Story preview
Continue reading on the publisher site for the full article.
Read on publisher →Investing.com Canada
News Atlas is free and independent. If it’s useful to you, you can support it with a coffee. ☕ Buy me a coffee
Coverage
Tone
Outlets covering it
13
in the last 3 days
First reported
3 days ago
11 outlets since
Countries
12 other outlets reported this story in the last 3 days.
Context from Wikipedia on the organisations, people and places in this story.
Transcontinental geopolitical region
The Middle East is a geo-political region that is generally defined as encompassing all of Egypt and all of West Asia except for the Caucasus. It roughly corresponds with what was historically referred to in Western Europe as the Near East, which was juxtaposed with the Far East. Unlike West Asia's adherence to continental boundaries, the Middle East is demarcated by following political borders and consequently includes East Thrace in Southeast Europe because it is a part of Turkey.
More on Wikipedia ↗Investing.com-- Asian energy stocks rose on Friday, tracking higher oil prices as escalating tensions in the Middle East and concerns over fuel supplies boosted the sector.
Brent crude futures fall 0.3% to US$101.90 a barrel by 1.15 am GMT Read more at The Business Times.