The United States and Iran held fire for a second consecutive day after 13 nights of US strikes. Oman-led talks over the Strait of Hormuz are advancing, but there is no formal ceasefire and major disputes remain unresolved.
Brent crude settled at $100.69 after threats to shipping and renewed US strikes on Iran. Luxembourg’s diesel and heating-oil prices have risen as governments and central banks confront another inflation risk.
Washington and Riyadh have signed a civilian nuclear agreement that could lead to uranium enrichment inside Saudi Arabia. Its commercial promise is substantial, but the absence of the IAEA’s Additional Protocol has intensified proliferation concerns.
The United States has launched retaliatory strikes against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after an Iranian missile-and-drone attack killed two US service members in Jordan. One American remains missing and the confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz is intensifying.
The United States struck bridges, an airport and port facilities in southern Iran. Tehran retaliated against Gulf countries hosting US forces, damaging a Kuwaiti power and desalination plant.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard declared the Strait of Hormuz closed “until further notice” on Saturday after firing on the Cyprus-flagged container ship GFS Galaxy, leaving one crew member missing. Within hours, US forces began a third round of strikes on Iran this week — burying the ceasefire agreed in June and putting a fifth of the world's oil back at risk.
Denmark's Rebild Festival, the largest Fourth of July celebration outside the United States, will go ahead on America's 250th anniversary without representatives of the US state. Aalborg Municipality threatened to withdraw its funding unless embassy and military officials were dropped, and for the second year running organisers have not invited Donald Trump's traditional presidential greeting — fallout from Washington's campaign to take control of Greenland.
New U.S. strikes in southern Iran were reported while negotiations continued, keeping attention on the Strait of Hormuz and the global fuel-price exposure that matters to Luxembourg.
An aircraft taking off from Denver International Airport struck a person who was running across the runway, with the engine reportedly catching fire after the impact, RTL reported on 9 May 2026. Passengers were evacuated via emergency slides; the victim's condition has not been disclosed.
Japan is trying to lock in a Trump-Takaichi meeting before the US president's planned mid-May visit to Beijing, anxious that a Trump-Xi deal could quietly trade Japanese interests.
CENTCOM says US forces destroyed at least six Iranian small boats threatening shipping; the White House signalled it would reject Iran's latest peace proposal because Tehran had "not paid a big enough price".
Washington will withdraw roughly 14% of its troop presence in Germany following Chancellor Friedrich Merz's criticism of US Iran-war strategy, in a move that has rattled NATO allies.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation deal — $500M from Washington, $37.5M co-financed by Maputo — funds coastal livelihoods, rural transport and agricultural reform.