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Last Updated:July 29, 2026, 08:38 IST Oil prices jumped over 3 per cent after the US said it intercepted Iranian missiles. Brent crude and WTI rallied as supply concerns returned amid Middle East tensions. Brent crude and WTI climbed more than 3% after the US military said it intercepted multiple missiles launched by Iran, renewing…
Last Updated:July 27, 2026, 6:43 PM IST Iran’s Foreign Ministry states that the country is “not engaged in any negotiations with the United States”. US President Donald Trump and Iran’s Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei (Photos: AFP) Iran has rejected US President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations between Washington and Tehran are underway, with its Foreign…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has said Tehran considers the defence of Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters a “strategic mandate” and called for the “absolute, unconditional termination” of Israeli aggression against Lebanon as a condition for any agreement to end the war with the US. In a post on X, Khamenei responded to a letter of…
Last Updated:July 26, 2026, 9:34 PM IST The deputy speaker of the Iranian Parliament assereted the Strait of Hormuz would “never” return to pre-war conditions. Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman. (Reuters photo) US-Iran War: Iran has rejected any proposal for a new passage or alternative route through the Strait of…
Last Updated:July 26, 2026, 7:01 PM IST UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Europe would one day thank Donald Trump for forcing NATO allies to spend more on defence and reduce reliance on the US. Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump join NATO leaders for a family photo…
Last Updated:July 26, 2026, 07:27 IST Donald Trump had arrived aboard the newly inducted Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8 but the US Secret Service later advised him to leave on the older Air Force One. US President Donald Trump (Source: Reuters) US President Donald Trump reportedly switched aircraft during his visit to Turkey earlier this month after…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying the incident caused an explosion that killed one sailor and injured another. Iran described the attack as an act of aggression and accused Kyiv of attempting to expand the war beyond Ukraine. Tehran said it would…
The United States intelligence agencies are of the view that Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is more interested in developing a nuclear weapon than his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ali Khamenei, who was killed during the February-end strikes by the US and Israel on Iran, had opposed building nuclear weapons despite advancing Iran’s…
Last Updated:July 25, 2026, 04:38 IST Trump said the condition was always understood during negotiations and rejected suggestions that the requirement had been added after the announcement of the deal. US President Donald Trump with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the White House. (AP file photo) US President Donald Trump on Friday…
Last Updated:July 24, 2026, 12:01 AM IST Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed $6.64, or 7%, to $100.71 a barrel, crossing the $100 mark for the first time since late May. Oil prices have risen sharply on Thursday to reach the closest they have been to the $100-a-barrel mark since May. (Image courtesy: Reuters) Oil…