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The president’s announcement sent markets soaring and energy prices diving, as investors bet Iran’s blockade of a key shipping chokepoint could soon end.

Trump said he had told the U.S. military to postpone strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure for five days, while talks proceed.

No one was hurt in the blaze, which damaged four ambulances operated by a Jewish charity in north London’s Golders Green neighborhood, officials said.

Tehran’s unwillingness to capitulate as the war enters its fourth week is wrapped up in the power it exerts over the Strait of Hormuz, officials in the region say.

Tehran’s unwillingness to capitulate as the war enters its fourth week is wrapped up in the power it exerts over the Strait of Hormuz, officials in the region say.

Human rights organizations say they fear Iran will carry out mass executions after the public hangings this week of three men who took place in anti-government protests.

Missile exchanges have jarred with the spirit of the holidays underway across the region.

Missile exchanges have jarred with the spirit of the holidays underway across the region.

A Kremlin spokesman said the Russian government is discussing “possible options for assisting Cuba in the difficult situation it finds itself in.”

To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.