Iran's Hormuz blockade sees US fuel prices jump 21 per cent as Donald Trump boasts "we make money", but polls show 48 per cent of American voters are unhappy over the war.
The United States is temporarily allowing the sale of Russian oil that is at sea.
Iran's newly-appointed Supreme LeaderMojtaba Khameneiassumed office five days ago, but he is yet to be seen in public.
Taiwan's military has grown used to a near-constant drumbeat of Chinese warplanes flying close by as part of Beijing's pressure campaign against the island nation it claims as its own.
The first train from North Korea to Beijing in nearly six years arrived on Friday morning after nearly a day's journey, China's railway authority said.
The United States is temporarily allowing the sale of Russian oil that is at sea, the Treasury Department said Thursday, as energy prices soared after US-Israeli strikes on Iran plunged the Middle East into war.
Sirens wailed at Turkey's Incirlik airbase, a key NATO facility where US troops are stationed near the southern city of Adana, state news agency Anadolu reported.
Russian crude oil and fuel on about 30 tankers in Asian waters is potentially available for purchase after the US granted a temporary waiver to buy cargoes that were already at sea.
Supply chains remain disrupted, commodity prices have shot up and oil prices have crossed $100 a barrel as a war rages in the Middle East, particularly disrupting movement in the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz.
Speculation about a possible military overthrow of Cuba's Communist regime has swirled around Washington, fueled in part by Senator Lindsey Graham, who told Fox News this week that "Iran going down, and Cuba is next".
Distributed via Telegram by the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency, the list named Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle, and Palantir - together with their regional offices, data centres, and research facilities, as legitimate targets.
The KC-135 crash is the fourth American military aircraft lost during the US-Israeli war on Iran. Earlier, three F-15 fighter jets were lost due to friendly fire over Kuwait, US officials said.
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Kazane Kajiya and four other women are now challenging the constitutionality of Japan's decades-old "maternity protection" law, one of the world's most restrictive barriers to sterilisation.
The US today lost a large aerial refuelling aircraft over Iraq, in what was one of the biggest American military hardware losses after the destruction of an expensive radar of the anti-missile system THAAD just days ago.
Angela Lipps from Tennessee was wrongly imprisoned for six months after a facial recognition system falsely linked her to a bank fraud case in North Dakota.
Many businesses have also been hit and the market that is usually bustling in the days leading up to Nowruz (Iranian New Year) no longer exists.
As President Donald Trump's administration wrestles with options in the war with Iran, it continues to consider "boots on the ground."
Take a moment to digest the following, quite extraordinary sequence of events. At the end of last week, US officials leaked to the Washington Post that Russia had been giving Iran target data to strike US military assets in the Persian Gulf.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other oil-rich nations in the wealthy Gulf region have been under constant fire since the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran.
China face Taiwan in a highly charged quarterfinal at the Women's Asian Cup, which already has a political focus.
Two drones target Oman's Sohar province, killing two foreign nationals and injuring others, state news agency reports.
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A drone attack on a joint French-Kurdish base in northern Iraq has killed one French soldier and wounded several others.
Israel's attacks in Lebanon are striking areas in Beirut not hit in this conflict, nor during the 2024 war.
In an oil-producing country where 60 percent of people are under 25, nearly half the population lives in poverty.
Carlos Alcaraz will meet Daniil Medvedev in the Indian Wells semifinals, while Jannik Sinner faces Alexander Zverev.
Several Gulf nations have declared force majeure on oil and gas shipment since the US-Israel’s war on Iran was launched.
Israel strikes Tehran as Iran retaliates across the Gulf; Hormuz disruption pushes oil prices higher and tensions rise.
The US-Israel war on Iran has caused gas shortages, while nine million Indian expats in the Gulf face uncertainty.
Women and children were among those killed in the attacks, according to the Taliban.
French president condemns 'unacceptable' attack in Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Palestinians in East Jerusalem struggle to get building permits from Israel, leading to demolition orders.
Energy markets remain on tenterhooks as the prospect of prolonged war in the Middle East grows.
The Israeli military has dropped charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee.
Video from northern Israel captured the moment an Iranian missile impacted in a residential area early Friday morning.
Protesters in Athens have marched to the US Embassy to condemn the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said several Iranian nuclear scientists were killed in Israeli strikes.
The FBI says it is treating a vehicle ramming at a Michigan synagogue as an attack on the Jewish community.
Israeli strikes kill dozens more in Lebanon, including 5 children among nine people killed in attack on village of Arki.
In an address to the UN Human Rights Council, experts warned that the 'machinery' of repression was 'mutating'.
Iran’s UN envoy Amir Saeid Iravani said Tehran will not close the Strait of Hormuz and remains committed to freedom.
Qatari official denies political motives for decision to halt LNG production following Iranian strikes.
Rastriya Swatantra Party, founded just four years ago, set to dominate new parliament with near two-thirds majority.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims responsibility for shooting down the plane, no deaths reported so far.