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

But Russia’s ballistic missiles still pose an existential threat. Last month it launched a record 126 missiles at Ukraine, ...

Donald Trump’s posts on Truth Social, his social-media platform, frequently move financial markets. Now the platform is ...

Polls also suggest that climate issues are a top priority for disaffected left-leaning voters, who had switched to supporting ...

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

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

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

Amazon’s Zoox robotaxis have carried members of the public around Las Vegas and San Francisco for almost a year free of ...

E UROPEAN CITIES are awash with knife-wielding rude boys who will stab you just to snatch your phone. America is full of ...

T HE KINDEST thing that can be said about India’s pavilion at the Osaka World Expo last year is that it was authentic. It ...