Category: 3. Middle East

US President Donald Trump expressed displeasure Monday over Iran’s appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader, calling it “a big mistake,” Anadolu reports.

“I don’t know if it’s going to…

By Sam Tabahriti and Sarah Young

LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – Britain wants major economies to agree to release emergency oil reserves as the escalating Iranian crisis sends energy prices soaring and increases the risk of higher inflation, finance…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says children, the elderly at particular risk after damage to Iranian petroleum facilities.

France and its allies are preparing a “defensive” mission to reopen the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, President Emmanuel Macron said Monday as the Middle East war entered its second week.

The French leader landed by helicopter on the…

Now, oil prices are rising, Gulf investment is being frozen and military bases on African soil have become potential targets. Africa Now asks political analyst Menzi Ndhlovu and William Shoki, editor of Africa is a Country, what this war really…

Players’ union FIFPRO expressed serious concerns for team after criticism of them not singing national anthem before first match.

KYIV, March 9 (Reuters) – Ukraine is ready for new U.S.-backed peace talks “at any moment”, but its partners’ attention is currently focused on the Iran conflict, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, adding that the U.S. had asked to…

Russia’s international humanitarian cooperation agency said on Monday that Israel attacked the partner Russian House in the Lebanese city of Nabatieh, calling it an “unprovoked act of aggression,” Anadolu…

NATO said it shot down a second ballistic missile from Iran in Turkish airspace on Monday, prompting a stern warning from Turkey to Tehran, which told its neighbour not to take “provocative steps”.

It was the second such incident in the skies over…

French President Emmanuel Macron has said France and its allies are preparing a “purely defensive” mission to escort vessels through the Strait of Hormuz once the “most intense phase” of the US-Israeli…