The announcement of an agreement to halt hostilities between the United States and Iran has handed Donald Trump a timely political boost for his birthday – though the package comes with considerable uncertainty. In a social media post celebrating the breakthrough, the US president stated that the Strait of Hormuz would once again be accessible to commercial shipping and that the United States would end its naval blockade. "Let the oil flow!" Trump declared on Sunday. He went on to

A Ukrainian drone strike on a maritime terminal in southern Russia has left one person dead, Russian officials have said, marking another incident in a series of attacks targeting key infrastructure. According to Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, falling drone fragments ignited a fire at part of the facility in the Temryuk district on Saturday. While the governor did not provide extensive details, Russian media outlets reported that damage occurred at a Black Sea