Share: HERE IS THE LATEST : STRAIT OF HORMUZ: President Donald Trump said this afternoon that he would declare the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial maritime shipping lane, a U.S. territory. During the remarks on Long Island, Trump also asked people to pay more for gas during the war with Iran. USS ABRAH»»»

GARDEN CITY, United States: President Donald Trump on Friday said he would "soon" declare the Strait of Hormuz waterway part of US territory, claiming that Iran was being heavily defeated. "Pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States. It's true," he said with a »»»

NEW YORK, July 8 : Oil prices rose more than a dollar a barrel in post-settlement trade on Wednesday after the U.S. military began launching fresh strikes on Iran. Both crude benchmarks had settled at their highest in over two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened fresh strikes against»»»

The largest cryptocurrency fell more than 3% to around US$61,691 on Wednesday as tensions flared up once more between the US and Iran (July 8): Bitcoin tumbled as renewed geopolitical tensions rattled digital asset markets, eclipsing what had been a muted reaction to Strategy Inc’s latest sale of t»»»

US President Donald Trump said negotiators were in the ‘final throes’ of talks for a Middle East peace deal. (EPA Images pic) NEW YORK: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that two pilots were uninjured after reports that a US military helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz. It was not imme»»»

President Donald Trump has sought to change several terms of a proposal to end the Middle East war, US media reported Saturday, as a finalized deal remains elusive among the parties. The New York Times reported Trump's changes involved toughening the terms of the deal, and has sent the new framewor»»»

President Donald Trump went on an unhinged two-minute rant against a reporter on Friday aboard Air Force One. CNN host Jake Tapper said on Friday that it was “deranged” and “dangerous” of President Donald Trump to accuse the network and New York Times reporter David Sanger of “treason” over their I»»»

Widening spreads between high and low costs for shipping containers on various trade lanes indicates uncertainty on both sides of the trade, largely because of the war in the Middle East, a market analyst said. Lars Jensen, president of consultant Vespucci Maritime, said his focus is not just on th»»»

An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Thursday. (Yonhap) South Korean stocks closed at a fresh record high Thursday, approaching the 6,500-point level, as investors focused on corporate earnings following the Un»»»

An A-10 Warthog fighter jet crashed near the the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, at about the same that an Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran, The New York Times reported, citing sources. In he incident, the lone pilot was rescued. This comes as American officials have launched a massive search op»»»