VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France, March 26 - France said its military chief held talks with around 35 countries on Thursday as it sought partners and proposals for a mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz once the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran ends.
The Chinese government maintains that it carries out normal commercial trade with Iran.
The Gorgon and Wheatstone gas plants in Australia collectively supply about 5 per cent of the world’s LNG.
WASHINGTON, March 26 - President Donald Trump has been weighing whether to use ground forces to seize Iran's strategic oil hub of Kharg Island, an operation analysts say could be achieved quickly, but leave U.S. troops in great peril and prolong rather than shorten the war.
HONG KONG, March 27 - China is willing to strengthen economic and trade cooperation with the United States, its Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said during a meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, China's Commerce Ministry said in a statement.
Australian defence minister Richard Marles said Canberra had done all it was asked.
DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON, March 27 - President Donald Trump announced that he will pause attacks on Iran's energy plants for 10 days at Tehran's request and said talks with Iran were going \"very well,\" although an Iranian official dismissed a U.S. proposal for ending the
SEOUL, March 27 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held a summit in Pyongyang on Thursday, where the two leaders signed a friendship treaty, North Korea's state media KCNA reported.
Former UMNO Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin could help win back urban and younger Malay voters, while former Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein still wields influence in the party’s power networks, say observers.
A Singapore Airlines spokesperson said the fare hikes partially defray the higher fuel costs but do not fully cover the increase.
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Washington and Manila have gaps to plug in integrated air and missile defence and weapons access policy, says a geopolitical analyst.
VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France, March 26 - European powers on Thursday accused Russia of helping Iran target U.S. forces in the Middle East war and said they would raise the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in France.
As a result of military action by the US and Israel against Iran since February 28, the Strait of Hormuz – a vital choke-point between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman — has been effectively closed to most nations’ shipping. In response, US President Donald Trump has asked
El Nino could make the situation worse, posing a risk of water shortages.
Hong Kong’s local food culture is fading as legacy shops shut one after another.
Cybersecurity engineer Toufik Airane has been approached by North Korean hackers who offered him a small fortune if
Strait of Hormuz closure has China and the Philippines talking, but any new oil would "hedge" the next crisis.
March 26 - The Israeli military said on Thursday that two soldiers were killed during combat operations in southern Lebanon amid ongoing clashes with Hezbollah along the border.
The Trump administration is reportedly considering several options for a massive escalation of its unlawful war on Iran, heightening fears that US troops – possibly as early as Friday or the weekend – could be hurled into a deadly quagmire with no clear objective, legal
Such has been the intensity of events in the Persian Gulf, and the relentlessness of the media coverage, that the Iran war can feel older than it is. In fact, some of the oil tankers that left the Middle East before the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have yet to reach their
The young free trade port looks to Singapore for lessons, says Hainan party chief Feng Fei.
KYIV, March 26 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that he had arrived in Saudi Arabia and would hold \"important meetings\", part of an effort to bolster ties with Middle East countries amid the Iran war.
India added an estimated record 48GW of renewable energy capacity in 2025, versus about 9GW of new coal capacity.
Ming Yang proposed building a wind turbine manufacturing plant at Ardersier.
WASHINGTON, March 26 - President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Iran to make a deal to end U.S. and Israeli bombing or face more strikes on their country.
DUBAI, March 26 - Iran’s initial response to the U.S. proposal to end the war, which was conveyed to Pakistan, was that it was \"one-sided and unfair\", a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday, adding that a path forward might still be found if realism prevailed in
About 60 wooden coffins were laid out on the forecourt of Eidgah Mosque.
The subsidised rate of RM1.99 (64 Singapore cents) per litre remains unchanged.
The US looked forward to supplying Taiwan with more crude oil and natural gas, the diplomat said.
The top United States diplomat in Taiwan pledged continued support for the island's efforts to acquire "critical defence capabilities".
"We are now in the process of releasing the Malaysian oil tankers and the workers involved so that they may continue their journey home," says Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Beijing is committed to law-based governance and will continue to improve the business environment, said a senior official.
The suspected assailant also died after stabbing himself.
March 26 - The United States, Israel and Iran have laid out maximalist positions to end warfare that has set the Middle East aflame and threatened the global economy by choking off Gulf energy supplies.
PARIS, March 26 - France will host the leaders of India, South Korea, Brazil and Kenya at the G7 leaders' summit in Evian-les-Bains in June, a move Paris says is aimed at broadening support for its goal of correcting global economic imbalances.
He also said Malaysia’s government would maintain oil price subsidies.
MBABANE, March 26 - A Cambodian man whom the U.S. Trump administration deported to Eswatini after he finished serving a 15-year sentence for attempted murder has been released, his lawyer said, the second of at least 19 deportees sent to the country to be freed.
Offences were previously imposed solely on petrol station operators, not offending drivers.
Mr Rabi Lamichhane is now a key figure in Nepal’s shifting political order.
The roll-out includes “firm safeguards” to prevent violations of its safety policies.
The fires at the two locations have been burning for several days.
Ko Wen-je, the founder of the Taiwan People's Party, was charged in December 2024 with corruption relating to a property development when he was Taipei's mayor.
Ko Wen-je's supporters had previously described the charges against him as politically motivated.
ISTANBUL, March 26 - A marine drone struck a crude oil tanker that had departed Russia, causing an explosion in the Black Sea near Istanbul's Bosphorus strait on Thursday, Turkey's transportation minister said.
Malaysia imports more than four million to five million tonnes of fertilisers annually.
Indian state-owned refiners issued statements saying “rumours” about fuel shortages were “completely unfounded”.
Asia relies more heavily on crude oil, petrol, fuel and fertiliser from the Middle East than other parts of the world.
The supplementary budget, worth 25 trillion won, is in response to the Middle East conflict and aims to support small and mid-sized firms and vulnerable households.
Another runner who was seen hoarding energy gels taken from the race was also banned.
It aims to support small and mid-sized firms and vulnerable households hit by the prolonged war.