In a twist of wartime irony, the United States has moved to ease sanctions on Iranian oil to cool surging energy prices, a potential boon for Tehran.

Iran’s attempt to strike a US-UK base over 2,000 miles (over 3,000 kilometers) off its coast has renewed questions about Tehran’s military capabilities and how far its missiles can reach.

Diego Garcia is located about 4,000 kilometers from Iran, double the 2,000-kilometer range that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran’s ballistic missiles had last month.

A wave of US soybeans reached Chinese shores this year as a deal between the two nations revived the trade. But the delay of President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing is clouding prospects over how long the influx will last.

Donald Trump wants us to believe that a deal with Cuba is close at hand. After this past week, I am not so sure.

An Arizona community beat the all-time hottest March day ever recorded in U.S. history. The old record was set in 1954.

The move follows a deadly shooting in Austin, Texas, that left at least three people dead and more than a dozen others injured.

March 21 (Reuters) - Iran fired two ballistic missiles at the U.S.-U.K. military base Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Iran had launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles toward the base but that they did not hit it.

The State Department is setting up 12 regional hubs to coordinate disaster and emergency humanitarian responses under the auspices of a new bureau that will oversee some of the functions that had been handled by the now-dismantled U.