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A record release of strategic oil reserves has been agreed in a bid to help offset supply disruption since the Middle East conflict began.

Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded in the US-Israeli airstrikes which killed his father.

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The International Energy Agency (IEA), the developed nation body founded in the 1970s to deal with oil crises precisely like the one we're now facing, has announced something extraordinary.

"Under no circumstances" can Iran compete in this year's World Cup, the country's sports minister has said.

A drone is circling in the skies above Zaki Ramadan when he takes my call. As a humanitarian worker in Sudan's southeastern Blue Nile state, he is helplessly watching aid dwindle and civilians be killed by the meteoric rise in drone strikes.

A van has been driven into a barricade near the White House, officials have said.

A British married couple have drowned at a popular beach on the New South Wales coast in Australia.

One member of the Iranian women's football team has decided to leave Australia, taking the number seeking asylum to six, amid fears they could be in danger after they did not sing Iran's national anthem before a game.

When the sirens sounded around the city of Beit Shemesh on the second day of the war, Rabbi Yitzhak Biton suggested to his son they find a safe space at home rather than go to the nearest shelter.