Yet even when fighting was most intense, oil prices never reached the $150 a barrel many analysts had predicted at the start ...

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Iran’s foreign minister said a pact with Oman to establish a shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz was “very close”.

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Israel rejected America’s latest peace proposal for Gaza. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, told his cabinet that ...

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The resulting data, the team hopes, will help pin down any role such storms may play in Earth’s warming climate, and better ...

Mr Trump has form in attacking Canada first with weapons which he subsequently turns on others, both tariffs and threats to ...

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer—as attorney-general. Mr Blanche sparked outrage for agreeing to create a $1.8bn fund to ...

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed a military pact to try to avoid further conflict in a region rocked by the Iran war.