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Nepal announces two-day weekends as fuel crisis caused by Iran war deepens 

News|Energy Nepal has cut the working week from six days to five for government offices and educational institutions to ...

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Suspected measles outbreak kills nearly 100 children in Bangladesh 

Bangladesh says it suspects measles has killed at least 98 children in the past three weeks, official data show, with th...

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Why an attack on Bushehr nuclear plant would be catastrophic for the Gulf 

Iran’s only functioning nuclear plant, the Bushehr power plant, has come under repeated attacks in the ongoing Israel ...

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DR Congo to receive ‘third-country’ deportees from the US under new deal 

05 April 2026

News|Migration The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) says it is expected to receive “third-country” nationals w...

Iran’s ex-FM Zarif proposes peace roadmap; Gulf points at erosion of trust 

05 April 2026

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has proposed a roadmap for ending the United States-Israeli war on ...

Oman, Iran discuss smooth transit in Strait of Hormuz, Muscat says 

05 April 2026

Oman and ⁠⁠Iran ⁠⁠have held deputy foreign ⁠⁠minister-level talks, discussing ⁠⁠options to ensure the sm...

Ukraine hits port in Russia’s Primorsk, oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod 

05 April 2026

Ukrainian drones have struck Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Primorsk and the NORSI oil refinery in the central Nizhny Nov...

US pilot from downed F-15 plane rescued in Iran: What we know 

05 April 2026

United States President Donald Trump said early on Sunday that an American soldier who went missing in Iran after the do...

Kuwait’s power, water plants damaged as Iran keeps attacking Gulf states 

05 April 2026

Kuwait has said Iranian drone attacks damaged two power and water desalination plants and sparked a fire at an oil compl...

Iran war: What is happening on day 37 of US-Israeli attacks? 

05 April 2026

News|US-Israel war on Iran The missing crew member from a US F-15E jet shot down in Iran on Friday has been found and re...