BAKU, March 16 (Reuters) – A court in Azerbaijan sentenced a French citizen to ten years in prison on Monday after finding him guilty of spying on behalf of Paris, Russian state news agency RIA reported. Baku accuses the man, Martin Ryan, who was arrested in December 2023, of collecting secret information about its military …
DUBAI, March 16 (Reuters) – Oil loading operations have been suspended at the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah, two sources told Reuters on Monday, after a drone attack sparked a fire in the emirate’s petroleum industrial zone. Fujairah, located on the Gulf of Oman just outside the Strait of Hormuz, is typically a critical …
BRUSSELS, March 16 (Reuters) – All EU informal councils will be held as planned in Cyprus between April and June, Cyprus Energy Minister Michael Damianos said on Monday. Cyprus, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, moved all March meetings online or postponed them after a drone strike on a British air base amid the …
BRUSSELS, March 16 (Reuters) – EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday she had discussed with the United Nations the idea of freeing up transport of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz by replicating a deal that gets grain out of Ukraine during wartime. Arriving at a meeting of EU foreign …
March 16 (Reuters) – Debris crashed in central Kyiv and two other districts of the Ukrainian capital on Monday from a Russian drone attack, though there were no immediate reports of injuries, officials said. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said drone debris fell in the busy Shevchenkivskyi district in the city centre, the western Svyatoshynskyi district …
When Raven Kinser walked into a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office two summers ago, she checked a box on her driver’s license application indicating she did not want to donate her organs in the event of her death, reversing her earlier donor registration. Six months later, after she was declared dead at Riverside Regional …
Americans eager for lower borrowing costs may have a long wait ahead of them. The Iran was is complicating the picture for the Federal Reserve, which is set to meet on March 18 for its next interest rate decision. Economists had predicted the Fed would hold its benchmark rate steady on Wednesday, but many had …
BEIJING, March 16 (Reuters) – China said on Monday it is in communication with the U.S. about President Donald Trump’s visit, after Trump threatened to delay the trip over the Strait of Hormuz, and suggested sanctions previously imposed on Marco Rubio are no longer in effect. Trump said countries that benefit from shipping through the …
By Yomna Ehab and Federico Maccioni DUBAI, March 16 (Reuters) – Dubai’s international airport was gradually resuming flights on Monday, authorities said, after a fire caused by a drone attack forced a temporary suspension, further disrupting traffic in one of the world’s busiest air travel hubs. The U.S.-Israel war against Iran has thrown global aviation …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States’ war with Iran is entering its third week, but Congress has yet to publicly test the Trump administration’s case for the conflict. Republicans in Congress have so far side-stepped public debate over the war, even as Senate Democrats reach for every tool at their disposal to demand hearings with …