Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has announced the discovery of a field containing an estimated 53 billion barrels of crude oil./ A vast oil field containing an estimated 53 billion barrels of crude oil ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Mr Rouhani made the announcement as he delivered a speech in the central city of Yazd A new oil field that would increase Iran's proven reserves by about a third has been discovered, President Hassan Rouhani has said. The field, in the ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon; State Department correspondent Rich Edson reports./ in the country's south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country's proven ...
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a public gathering at the city of Yazd, some 410 miles (680 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. Iran has discovered a new oil field in ...
Discovery follows tense summer of mysterious attacks on oil tankers and Saudi oil facilities that US blamed on Iran/ Discovery comes after US sanctions have been damaging Iran's crude oil industry
At least eight people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Three journalists are among the dead, health officials and Reuters news agency say. They include an Al-Jazeera cameraman and a Reuters contractor. The strike ...
Eyal Zamir reportedly called on the Israeli prime minister to accept the new hostage deal/ Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff has said there is a "deal on the table" for the remaining hostages in Gaza, according to Israeli media. Lt Gen Eyal Zamir reportedly said the Israeli military ...
backed body has warned that more than half a million people across Gaza are facing "catastrophic" conditions characterised by "starvation, destitution and death"/ Residents of the Gaza Strip have described to the BBC the effects of severe hunger on their bodies, after a UN-backed report Reem ...
Gaza City and its surrounding area is now experiencing famine, a UN-backed body of food security experts has confirmed. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which is used by governments and international bodies to identify food insecurity and malnutrition levels around the ...
Israel's military says it has warned medical officials and international organisations to prepare for the planned evacuation of Gaza City's one million residents ahead of an offensive to occupy it. The officials were told that "adjustments" were being made to hospitals in southern Gaza to ...
The UK is among 27 countries backing a statement calling for Israel to allow immediate independent foreign media access to Gaza. France, Germany, Australia, and Japan have also signed - an intergovernmental group which advocates for the rights and protection of journalists globally. The ...
Pope Leo XIV is preparing to travel to Lebanon later this year, in what could be his first journey abroad since being elected head of the Catholic Church in May. Archbishop Paul Sayah, deputy to Lebanon's highest-ranking Catholic leader, told the BBC the Vatican was "studying" the trip but that ...
The Israeli military says it has begun the "preliminary actions" of a planned ground offensive to capture and occupy all of Gaza City and already has a hold on its outskirts. A military spokesman said troops were already operating in the Zeitoun and Jabalia areas to lay the groundwork for the ...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the plans for 3,400 homes in the E1 area last week/ Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut off the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem and divide the territory in two. Construction ...
Netanyahu said Anthony Albanese would be remembered as a 'weak politician'/ Israel's prime minister has accused his Australian counterpart of having "betrayed Israel" and "abandoned" Australia's Jewish community, after days of growing strain between the two countries. Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...