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Environ 12 % du commerce mondial de pétrole par voie maritime transite par le détroit de Bab el-Mandeb. Le détroit d'Ormuz étant fortement perturbé par la guerre, les alliés de l'Iran menacent de perturber davantage le commerce mondial en fermant cette deuxième voie maritime cruciale au Moyen-Orient.

US President Donald Trump has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed not to target each other's energy facilities, a day after he criticized Kyiv for hitting Russian oil refineries.

Today, under Operation Economic Outcast, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated prominent Russian financial institution, VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company (VTB Bank) for its involvement in Iranian sanctions evasion, including establishing correspondent relationships with sanctioned Iranian banks.

The United States has imposed new sanctions on Russia's VTB Bank, accusing one of the country's largest lenders of helping Iran evade US sanctions through banking relationships and payment arrangements.

Independent UN human rights investigators called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on Monday following a series of United States airstrikes on Iran in recent weeks that have killed civilians as tensions ripple through the region.

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran today urged all parties to the ongoing regional conflict to abide strictly by international law and cease hostilities, following a series of deadly US airstrikes in southern Iran. The strikes, which hit a wedding celebration and a residential home, killed and injured civilian families, including women and children, from already marginalised minority communities.

Andrei Samuilovski, 32, who has citizenship in Estonia, Switzerland, and Russia, pleaded guilty today in connection with a scheme to illegally export U.S.-origin aviation and aerospace parts to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions.

The US House of Representatives could take up a sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill as soon as September 15, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina told RFE/RL.

"In his speech on nuclear deterrence doctrine, given on March 2nd at Île Longue, the President of the French Republic has expressed the European dimension of France's vital interests, and articulated to that effect the concept of Forward Deterrence."

The first two of the four MQ-9B "SkyGuardian" drones Taiwan purchased from the United States underwent their first flight tests at an air base in eastern Taiwan early Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNA.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has dismissed US allegations of Iran's involvement in a recent attack from Iraqi soil that struck Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline, saying that Washington is making false claims to deepen disputes between regional countries and complicate the situation.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy conducted a third combined sail through the Bering Sea in support of Operation TUNDRA MERLIN, Sept. 8-9, demonstrating their ability to defend North America's Arctic maritime approaches.

The Coast Guard awarded a $173.7 million contract to The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company to advance a major modernization of Base Seattle, strengthening the shore infrastructure needed to homeport and sustain the Service's future polar security cutters.

The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its newest Fast Response Cutter, Coast Guard Cutter Jeffrey Palazzo (WPC 1163), during a ceremony in New York City on Sept. 12. The event marked the ship's entry into active service.

The United States Coast Guard today announces the initial release of Navita™, a new digital platform designed to streamline the application and issuance of merchant mariner credentials.

The U.S. Navy awarded a Fixed Price Incentive contract to The Boeing Company, for the MQ-25A Stingray Lot 1 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP), valued at $562,000,000.

Finland has decided to join France's nuclear deterrence initiative which is significant for security in Europe. The initiative is a form of bilateral cooperation between Finland and France. Finland has been discussing the initiative confidentially with France both at the highest political level and at the level of officials.

The Rubezh-2026 exercise is being held from September 13 to 18 with troops from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan taking part, the CSTO Joint Staff says.

Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, and Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced the Safeguarding Taxpayer Investment for Executive Airlift Act. The bill would prohibit the use of congressionally authorized or appropriated FY27 funding to transfer the Qatari-gifted 747, now being used as Air Force One (the VC-25B Bridge Aircraft), out of possession of the U.S. Air Force.

Israeli strikes killed six UN workers and civilians at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza as needs grow, according to the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA.