Iran strikes US positions in Jordan, US answers with strikes across Iran US and Saudi jets strike Iraqi PMF bases, at least 20 killed Kumamoto earthquake: death toll rises to 18 as rescuers search mall and factory Fed holds rates at 3.50 to 3.75 percent, three officials vote for a hike Oil Jumps About 8 Percent as Strikes Slow Hormuz Tanker Traffic Russian missile attacks on Kyiv, Lviv, Kryvyi Rih and Poltava kill at least eight Iran rejects Omani Hormuz plan as US tightens naval blockade Three Greek firefighters die as fires near Bordeaux and Madrid are contained Israel strikes Gaza City mosque as health ministry counts 60,700 orphans Pentagon awards over $120bn for missiles and submarines as interceptor stocks fall US bans new foreign robot and inverter imports, China vows countermeasures Two gas tankers burn at Egypt's Damietta port after apparent drone strike Trump and Zelensky discuss reviving Russia talks; Lavrov hardens tone OpenAI says rogue agent entered four more services besides Hugging Face Houthis strike Saudi ships as Riyadh seeks Red Sea coalition AI spending splits Big Tech results: Meta falls, Microsoft jumps Netanyahu offers to phase out US military aid, doubts Iran deal China test-launches advanced hypersonic missile South Korean stocks fall 16% in two days as chip selloff deepens Israel seizes West Bank land to link two settlements Russia charges Telegram founder Durov and issues arrest warrant Israel accuses Hezbollah of drone attack, bombards Nabatieh Samsung profit hits record on AI memory shortage Ukrainian drones hit Ryazan refinery and warehouse inside Russia US Senate advances Russia and Iran sanctions bill EU to put ChatGPT and Roblox under strictest platform rules Trump cuts WHO out of Gavi funding as HIV warnings mount Attack on police post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa kills at least 15 China pushes hukou reform for 358 million internal migrants Child dies after gene-editing therapy in China BMW to cut 8,000 jobs after China sales slump Trump keeps tariff regime as some firms return to China Russia and North Korea near completion of first direct road link Cuba opens agriculture and banking to private business NextEra and Brookfield plan $100 billion data centre campus in Kentucky US sanctions Chinese and Hong Kong shipping firms over Iranian oil Uefa revolts against Fifa's $4.2 billion World Cup stake sale Clashes as voting starts in Pakistani-administered Kashmir Trump again backs F-35 sale to Turkey Russian report puts Ukraine's port losses at $70 million a day Moonshot AI valued at $35 billion Study puts Caribbean climate disaster damage at $53 billion Bolivian court orders arrest of Evo Morales Bukele files for third term as El Salvador scraps term limits Moscow calls Ukrainian strike on Iranian ship a terrorist act US-Saudi consortium plans $5 billion refinery outside Hormuz China opens new five-year plan period Courts in Britain and the US convict two in Iran-linked cases Germany argues over security failures after Berlin CSD attack Georgian crackdown has silenced 80 percent of NGOs Iran strikes US positions in Jordan, US answers with strikes across Iran US and Saudi jets strike Iraqi PMF bases, at least 20 killed Kumamoto earthquake: death toll rises to 18 as rescuers search mall and factory Fed holds rates at 3.50 to 3.75 percent, three officials vote for a hike Oil Jumps About 8 Percent as Strikes Slow Hormuz Tanker Traffic Russian missile attacks on Kyiv, Lviv, Kryvyi Rih and Poltava kill at least eight Iran rejects Omani Hormuz plan as US tightens naval blockade Three Greek firefighters die as fires near Bordeaux and Madrid are contained Israel strikes Gaza City mosque as health ministry counts 60,700 orphans Pentagon awards over $120bn for missiles and submarines as interceptor stocks fall US bans new foreign robot and inverter imports, China vows countermeasures Two gas tankers burn at Egypt's Damietta port after apparent drone strike Trump and Zelensky discuss reviving Russia talks; Lavrov hardens tone OpenAI says rogue agent entered four more services besides Hugging Face Houthis strike Saudi ships as Riyadh seeks Red Sea coalition AI spending splits Big Tech results: Meta falls, Microsoft jumps Netanyahu offers to phase out US military aid, doubts Iran deal China test-launches advanced hypersonic missile South Korean stocks fall 16% in two days as chip selloff deepens Israel seizes West Bank land to link two settlements Russia charges Telegram founder Durov and issues arrest warrant Israel accuses Hezbollah of drone attack, bombards Nabatieh Samsung profit hits record on AI memory shortage Ukrainian drones hit Ryazan refinery and warehouse inside Russia US Senate advances Russia and Iran sanctions bill EU to put ChatGPT and Roblox under strictest platform rules Trump cuts WHO out of Gavi funding as HIV warnings mount Attack on police post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa kills at least 15 China pushes hukou reform for 358 million internal migrants Child dies after gene-editing therapy in China BMW to cut 8,000 jobs after China sales slump Trump keeps tariff regime as some firms return to China Russia and North Korea near completion of first direct road link Cuba opens agriculture and banking to private business NextEra and Brookfield plan $100 billion data centre campus in Kentucky US sanctions Chinese and Hong Kong shipping firms over Iranian oil Uefa revolts against Fifa's $4.2 billion World Cup stake sale Clashes as voting starts in Pakistani-administered Kashmir Trump again backs F-35 sale to Turkey Russian report puts Ukraine's port losses at $70 million a day Moonshot AI valued at $35 billion Study puts Caribbean climate disaster damage at $53 billion Bolivian court orders arrest of Evo Morales Bukele files for third term as El Salvador scraps term limits Moscow calls Ukrainian strike on Iranian ship a terrorist act US-Saudi consortium plans $5 billion refinery outside Hormuz China opens new five-year plan period Courts in Britain and the US convict two in Iran-linked cases Germany argues over security failures after Berlin CSD attack Georgian crackdown has silenced 80 percent of NGOs

Symbolic image: Houthis strike Saudi ships as Riyadh seeks Red Sea coalition

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Houthis strike Saudi ships as Riyadh seeks Red Sea coalition

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Houthi forces struck several Saudi vessels in the Bab al-Mandab strait, which Le Monde reports has become even more important since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and Breitbart reports the group is considering charging shipping "fees" for safe passage. Saudi Arabia is seeking international partners for a coalition to protect commercial shipping in the Red Sea, according to two people familiar with the deliberations cited by Daily Sabah, as attacks on energy tankers push oil prices higher.

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