The chair of English football's Independent Regulator has said he will resign if there is political interference in any future investigation into Manchester City as a result of widespread impropriety.
By Parisa Hafezi, Jonathan Saul and Phil Stewart DUBAI/LONDON/WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Iran is deploying new tactics to target ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to keep oil prices high and influence the US midterm elections, two senior Iranian officials told Reuters.
A Saudi employee of OpenAI was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device in one of the company's San Francisco offices, the AI firm and federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Aidarous al-Zubaidi, who leads the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council separatist group, called on southern Yemenis to fight for regional autonomy and against the Houthis, while condemning attacks on Saudi Arabia.
By Timour Azhari and Menna AlaaElDin RIYADH, Oct 13 (Reuters) - An administrative building belonging to Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran was attacked, causing a limited fire, the Energy Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday as fighting between Ye…
By Timour Azhari, Maha El Dahan and Menna AlaaElDin RIYADH, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The headquartersof Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran was attacked on Tuesday night, causing what the kingdom's energy ministry said in a statement was a limited fire, as fi…
Azerbaijan’s restrictions on Islamic dress in schools have sparked an unusual public spat with Turkey, exposing tensions beneath the allies’ close political and security ties.
With renewed tanker attacks, Tehran is betting to make Hormuz passage costly enough for Washington and strengthen the tool with election-related pressure President Trump is currently facing.
“President Erdogan, I think, would do as I ask,” he told reporters.
By Jacob Bogage and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Yemen's Houthi militants of deliberately trying to drive up oil prices ahead of the US midterm elections and warned that he would "never forget" their attacks on Saudi Arabia, amid a widening re…
Oct 13 (Reuters) - With their city encircled by Houthi fighters, residents of Taiz say they face intensifying bombardment and dwindling supplies as the Iran-aligned group tightens its grip on surrounding areas.
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said late on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran "at all," adding that Moscow and Beijing had "too much to lose" if they enabled Tehran.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday forecast that global growth in 2026 would slow less than previously expected due to advanced economies' "resilience" in the face of war-fuelled energy prices, but warned that low-income countries remained vulnerable to the supply shock.
By David Lawder BANGKOK, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The global economy will still manage to top 3% real GDP growth this year as strong AI investment offsets the energy shock from the war in the Middle East, but downside risks are mounting and more countries are being left behind and vulnerable to rising deb…
Noam Cohen was driving to a bar on a Saturday two years ago with his wife and friends in his hometown of Arad, in southern Israel, when a group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys began shouting at passing cars. The drivers were guilty of violating the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest.
Food security concerns, wildfires and power warnings are among the impacts around the world this week from an exceptionally strong El Nino weather cycle. Here is a look at how this year's phenomenon, in which a warmer sea surface shifts global weather patterns, has been affecting people globally…
A Melbourne imam whose Islamic community centre has been linked by prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates to the co-pilot who allegedly attacked the captain of a flydubai jet has said he "never met" the man and insisted he has "consistently preached peace".
By Timour Azhari RIYADH, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia stopped issuing public warnings of imminent military attacks days before a series of deadly strikes on Riyadh airport that killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 300.
By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Morocco's centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), who topped last month'sparliamentary election vote, will form a coalition government with three other parties,the four parties said on Monday.
JERUSALEM, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed and 24people were injured when what was most likely an unexplodedordnance went off during a school hiking trip near the border with Lebanon, Israel's ambulance service said on Monday.
Britain's government Monday accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of being behind a major scare at a UK airbase used by the United States, as allies including Washington warned Tehran against hostile acts. Iran denied any involvement.
BENGHAZI, Libya, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Libya's eastern-based authorities have seized about 400 kg of hashish worth around 6 million dinars ($934,000) and arrested some suspects near the coastal city of Tobruk, officials said.
ANKARA, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Turkey will send the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, a defence pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to parliament to be ratified in the coming days, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
By Michael Holden LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford air base in Britain was "highly likely" to have been coordinated in Iran, and almost certainly directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
