The UAE called for de-escalation, diplomacy and peaceful settlement of disputes amid the Gulf conflict. UAE Minister of State Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar also raised the issue of three islands occupied by Iran and stressed freedom of navigation and transit passage.
Ted Turner, the outspoken television pioneer who founded CNN in 1980 and reshaped global news coverage, has died at the age of 87 in New York, CNN reported citing Turner Enterprises.
Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett, renowned for frontline reporting from Vietnam to Iraq and iconic Gulf War broadcasts from Baghdad, died at 91 in California after battling prostate cancer, leaving a lasting legacy in global journalism.
