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Tungsten is vital to the manufacturing of mining equipment and armor-piercing projectiles, possessing the highest melting point and tensile strength at high temperatures of all elements.

Brent crude, the international benchmark, was essentially flat on Monday morning, as traders saw little hope of Trump's plans resolving the biggest energy disruption in history.

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been inflicting enormous impact on the Indo-Pacific, Takaichi said on Monday. We affirmed that Japan and Australia will closely communicate with each other in responding with a sense of urgency.

Satellite imagery shows the extent of the damage to Sudan's agriculture and industrial sectors, revealing a devastating toll on the country's largest irrigated farming projects.

Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. will guide ships from 'neutral and innocent' countries out of the Strait of Hormuz, dubbing the effort Project Freedom. He stated, 'The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong - They are victims of circumstance.'

OPEC+ has agreed to a modest, largely symbolic oil output increase for June as the United States-Israel war on Iran disrupts Gulf supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Government spent more than €70,000 on business class flights for Taoiseach Micheál Martin and an Irish delegation as part of the state visit to China earlier this year.

The Saudi sovereign wealth fund's exit from LIV Golf, after pouring more than $5 billion into the PGA competitor since 2022, is the first major casualty of the kingdom rationing cash as oil exports sink.

Zack Schofield alleged the protesters were subjected to violence by the Israeli forces, despite claims from Israel's foreign minister that they were taken off unharmed. They took people into the fourth shipping container and beat them with the butts of their rifles and batons, and with their fists and their feet.