Oil prices soared 10 percent Thursday after Qatar reported “extensive” damage to the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility following Iranian strikes, sparking fears for global energy supplies.

Russia will refer women who do not want to have children to psychologists under new health guidelines designed to address a systemic demographic crisis.

Qatar reported “extensive” damage on Thursday to the site of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility following Iranian strikes, sparking fears for global energy supplies and fresh threats from Donald Trump against Iran.

“In 2026, Beijing probably will continue seeking to set the conditions for eventual unification with Taiwan short of conflict,” the report said.

Saudi Arabia announced that the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan will begin on Friday, according to a statement published by state media.

US intelligence concluded Wednesday that Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment capacities that were destroyed in a June 2025 US-Israeli attack, contradicting President Donald Trump’s justifications for his ongoing war. Tulsi Gabbard, a Trump ally who is director of national intelligence, shared the conclusion in written testimony as part of an annual threat assessment but […]

“Last night Iran’s Intelligence Minister Khatib was also eliminated,” Israeli Defence Minister Katz said in a statement.

The repercussions of the war in the Middle East would be felt globally, Iran’s top diplomat said on Wednesday, suggesting more Western officials should push back against the conflict.

Having failed to clearly define an objective or exit strategy — and sell the American public on a new war in Iran — President Donald Trump finds himself at an impasse, mere weeks into the conflict.

“We don’t know about Mojtaba Khamenei, we don’t hear him, we don’t see him, but I can tell you one thing: we will track him down, find him, and neutralise him,” military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin told reporters.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Iran’s powerful national security chief Ali Larijani was “eliminated last night”, along with the commander of the Islamic republic’s Basij paramilitary force.

Loud explosions shook Tehran Tuesday after a night of bombing, as US President Donald Trump pressed allies to help in the war that has engulfed the Middle East and sparked global economic turmoil.

China said on Tuesday it will provide humanitarian assistance to Middle Eastern countries, including Iran and Lebanon, targeted in US and Israeli strikes in the conflict now in its third week.

“Saudi Arabia and the UAE can reroute some crude output to terminals outside the Gulf,” the International Energy Agency stated in its latest monthly oil report, saying that this can “help offset lost crude flows via Hormuz.”

“They don’t understand that what they’re doing simply will bring more havoc on them”, Herzog said after visiting a home damaged by a missile attack in the coastal Israeli city of Rishon LeZion, near Tel Aviv.