London, Two months into the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz is still mostly shut. Vessel traffic is running at a fraction of pre-war levels, with the patchwork of ceasefires, blockades and re-closures since February 28 not restoring confidence on the bridge of any tanker. What alternatives do Gulf states have to Strait of…
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – The United States is withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, in an apparent U.S. rebuke to the close NATO ally amid a widening rift between President Donald Trump and Europe over the Iran war. Trump had threatened a drawdown in forces earlier this week after sparring…
US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he will increase tariffs on European cars and trucks, claiming that the EU was “not complying with our fully agreed-upon trade deal”. US President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper gun while speaking with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House…
By Patricia Zengerle and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration argued that a ceasefire with Tehran had “terminated” hostilities as a legal deadline arrived on Friday for coming to Congress about the two-month Iran war. Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, the president can wage military action for only…
HAVANA (AP) — Tens of thousands of Cubans crowded along Havana’s famed seawall on Friday to celebrate workers on their day, especially those who keep the socialist country powered. Employees of Cuba’s Electric Union are working 24 hours a day as the island’s power grid continues to crumble, provoking islandwide outages worsened by a lack…
Shipping through the strategic Strait of Hormuz has seen a dramatic decline amid escalating tensions in West Asia, following US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory action in the region, with traffic falling by more than 90 per cent since the onset of the conflict, according to assessments by maritime security officials. A…
Every seat on Sefton Council will be up for grabs on May 7, with the five major parties all vying for people’s votes Bootle residents will go to the polls on Thursday(Image: Emma Morgan) After a long build-up, this year’s council elections in England are now less than a week away. Sefton Council has an…
AT LAST IT has jumped. For years the United Arab Emirates (UAE) chafed at restrictions that came with membership of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). It had even threatened to quit; and on April 27th, in the middle of a war, it stormed out. The headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum…
The new UK Town of Culture prize will see one town with a population size of fewer than 20,000 people given the title and a funding boost of £3million. Pitlochry has launched a bid to become the UK’s first-ever Town of Culture(Image: Clare McMicking / CraicN Communications.) Pitlochry has announced its bid to become the…
ZENICA, Bosnia, May 1 (Reuters) – Hundreds of workers marched through Bosnia’s central city of Zenica on Friday, protesting against the closure of the country’s last steel mill which they said marked the end of an era of heavy industry. Last week’s shutdown of the 130-year-old Zenica Steel Factory put thousands of jobs at risk…