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The US military on Thursday seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil, ratcheting up a standoff with Iran a day after its paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two vessels in the crucial Strait of Hormuz. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (8:30 PM)
Italy is ready to deploy up to four vessels, including two minesweepers, as part of an international mission to clear the Strait of Hormuz, the navy s chief of staff said. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (9:51 PM)
China s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is far more ambitious than the ports, railways and highways that it is often reduced to in Western commentary, said Hussein Askary, a prominent Iraqi-Swedish scholar of international relations and geo-economics. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (5:53 PM)
Defence minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that Israel was �prepared to resume the war against Iran�, adding that his country was awaiting a green light from the United States to return Iran to �the Stone Age�. MORE..
24 Apr 2026 (12:07 AM)
U.S. President Donald Trump said #8204;on Thursday that the leaders of Lebanon and Israel could #8288;meet at the White House during the next three weeks - the period for which a ceasefire between #8204;the #8288;two countries has been extended. MORE..
24 Apr 2026 (7:02 AM)
The deputy speaker of Iran s parliament, Hamidreza Haji Babaei, says the first revenues collected from tolls imposed on ships using the Strait of Hormuz have been deposited into the Central Bank account. MORE..
23 Apr 2026 (5:07 PM)