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Trump downplays report China entities helped Iran before attack that killed US troops

12+ hour, 33+ min ago   (281+ words) ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday brushed aside a report that Iran acquired satellite images of a base in Jordan from Chinese entities before an attack that killed threeU.S. troops there in July. A recent…...

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Trump dismisses report China entities helped Iran before attack that killed US troops

12+ hour, 33+ min ago   (260+ words) ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday brushed aside a report that Iran acquired satellite images of a base in Jordan from Chinese entities before an attack that killed threeU.S. troops there in July. A recent…...

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Diplomacy stumbles with postponement of meeting on Strait of Hormuz proposal

14+ hour, 33+ min ago   (804+ words) By Mohammed Ghobari, Nayera Abdallah and Bo Erickson ADEN/DUBAI, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Middle East diplomacy appeared to falter heading into Monday with the postponement of a meeting between Iran and other Persian Gulf powers, while fresh attacks around the region's…...

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New attacks in Hormuz and Saudi test nerves as war's spread worsens oil disruption

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (961+ words) By Mohammed Ghobari and Nayera Abdallah ADEN/DUBAI, Sept 13 (Reuters) - New strikes on Saudi Arabia and on ships in the Gulf tested nerves in the Middle East on Sunday, after an attack on a Saudi oil pipeline and an advance…...

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Iran and UAE back joint BRICS statement urging restraint in war

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (620+ words) By Sarita Chaganti Singh, Shivangi Acharya and Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Iran and the United Arab Emirates signed up to a joint statement from the BRICS group of nations that called for restraint in the Middle East war…...

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BRICS nations call for 'maximum restraint' in Middle East war

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (630+ words) Members of the 11-nation BRICS group including China, Russia, Iran and India called for calm in the Middle East at a summit in New Delhi on Saturday, overcoming earlier divisions to issue a joint statement. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who…...

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BRICS nations urge 'maximum restraint' in Middle East war

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (614+ words) Members of the 11-nation BRICS group including China, Russia, Iran and India called for calm in the Middle East at a summit in New Delhi on Saturday, overcoming earlier divisions to issue a joint statement. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who…...

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Trump says Iran probably responsible for attack on Saudi pipeline

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (171+ words) DUBLIN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Iran was probably responsible for an aerial attack on Saudi Arabia ​that shut down its East-West pipeline, one of the kingdom's main routes for exporting crude while bypassing the Strait…...

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Houthi gains in Yemen are testing Saudi Arabia’s security strategy

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (265+ words) The advance toward Bab al-Mandeb threatens a vital Saudi oil route and risks drawing Riyadh back into a Yemen war it has spent years trying to leave. Houthi gains in Yemen are testing Saudi Arabia’s security strategy Subscribe for as…...

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Iran, misreading Trump’s resolve, escalates conflict in Yemen ahead of US midterms

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (244+ words) On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Trump links Iran to the war on terror, vowing it will “never, ever have a nuclear weapon.” Iran, misreading Trump’s resolve, escalates conflict in Yemen ahead of US midterms Subscribe for as low as $2/week to…...