The threat to ships carrying oil in the Middle East is at its worst since the Iran war started, experts have said, after a spate of attacks on another key route in the region. The warning comes after a number of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, an alternative waterway that some tankers had
Hundreds of Ethiopians from the Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan following fighting between regional forces and the Ethiopian army over the weekend. In one of the most serious confrontations since the end of the civil war in the area four years ago, intense clashes broke out on Saturday morning in Shererina, near the
Thirty-five people were killed in a drone strike by the Sudanese army on a traditional court session in the north of the Darfur region, a local rights organisation has said. Dozens more were reported injured in Sunday afternoon’s attack. The Emergency Lawyers Group, which monitors violence against civilians, said the attack occurred in Ghara al-Zawiya
President Donald Trump said late Saturday that he would halt new planned attacks on Iran pending renewed talks to wind down the war and revive stalled cargo traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. It was the latest in a pattern of announcements the U.S. president has made to first threaten massive strikes and then later call them off. The abrupt
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In response, the Saudis pumped as much oil as they could – about five million barrels a day – through their east-west pipeline to their Red Sea export terminal on their opposite coast at Yanbu. From there it was loaded onto tankers heading south to the Arabian Sea and markets in Asia. So far, so