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December WTI crude oil (CLZ25 ) today is up +2.97 (+5.08%), and December RBOB gasoline (RBZ25 ) is up +0.0693 (+3.83%). Crude oil and gasoline prices are moving sharply higher today for a second day, with crude posting a 2-week high and gasoline posting a 3-week high. Crude prices soared...

Russia has long used harsh weather as a defensive ally. During Napoleon’s 1812 invasion, his Grand Army was defeated as winter closed in – the ground became impassable and logistical support to his army collapsed. Similarly, Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa in 1941-42 was halted by heavy rains and deep mud followed…

The suspects, aged between 44 and 48, were detained at addresses in west and central London on Thursday.

Donald Trump has finally decided to hit Russia with sanctions – the first package he has imposed since he came back to the White House in January.

Plan to connect nuclear plant to Russian grid was foiled and it has now been reconnected to Ukrainian power

The Royal Navy intercepted a Russian warship off the UK coast amid 2025's sluggish 1.3% growth, 3.2% inflation, and 4.8% unemployment—highlighting how defence and economic security now go hand in hand.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday urged European leaders to quickly allow his country to use €140 billion in frozen Russian assets to repair the damage caused by the three-year war with Russia.

French magistrates this summer issued a new arrest warrant against ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad over deadly chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source said on Thursday.

A negotiated settlement would be unfair and frustrating. But after nearly four years of fighting, it may be the best option, says Christopher S Chivvis of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Men, aged 44, 45 and 48, detained by Metropolitan police under section 3 of National Security Act

The Defence Secretary was speaking alongside his German counterpart Boris Pistorius at RAF Lossiemouth in northern Scotland.