Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become Iran’s “golden weapon,” a priority that now outweighs its nuclear programme. Tehran is willing to risk new escalations with the United States to secure dominance over the waterway, which carries a fifth of global energy supplies.

Gaza’s civil defence and health officials said Israeli attacks killed nine people in the Palestinian territory yesterday.

Khamenei was killed on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28

After lying in state in Tehran's Grand Mosalla religious complex for two days, Khamenei will be processed through the city for 10 to 12 hours starting at 6:00 am (0230 GMT), organisers said

Khamenei, who ruled Iran for more than three decades, was killed in US-Israeli attacks in late February that sparked a regional war

Iranian authorities anticipate between 15 and 20 million participants in Tehran alone over the next three days for tributes

Huge crowds gather as Khamenei funeral ceremonies open in Iran

Iraqi authorities arrested 47 officials, including members of parliament, yesterday as part of an anti-graft campaign in the corruption-plagued country, state media reported.

Rubio, on his first regional tour since the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding to end the Middle East war, said the US wants a peace deal but not "at any price"

Rights group says fixed midday work bans are failing to protect labourers from heat stroke, kidney failure and death

The Strait of Hormuz had reopened last week, after Washington and Tehran reached an agreement, but Tehran announced on Saturday it had closed it again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon

Iran and the United States agreed on Monday to set up communication lines to keep the vital shipping route open and end fighting in Lebanon, mediators said, after their first round of talks in Switzerland toward ending the conflict that has engulfed the Middle East

A huge blast at a Qatar gas hub killed 13 people and injured 66 others, the Gulf state’s energy minister said on Monday, one of the deadliest accidents at a Gulf energy facility.

A 'technical incident' caused the blast on Sunday in Qatar's Ras Laffan industrial zone, the ministry said

Al Jazeera yesterday rejected Israeli accusations that one of its journalists, killed in Gaza a day earlier, was a Hamas operative, as family and colleagues mourned the cameraman in the Palestinian territory.

Israelis overwhelmingly believe that Iran emerged stronger from the Middle East war and its subsequent deal with the United States, a poll released on Sunday found.

Jordan hanged on Sunday six men convicted of killing security personnel, a government official said, ending a nine-year moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

The strike was carried out by a drone in the refugee camp and also wounded several people

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least nine people, including a child, in the Gaza Strip yesterday, health officials said.

Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire yesterday, a US official said, after deadly exchanges between the two sides in Lebanon put a deal to end the Middle East war under strain, less than two days after it was signed.