Three former US presidents gathered for a public memorial service to civil rights leader Jesse Jackson on Friday, marking the life of a pillar of the struggle for civil rights after his death at age 84. Former presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton...
Australia’s military said on Friday a Chinese military helicopter flew dangerously close to one of its aircraft during a routine passage through the Yellow Sea, condemning the “unsafe” maneuver. The defence ministry in Canberra said it has raised...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Friday “unlawful attacks” across the Middle East and warned that the situation could spiral out of control as the regional war raged across multiple countries. “All the...
President Donald Trump said Friday that “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon” in a renewed threat to the communist-ruled island already facing a US energy blockade. “They want to make a deal so badly,” Trump told CNN in an...
Only nine oil tankers, cargo and container ships, some of which at times concealed their position, have been recorded crossing the Strait of Hormuz since Monday, according to data by MarineTraffic analysed by AFP. After three ships were attacked...
Israel’s military Friday said that Iran had launched cluster bombs “multiple times” since the start of the war that began with a US-Israeli attack on the Islamic republic last week. “They (the Iranians) are using cluster...
Crude prices surged higher Friday as oil fields in Iraq came under attack and US Donald Trump demanded Iran’s unconditional surrender, while stocks slumped after data showed a surprise drop in jobs in the United States. The US-Israel war on...
International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Fatih Birol sought Friday to tamp down fears of a global oil crisis as conflict rages in the Middle East, saying there was “plenty of oil in the market.” The US-Israel war on Iran and...
India’s chief minister for the southern state Karnataka proposed on Friday banning children under the age of 16 from using social media, as scrutiny over its addictive qualities surges globally. India is the world’s most populous nation...
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed Friday to strengthen defence cooperation and economic security with Tokyo, in the Japan leg of his Asia-Pacific tour aimed at shedding reliance on the United States. Having arrived from Australia in...
Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry on Friday said it had intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile near the central Al-Kharj area. “A cruise missile was intercepted and destroyed east of Al-Kharj governorate,” the ministry said in a...
France has sent a helicopter carrier to the Mediterranean in response to the Middle East war, the French military told AFP on Friday. “An amphibious helicopter carrier has been deployed in the Mediterranean to reinforce the presence of the...
The US energy secretary said Friday the US Navy was preparing to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as it’s reasonable to do it,” as traffic through the key trade route remains strangled due to the US-Israel war on...
US President Donald Trump on Friday demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender” as the only acceptable outcome to end hostilities, while promising to help rebuild the country’s economy if Tehran complied. Trump’s demand...
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said in an interview Friday that the US economy is “really strong” despite losing 92,000 jobs in February. He told CNBC that observers should “take the average over a few months”...
