Articles tagged with "Middle east"

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Pedestrians wait to cross a street in front of an electronic sign board showing the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong on June 8, 2026. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP)

Asian stocks track Wall St tech bounce, oil eases on Mideast hope

Asian stocks rebound as investors resume buying AI-related shares after a tech-led selloff, while easing Iran-Israel tensions boost market sentiment and push oil prices lower.

June 12, 2026

Pedestrians walk past an electronic quotation board displaying the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on May 18, 2026. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) Related content

Asian stocks sink, oil rises on US-Iran deadlock

Asian markets fell as Middle East tensions pushed oil prices higher, with Strait of Hormuz disruption fears, weak China data, and upcoming US tech earnings weighing on sentiment.

May 18, 2026

An Israeli self-propelled howitzer artillery gun fires rounds towards southern Lebanon from a position in the upper Galilee in northern Israel near the border on March 15, 2026 (AFP)

UN force in Lebanon says peacekeepers fired upon

Israeli strikes and Hezbollah attacks continued across Lebanon, with a Hamas official killed in Sidon; Authorities reported 850 deaths and more than 830,000 displaced, as Israel rejected direct negotiations with Lebanon to end the fighting.

March 15, 2026

Global economic resilience 'tested yet again' by Mideast war: IMF chief

'This week global resilience is tested yet again by the new conflict in the Middle East,' Georgieva says during a livestream of the 'Asia in 2050' conference in Bangkok.

March 5, 2026

Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair walks through the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023

Tony Blair joins Trump-chaired Board of Peace for Gaza plan

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has returned to the forefront of Middle East peace efforts after a U.S. peace plan on ending the Israel-Hamas war cast him in a leading role in overseeing the post-war administration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

October 1, 2025