The Russian hackers tried their exploits on thousands of computers at hundreds of companies in 135 countries between 2012 and 2018, which included energy-sector targets such as a US nuclear power operator and a Saudi petrochemical facility, the US Justice Department has said.

The targeted persons and organizations are accused of “transferring sensitive items to North Korea’s missile program,” the State Department said in a statement.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, the West Bank, Morocco, and Algeria over March 26-30 to discuss the Ukraine war, Israeli-Palestinian relations, the Iran nuclear deal, and gas from Algeria, among other things, the US State Department has announced.

Four Gulf Arab central banks followed in the footsteps of the US Federal Reserve and raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point for the first time since 2018.

The vote comes after 141 countries approved a previous non-binding resolution on March 2 that similarly demanded that Russia immediately cease the use of force against Ukraine. In that vote, five states, including Russia, voted against and 35 abstained.

The plant fiber reached $1.3171 per pound (about 453 grams) on the key US futures contract, the highest since July 2011.

Russia's claim on Saturday to have unleashed its new hypersonic Kinzhal missile would mark a new escalation of its campaign to force Ukraine to abandon hopes of closer ties with the West, even as Volodymyr Zelensky urged Vladimir Putin for presidential-level talks.

Assad's surprise trip on Friday was his first official visit to an Arab country since civil war erupted in his country in 2011.

With Russia threatening to take ‘full control’ of several major cities in Ukraine, the fourth round of talks failed to deliver a breakthrough on the 19th day of the invasion, even as the US tried to talk down China from helping its neighbor.

The women were evacuated to the Saudi capital Riyadh, where they were met by US officials and received health checks.

Tehran is locked in negotiations with world powers to revive the nuclear deal that offered it sanctions relief in return for curbs on its atomic programme.

The surge in energy costs is a consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which prompted Washington and its European allies to impose tough sanctions on Moscow, including a US ban on Russian oil imports that was announced by President Joe Biden on Tuesday.

"We continue to view Morocco's autonomy plan as serious, credible and realistic," US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said during a visit to the US ally.

The United States led a Western assault on Moscow's economic lifeline Tuesday, banning imports of Russian oil as civilians fled besieged Ukrainian cities in a desperate evacuation push blighted by Russian shelling. President Joe Biden heralded the US embargo as a hit on "the main artery of Russia's economy" targeting...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first by a foreign leader since the day Russian forces invaded Ukraine last week, and came after Kyiv had asked Israel to launch a dialogue with Moscow.

The company will build the government’s data network.

With fears growing of nuclear conflict, the US and Russian armed forces have set up a new direct phone line to reduce the risks of ‘miscalculation’. But Vladimir Putin has been unmoved as Russia has become an economic, sporting, and cultural pariah.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has created quite a few ripples with his views on all things important during his first interview to a non-Saudi publication in two years.

US president Joe Biden on Wednesday said he had not ruled out halting imports of Russian oil.

Negotiators meeting in Vienna to try and salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, which is meant to prevent Tehran from acquiring an atomic bomb, have made ‘significant progress,’ US State Department deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter told reporters, echoing other nations in recent weeks.

From his shock detention to an audacious escape from Japan hidden in an audio-equipment box, the rollercoaster saga of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has grabbed headlines worldwide.

The United States will contribute half of the 60 million barrels of oil International Energy Agency (IEA) countries agreed to release Tuesday to stabilize global markets after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden said. "I can announce the United States has worked with 30 other countries to release 60...

The meeting, attended by Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, discussed enhancing the strategic partnership between Jordan and the United States.

President Vladimir Putin ordered on Sunday Russia's nuclear forces onto high alert in response to what he called ‘unfriendly’ steps by the West. Russia has the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and a huge cache of ballistic missiles. The United States, the world's second-largest nuclear power, slammed the order.

The sanctions came as the Russian military stepped up its bloody, multi-pronged assault against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.

The United States and Western allies are still able to deliver arms into Ukraine to bolster the military, and Washington plans to send more in the coming days to help them fight both Russian armor on the ground and assaults from the air, according to a US defense official.

On Friday, US President Joe Biden extended his country's measures against Russia to include sanctions on President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, including a travel ban for the two statesmen. Biden was the first world leader to announce sanctions, hours after Putin declared a "military operation" into...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on world powers on Thursday to cut Russia off from SWIFT, after Russian forces invaded his country on Wednesday.

As oil prices have risen over the last year companies ranging from giants like Chevron to mid-sized players such as Devon Energy have chosen to only lift capital investment modestly.

Washington said the penalties will be severe, and will have lasting impact on Russia's economy.

US President Joe Biden announced export controls against Russia to cut off more than half of the country's high-tech imports, alongside sanctions on Russian elites and banks. The EU moved to impose "massive" sanctions on Russia's energy and finance sectors, while French President Emmanuel Macron called Putin to "demand immediate...

Qatar and Saudi Arabia host American troops, but their economic and political relations with Russia have grown over the years.

Russian air strikes hit military facilities across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, triggering condemnation from Western leaders and warnings of massive sanctions. At least 40 Ukrainian soldiers and 10 civilians were killed.

Although the pipeline is seen as an efficient way to supply energy to the European Union, which depends heavily on Moscow, critics always warned it would tighten Russia's strategic grip on European nations, while deliberately weakening Ukraine.

Western powers reacted swiftly to Monday's decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the independence of the two self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine, condemning Moscow and calling for sanctions. US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield heaped scorn on Putin's assertion that the Russian troops would take on a "peacekeeping" role.

The United States and its allies rounded on Russia during an emergency Security Council session Monday, denouncing Vladimir Putin's recognition of rebel-held areas in Ukraine and his ordered deployment of troops as a gross violation of international law and "pretext for war." Addressing the session, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield heaped...

The letter, which came as Washington warned of an imminent invasion by Russia, says the United States is "deeply concerned" and warns of a potential "human rights catastrophe."

US Press Secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden was due to hold a rare Sunday National Security Council meeting over Russia-Ukraine tensions, having said on Friday he was ‘convinced’ that Moscow planned to invade its ex-Soviet neighbor within days.

There were growing fears that only a spark — which Washington warns could be a deliberate "false flag" incident created by the Russians — might set off the largest military confrontation in Europe since World War II. More than 40 percent of the troops surrounding Ukraine were now said to...

The Vienna talks, which involve Iran as well as Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly, and the United States indirectly, resumed in late November.

The US government normally keeps battlefield intelligence close to its chest, but by revealing the secret details of Russian military plans, it hopes to prevent an invasion of Ukraine. Since Russia moved tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine's border in recent months, Washington's unconventional strategy has been to let...

Europe's poorest country Ukraine's corruption-plagued economy has suffered from increased tensions over the possibility of an invasion by Russia.

The price of a book in Iran depends on the fluctuation of its currency as the country relies on paper imports for publishing which must be paid in foreign currency.

Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions on Saturday, with US President Joe Biden warning that Russia faces "swift and severe costs" if its troops carry out an invasion.

The United States dramatically raised the alarm Friday over Ukraine, warning that a Russian invasion starting with civilians caught under aerial bombing could begin in days and telling US citizens to leave within 48 hours. An attack by the more than 100,000 Russian troops currently massed next to Ukraine "could...

The subject of the Iran nuclear deal has been somewhat on mute in Washington after 10 months of indirect talks failed to achieve the breakthrough that US President Joe Biden hoped for and a revival of the 2015 nuclear deal repudiated by his predecessor Donald Trump.

This comes amid recent attacks on the UAE by Houthi rebels from Yemen, which have prompted global condemnation.

Saied has pushed the country down a dangerous route back towards autocracy, says critics.

Former US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, and reimposed tough economic sanctions on the country, prompting it to begin pulling back from its commitments under the pact and step up its nuclear activities.

The production of semiconductors, also known as chips, has become a strategic priority in Europe as well as the United States, after the pandemic choked off supply.