The result is not expected to emerge before Tuesday after an eight million-strong electorate turned out, with little enthusiasm notably in the cities, to decide between Talon’s choice backed by the two main ruling parties or opposition rank outsider Paul Hounkpe.
Britain had convened “more than 40 nations who share our aim to restore freedom of navigation” and the summit will discuss ways to protect shipping “when the conflict ends,” Starmer said.
Oil prices surged and stock markets broadly fell Monday after US-Iran peace talks broke down and President Donald Trump announced a plan to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz, ratcheting up fears for Middle East energy supplies.
Trump has called the pontiff “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy”, suggesting that cardinals only elected Leo pope in May 2025 because he was American, and a potential bridge to Washington.
As the Middle East war entered its sixth week, the US president warned Tehran that its civilian infrastructure would be destroyed if it did not let ships through the waterway, through which a fifth of global crude and gas passes.
The explosions began at the main ammunition depot of the Burundi National Defence Force (FDNB) in Musaga, in the southern suburbs of Bujumbura, the country’s economic hub.
Tehran has threatened to target vital infrastructure across the Gulf, including energy sites.
Wilmar Mejia, a senior official at the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI), was accused of leaking information that benefited a FARC dissident faction, according to reporting by Caracol TV in November that cited seized chats and documents.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday confirmed the killing in a US-Israeli airstrike of a brigadier general sanctioned by the US in 2025 over an international network shipping oil to China and using profits to fund Tehran-backed regional proxies.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and agreed to “strengthen strategic communication and coordination on the Iran situation and … make new efforts towards advocating for peace”, Beijing said.
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