“We launched a plan we call ‘For Iran’, which is a registration program for homeland defense fighters,” Nadali told state media. “We set the minimum age at 12 years and above.
US businesses are adding workers at the weakest pace in 15 years, excluding the onset of the pandemic, new data showed Tuesday, a sign that there was an even deeper chill cutting through the labor market before the Middle East conflict threatened to shake the US economy.
Solomon Ogbonna Eziko's installation as an Igbo leader in East London has sparked tensions.
Pakistan and China issued a five-point initiative on Tuesday to restore peace and stability in The Gulf and Middle East region, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities. "China and Pakistan call for immediate cessation of hostilities and utmost efforts to prevent the conflict from spreading," said a statement issued following high-level talks in Beijing.
Hundreds of intact dinosaur eggs discovered in France reveal 72-million-year-old nesting ground where titanosaurs and smaller species raised young together.
The four astronaut's of NASA's Artemis 2 mission arrived in style at Kennedy Space Center ahead of their historic moon mission.
Following the March 2026 Eid al-Fitr celebrations in South Africa, an image purporting to show South African police arresting undocumented Muslims for “praying illegally” in Johannesburg was shared on social media, fanning anti-foreigner sentiment. But the claims are false; the image was generated using artificial intelligence (AI). Police also denied the incident.
Egypt has moved to calm tourists nerves over scaled-back opening hours of shops and restaurants due to the war in Iran, after the country announced it would enforce an earlier closing time due to the oil crisis. Egypt's large-scale energy-saving measures are not intended to apply to popular travel destinations such as Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Luxor, Aswan and Sharm El Sheikh, the tourism ministry said as the rules took effect at the end of March.
Sexual violence against women and girls is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan 's fierce conflict between the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, international aid group Doctors Without Borders said in a report Tuesday. Sudan slid into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle between the two forces exploded into open fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere. The International Criminal Court is investigating mass killings, gang rapes and other crimes during the conflict as potential w
The alliance, which began in Italy in 2016, aims to help businesses digitise faster and simplify payments for customers.
NASA Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen are set to launch as early as April 1.
The first full moon of spring, known as the Paschal Moon, sets the date for Easter each year.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories Tuesday in outrage after Israel's parliament passed a measure establishing the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. Palestinians young and old held sit-ins and marches in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the territory where the new law is most sweeping. It orders West Bank military courts — which try only Palestinians — to make the death penalty the default sentence for
The Middle East accounts for 9% of the world’s production of aluminum.
The European Commission has strongly criticized a new Israeli law that would make the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal terrorist attacks. "The death penalty bill in Israel is very concerning to us in the EU," a commission spokesman said on Tuesday.