Follow our live coverage here. The United States on May 5 renewed its call on Japan, South Korea and other allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, amid a fresh spike in Middle East tensions after US President Donald Trump’s new initiative to break Iran’s chokehold on the key trade passage began»»»

François Picard welcomes Peter Apps, Global Defence Commentator, who writes a bi-weekly column for Reuters on national security, conflict, international affairs, and technology. Rather than casting the current state of US–Iran tensions as a binary shift between war and peace, Apps outlines a m»»»

BEIJING, April 28 — China’s top leadership on Tuesday pledged to strengthen ‌the country’s energy security while pursuing rapid technological development and greater self-sufficiency, as the economy ​is beginning to be affected by the US-Israeli war on Iran. The world’s second-largest economy grew »»»