Fuel shortage fear grips Pakistan: Sharif orders school shutdown, four-day workweek amid Mideast conflict

[ad_1] Pakistan on Monday announced a series of austerity measures aimed at reducing fuel consumption, including temporary school closures, reduced government fuel allowances and a four-day workweek for public offices, as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East threatens energy supplies.Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif said the measures were being introduced to conserve fuel and […]

Day 5: US assets hit across Mid-East; Israel launches fresh strikes on Iran, Lebanon

[ad_1] Explosions were heard across Iran’s capital before dawn Wednesday as the country’s escalating conflict with the United States and Israel entered a fifth day, marking one of the most intense periods of fighting in the region in decades. The latest blasts in Tehran followed days of sustained US-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military and nuclear […]

Trump receives urgent note from Rubio on Mideast peace deal during antifa roundtable

[ad_1] US secretary of state Marco Rubio (AP) WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump was holding a roundtable event with conservative influencers about antifa Wednesday when secretary of state Marco Rubio, standing in the back corner of the White House’s Blue Room, caught his eye. He had news for Trump, he said, but it would have to […]

Mideast crisis: ‘We bombed the hell out of Iran,’ says Donald Trump; ‘they wanna negotiate badly’

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Iran wanted to “negotiate badly” recounting how the States “bombed the hell” of the middle eastern nations during its war with Israel.“They wanna negotiate badly. We’re in no rush. They should have made a deal, and then we bombed the HELL out of their various places,” […]

As Iran and Israel Battle, the Rest of the Mideast Fears What’s Next

[ad_1] Across a swath of the Middle East, fighter jets and missiles regularly streak across the sky. The newest war in the region, this time between Israel and Iran, has once again put millions of people in the crossfire of a conflict that they want nothing to do with. The war has embroiled two well-armed, […]

Trump wraps up Mideast tour, meet business leaders, visit interfaith place of worship | World News

[ad_1] Photo: AP ABU DHABI: President Donald Trump wraps up a Mideast tour in the United Arab Emirates with a breakfast for business leaders and a visit to an interfaith place of worship named for the Abraham Accords he negotiated. As part of the accords, the UAE and some other countries in the Middle East […]

America’s Mideast TV news channel fires staff, goes off air

[ad_1] CAIRO: The head of a US-funded Arabic-language television and online news outlet that claims a 30 million-strong audience in the Middle East and North Africa terminated most staff and TV programming Saturday, accusing the Trump administration and Elon Musk of having “irresponsibly and unlawfully” cut off funding.In notices sent to Al Hurra news staffers […]