BTA - Archives from 2026/03/12/10822

The escalating war in Iran has paralyzed tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and oil prices have fluctuated sharply. All this has brought to ...

A police officer responding to a burglary call in Baltimore was shot in the leg today by a gunman who was later shot by another officer, authorities s ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will host a video conference meeting of the leaders of the G7 countries today. It is dedicated to the impact of th ...

Six people died and at least four were injured in a fire on a bus traveling on a regular route in western Switzerland, police reported last night, quo ...

The US military said it had hit 16 Iranian minelaying vessels "near the Strait of Hormuz", after President Donald Trump earlier threatened T ...

The Israeli army announced that it had detected a new salvo of missiles fired from Iranian territory towards Israel. Air defense systems were activate ...

An old and tried-and-tested military tactic of the weaker, since wars have been fought for thousands of years, is to try to outwit the stronger. And a ...

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians took part in organized marches last night to mark the election of Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's new supreme ...

A Russian drone struck an area near an apartment building in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Sunday, wounding six people, breaking wind ...

Australia on Monday agreed to grant visas to five Iranian female footballers to stay in the country after US President Donald Trump urged Canberra not ...

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has been registered in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the western coast of Italy, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GIZ), ...

US President Donald Trump told journalists, quoted by Reuters, that yesterday he had a “very good conversation“ with his Russian counterpa ...

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the recently deceased supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had long been considered a contender for the post, even ...

For the first time since the beginning of hostilities between Iran, on the one hand, and Israel and the US – On the other hand, Saudi Arabia rep ...

US President Donald Trump said in an interview with ABC television today that the US military had destroyed the Iranian military fleet, DPA reported. ...

The price of Brent crude oil has topped $100 a barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years, as production and transportation in the ...

The Iranian army today threatened to attack oil facilities in the region if Israel continues its attacks on the Islamic Republic's energy infrastr ...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it is capable of enduring “at least six months of intense war” against the US and ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake was recorded at 5:32 am local time (also Bulgarian time) this morning in the Greek region of Thesprotia, which borders Alba ...

China calls for an immediate halt to military actions in the Middle East to prevent further escalation and expansion of the conflict, Chinese Foreign ...

Explosions were heard this evening in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and in the city of Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, journalists from Agence France-Presse re ...

United Arab Emirates Head of State Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan said his country was at war but in good shape, telling its enemies that the UAE ...

Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian provoked a sharp reaction from hardliners in his country with his apology to neighboring countries today for Iran ...

Former US President Barack Obama said that the presidential campaigns of the late pastor Jesse Jackson in the 1980s paved the way for other black lead ...

A spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guards has challenged US President Donald Trump to deploy warships to escort oil tankers through the Strait o ...