The Chinese government has called for vessels passing through the strait of Hormuz to be protected by all sides in the escalating Iran conflict, as shipping freight rates soared.
Maritime traffic through the strait – a narrow channel on Iran’s…
When observers ask why many US politicians demonstrate strong support for Israel, one frequently cited explanation points to the influence of pro-Israel lobbying and campaign financing. Lobbying by private individuals and…
BEIJING (AP) — The day the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, China waited several hours before taking its first official position. It said it was “highly concerned” and called for an immediate halt to…
Liza Adhikari, a 20-year-old student, carries the wounds of the “revolution” in her left shoulder.
Every day, she goes to physiotherapy to regain movement after a bullet shattered the top of the bone in her upper arm. She was shot on…
The war in the Middle East has left global investors grappling with the impact of a drawn-out regional conflict on global energy supplies and its potential to stoke inflation around the world.
Global stock markets have fallen and oil and gas…
BERLIN — Greece has dispatched two frigates and four F-16 fighter jets to Cyprus following a drone strike on RAF Akrotiri, the British military’s main hub for Middle East aerial operations, as the Iran conflict threatens to spill into the…
LONDON (AP) — Keir Starmer has never had a bad word to say in public about Donald Trump.
That is not being reciprocated now as the American president lambasts the British prime minister over his…
The US and Israeli attacks on Iran – a key ally of Russia that for years helped Moscow circumvent sanctions and supplied Russia with deadly Shahed drones along with full turnkey production technology – came as a big surprise to the…