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WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations a year ago, he touted the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites just months earlier as “totally …

LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – London’s marine insurance market has widened the area in the Black Sea it deems as ?high risk as the Ukraine-Russia conflict escalates, according to an …

By Raphael Satter and Jonathan Saul WASHINGTON/LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – US Coast Guard and FBI personnel boarded two commercial vessels bound for the United States in the Gulf of …

GULF OF FINLAND, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Finnish authorities boarded and searched a target vessel in the Baltic Sea on Thursday in a live drill that officials said shows how …

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Sept 17 (Reuters) – China has privately asked Tehran to help rein in Yemen’s Houthis after an appeal to Beijing by Saudi Arabia following the Iran-backed …

Sept 15 (Reuters) – U.S. officials met representatives of Yemen’s Houthis in Oman over the weekend, five sources familiar with the matter said, days after the Iran-backed militia seized a …

SINGAPORE, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz remained in the single digits at four on Tuesday, down from seven a day earlier, preliminary shipping data …

By Robert Harvey, Marek Strzelecki and Jonathan Saul LONDON/WARSAW, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has cut oil shipments to Europe after drone attacks damaged its key export pipeline to …

KYIV, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Russia hit petrol stations in Kyiv on Tuesday and Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery, as the warring sides carried on with strikes on each …

MOSCOW, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Russia has accused Danish military helicopters of making dangerous maneuvers near its warships in the Baltic Sea and handed an official note to Copenhagen complaining …

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 …

TAIZ, Yemen/DUBAI, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Arab states in the Gulf called off a meeting with Iran planned for Monday, while Yemen’s Houthis launched a new attack on Saudi Arabia …

By Ananda Teresia and Prasto Wardoyo JAKARTA/SURABAYA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Indonesian rescuers including the coast guard and the navy raced on Monday to board a passenger ship …

By Alex Lawler and Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for exports if it doesn’t restart its major pipeline to the …

BRUSSELS, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney wants a closer relationship with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become an “associate member” of …

Sept 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. has asked tankers traveling through the Strait of Hormuz to sail only at specific times to guarantee military protection after Iran stepped up attacks …

CAIRO, Sept 13 (Reuters) – A vessel has been struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the United Kingdom Maritime ?Trade Operations said early on Sunday. …

ADEN/DUBAI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Friday, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, moving to tighten …

LONDON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The cost of shipping oil in the largest tankers hit record highs this week following the biggest wave of attacks on shipping since the U.S.-Iran …

SINGAPORE, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Vessel transits at the Strait of Hormuz fell to seven on Thursday from 11 the previous day, preliminary ship-tracking data showed on Friday, well below …

By Parisa Hafezi, Mohammed Ghobari and Timour Azhari DUBAI/ADEN/RIYADH, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The lightning Houthi advance down Yemen’s Red Sea coast this week came with direct guidance from Iran’s …

BEIJING, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Twenty-five people died in a fire aboard a foreign cargo vessel undergoing repairs at a state-owned shipyard in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao on …

By Enas Alashray, Idrees Ali and Jana Choukeir CAIRO/WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Iran-aligned Houthis seized control of Yemen’s port city of Mocha on Thursday and advanced down the Red …

HOUSTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Brent crude futures breached $100 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time since late July, as Iran and the U.S. hit tankers in the …

LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – A container ship arrived in Britain on Wednesday after a landmark voyage from China via the Arctic, as part of plans for more vessels to …

By Enas Alashray, Idrees Ali and Jana Choukeir CAIRO/WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. …

MOSCOW, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Arctic LNG 2, a liquefied natural gas project led by Russia’s Novatek NVTK.MM, is seeking about $1 billion in damages from South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha …

By Yasmine Ghania and Hatem Maher DUBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Iran said it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf in the coming days, along with maps …

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, Sept 7 (Reuters) – An average of 10 commodity ships transited the Strait of Hormuz per day over the past 10 days, the lowest since May, …

By Jasper Ward and Parisa Hafezi WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. launched new air strikes on Iranian targets on Tuesday, quashing hopes that an exchange of fire last …

SEOUL, Sept 7 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country’s newest destroyer would be part of a nuclear response system and could deliver “annihilating retaliatory strikes,” …

Sept 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln left Thailand on Sunday after a five-day port visit, ending a respite from an extended deployment that included operations in …

OSLO, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Norway will provide necessary assistance to Russians in the Arctic Svalbard islands following the arrest of a ship transporting passengers and supplies to the archipelago, …

By Alexandra Valencia and Yury Garcia QUITO, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Ecuador defended on Friday U.S. operations that intercepted and sank three Ecuadorean vessels this week, while relatives of some …

BEIJING, Sept 4 (Reuters) – China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO rejected allegations it used concealed equipment on its vessels to collect intelligence for Beijing, calling the claims “totally unfounded” and …

SINGAPORE, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Four commodity vessels transited the key waterway of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, down from nine a day earlier and well below the 10-day …

ISTANBUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Turkish authorities continued searching on Thursday for 10 crew members missing after a cargo ship sank off the coast of Istanbul following a collision with …

WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Iranians and their Arab neighbors feared a return of war on Wednesday after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July, with …

By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Tankers and cargo ships are transiting the Bosphorus strait adorned with nets, water tanks and tyres to try to fend off growing …

By Thomas Suen and Chalinee Thirasupa LAEM CHABANG, Thailand, Sept 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln arrived in port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after 286 days …

By Emily Chow SINGAPORE, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Three liquefied natural gas cargoes loaded in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been transferred between ships outside the Strait of …

WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO uses concealed equipment on board its ships to spy on military communications near the coastlines of target nations including the …

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Two supertankers carrying Saudi oil were struck by unknown projectiles within minutes of each other while transiting outbound through the Strait of …

DUBAI/ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug 31 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump was quoted on Monday as promising to “hit them hard” after Iran launched missiles overnight at two U.S. air …

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, Aug 31 (Reuters) – After a long deployment in the Middle East, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier will dock in Thailand’s resort city …

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, Aug 31 (Reuters) – The number of visible commodity vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz dropped to five per day over the weekend,shipping data showed on …

Aug 29 (Reuters) – A merchant ship caught fire and sank off the coast of Romania in the Black Sea on Thursday evening, likely after being hit, Romanian President Nicusor …

By Julia Harte Aug 29 (Reuters) – Since the United States went to war with Iran six months ago, Courtney Sanders has been helping soldiers’ families fill the gaps left …

By Yasmine Ghania and Ahmed Tolba DUBAI, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Iran condemned the United States’ new economic sanctions on Friday as “state terrorism,” while its supreme leader said he …

HAMBURG, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Water levels on the river Rhine in Germany remained stable this week, holding above record lows after recent rain and allowing vessels to carry larger …