SANTOS: Neymar will miss Santos’ Brazilian Championship match against Mirassol on Tuesday with lingering muscle fatigue, dealing a fresh blow to the forward’s hopes of ​forcing his way back into Brazil’s squad ahead of the World Cup. Santos ‌said Neymar’s absence was precautionary but the timing is awkward, with Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti having organised … Read more

Real Madrid will be leaning on Vinicius Junior to try and get past Manchester City in the Champions League last 16. Photo: AFP MADRID: Rarely do record 15-time winners Real Madrid enter a Champions League clash as underdogs but this is the situation when Manchester City visit the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday. With key attackers … Read more

IRGC say they will not allow ‘one litre of oil’ to be shipped from the Middle East if ​US-Israeli attacks continue A satellite image shows smoke rising in the Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi Arabia after a drone attack, in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, March 2 PHOTO: REUTERS Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, the world’s top oil … Read more

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a press conference in Tehran on January 18, 2026. PHOTO: AFP TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign minister said Tuesday that talks with the United States were not on the agenda as their war entered its 11th day. “I don’t think talking with the Americans would be on our agenda anymore,” Abbas … Read more

Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad suspend flights; 100 daily Pakistan flights grounded during peak Umrah, Eid season An Emirates airplane at Dubai International Airport, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 8, 2026. Picture taken by phone PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: Air operations across the world, including Pakistan, have been severely disrupted … Read more

Envoy Asim Iftikhar says criticism ignored terror threats from Afghan soil, defends Pakistan’s counter-terror actions Pakistan’s Permanent Representative, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad speaking at the UNSC on Afghanistan PHOTO: X Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, sharply criticised remarks by the Afghan and Indian representatives during a meeting of the United … Read more

US is Taiwan’s main source of weapons, and Taipei ​has repeatedly complained of delivery delays Taiwan’s Defence Minister Wellington Koo reacts during the annual Han Kuang military exercise in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. PHOTO: REUTERS TAIPEI: An order for four advanced US-made MQ-9B “SkyGuardian” drones is on track and hasn’t been affected by the war ​in the … Read more

. Smoke rises above the city skyline in Riyadh, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran. Photo: Reuters BEIRUT: Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Israel of “unlawfully” using white phosphorus over residential parts of a southern Lebanese town last week. “The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, … Read more

. DOHA: Qatari authorities have arrested more than 300 people for sharing images and what they described as “misleading information” during days of attacks by Iran, the interior ministry said on Monday. The arrests echo measures across the Gulf as Iran targets airports, military bases, energy installations and residential areas with daily drones and missiles. … Read more

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the offices of Al-Qard al-Hassan, a Hezbollah-linked financial institution, in the southern coastal Lebanese city of Tyre on March 2, 2026. PHOTO: AFP Hezbollah on Monday fired long-range rockets at Israeli military and communications facilities deep inside Israel, including a satellite communications station in … Read more