Category: 2. Middle East

By Jonathan Saul and Renee Maltezou

ATHENS, June 1 (Reuters) – Despite the current ceasefire between the United States and Iran, it remains too risky to move the thousands of sailors stuck in the Gulf, the head of the U.N.’s shipping agency…

By Parisa Hafezi

DUBAI, June 1 (Reuters) – Iran is pushing for a limited interim agreement with the United States in a bid to ease mounting economic pressure and stabilise the situation at home, while avoiding major concessions on its nuclear…

Oil prices jumped and equities struggled on Monday as Middle East peace talks stumbled and tensions mounted between Iran and the United States.

Crude futures shot around seven percent higher after an Iranian news agency announced Tehran had…

By Angus McDowall and Benjamin Raab

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, June 1 (Reuters) – The medieval Beaufort Castle’s stone ramparts tower so far above south Lebanon that Israel could hail their capture as a strategic victory, even as it evoked the miseries of…

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TEL AVIV, June 1 (Reuters) – Israel’s Defence Ministry on Monday said France had banned Israeli government representatives from attending the Eurosatory defence exhibition in Paris this month.

France has also banned Israeli weapons makers from…

DUBAI, June 1 (Reuters) – Iran’s Tasnim news agency said on Monday that Tehran’s negotiating team is stopping exchanges of messages with the United States through mediators due to attacks on Lebanon, as diplomatic efforts to end the…

Israel said Monday it would once again target Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold mostly spared heavy attacks since April, as it stages its deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades.

The UN Security Council is expected to hold an…