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How Donald Trump's Iran War Is Making America Pay More For Fuel
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.
From Oil Price Rise To Market Crash, Iran War Sparks Global Economic Jolt
The United States is temporarily allowing the sale of Russian oil that is at sea.
Mojtaba Khamenei's Profile Photo Flagged As AI-Generated Amid Injury Reports
Iran's newly-appointed Supreme LeaderMojtaba Khameneiassumed office five days ago, but he is yet to be seen in public.
A Mysterious Silence In Taiwan Skies Ahead Of Trump's China Visit
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.
Train From North Korea To China Reaches Beijing After 6-Year Pause
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.
Sirens Heard At Incirlik Base, A Key NATO Facility In Turkey
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.
US Waiver Frees Up 19 Million Barrels Of Russia Oil For Purchase
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.
How Trump's Plan For Cuba Would Make US The Island's Patron
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".
Explained: How Shadow Fleets Keep Oil Moving Through War, Sanctions
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.
KC-135 Stratotanker: The Flying Gas Station For US Military Planes
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.
"We're Not Wombs": Japanese Women Fight Against Sterilisation Restrictions
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.
US Woman Wrongly Imprisoned For 6 Months Due To Faulty Facial Recognition
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.
In Iran, Residents Deal With Shut Shops, Joblessness And Rationing
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.
Opinion: Opinion | Three Targets For US Boots On The Ground In Iran
As President Donald Trump's administration wrestles with options in the war with Iran, it continues to consider "boots on the ground."
Opinion: Opinion | We're All Trapped In Trump's 1980s Worldview
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.
Speedy Alerts, Air Defences: How UAE Keeps Citizens Safe Amid Iran Attacks
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.
A Look At USS Abraham Lincoln: The US Carrier Iran Claims It Hit
Iran's Revolutionary Guard has claimed it struck the large aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles. The US has called it a lie, saying the carrier remains fully operational.
Opinion: Opinion | Iran-Israel War, And The 'War Logic' Behind Bombing Oil Depots
The thinking presumably was that targeting economic interests may, in some sense, galvanise and mobilise the Iranian public against the current administration. But that didn't happen.
Is That A Damaged Tail? US Tanker Visuals Fuel Midair Collision Buzz
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.
