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
'It's a new kind of cruelty', says Gaza hostage's brother/ The brother of an Israeli hostage held in the Gaza Strip has told the BBC that a Hamas video showing him emaciated and weak is a "new form of cruelty" that has left his parents shattered. Hamas released the footage of Evyatar David, 24, ...
The open letter urges Donald Trump to help end the suffering/ A group of some 600 retired Israeli security officials, including former heads of intelligence agencies, have written to US President Donald Trump to pressure Israel to immediately end the war in Gaza. "It is our professional ...
The boat carrying more than 150 migrants sank in the Gulf of Aden/ At least 68 migrants have died after a boat with about 157 people on board sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather. The vessel capsized off the southern province of Abyan on Sunday, Yemen's chief for the International ...
Hugo Bachega, Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and Mallory Moench, BBC News in London/ Crowds of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv over the weekend demanding the immediate release of the hostages/ Western leaders have condemned videos of emaciated Israeli hostages filmed by their captors in ...
Hugo Bachega, Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem & Alys Davies, BBC News in London/ Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has visited the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem and prayed there, violating a decades-old arrangement covering one of the most sensitive ...
A file picture from February shows a group of armed Hamas fighters during the handover of Israeli hostages/ Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established, in response to one of Israel's key demands in talks about a ceasefire in Gaza. ...
One of the major reasons why Britain's prime minister Sir Keir Starmer - following France and then in turn followed by Canada - has a plan to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September is to turn the two-state solution into a real diplomatic plan again, instead of the ...
Mark Carney announces Canada's plans to recognise a Palestinian state/ Prime Minister Mark Carney has said Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state in September, becoming the third G7 nation to make such an announcement in recent days. Carney said the move depended on democratic reforms, ...
Funerals have been taking place of Palestinians killed while seeking humanitarian aid in the Zikim area of Gaza City./ More than 50 Palestinians were killed and 400 others injured while waiting for food near a crossing in northern Gaza on Wednesday, a hospital says, as US special envoy Steve ...
The families of Israeli hostages say the UK should first demand that Hamas release all those held captive in Gaza/ Israel and the families of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza have condemned the UK's plan to recognise a Palestinian state, saying it is "rewarding terrorism". Prime Minister ...