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Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer. | Photo Credit: Reuters British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday (April 13, 2026) that whatever the pressure, Britain would not be dragged into the Iran war nor be involved in a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “We’re not supporting the blockade,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live,…
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U.S. President Donald Trump forcefully criticized Pope Leo late on Sunday in an unusual, direct attack on the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church that drew immediate rebuke from believers. The President, in an apparent response to the pope’s growing criticisms of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies, said…
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A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Oman’s Musandam province, on April 12, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Central Command said it will begin implementing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on April 13 at 10 a.m. ET (1400 GMT), after President Donald Trump said…
European leaders have demanded the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a moratorium on strikes on water and energy infrastructure in the West Asia as they met in Brussels to grapple with rising energy prices caused by the war. All heads of the 27 European Union nations known collectively as the European Council issued…
About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the outset of the war with Iran and it is still exporting millions of barrels of oil at a time when the waterway has been effectively closed, according to maritime and trade data platforms. Many of the vessels that passed through the…
Beneath surface-level concerns lies a far quieter and potentially more devastating crisis [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS When the United States and Israel launched major strikes against Iran on February 28, 2026, global markets immediately focused on oil prices. The strikes, which killed Iran’s supreme leader in what became known as Operation Epic Fury, triggered…
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