Strait of Hormuz

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A tanker is hit on its way to Hormuz, and no one has yet said what struck it

A tanker sailing east through the Arabian Gulf was attacked on Sunday before it reached the Strait of Hormuz, the UK military's maritime security…

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Sirens across Bahrain before dawn: Iran sends six drones at a US radar, two days after the last two were shot down

Bahrain told everyone in the country to get to the nearest safe place before dawn on Sunday, its first nationwide alert since September, as…

Updated 4 hours ago 2 min read

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Twenty-five sailors have died around Hormuz since February, the UN says, and October was the worst month yet for attacks on ships

At least 25 seafarers have been killed in and around the Strait of Hormuz since the US-Israeli war on Iran began in February, the…

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Iran tells Moscow it will keep every gram of its enriched uranium, closing one of the few exits from the war

Iran's top security official, Mohsen Rezaei, says Tehran will not remove "a single atom" of its enriched nuclear material from the country and has…

3 days ago 3 min read

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Oil drops below US$90 for the first time since August, on a peace that Iran says nobody is negotiating

Brent crude, the benchmark for most of the world's oil, fell below US$90 a barrel on Tuesday for the first time since August, after…

5 days ago 3 min read

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Oil has its biggest weekly fall since the pandemic on a US-Iran deal that nobody has signed

Brent crude ended last week at US$98.32 a barrel, down about 16% from US$117.64 a week earlier, its steepest weekly fall since the Covid…

6 days ago 3 min read

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US disables cargo ship leaving Iran as it widens blockade to land routes

US forces have fired on and disabled a St Kitts-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman after it ignored warnings and tried to…

7 Nov 2026 6 min read