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ABU DHABI, 19 August, 2026 (Ghufran) — The United Arab Emirates has suspended all trade activities, exchanges and financial transactions with Iran until further notice, the UAE Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, citing a regional escalation that it said was undermining regional and international peace and security.The announcement came a day after the UAE Defence Ministry said it had detected two ballistic missiles launched from Iran, marking the first such reported incident since a May 4 strike on Fujairah port. In a subsequent statement, the UAE Defence Ministry said its assessment indicated that the missiles had targeted maritime traffic. Both missiles fell into the sea, according to the ministry.Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei rejected the UAE's statement on Wedn...

MANILA, August 18, 2026 (Ghufran): A student livestreamed himself shooting a schoolmate dead before taking his own life at a high school in the Philippines on Tuesday, authorities said, in the country’s second school shooting in as many months.The incident took place at Ateneo de Zamboanga University, a Catholic private institution in western Mindanao.Regional police spokeswoman Shella Chang told AFP that the shooter went to the classroom of the victim, shot the student and then went to the fifth floor, where he shot himself. Interior Secretary Victor Remulla separately confirmed that the ninth-grade suspect had livestreamed the incident on social media. The alleged shooter’s Facebook account has since been disabled.A video circulated by local media showed the barrel of a gun moving down a...

WASHINGTON, 18 August, 2026 (Nosheen): US President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran would not agree to the kind of deal he considers necessary to end the conflict with the United States, as talks between the two countries remained stalled.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said the United States was involved in the conflict for one primary reason: to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.“They’re not going to make the kind of a deal that I feel is necessary. Look, we’re in there for one reason: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. Asked whether Washington was seeking an extension of an interim agreement with Iran, Trump replied, “No.”The interim agreement reached in June had called for an “immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all f...