Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to US President Donald Trump last month pushing for ...

Aggression feeds a sense that the US is operating outside global norms and helps to fuel a more complex currency outlook ...

Israel has begun striking Hizbollah targets across Lebanon. Oil prices soared as much as 13 per cent on Monday in Asia. Brent ...

Sri Lanka's central bank should terminate its inflationary swaps and lock in foreign reserves represented by excess liquidity instead of temporarily mopping up excess liquidity overnight to push up ...

Pentagon briefers have told congressional staff that Iran had no plans to preemptively strike U.S. forces or bases in the ...

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hardline figure known for his confrontational rhetoric and role in Tehran’s ...

Opec+ is to raise oil output in an attempt to calm markets after Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint US-Israeli air strikes. Iran’s top Revolutionary Guards commander ...

Joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran have killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader for nearly four decades, thrusting the country into uncertainty and sparking a war that could draw in ...

A man accused of taking part in two extortion-linked shootings in Surrey is now on the run, as police issue a Canada-wide ...

Donald Trump's recent military action against Iran, dubbed by the Pentagon as Operation Epic Fury, has reignited concerns over Washington's approach to global ...

In Iraq, four U.S. strikes hit an area near Baghdad linked to Kata’ib Hezbollah, a powerful militia affiliated with Iran. A leader of the group told The Times it would attack U.S. bases in response.

Burned homes and tools stand on an ash covered ground, days after an attack in the village of Woro, Nigeria, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (Credit: Musa Salim/AP.) Listen LAGOS, Nigeria — The Nigerian ...