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The latest military escalation between the United States and Iran has unsettled global financial markets and revived concerns about energy security, with potential consequences extending beyond the Gulf to economies such as Morocco. Reciprocal strikes on Iranian positions and American bases across the region, with reported impacts in Qatar,......
Safe-haven currencies strengthened at the start of the week as investors reacted to a sharp escalation in the conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel, driving money out of risk assets and into traditional shelters. The Swiss franc rose to its strongest level against the euro since 2015, while the Japanese yen also firmed as foreign......
Ali Larijani has emerged as the central political operator in Tehran after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in coordinated United States and Israeli airstrikes, which struck Khamenei’s compound in the Iranian capital on February 28 and triggered the most serious succession crisis since the 1979 revolution. Iranian......
Elon Musk sparked a fresh political storm after he appeared to celebrate the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with a four‑word message on X reading “Another one bites the dust.” Posted on March 1, the brief remark from the billionaire owner of the platform rapidly drew tens of millions of views and......
Just over two weeks after Israel announced successful trials of an upgraded David’s Sling air and missile defense system, the platform is facing its first major combat test as Iran strikes back at Israeli and United States targets across the Middle East. On 11 February 2026, the Israeli Ministry of Defense said David’s Sling had......
Amazon Web Services suffered a rare physical blow to its cloud infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates after unidentified objects struck one of its data centers, igniting a fire and forcing a prolonged shutdown as Iranian retaliatory attacks rattled the Gulf. The incident unfolded on March 1 in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region, when objects hit......
Apple is preparing one of its most intensive early year launch cycles in recent memory, with a three day series of announcements scheduled to begin on Monday, March 2 and run through Wednesday, March 4. Rather than staging a traditional keynote, the company is expected to reveal new hardware and chips through press releases and online materials,......
U.S. government bond yields sank to their lowest levels in months on Monday in Asian trading, as investors rushed into safe‑haven assets following a sharp escalation in the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran. The benchmark 10‑year Treasury yield slipped to around 3.93 percent, its weakest level in almost a year, while......
The escalating US and Israeli campaign against Iran is prompting fresh warnings that Washington risks overextending its military at the expense of its stated priority of deterring China in the Indo-Pacific. President Donald Trump has said the strikes launched on 28 February will continue as long as necessary, committing aircraft, ships, and......
An Iranian drone strike on Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery has forced a precautionary shutdown at one of the world’s most important oil facilities, intensifying concerns over a wider regional conflict and global energy security. The attack ignited a limited fire that was brought under control, and there were no immediate reports......
Iran’s foreign minister has accused the United States of eliminating any remaining trust after joint US and Israeli strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran during a period of indirect contacts between the two countries. Abbas Araghchi told ABC’s This Week that Iran had entered negotiations with Washington......
The United States and Israel have carried out a coordinated series of strikes on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and shattered the country’s senior military leadership, triggering a rapid escalation across the Middle East and severe disruption to global energy and transport routes. The operation, which began on......
An Iranian missile barrage on central Israel has killed at least nine people and wounded dozens more, while a separate warhead landed within sight of some of Jerusalem’s most sensitive religious sites as open conflict between Iran and Israel entered its second day. A direct hit on a residential neighborhood in Beit Shemesh, about 30......
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