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President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. and Iran are "in negotiations right now" and suggested Tehran is eager to make a peace deal, even as the Islamic Republic has denied it is in direct talks with Washington.
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran gave him a "very big present" related to the Strait of Hormuz, boosting his confidence that he was talking to the right people in Tehran to end the war.
President Donald Trump listens to a reporter during the swearing in for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Cos We Care's Ann Cooper, in the centre holding a box, said people accessing food relief had doubled in six months. (Supplied)
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the billions of dollars Russian oil and gas companies are poised to reap from the war in Iran should be used to pay off their debts.
US President Donald Trump says the United States is talking to "the right people" in Iran in an effort to end hostilities and claims the Iranians want to reach a deal very badly. Follow live.
The New York Times has reported that Trump officials have sent a 15-point plan for peace to Iran. Source: Supplied / GB News
United Airlines’ top executive warned ticket prices could jump as much as 20% if oil stays elevated amid the Iran war.
Largely out-gunned Iran burns from Western air attacks while over a million people are displaced in tiny Lebanon now being ruthlessly overwhelmed by Israel’s war machine. The billions of the world’s poor, the many small and weak Third World nations, are gripped in desperate anticipation of worse to come in geopoliti…
United States President Donald Trump is insistent that “productive” negotiations have taken place with Iran to end the war he launched with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu almost a month ago. The major problem with that narrative is that Iran’s top officials have repeatedly denied it.
President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday that the Strait of Hormuz will be “open very soon,” adding he’d like to see the vital shipping route under joint US and Iranian control.
Iran launched a new wave of missiles against Israel early on Tuesday, hours after US President Donald Trump hailed “very good” talks to end the war despite Tehran denying any dialogue had taken place.
Roughly 15% of TotalEnergies' production is offline, as the war with Iran nears the one-month mark, but surging oil prices have more than made up for the lost barrels, chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanné told CNBC in an exclusive interview.
Lebanese army soldiers check the site where intercepted missiles fell in Sahel Alma, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on Tuesday he was “a little optimistic” about the long-term prospects for stability in the Middle East despite the short-term risks created by the war in the Gulf.
Markets and the Treasury are pricing a quick exit. Without a credible political endgame, Donald Trump cannot deliver one
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US allies in the Persian Gulf are reportedly looking to take an active role in the war against Iran in the wake of attacks on their military bases and energy facilities.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters that the US was talking to "the right people" in Iran in order to reach an agreement to end hostilities, adding that the Iranians want to “reach a deal very badly”.
For 48 hours, the world was told to brace for fire.
The US stock market is swinging between losses and gains Tuesday as uncertainty continues about how long the war with Iran will last.
X has removed a blue checkmark from the account of Iran’s new supreme leader, who appeared to have paid for the perk in spite of US sanctions against him.
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Turkey and Pakistan opposed the use of harsh language in a diplomatic statement condemning Iran at a meeting of Arab and Muslim foreign ministers in Riyadh last week, multiple sources familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.
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Dave Thomas purchases gasoline at a station Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Iran has named Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, a former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as the successor to Ali Larijani, head of the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), who was killed in a US-Israeli air strike earlier this month.
Americans’ views on Trump soured greatly with regard to the cost of living, an issue that was at the centre of his 2024 election campaign
Hopes of de-escalation dim as Israeli PM also vows to keep striking Iran, even as Trump talks up deal hopes
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The Department of War is gearing up to send thousands of troops from the Army’s 82nd Infantry Division to deploy to the Middle East, according to a source familiar with the plan.
LONDON — Oil prices jumped on Tuesday as traders turned cautious over the prospect of a negotiated agreement between the United States and Iran to end the Middle East war.
The Pentagon is planning to deploy a brigade combat team of roughly 3,000 soldiers from the army’s elite 82nd airborne division to the Middle East to support operations against Iran, according to two US officials, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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El presidente Donald Trump con el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio en la Casa Blanca en Washington, el 20 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump's approval rating fell in recent days to its lowest point since he returned to the White House, with the US hit by a surge in fuel prices and widespread disapproval of the war he launched on Iran on 28 February, a Reuters-Ipsos poll found.
The civilian death toll is rising in Tehran after residential areas in the Iranian capital suffered heavy damage from US-Israeli overnight strikes, as emergency crews continue search and rescue operations.
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US President Donald Trump has executed another spectacular about-turn, from threatening to escalate the Iran war to announcing "very good" talks to end it, which were denied by the Islamic republic.
Over half a billion dollars in oil bets were placed just 15 minutes before President Trump announced Monday he was pausing plans to attack Iranian infrastructure, sending prices plunging.
Prediction market bettors aren't confident that a key oil passageway in the Middle East will reopen in the next few weeks, despite some hope that the U.S. and Iran might find a way out of the war.
In a statement on Tuesday, Hezbollah called on Lebanon to "immediately reverse" Iran ambassador's expulsion and called the decision a "sin".
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said his country would host talks between the U.S. and Iran in pursuit of a "comprehensive settlement" of the ongoing war.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Tuesday that while the war in Iran poses near-term risks, it may ultimately improve the prospects for lasting peace in the Middle East.
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Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, denied on Monday that Iran was negotiating with the US to end the war.
KUALA LUMPUR — Whenever tensions in the Middle East flare — particularly when Iran once again hints at closing the Strait of Hormuz — a familiar question resurfaces with almost ritual predictability: if this chokepoint is so dangerously critical, why not simply bypass it? Why not lay pipelines from the oil fields al…