DUBAI/BAGHDAD: When Saudi Aramco told its oil buyers in a letter this week that it had no clear idea which port it would use for April exports, it laid bare a new reality: Iran, not the United States, holds the key to reopening the global energy m…

HANOI: Voters in Vietnam cast their ballots on Sunday for members of the National Assembly, the country’s top legislative body that serves mainly to ratify decisions by the ruling Communist Party. The Southeast Asian nation of 100 million is both …

OSLO: Canadian and Nordic leaders on Sunday announced that they would deepen collaboration, especially in the area of defence and Arctic security, a region where tensions are rising. After a meeting in Oslo, the prime ministers of Norway, Sweden, …

GAZA CITY: A hospital in Gaza said it had received the bodies of eight people killed when a police vehicle was hit by an Israeli strike in the centre of the territory on Sunday. The strike came as a Hamas delegation was due to meet with Egyptian o…

PESHAWAR: Mixed trend in Prices of essential food commodities, like cooking oil/ghee, flour, sugar, vegetable, chicken/live meat and others witnessed in the retail market here. Prices of live chicken/meat and products remained high as no change wa…

LAHORE: Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Engineer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman in his message on the occasion of the International Day to Combat Islamophobia said that unjustified hatred and prejudice are being shown against Muslims around the world. Emi…

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Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Sunday said the Afghan Taliban regime deliberately targeted a civilian population in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, resulting in the martyrdom of four brothers and se…

SINGAPORE/NEW YORK: Oil prices could extend gains at Monday’s open as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran entered a third week, putting oil infrastructure at risk and keeping the Strait of Hormuz shut in the world’s largest supply disruption. The In…

PARIS: More than 400 million barrels of oil from International Energy Agency emergency reserves will begin flowing soon, the agency said in its most detailed account of the rollout of the plan to combat a spike in crude prices since the start of t…