WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – The United States has done the lion’s share of the work in making Iran less of a threat and other countries now need to step up to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz waterway, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday. Hegseth cited President Donald Trump’s early morning exhortation to other
BUDAPEST, March 31 (Reuters) – Hungary’s foreign minister and his Russian counterpart discussed EU sanctions in an audio clip released by an investigative news outlet on Tuesday, days before an election that could determine whether Hungary sticks to its pro-Moscow course. The recording published by Warsaw-based Vsquare.org purports to capture an August 2024 phone call
Recently, an anonymous Reddit user asked, “What industry is entirely built on a house of cards and would collapse overnight if people realized the truth about it?” People had A LOT of shocking (and alarming!) answers to share. Here are some of the most interesting comments: 1. “The kids travel sports industry. $3,000+ per year
MOSCOW, March x (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Tuesday responded coolly to a proposal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for an Easter energy attack truce, saying it had not seen detailed proposals and favoured an overall peace deal instead. Zelenskiy, who said that some of Ukraine’s allies had sent Kyiv “signals” about the possibility of
PRAGUE, March 31 (Reuters) – A foreign national has turned himself in to Czech police, admitting that he threw petrol bombs at the building of a Russian culture centre in Prague last week, police said on Tuesday. Police did not further identify the suspect detained on Monday. “It is a foreigner who, according to his
Oil prices may surge to alarming $150 or $200 a barrel if the disruption in energy trade owing to the near-closure of Strait of Hormuz continues for another six to eight weeks, energy market consultancy FGE NexantECA said. Persian gulf producers are shutting-in millions of barrels of daily supply. (REUTERS) While the conflict between United
BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) – China on Tuesday welcomed a visit by a delegation of European Union lawmakers – the first in eight years – as a chance to further stabilise ties strained by trade policies and political mistrust. The group of European lawmakers overseeing market and consumer protection began their visit on Tuesday, Chinese
BERLIN (AP) — A wolf bit a woman in a shopping area in Hamburg before it was pulled out of a lake in Germany’s second-biggest city, authorities said, in what is believed to be the first such attack since wolves returned to the country in 1998. The fire service said that the woman was taken
Gold prices are set to record their sharpest monthly fall in more than 17 years, as investors shifted towards the US dollar as the preferred safe haven. Gold is generally viewed as a safeguard against inflation and global uncertainty. Gold is moving towards its weakest monthly performance in over 17 years. (Bloomberg/File Photo) Globally, bullion
MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) – Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are used by millions of Russians to get around internet controls and censorship, Russia’s digital minister said. In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia’s “great crackdown”, the authorities have repeatedly blocked mobile internet and jammed major
WASHINGTON—President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway and leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date. The Albina bulk carrier sits anchored at Sultan Qaboos
A group of 12 European foreign ministers, as well as numerous lower-ranking officials, arrived by train in the Ukrainian capital where they were welcomed by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, who noted the “grim anniversary” of the shocking atrocities in Bucha. Russian troops quickly occupied Bucha after invading Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. They stayed
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has one clear advantage over his co-belligerent. Unlike Donald Trump, his public supports the conflict. According to a survey by the Israel Democracy Institute in the fourth week of the war, some 68% of Israelis think America and Israel should fight on. That number has fallen—it was 81% at the
Donald Trump’s former counterterror chief Joe Kent has said the US President was “led to believe” that the US military could go in and remove the Iranian regime after the success of the operation against Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. This is not the first time that Joe Kent has suggested that the US-Iran war was
Before the ongoing US-Iran war, before the presidency, US President Donald Trump was already talking about taking oil. Trump has long spoken openly about taking control of oil resources, a stance that has again come into focus as the war in the Middle East drags on. His latest remarks about “taking the oil” from Iran,
Israel and US strikes have wiped out senior Iranian leaders and hit key targets across the country. But after a month of fighting, it is arguably Iran that has secured the most significant strategic victory — a tightening grip over traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has now passed a law introducing a toll
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a video showing large-scale explosions, just as reports emerged of US-Israeli airstrikes targeting military infrastructure in Iran’s Isfahan. The video Trump shared shows a series of explosions and is reportedly from Iran’s Isfahan The video, posted on Trump’s social media platform without any caption or context, shows multiple
US President Donald Trump claimed that he was negotiating with the Iranian parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, to end the US-Iran war that has been raging for over a month now. Monday’s back-and-forth between Donald Trump and Iranian officials mirrored previous exchanges over whether there are actually negotiations to end the war. (Reuters/ AFP) Ghalibaf,
In a major escalation of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, a fully laden Kuwaiti oil tanker was attacked by Iran in the anchorage area of Dubai’s port on Tuesday, damaging the hull and triggering a fire that the Dubai authorities later said was extinguished. An oil tanker was attacked in the Dubai port,
US President Donald Trump has told aides he is willing to end the US military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, according to The Wall Street Journal. This is as the war between the US and Iran crossed four weeks. US President Donald Trump waves as
