NDTV: US and Iran tensions grew over the Strait of Hormuz, with both sides maintaining their blockades of the critical waterway, creating an uneasy standoff with no sign of peace talks on the horizon. US President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the US Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the strait, while the […]
NDTV: In a bizarre turn of events, a US sailor assigned to the USS Chief, a Navy minesweeper en route to the Middle East, was attacked by a monkey during a stopover in Phuket, Thailand. The unnamed sailor was part of the crew aboard the US Navy vessel, tasked with removing the mines planted by […]
Al Jazeera: Oil prices have jumped on heightened tensions between the United States and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz following Washington and Tehran’s tit-for-tat captures of commercial vessels. Brent crude, the international benchmark, topped $106 per barrel early on Friday morning as Washington and Tehran stepped up their confrontation over the key maritime route […]
BBC: US President Donald Trump said a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon would be extended by three weeks after fresh talks between the countries’ envoys in Washington. Announcing the extension on Truth Social, the US president said the meeting “went very well”, adding the US would be working with Lebanon “to help it protect itself […]
BBC: Prime Minister Mark Carney said that US liquor could return to Canadian shelves if tariffs on metals and automobiles are addressed, as public rhetoric on trade talks between the two countries heats up. “Issues such as decisions on which alcohol to put on the shelves – we can make progress very quickly on that […]
Al Jazeera: President Donald Trump has said he ordered the United States Navy to “shoot and kill” any Iranian boat laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a move that could jeopardise the fragile ceasefire between the two countries. The US president also said on Thursday that the military will heighten its efforts to remove explosives from […]
(Reuters) LONDON/ATHENS, April 23 – Two container ships seized by Iran near the Strait of Hormuz with about 40 crew aboard have been taken toward the port of Bandar Abbas, sources said on Thursday, Tehran having vowed to retaliate after U.S. forces seized an Iranian vessel three days earlier. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the ships […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, April 23 – More than 30 million people will be pushed back into poverty by the impacts of the Iran war including disruptions to fuel and fertiliser supplies just as farmers are planting crops, U.N. development chief Alexander De Croo said on Thursday. Fertiliser shortages – worsened by the blocking of cargo vessels through the Strait […]
BBC: The International Criminal Court has unanimously confirmed all charges of crimes against humanity against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte. The decision means there is sufficient evidence to establish “substantial grounds to believe” that Duterte committed the alleged crimes, officially committing the case to trial. The charges include three counts of crimes against humanity in […]
BBC: Two trains have collided head-on on a level crossing north west of Copenhagen, leaving five people critically hurt and 12 others with minor injuries, medical officials say. The trains were travelling early on Thursday on a line linking the towns of Hillerød and Kagerup in the North Zealand area of north-east Denmark, with a […]
