Iranian naval authorities and British maritime monitors reported an oil tanker ablaze after striking a sea mine east of the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, as Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned Tehran will strike US bases in Europe if used for attacks and vowed zero enriched uranium will leave Iran.
Iranian naval authorities and British maritime monitors reported an oil tanker ablaze after striking a sea mine east of the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, as Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned Tehran will strike US bases in Europe if used for attacks and vowed zero enriched uranium will leave Iran.
French Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barrot formally attributed an October cyberattack that forced defrost cycles across more than 700 French supermarkets to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unit, summoning Iran's envoy and pushing for EU sanctions on November 16 as Tehran denies involvement.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an eight count terrorism indictment charging three operatives backed by Iran with plotting to detonate disguised fuel vans outside Royal Air Force Fairford in England, allegedly coordinated from a New York jail cell.
Iraq's Civil Aviation Authority refused landing permission in Basra for a passenger plane carrying Iran's national football squad over United States secondary sanctions fears, forcing the aircraft back to Abadan and sending players across the border by bus.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moved out of his private Washington residence and onto a military base with his family after intelligence agencies flagged advancing Iranian threats linked to his leadership of economic sanctions against Tehran.
Flight tracking analysis verified Tuesday showed at least 10 US Air Force KC 135 aerial refueling aircraft departed RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk for Prestwick Airport in Scotland and Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany amid reports of a suspected Iran linked threat weeks after US bombers left RAF Fairford.
Following Oval Office talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and steep Republican midterm losses blamed partly on energy shocks, President Donald Trump said renewed US strikes on Iran are highly unlikely while maintaining a naval port blockade as Brent crude dipped below 90 dollars.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stepped to the Pentagon podium Tuesday for his first news conference since May to blast Republican Rep. Thomas Massie's eight article impeachment resolution over the Iran war as a farce and policy dispute ahead of a looming House floor vote.
Parties opposed to caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu teamed up in Israel's newly sworn in Knesset on Wednesday to win control of transitional defense and finance panels and draft bills repealing his judicial overhaul, even as Netanyahu's office pushed back on an immediate cutoff of US military assistance.
ExxonMobil signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in Caracas to evaluate upstream heavy crude projects, marking a potential return almost two decades after Hugo Chavez expropriated its operations.
House Republicans banded together Tuesday evening in a 211 to 204 procedural vote to send eight impeachment articles against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee, halting Rep. Thomas Massie's bid for the rest of the 119th Congress.
Senate Republicans unanimously reelected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as minority leader by acclamation alongside John Barrasso, Tom Cotton, and Shelley Moore Capito on Tuesday afternoon, opting for continuity minutes after House Republicans ousted Steve Scalise for Jim Jordan.
British counterterrorism officers working alongside the FBI and US Army Counterintelligence Command arrested a 41 year old senior American soldier near Gloucester under the UK National Security Act over suspected espionage for Russia.
House Republicans voted 106 to 73 by secret ballot on Tuesday afternoon to elevate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan over Majority Leader Steve Scalise, choosing confrontational oversight politics over institutional leadership after losing more than 40 seats.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday showed US consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in October while core inflation climbed 0.3 percent for a third consecutive month, sending 10 year Treasury yields toward 4.94 percent and putting a half point December Fed hike into play.
Top Group of Seven diplomats are meeting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha in Paris on Tuesday even as American envoys convene Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Abu Dhabi without European governments in the main room.
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