The escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has sparked fears over potential oil supply disruptions in the region Global oil prices saw a sharp increase on Wednesday amid fears that the conflict between Israel and the armed Palestinian group Hamas could spread to other countries in the Middle East, causing  global oil supply disruptions.

The Hungarian PM’s assessment that Ukraine is bound to fail in the conflict with Russia is “pointless” talk, Dmitry Kuleba has said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has dismissed remarks made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban earlier this week about Kiev’s lack of prospects in the conflict with Moscow as “pointless” talk. Orban had…

The arrest of Sputnik Lithuania’s editor-in-chief is a violation of international norms of freedom of speech and the rights of journalists, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. She called on international organizations to react appropriately to Latvia’s “overreach” in arresting Marat Kasem.