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An oil slick is covering an area of around 390 square kilometers (150 square miles) off the coast of Oman, the country's government said on Monday, after

Iran said it was nearing a final pact with Oman defining new shipping lanes between them through the Strait of Hormuz but repeated that the U.S. must meet

TAIPEI, Aug 8 (Reuters) – China’s attempt to implement traffic control measures on shipping heading into the Taiwan Strait during Typhoon

MOSCOW, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Russia continued strikes on Ukrainian port infrastructure and vessels supporting the Ukrainian military, Russia’s

Aug 8 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates on Saturday condemned what it said was an Iranian attack on a carrier linked to its state oil

By Marta Serafinko Aug 8 (Reuters) – From the killer shark of “Jaws” to the tornado-tossed predators of the “Sharknado”

SYDNEY, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Workers will continue a two-day strike at BHP’s Port Hedland operations in Western Australia as planned, a union

By Satoshi Sugiyama and Eduardo Baptista TOKYO/BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Typhoon Dolphin lashed Japan’s southern Okinawa prefecture on

Russia's state nuclear giant Rosatom, operator of the Northern Sea Route via the Arctic, said on Friday it had issued permits for seven Chinese transit

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled to 33 vessels from Monday to Thursday this week, data showed, versus 50 in the week-ago period, as

A proposed deal between Iran and Oman that would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz is not easily workable due

Iran and Oman have reached an understanding on the geographic coordinates for a shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, and a joint announcement is

A proposed deal between Iran and Oman would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source and two

U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration had "very good discussions" with Iran during all-day negotiations on Tuesday, fueling expectations of an

The White House is expected to extend a waiver of the century-old Jones Act in the coming days, sources say, reaching for one of the few tools it has to try

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar

Six Saudi-flagged supertankers have changed course in the Gulf of Aden in recent days and are heading to southern Africa following threats by Yemen’s

Iran is betting it can outlast Washington by turning the Middle East's trade routes, shipping lanes and energy infrastructure into pressure points that

Iran said on Monday there were no talks under way with the United States and no plans for any meetings, contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump who had cited

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Two tankers laden with Saudi oil crossed the Bab el-Mandeb strait over the weekend, while traffic in the