Iran’s top diplomat has made a sustained effort to contain the scale of Israel’s potential retaliation. On Sunday he met with his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, who said Baghdad was against an expansion of the Mideast war to Iran. At a joint press conference, Aragchi reiterated that Iran would continue consultations “to prevent the escalation…
Thousands of Taiwanese pilgrims travelled to China’s Fujian province this week for a religious festival. It’s a rare instance of cross straight cultural exchanges that threaten to be overshadowed by China’s military phase. Watch to know more Source link
“Her return was agreed, and the last information we know, she was being transferred to Lefortovo prison[in Moscow] to prepare for her return home,” Petro Yatsenko, representative of Ukraine’s prisoner exchange coordination staff, said on a Ukrainian national fundraising telethon late on Thursday. Roshchyna, 27, went missing in August 2023 in the Russian-occupied territories of…
A pump jack in Midland, Texas, US, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Anthony Prieto | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil prices pared gains in early trade on Monday after charting their biggest weekly rise in over a year on Friday amid mounting threats of a region-wide war in the Middle East. Brent crude futures fell 43 cents,…
The oil market is on edge after tensions between Israel and Iran flared up this week. Fears of an all-out war and an actual disruption to oil supply from the Middle East intensified, pushing oil prices higher. As the world awaits the Israeli response to the Iranian missile attack on Israel early this week, reports…
Russia’s economy is in much worse shape than it looks, potentially forcing Vladimir Putin to stop waging war on Ukraine as early as next year, according to economist and author Anders Åslund. In a recent op-ed on Project Syndicate, he cited financial, technological, and demographic headwinds weighing on a Russian economy that’s headed for “near…
The dollar rose to a one-month high versus the yen on Thursday as robustness in the U.S. jobs market backed the idea that the Federal Reserve does not need to rush to cut interest rates. Iryna Ustenko | Istock | Getty Images The dollar rose to a one-month high versus the yen on Thursday as…
Three Hongkongers have been evacuated from Lebanon with the help of the Chinese embassy, authorities have disclosed. Hong Kong’s Immigration Department said on Wednesday that the evacuation was coordinated with the foreign ministry’s office in the city and the Chinese embassy in Beirut. They were safely transported by vessel and a flight was arranged, a…
Iran’s missile attack on Israel is testing widely held bearish views on oil prices, with the strike raising concerns over potential supply disruptions from the Middle East should tensions increase further. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to retaliate to the barrage, and there’s a risk that could spur a tit-for-tat escalation. Brent crude surged…
With Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the wars in the Middle East have hit a turning point—though it’s hard to say what direction they’ll now take: toward some uneasy equilibrium or an escalation in the fighting. Historians and strategists disagree over whether a “decapitation” attack—the assassination of a leader—has much effect on the…