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U.S. to send significantly more troops to Saudi Arabia

The United States is planning to send a large number of additional forces, possibly thousands, to Saudi Arabia following the Sept. 14 attack on its oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The Pentagon did not...

Iran tanker hit by suspected missile strikes near Saudi port

 Suspected missile strikes hit an Iranian oil tanker near the Saudi coast on Friday, its owner said, the first Iranian vessel targeted since a spate of attacks in the Gulf Washington blamed on Tehran. Oil prices surged more than two percent on the news, which raised new supply...

EU removes UAE, Switzerland from tax haven blacklist

European Union finance ministers agreed to remove the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Switzerland from the bloc's lists of countries deemed to be acting as tax havens, according to a statement Thursday. At a meeting in Luxembourg, ministers decided to drop UAE from the EU blacklist that...