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(AFP) - Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday said shareholders approved its sale to Paramount Skydance, giving a green light to a hostile takeover bid valuing the combined company at $110...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump ordered the US Navy on Thursday to destroy any Iranian boat caught laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, putting more pressure on a fraying...

Tehran (AFP) - The US Defense Department said Thursday its forces boarded a vessel in the Indian Ocean that was transporting oil from Iran, as disruption from a stand-off with...

Aboard the Papal Plane (AFP) - Pope Leo XIV on Thursday held an open-air mass in Equatorial Guinea in front of tens of thousands of followers, wrapping up his first...

Tehran (AFP) - Iran has banked the first proceeds from the tolls it is exacting on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior official said Thursday, as disruption triggered...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - The Pentagon blasted as cherry picking and false on Thursday a news report saying that the department assessed it could take six months to completely...

Doha (AFP) - A US naval blockade of Iranian ports is likely to squeeze Iran's oil output in the coming weeks but claims it will throw the Islamic republic into...

Paris (France) (AFP) - The latest developments in the Middle East war:- Iran gets first Hormuz toll -A senior Iranian parliament official said on Thursday that Tehran has received the...

Beijing (AFP) - China's new supply chain regulations could be a "concern" for US firms, the American Chamber of Commerce in China warned on Thursday. The regulations, released on April...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - A Pentagon assessment said it could take six months to completely clear the Strait of Hormuz of Iranian-laid mines, which could keep oil prices high,...