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

In pictures: Muslims across the world celebrate Eid Al Fitr

Eid Al Fitr was celebrated in many parts of the world on Tuesday

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

Trump denies US plan to send 120,000 troops to counter Iran threat

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Tehran does not seek war with the US

Saudi-led coalition launches airstrikes in Yemen, says many Houthis killed and wounded

The coalition has accused the Houthis of not abiding by the Stockholm agreement

Egypt sentences two to death over church attack

The 2017 attack on a church and a Christian-owned shop in Cairo killed 10 people

Iran rolls back nuclear pledges but stops short of violating pact

US President Donald Trump pulled out of the deal last year, and subsequently reimposed tough sanctions on Iran

Pentagon says US carrier, bombers sent to Middle East on ‘credible threat’ by Iran

The Trump administration’s efforts to impose political and economic isolation on Tehran began last year

US deploying carrier, bombers to Middle East to deter Iran – senior official

‘The US is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack’, John Bolton said

Saudi-led coalition attacks air base adjoining Sanaa’s airport

The raids targeted drone maintenance sites, a communications system and locations of drone experts and operators, a Saudi official said

UAE ‘number one country to live in’, according to Arab youth

The 2019 Arab Youth Survey reveals that 44 per cent of Arabs aged 18-24 would want to live in the UAE, amid a raft of findings by the annual report

Sri Lanka hit by Easter Sunday explosions

290 people have been reported killed and hundreds more injured following explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka

Saudi-led coalition in Yemen targets drone store near presidential palace – state TV

The coalition said the air raids targeted a cave used by the Houthis

“Sacred landmark” Notre-Dame Cathedral devastated by fire

UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, called the incident in Paris a “terrible tragedy”

HSBC appoints new regional CEO for MENA, Turkey

Martin Tricaud takes over from Georges Elhedery, who has been appointed to lead HSBC’s Global Markets division

Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen’s capital – report

The coalition said the strikes targeted a Houthi drones manufacturing plant and a store containing launch pads

Saudi and UAE give $200m to Yemen for Ramadan

The aid is part of a $500m joint initiative announced in November