The Latest Breaking News from Gulf

As talks on a Gulf-wide deal drag out, one country suggests a bilateral approach could bear fruit.

The Iranian navy escorted Advantage Sweet to a port based on an "international dispute," announced Advantage Tankers. On Thursday, Iran's navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker heading to the US in the Gulf of Oman. Advantage Tankers, which owns Advantage Sweet, said the Iranian navy had transferred it to…

The International Trade Committee raised significant concerns over the potential agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council.

The Gulf Cooperation Council on Tuesday hailed Saudi Arabia and its role in evacuating nationals of different Gulf and foreign countries besides its own from the battle-scarred country of Sudan. The GCC hailed the diplomatic and logistical Saudi role, evacuating a number of civilians, diplomats and senior international officials. Jasem…

A four-member gang that abducted a Gulf returnee from Thamarassery is at large even after a three-week-long search by the police.

Diane Wilson took on Formosa Plastics and won a $50m settlement to help clean up decades worth of toxic plastic waste

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development said that 15 percent of the Gulf electrical interconnection expansion project with Kuwait has been completed until March 2023. The Authority said in a press statement that the interconnection project between the GCC Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) and Kuwait is one of the essential…

Sea levels have risen faster in the Gulf of Mexico and the Southeast coast than other parts of the U.S. in the last decade, according to two new studies.

Customers at a Bahrain jewellery store study displays of pearls that are, unusually, 100 percent natural -- the result of attempts to preserve a centuries-old industry. While rare elsewhere, natural pearls prised from seabed oysters by divers are the only variety produced in the Gulf kingdom, which is fiercely proud…