From the front window of her house, Breanne Kidd once watched the sun rise over farmland as she sipped coffee before toddlers arrived at her home daycare.
The United States military has overseen scores of secretive ship-to-ship oil transfers to keep Gulf energy exports flowing, using aerial and water drones as well as helicopters in an operation to guide convoys to awaiting tankers.
Two businessmen brothers who held opposite positions on Brexit at the time of the vote are both feeling disappointed 10 years on. For one new freedoms have been squandered, while the other bemoans the complications to trade.
Never bet against Donald Trump? The oil market appears to have made a risky wager from day one of the Iran war: The U.S. president would not allow the conflict to spiral into a full-blown economic crisis. So traders wouldn’t price one in, no matter what was happening with physical supplies.
Doubts swirled around the U.S.-Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East as shippers said it could take weeks for confidence to return after any reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamental questions remained unanswered.
Asian stocks made cautious gains on Tuesday after a rally in the previous session on news of a U.S.-Iran peace deal, while investors assessed a widely expected Bank of Japan rate increase to a 31-year high.
Tokyo auto shops and Detroit car dealerships have been running short of motor oil, paint and other products for months since the Middle East conflict snarled global supply chains.
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing’s state visit to China is set to give the former junta chief a significant diplomatic boost as he seeks to consolidate his grip on power in the war-torn country following a widely condemned election at the turn of the year.
European leaders will warn U.S. President Donald Trump at Tuesday’s G7 summit that a superficial interim Iran deal risks entrenching Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, while also pressing him to rethink his Ukraine strategy.