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The head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom warned Tuesday that the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran faces threats due to ongoing U.S.-Israeli attacks across the country.
US and Israeli strikes on Iran could encourage the Islamic Republic and its Arab neighbours to acquire nuclear weapons, Russia’s Foreign Minister warned on Tuesday.
The Dow tumbled more than 1,000 points on Tuesday after gasoline prices spiked overnight and oil rocketed above $83 a barrel as the widening conflict in Iran began to disrupt global energy supplies.
Beijing is unlikely to abandon ‘balanced diplomacy’ in the region despite killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, analysts say
Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has said the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in Iran has suffered “some recent damage” as US-Israeli attacks on the country continue for a fourth day.
Un logotipo de ExxonMobil en una pantalla en sede de la Bolsa de Nueva York, el 2 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Seth Wenig)
After more than three decades as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was assassinated in US and Israeli air strikes on Saturday morning.
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Los precios en una gasolinera de Fráncfort, Alemania, el lunes 2 de marzo de 2026. (Andreas Arnold/dpa vía AP)
Saudi say two drones hit US Embassy in Riyadh, causing a small fire and minor damage
Israeli and US strikes on Tuesday struck the building of the assembly tasked with electing Iran's new supreme leader, according to Iranian media.
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Operations at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in southern Iran have been suspended due to US and Israeli airstrikes continuing in its vicinity, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, has said. The company has been the key contractor at the plant, currently constructing its second and third power units.
El humo se eleva tras un ataque aéreo israelí en Dahiyeh, en el sur de Beirut, Líbano, el 3 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Hassan Ammar)
Soldiers stand watch against the national flag on Tiananmen Square during a press conference ahead of the opening of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Twenty-three South Koreans staying in Iran safely evacuated to Turkmenistan on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said, as Seoul steps up efforts to assist Korean nationals amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is choking off China’s imports of methanol – a vital input for the country’s industrial sector
When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran over the weekend they set in motion a war that has engulfed the region.
Experts warn of similarities with 2022, when electricity prices went up by more than 40% due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Twenty-three South Koreans have been evacuated from Iran by land amid the escalating conflict following U.S. and Israeli military strikes, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
FILE- In this Wednesday, June 8, 2011 file photo, sun sets behind an oil pump in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer look at each other as they shake hands during a press conference at Chequers near Aylesbury, England, Thursday Sept. 18, 2025. Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Moscow for decades has been Iran’s main international backer, shielding it from United Nations resolutions while trying to soften Western sanctions and selling weaponry worth billions of dollars to Tehran.
Israeli intelligence hacked nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras to prepare the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Financial Times has reported, citing sources.
U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that the war with Iran could last longer than initially projected, saying Washington has the capability to continue military operations well beyond the four-to-five-week timeframe first outlined.
A day before Texas voters choose their nominees in a key U.S. Senate race, they’re reacting to the U.S. military attacks on Iran (AP Video: Kendria LaFleur and Juan Lozano)
Turkey's pro-Kurdish party on Sunday criticised the US-Israeli war on Iran, saying it opposed “external designs” on the country.
Una pantalla que muestra vuelos cancelados en el Aeropuerto Internacional Henri Coanda en Otopeni, Rumania, el 3 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Vadim Ghirda)
On Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, dozens of girls gathered at the “Shajareh Tayyebeh” (The Good Tree) school in the city of Minab in southern Iran when Israel and the United States began initial strikes on the country.
When Israel and the US launched their operation against Iran, the core expectation was rapid regime change in Tehran.
China calls it unacceptable to ‘kill leader of sovereign state’, while South Africa questions ‘pre-emptive’ justification
United States President Donald Trump’s second term in office has been defined by the abduction of Venezuela’s left-wing President Nicolas Maduro, joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, among hundreds, and new threats against other leaders from Latin America …
View image in fullscreenKfar Tibnit, Lebanon Smoke rises from an Israeli bombardment on the southern Lebanese area of Kfar Tibnit. Israel has ordered the military to take control of more positions in Lebanon, where the army pulled back some of its forces after Hezbollah attacked Israeli bases in support of its backe…
Washington, DC – As the US and Israeli militaries expand their strikes on Iran, the administration of US President Donald Trump has alternated its justification for the war between preventing immediate attacks and countering the long-term existential threat of a nuclear Tehran.
The focus is on economics and the five-year plan but the turmoil could prompt a rethink in some areas, analysts say
Israeli spies spent years hacking nearly every traffic camera in Tehran so they could monitor Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before he was eventually wiped out, according to a report.
The British public opposes allowing the US to use British airbases for strikes on Iranian missile sites, a new poll has revealed.
On Saturday morning, the departure board at Dubai’s main airport began to stack up with delays. Over the water, pale arcs rose, flared and vanished - interceptors, officials later said - leaving chalk traces in a sky turning white.
Qatar says Iran did not notify it of incoming missile attacks as Tehran conducts a retaliatory campaign across the Gulf sparked by the United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran.
A display in the arrivals terminal of the Henri Coanda International Airport shows cancelled flights originating in Middle East countries, in Otopeni, Romania, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
An Israeli air strike in Tehran targeted a senior commander of Iran’s Quds Force, according to Israeli Army Radio.
A grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is likely to figure prominently in the deliberations of the clerics who will determine who replaces Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader.
A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site
An Iranian-Kurdish women's group have expressed concerns about a number of their members who are currently political prisoners in Iran, who have been cut off by the US-Israeli attack on the country. In response to a question from MEE about Verisheh Moradi - who was imprisoned for "armed rebellion" over her support o…
The world must not return to the law of the jungle, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang tells France’s Jean-Noel Barrot
Unlike at least one war game simulation rehearsed by the US military, Trump’s attack won’t lead to a reset, at least not on American terms
US President Donald Trump has condemned British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not backing the US-Israeli attack on Iran, suggesting he "could be" pandering to British Muslim voters.
Mohsen and Firouzeh have been trying to have a child for years and recently turned to IVF, using a clinic at Tehran’s Ghandi hospital.
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