The West Texas Intermediate for January delivery increased 1.57 US dollars to settle at 58.58 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange
November 22, 2019Dozens of anti-government protesters joined night-time demonstrations around Tahrir Square the epicentre of the 2011 revolution that toppled the country's long-time autocratic leader.
September 22, 2019The attack by Tehran-backed Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is bogged down in a five-year war, effectively shut down six percent of the global oil supply.
September 16, 2019Israel is considered the leading military power in the Middle East and is widely believed to possess its sole if undeclared, nuclear arsenal.
July 3, 2019"We are aware of the reported attack on tankers in the Gulf of Oman," said a statement from the Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain.
June 13, 2019The country’s executive and the legislature are now in suspended animation.
June 5, 2019Naqvi, the Pakistani man behind the world's largest private equity insolvency case, was arrested on April 10 at London's Heathrow Airport on behalf of the US authorities for defrauding US investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
May 29, 2019USS Arlington, a warship with amphibious vehicles and aircraft on board, would join the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group in the Gulf.
May 11, 2019Over the three days of the conflict, there was a dramatic change in strategy on either side of the “line of control”, so to speak.
May 11, 2019History has demonstrated time and again that demanding change through nonviolence is an effective path to reconciliation and brotherhood.
April 26, 2019Code-sharing allows an airline to book its passengers on its partner carriers and provide seamless travel to destinations where it has no presence. The reciprocal partnership will allow opening of new routes and destinations for passengers of the two airlines.
April 22, 2019The Sharjah Light Festival is a spectacular sight with all its landmark buildings illuminated with colourful lights
April 1, 2019Netanyahu’s prospects are ever so uncertain with several key allies of the Prime Minister letting it be known that they will not support him if the attorney-general goes forward with the indictment which has already been resonant in the echo chambers of Moscow and Washington.
March 3, 2019The diplomatic row between Poland and Israel has escalated since last Friday, when Netanyahu suggested Polish complicity in the Holocaust.
February 21, 2019"The UK is a global power with truly global interest... We must be prepared to compete for our interests and our values far, far from home," UK Defence Minister Gavin Williamson said.
February 12, 2019The US-led multinational coalition has been engaged in an operation to drive out the Islamic State (IS) militants from their last stronghold in the eastern Euphrates region in eastern Syria.
February 11, 2019The rehabilitation of Syria does not seem to be a realistic outcome for 2019. The rehabilitation of Bashar al-Assad looks rather more likely.
January 4, 2019