Oil prices shot higher Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump declared that Iran will “pay the price” for being too slow to negotiate a peace deal. U.S. crude oil futures for July delivery jumped nearly 2% to $89.72 per barrel as of 7:15 a.m. ET. Brent futures, the international benchmark, for August delivery, rose 1.3% to…
Violent anti-immigration protests erupted in parts of Belfast on Tuesday evening with some masked demonstrators setting fire to a bus, cars, trash cans and homes. Far-right figures had called on social media for mass protests after a brutal stabbing attack the previous night in Northern Ireland’s capital. A graphic video of the incident, showing a…
Northern Ireland police said Tuesday they had detained a man over what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer branded a “sickening” stabbing attack in Belfast. Graphic video of the incident was shared online by figures on the far right of British politics, who have called for mass anti-immigration protests. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)…
A spearfisher was killed on Saturday in Australia’s third fatal shark attack in four weeks, police said. The 35-year-old man was spearfishing with family off Michaelmas Island near the port city of Albany in Western Australia state when he was attacked before noon local time, a police statement said. The man was brought by boat…
Oil prices extended gains Wednesday as Middle East peace talks stuttered, though stocks mostly rose on the back of continued demand for all things linked to artificial intelligence. Despite President Trump’s assurances that the U.S. and Iran are edging closer to ending their three-month-long war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, crude investors appear unmoved…
The bus was travelling between Moscow and Simferopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea, an official says.
An eight-year-old boy and a woman pulled from the rubble of an apartment block are among those killed, officials say.
The U.S. military said it carried out what it called self-defense strikes on Iranian radar and drone control sites over the weekend, while Iran said it targeted an air base used in the U.S. attack as the two countries continued to trade strikes amid talks to end their war. Subscribe to read this story ad-free…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Saturday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the fourth attack of the week and putting the total death toll at more than 200. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free…
The Oreshnik missile, which reportedly travels over 10 times the speed of sound, was used, Russia has confirmed.
