LONDON — European equity markets braced for their steepest single-day opening losses in months on Monday, 9 March 2026, as crude oil surged past $110 per barrel for the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, drawing the sharpest comparison yet between the current Middle East energy
NEW YORK — Oil markets posted their most extreme weekly price surge in more than four decades on Friday, as the escalating armed conflict between the United States and Iran confronted global energy planners with the prospect of a prolonged and effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow Persian
WASHINGTON — Just days after the United States and Israel launched coordinated surprise strikes against Iran in the predawn hours of February 28, President Donald Trump offered the American public a firm reassurance: the military campaign would be over in four to five weeks, and it would not become another open-ended
DUBAI — The death toll from Saturday's strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab has risen to between 165 and 180 people according to Iranian official and state media sources, the majority of them schoolchildren, as thousands attended a mass
JERUSALEM — Israel's defense minister issued a direct public threat on Wednesday warning that whoever Iran selects as its next supreme leader will be killed, one day after Israeli aircraft struck the Assembly of Experts building in Qom while the 88-member clerical body was reportedly convened to count votes
WASHINGTON — Iranian drone and missile strikes hit the CIA's intelligence station inside the US Embassy compound in Riyadh, the US consulate in Dubai, and al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, amounting to the broadest single-day assault on American diplomatic and military infrastructure across the Gulf region, as the State
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said on 3 March 2026 that soldiers were operating in southern Lebanon in a forward defense posture, positioning personnel at several points near the border to counter militia activity and to bolster security for northern Israeli communities. For full background, see prior coverage at U.S.
SINGAPORE — Asian equities plunged on Tuesday as a sharp spike in energy prices and renewed fears of a widening Middle East conflict prompted a rapid reassessment of risk across regional markets. The sell-off was most acute in export-driven bourses, where earlier-year gains were unwound as investors rotated out of cyclical
RIYADH — Two unmanned aerial vehicles struck the U.S. embassy compound in Riyadh in the early hours of 3 March 2026, causing a limited fire and minor material damage, authorities said. The incident occurred in the diplomatic quarter at approximately 01:20 local time and prompted shelter-in-place advisories for American
LONDON — Oil prices surged and equity markets slid sharply on Monday as an abrupt escalation of hostilities in the Middle East raised the prospect of a material interruption to seaborne crude flows and a fresh inflation shock for import-dependent economies. Benchmark Brent crude climbed roughly 8–10% in early European
BANGKOK — The coordinated U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the weekend triggered one of the sharpest single-session sell-offs in Asian equity markets this year, with oil prices surging and safe-haven assets rallying sharply on Monday as traders priced in the
BEIT SHEMESH — An Iranian ballistic missile struck a residential area of the central Israeli city of Beit Shemesh on Sunday afternoon, killing eight people and wounding at least 28 others, making it the deadliest single incident on Israeli soil since the conflict between Iran and the U.S.-Israeli coalition
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