Oil prices inched lower today, extending the previous session’s declines as investors assessed the US-Iran peace deal, though uncertainty over the full resumption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz limited further falls. Brent crude futures dipped 16 cents, or 0.2%, to $78.80 a barrel by 0340 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate fell...
•Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV today hailed a deal on ending the Middle East war announced between Iran and the United States as the result of “encouraging work in dialogue and negotiation”. The United States and Iran agreed this week to a deal to end the conflict, and Leo expressed his “gratitude” to those […]
•US airstrike on Iran Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United States government revealed in a legal briefing seen yesterday by our correspondent. The June 15 brief defends the gas turbines used by a giant data center belonging to the trillionaire’s company xAI, which are the target of [&hellip...
Shares of SpaceX surged again early today, boosting Elon Musk’s rocket company above Amazon as the world’s fifth biggest enterprise in terms of market value. About 10 minutes into trading, SpaceX shares stood at $213.72, up 11 percent with a market capitalization of about $2.75 trillion compared with Amazon’s $2.66 trillion. The company began ...
•Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko (L) visiting the burnt Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, yesterday An overnight Russian barrage of missiles killed at least 11 people across Ukraine and sparked a fire at one of the most important Orthodox monasterie...
•Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that the joint US-Israeli military campaign against Iran had spared his country from what he described as the Islamic republic’s threat of “nuclear annihilation”. In his first public remarks since the United States and Iran announced an agreement in the early ...
Iran has executed at least 40 people, including 18 protesters, on “national security grounds” since the start of 2026, the United Nations said today. UN rights chief Volker Turk said he felt “deeply for the people in Iran, caught between war and cruel repression”. Since the start of the year, the Iranian authorities “have executed […]...
•Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has today announced a forthcoming total ban on social media for children under 16, saying that such platforms are “making children unhappy”. Starmer said that the government “will ban access to social media for all children under the age of 16”, warning that these platf...
•Demonstrators in Geneva yesterday Thousands of protesters thronged the streets of Geneva yesterday ahead of the G7 summit in Evian in neighbouring France, with police omnipresent amid fears of a repeat of the violence seen at a similar summit in 2003. Waving banners with messages like “No to the G7 and all imperialist alliances!” and [&hellip...
•Late Iran supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump The United States and Iran agreed on a peace deal and an “immediate and permanent” end to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, mediator Pakistan said, in the strongest sign yet that more than three months of war in the Middle East […]
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