Every Magna Bureau story on war: 45 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first.
NewsBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames.
NewsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine.
NewsIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A three-perspective investigation.
NewsBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
NewsWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports.
NewsA UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now…
NewsThe rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth.
NewsReuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records.
NewsTehran's offer at the UN: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and Hormuz reopens in seven days. Trump says he said no. The full terms.
NewsEU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators. With Hormuz blocked and prices near triple their p
NewsAt 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, three presidential proclamations took effect banning Canadian alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles — the first outright import prohibitions of the trade war, resting on a Dep
NewsThe American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept runni
NewsGlobal carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority. The world's most imp
NewsAustralia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possib
NewsBrent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsUnder Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is ne
NewsBrazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks si
NewsFed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three yea
NewsThe September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion. With the State Council promising incremental stimulus and the data landing Wednesday, Beijing is managing expecta
NewsBrent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran…
NewsUK diesel has broken £2 a litre — the national index reads 200.3p, the RAC calls a record, and Trump is weighing a 90-day suspension of US diesel exports to…
NewsDonald Trump told Axios he expects talks with Tehran this week — days after rejecting Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His logic is patience as…
NewsIron Defender 25 moved civilians out of the Suwałki corridor for the first time — 10,500 troops, 700 vehicles, and a quiet message to Moscow about NATO's…
NewsQatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East…
NewsParliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll…
NewsThe last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding militias disarm by the same day.
NewsThe US president says China is 'dumping' weapons into the hands of narco-terrorists killing Americans — hours before confirming a face-to-face with Xi in South Korea. Accusation and embrace, on the sa
NewsBrent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a
NewsProtego Ventures closed the country's largest defense-only venture fund to back AI, drones and autonomous systems — as Israeli startups raised $11 billion in nine months.
NewsIran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting. The same day, the rial crossed 2.5 million to the dollar
NewsThe Debt Management Office sold £4.25bn of ten-year gilts at an average yield of 5.383%, the highest auction rate since 1999. Demand held — but the price of the British state's debt keeps climbing.
NewsProducers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsA school, a bridge and a nuclear research facility — Moscow's drone campaign keeps escalating, with September bringing more strikes than August.
NewsThe Taibah station was hit at 5:11 am Tuesday, knocking one transformer out of service; the coalition calls it a Houthi 'terrorist act' against the holy cities, the Houthis call it a lie — the gravest
NewsTamer al-Hamayda, 42, died in a drone strike on a tent in al-Mawasi; Mashhour Yassin, 51, was shot dead by settlers in Yasuf — two killings in one day inside a 'ceasefire' that has killed 1,439 Palest
NewsThe UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to
NewsRussia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsSouth Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Kore
NewsShahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThe CDU failed to clear five percent in Mecklenburg — a first since 1949 — lost Berlin to The Left, and Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD. Germany's chancellor has the worst poll numbers in the survey's histor
NewsOn the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and dec
NewsAt Quantico, the US defense secretary ordered a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, cut the generals by 20 percent, and handed Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich a seat at the war-planning t
NewsOn Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike. Two weeks earlier, Israeli settlers danced with Torah scrolls at a new synagogue in the
