The US and Iran held off on attacks for a third straight night, helping lift global stock and bond markets and push down oil prices.

Iran said on Monday it was still in control of the Strait of Hormuz and not seeking to resume peace talks with the United States, after President Donald Trump halted a two-week bombing campaign that his top brass told him had run its course.

HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) – Rescuers were searching on Sunday for 17 people still missing after a Vietnamese ship sank in the busy waterway of the South China Sea, while 45...

July 26 (Reuters) – An international cargo vessel sank off the coast of Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Sunday, a week after Ukrainian officials said it had been struck by Russian forces....

By Khalid Al-Ansary Jul 25, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Iraq will sign an agreement with Syria on the construction of pipelines linking oil production sites to global export markets via the Mediterranean, according...

By Federico Maccioni, Timour Azhari and Eman Abouhassira RIYADH, July 25 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militants fired on Saudi oil installations in two ports on the Red Sea coast on Saturday and...

By Bloomberg News Jul 25, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Fire broke out at the Tyumen oil refinery in Russia’s Ural region after a drone attack as Ukraine and Russia press intensifying strikes on...

The Panama Canal Authority has completed the document submission phase for companies seeking to participate in the prequalification process for its proposed Energy Corridor, marking another step toward one of...

U.S. missiles struck targets across Iran, reaching as far as its Caspian coast, on Friday after President Donald Trump vowed "major military punishment" for Tehran and its Houthi allies in Yemen for extending the Middle East war to a second major shipping chokepoint, the mouth of the Red Sea.

The European Union has approved its 21st package of sanctions against Russia, expanding restrictions on the country’s energy, financial and military sectors while adding another 41 vessels to its growing...

U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy suffered a significant engineering casualty during post-refit sea trials off the Washington coast before being towed back to Seattle on July 13 for an investigation and major repairs, the Coast Guard told gCaptain.

Months of tariff-driven frontloading appear to have paid off for U.S. importers. As expected, President Donald Trump on Friday reinstated broad-based tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners, replacing the...