When Donald Trump, flanked by the French president, signed the Iran memorandum in the opulent Palace of Versailles, the optics were vintage Emmanuel Macron: the full weight of French history, glamour and pomp deployed to win over a difficult counterpart.
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The blast was so powerful that the huge disc-shaped lid of an oil storage tank was launched into the sky over Moscow like a frisbee.
Israel’s military published a map on Thursday showing an expanded zone of control for its troops in southern Lebanon, as Israeli officials told Reuters Israel was holding talks with the U.S. over continuing its deployment.
The U.S. dollar rose to its highest in more than a year on Thursday after a hawkish hold from the Federal Reserve triggered bets on rate hikes, while yen weakness drew verbal warnings from Japanese officials.
Three Saudi-flagged supertankers carrying 6 million barrels of crude sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, hours after President Donald Trump signed a deal with Iran to end the war that has disrupted global energy supplies.
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The U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement sent global oil prices tumbling more than 9% this week alone, and technical analysis indicates they could slide further – though the path may be bumpy from here.
Scores of Ukrainian drones bore down on Moscow, in what Kyiv cast as a demonstration of its growing capabilities that should force Russia to accept a peace deal.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new review of America’s troop deployments in Europe on Thursday and threatened to withhold some U.S. dues to NATO if “free riding” allies did not meet their defense spending commitments.
Four years after Ukraine’s Azov Regiment surrendered the last corner of the devastated city of Mariupol to Russian forces, the rebuilt unit is setting its sights on making Moscow pay for its occupation.