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Stock markets in Europe have steadied after two days of punishing falls but oil prices continued to climb higher as the US-Israel war with Iran threatens to spark an energy supply crunch and experts warned over ongoing volatility. London’s FTSE 100 Index was largely unchanged in early trading on Wednesday, down just 0.4 points at […]

Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon said on Tuesday that Israel and the United States now control almost all of Iran’s airspace and that superiority would be evident in the next few days. Danon told reporters at the United Nations in New York that the conflict with Iran would not be over in a day or […]

French president Emmanuel Macron has ordered his country’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the ongoing war in the Middle East. Mr Macron said the Charles de Gaulle will be escorted by its air wing, and its escorting frigates. In a pre-recorded speech […]

The Taoiseach has said there is “no excuse for prices going up at the pumps yesterday, or indeed anywhere” because Irish oil “is coming from the North Sea and we don’t want any price gouging going on”. Micheál Martin was speaking to the press before his cabinet met on Tuesday, when he was asked about […]

Minister of State with responsibility for International Development & Diaspora, Neale Richmond, has said that the Government was looking at all the options on the table to repatriate Irish citizens from the Gulf region. Speaking on both Newstalk Breakfast and RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Mr Richmond said the advice for the 22,000 Irish citizens in […]

Oil prices have risen further as the Middle East conflict intensified, and after Iran took action to block a crucial shipping route for crude tankers. Brent crude rose by more than another 3 per cent on Tuesday to stand at a one-year high of 80 US dollars a barrel, having soared by as much as […]

The US Embassy in Riyadh has come under attack US president Donald Trump said the US could take ‘far longer’ than its projected four-to-five-week time frame for its military operations against Iran Government ministers to be updated on latest advice for Irish citizens in the Middle East The cost of diesel and petrol could reach […]

Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the US embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war expanded on Monday with statements of defiance and increasing casualties. Flames and smoke after Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, […]

Keir Starmer defended his decision not to allow UK bases to be used by the US in the initial strikes against Iran in the face of criticism from Donald Trump. The British Prime Minister granted permission on Sunday for the US to use British bases to target Iran’s missile launchers and stores to help protect […]