Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Gulf producers will cheer the eventual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but the ensuing flood of oil risks eroding OPEC’s already fragile grip on the market.
Ukraine’s police chief has accused Russia of recruiting teenage Ukrainian girls to kill Ukrainian military personnel, following the arrest of a 17-year-old suspected of murdering a serviceman on the instructions of a Russian operative.
Staring at the burned out shell of his Belfast home, Jamie Corry said he would never get over the sight of watching his house go up in flames, torched by anti-migrant protesters angry at the brutal stabbing of a man in Northern Ireland’s capital.
Two days of anti-immigration violence in Northern Ireland is nothing but racist thuggery, Britain’s minister for the province said on Thursday, after police deployed water cannon to tackle rioters for a second night.
The New York Knicks’ owner blasted the mayor and the city on Wednesday for security measures restricting access around Madison Square Garden and canceled a fan party outside the arena for Game 4 of the NBA Finals, arguing too few people would get through the barriers.
North Korea and China both walked away claiming major wins from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit this week to the isolated state, which helped elevate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s global stature and pulled Pyongyang more tightly into China’s orbit.
Indian investigators are expected to delay issuing a final report into a deadly Air India Boeing 787 crash by the one-year anniversary on Friday, citing the need to complete an analysis of the plane’s engines, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
Taiwan’s maritime sovereignty cannot be “violated” by Chinese efforts to create a false impression of jurisdiction, the island’s coast guard said after China ended a patrol off its eastern shores.