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Tensions with Iran can be addressed ‘only’ politically – UAE minister

Anwar Gargash says it is essential to find “political solutions through dialogue and negotiations”

UN chief says essential to avoid escalation in the Gulf

“The world cannot afford a major confrontation in the Gulf,” said Antonio Guterres

US economic plan for Mideast peace faces broad Arab rejection

The $50bn “peace to prosperity” plan is set to be presented by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at a conference in Bahrain next week

Iran shoots down US military drone, oil prices surge

The “spy” drone was brought down over the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan

Yemen’s Houthis launch strike on Saudi utility station, no damage

The Houthis threatened last month to attack 300 vital military targets in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen

Saudi says it intercepts another drone headed towards the kingdom

The kingdom has seen several drone strikes in recent weeks

Saudi intercepts two drones, including one targeting a residential area in Abha

The Houthis have stepped up attacks against the kingdom in recent times

US says to send 1,000 more troops to the Middle East, cites Iran threats

The new U.S. deployment to the Middle East is in addition to a 1,500-troop increase announced last month

US says does not want war with Iran, pushes for international response

US-Iran tensions are high following accusations by the US that Tehran carried out the tanker attacks last Thursday

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Saudi intercepts another Houthi drone headed towards Abha

The Houthis have stepped up attacks against the kingdom in recent times

Saudi air defence intercepts five Houthi drones in airport attack

The drones targetted the Abha regional airport in southern Saudi Arabia

Trump announces 2024 Presidential run: Here's what happens next

US blames Iran for attack on oil tankers

The cause of Thursday’s blasts remains unclear

Tanker attacks: 44 crew members picked up by Iranian ships

The sailors have been taken to the Iranian port of Jask

Two tankers struck in suspected attacks in Gulf of Oman

An investigation is currently underway

Houthi missile attack on Saudi airport wounds 26

Three women and two children were among those wounded

UAE signs deal to build $100m power plant in Yemen

The 120MW plant in Aden is expected to be operational in late 2019

Saudi air defence intercepts two Houthi drones

The drones targeted the Saudi city of Khamis Mushait

German minister lands in Iran in bid to save nuclear pact

Germany, France and Britain maintain that the nuclear pact remains the best way to limit Iran’s enrichment of uranium

Iran has no plans to leave OPEC despite tensions – oil minister

On Friday, the US added Iran’s largest petrochemical holding group to its sanctions list

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Montblanc’s regional head on where the brand is headed

Franck Juhel, Montblanc’s president for the Middle East, India and Africa, discusses the luxury brand’s performance over the past year

Japan arranging for PM Shinzo Abe visit to Iran soon

Abe will be the first sitting Japanese prime minister to visit Iran in more than four decades

Eight Egyptian security personnel killed in attack in Sinai

Five militants were also killed in the incident

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Saudi-led Arab coalition evacuates Iranian ship’s crew member south of Red Sea

The man, who was seriously ill, is being treated in a military hospital in Jazan

Saudi intercepts drone launched by Yemen’s Houthis towards airport

The aircraft had been targeting the airport in Jazan, close to the border with Yemen

Pompeo says $8bn-plus in weapons sales to Saudi, UAE needed to deter Iran

The US also announced that it was sending 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East

Yemen’s Houthis step up drone attacks on Saudi Arabia

The Houthis carried out armed drone strikes on oil assets in Saudi last week and said one of their drones hit Najran airport on Monday

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Yemen’s Houthi drone targeted civilian facility in Saudi

The Saudi-led military coalition said a civilian facility in Najran was targeted with a drone carrying explosives

Trump announces 2024 Presidential run: Here's what happens next

Trump says war will be the ‘official end’ of Iran

GCC states launch ‘enhanced security patrols’ in the Arabian Gulf as tensions simmer

Saudi-led coalition in Yemen carries out airstrikes in Sanaa

The alliance said it struck military bases and facilities and weapons storage sites

US pulls some government employees from Iraq

The US military reaffirmed concerns about possible imminent threats from Iran to its troops in Iraq