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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The United States is warning shipping companies that they could face sanctions for making payments to Iran to safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The alert posted Friday by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control adds another layer of pressure in the standoff between the U.S. and Iran over control of the Strait of Hormuz. About a fifth of the world’s trade in oil and natural gas typically passes through the strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf in peacetime. Iran effectively closed the strait to normal traffic by attacking and…

Thursday on CNN’s “NewsNight,” Republican analyst Scott Jennings got into a heated exchange with so-called anti-Trump influencer Adam Mockler.JENNINGS: Who is the aggressor here? PANELIST KAT ABUGHAZALEH: Us. We are the aggressor against. We launched this war, yes, just because it all exists. JENNINGS: Against Iran? Did all of U.S. history exist before the last eight weeks to you, or just eight weeks? MOCKLER: Listen, we all know — JENNINGS: I mean, honestly, they have been at war with us for 47 years. MOCKLER: We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that…

Crude prices have hit their highest levels since 2022 following reports that the US president would be briefed on new Iran options Global crude oil prices rise and fall depending on whether US President Donald Trump got enough sleep, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said in a sarcastic remark. His comment came after oil rose to a four-year high amid reports that the US military would brief Trump on options related to the Iran conflict.On Friday, Brent jumped nearly 7% to over $126 per barrel before easing to $108 later in the session. The rally followed an Axios report…

An illegal migrant who twice broke into the United Kingdom has been convicted of preparation of terrorist acts after a jury found that his attempt to storm the Israeli embassy with knives was politically motivated. 34-year-old Kuwaiti migrant Abdullah Sabah Albadri has been found guilty of one count of preparation of terrorist acts contrary to section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 and two counts of possession of a bladed article in a public place after he attempted to rush the Israeli embassy in London. The court heard keffiyeh-wearing Albadri walked for four hours across London on April 28th of last year, a…

The Senate on Thursday unanimously voted to pass Sen. Bernie Moreno’s (R-OH) bill banning senators, their staffs, and chamber officials from using prediction markets. Congress’s upper chamber passed the prohibition after some users won hundreds of thousands of dollars by successfully anticipating American military action, which raises questions about insider trading on prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket. Reports suggest that at least 16 accounts made more than $100,000 after correctly predicting a February strike against Iran, hours before the surprise American and Israeli attack on top Iranian officials that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Sen.…

Amid the Iran conflict, Israel has avowed it will kill leaders yet unknown – a revolutionary, open-ended warrant for lawless execution. German schoolmasters of an earlier dispensation indulged the cruel sport of asking pupils in final examinations which disease had carried off Julius Caesar. The trap was designed to expose as a fool the candidate who could not answer, proof enough that Caesar’s assassination remained common knowledge long after antiquity itself had vanished.In the postmodern age of unbounded electronic warfare, extrajudicial killing has assumed a more sinister, revolutionary form: not a mere relapse into barbarism, but a novel, mutant paradigm…

The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, claimed on Thursday that the E.U. should not “humiliate” itself by engaging in direct talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. High Representative Kallas made the assertion to reporters at the end of a two-day meeting of the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) group in Kuressaare, Estonia. The encounter focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, and other security-related issues in Europe. Asked by reporters if there is a risk of possible unfavorable terms for Europe and Nordic Baltic countries should others — such as the United…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared in conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae on Thursday that his country is ready for new negotiations to end hostilities with the United States — provided Washington drops its priority issues. The president described America’s demands — the most prominent of which is an agreement that ensures the Islamic terror state will never possess a nuclear weapon — as “maximalist” and unreasonable, reportedly attempting to present Tehran as the rational action in conversation with Takaichi, a prominent conservative American ally. Pezeshkian’s remarks were published in part by the state-run Iranian Islamic Republic News Agency…

Vladimir Solovyov has questioned Giorgia Meloni’s policies on Ukraine, the economy, and immigration in an interview with Il Fatto Quotidiano Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov has accused Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of betraying the interests of her own voters by following the EU line on Ukraine and Russia in an interview with Il Fatto Quotidiano published on Wednesday.“I don’t have any problem with Signora Meloni,” Solovyov said. “Italian people, they have problem with Signora Meloni. Donald Trump, he has problems with Signora Meloni.”The TV host claimed Meloni had “changed her position on Russia and Ukraine completely” after winning the election.…

Thursday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) addressed the reported deficiencies in the Secret Service on the heels of another assassination attempt on President Donald Trump last month at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. According to the Missouri lawmaker, Secret Service whistleblowers had revealed numerous problems. “Well, we’ve had a lot of security failures,” Hawley said. “There’s no doubt about that, Sean. I want to echo what you said that obviously, the brave men and women on the ground in the moment there reacted with incredible heroism. Nobody was hurt except for that…