Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the US military and attacked 10 ships yesterday, after the US said it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers, in a sharp escalation of the six-month-old war.

Brent oil, the international benchmark, jumped above $100 a barrel yesterday for the first time since the end of July on a fresh flare-up in the Middle East war, adding to concerns over high inflation.

Iran yesterday said it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the US sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.

Pakistan security forces killed 11 terrorists and recovered 2.9 tonnes of explosives in separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Balochistan’s Kharan and Washuk districts, the military’s media affairs wing said yesterday.

Israel has told the United Kingdom that it must close its consulate in East Jerusalem within 30 days, two Israeli officials and two sources familiar with the matter said yesterday.

UK air travellers yesterday faced more misery with 177 flights scrapped across the country, as Britain’s air traffic control service scrambled to recover from a technical glitch which it ruled out as a cyberattack.

US President Donald Trump gave his executive assistant Natalie Harp a $45,000 cash gift, US media reported Tuesday.

With roads and bridges destroyed and helicopters busy with search and rescue operations after last month’s devastating floods, Nepal’s army is turning to drones to deliver relief to displaced people.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels reported dozens of Saudi airstrikes yesterday as daily attacks continued in a conflict that has reignited during the Middle East war, with hundreds of people killed in fighting near the Red Sea.

The British consulate in East Jerusalem is accredited to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank

Foreign ministers say Israeli actions in the West Bank are undermining the two-state solution

In President Donald Trump's telling at a White House event on Tuesday, two firefighters bodily lifted him to safety from a site near an unstable building after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The import ban is scheduled to take effect on September 29

Six commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, down from nine a day earlier and below the 10-day average of about 12, preliminary shipping data showed today.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said today they pummelled a US military base in Jordan, vowing retaliation for American strikes on Iranian oil tankers that dragged the foes deeper into war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump had an “extremely frank” phone call yesterday, after US negotiators visited Moscow over the weekend, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters, including AFP.

A drone strike blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed 13 people outside a courthouse in the army-held central town of Umm Rawaba yesterday, a medical source and witnesses told AFP.

The Eiffel Tower yesterday reopened after staff walked out over the removal of women colleagues during a visit by a Hindu religious group which later apologised.

Landslides in eastern China have killed 13 people with nine others still missing, state media said yesterday, days after heavy rains unleashed by Typhoon Saudel.

Cluster munitions killed or injured more than 1,000 people worldwide in 2025, most of them in Ukraine, a monitor said yesterday, with civilians accounting for the vast majority of victims.