Hong Kong stocks extended their rebound on Wednesday on signs that a diplomatic solution to Middle East tensions was making progress. The Hang Seng Index rose 1.1 per cent to 25,335.95 at the close, ...

Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf at first dismissed talks took place, insisting Trump’s claim was ‘fake news’ designed to soothe markets Middle East crisis – live updates The backchannel talks between ...

Raynor Winn’s lawyers have confirmed she published a previous book in 2012, years before the memoir that won a £10,000 prize for debut writers Author Raynor Winn published a book under a pseudonym six ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the strait until the U.S. blockade is lifted. Two ships reported being hit ...

The war in Iran is choking off Afghanistan’s main economic lifeline and has forced at least 70,000 Afghan workers and students there back home to a nation embroiled in another conflict. The war in ...

Jonathan Samet, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado. Ross C. Brownson ([email protected]), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. The COVID-19 pandemic and other ...

Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed on Sunday that de-escalation and diplomacy remain the only viable path to resolving the ongoing conflict between the US-Israel alliance and Iran. FM ...

As conflict escalates in the Middle East, global attention is focused on the human toll of war. But strikes on oil tankers in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz also threaten ecosystems that are ...

(New York, March 26, 2026) – The geographic spread, speed of escalation, and open disregard for international norms by all parties one month into the Middle East conflict are a critical stress test ...

Life is full of conflict. Not everything will happen our way. Every single relationship is doomed sooner or later to hit a "T" junction where you can't just "agree to disagree," and you must face the ...

A number of the World Bank Group’s clients in emerging markets have reached out to us as the conflict in the Middle East has started to impact commodity prices and logistics. We are working with ...