The global energy crisis is threatening the prospects of the country's booming manufacturing sector. © AP
