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Iran reope­ned its stock exch­an­ge on Tues­day after the lon­gest shut­down in its histo­ry, cau­sed by the war with the United Sta­tes and Isra­el, local media repor­ted. “After near­ly 80 days … the Tehr­an Stock Exch­an­ge reope­ned this mor­ning,” the eco­no­mic dai­ly Donya-e-Eqtes­ad repor­ted. Tra­ding had been sus­pen­ded sin­ce the start of the war on The post Iran stock exch­an­ge reopens after war forced lon­gest-ever shut­down appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

Mas­si­ve­ly popu­lar online shoo­ter “Fort­ni­te” was again available on Apple’s online App Store, deve­lo­per Epic Games said Tues­day, adding that it was “con­fi­dent” of pre­vai­ling in a court batt­le with the iPho­ne maker. Epic has been batt­ling in court against both Apple and Goog­le — which deve­lo­ps the Android ope­ra­ting sys­tem — over the sizeable The post ‘Fort­ni­te’ game returns to Apple App Store appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

The yield on the 30-year US Tre­asu­ry bond touch­ed its hig­hest level sin­ce 2007 on Tues­day, a sign of rising worries over infla­ti­on amid the Midd­le East war. Near 1400 GMT, the yield stood at 5.17 per­cent after ear­lier hit­ting 5.18 per­cent. The bench­mark stood at 4.61 per­cent befo­re the US-Isra­el alli­ance began its wave The post Yield on US long-term bond hits hig­hest level sin­ce 2007 appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

A NATO figh­ter jet shot down a Ukrai­ni­an dro­ne in Esto­ni­an airspace on Tues­day, after it was repor­ted­ly diver­ted from its cour­se by a Rus­si­an jamming sys­tem, Estonia’s defence minis­ter announ­ced. It was the first inter­cep­ti­on of a for­eign dro­ne in the airspace of a Bal­tic sta­te by NATO sin­ce Russia’s full-sca­le inva­si­on of Ukrai­ne The post NATO jet shoots down stray Ukrai­ni­an dro­ne in Esto­nia appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

NATO’s top com­man­der said Tues­day he was “thin­king” about how the alli­ance could help in the Strait of Hor­muz, but no for­mal plan­ning had begun yet. “Am I thin­king about it? Abso­lut­e­ly. But there’s no plan­ning yet until the poli­ti­cal decis­i­on is taken,” US Gene­ral Ale­xus Gryn­ke­wich, NATO’s Supre­me Allied Com­man­der Euro­pe, told jour­na­lists. US The post Top com­man­der says ‘thin­king’ about NATO role in Strait of Hor­muz appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

Britain’s trade minis­ter said Tues­day he hopes to one day see his coun­try rejoin the Euro­pean Uni­on, in a fur­ther sign the UK could be hea­ded for a new dome­stic poli­ti­cal fight over Brexit. “I hope in my life­time that we would be wel­co­med back in the heart of Euro­pe ful­ly and solid­ly as mem­bers The post UK trade minis­ter hopes Bri­tain will rejoin EU ‘in my life­time’ appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

Green­land is “obli­ged” to find a solu­ti­on with the United Sta­tes over Pre­si­dent Donald Trump’s desi­re to con­trol the Arc­tic island, its lea­der said on Tues­day. Prime Minis­ter Jens-Fre­de­rik Niel­sen said any solu­ti­on to the con­flict must be found within a Danish-US-Green­lan­dic working group set up at the start of the year. Trump has repea­ted­ly The post Green­land has to reach a deal with US, PM says appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

Israel’s far-right finan­ce minis­ter Beza­lel Smot­rich said Tues­day that the Inter­na­tio­nal Cri­mi­nal Court pro­se­cu­tor has reques­ted an arrest war­rant against him, accu­sing the Pal­es­ti­ni­an Aut­ho­ri­ty of pushing for the move. Smot­rich said he would reta­lia­te by orde­ring the evacua­ti­on of the Pal­es­ti­ni­an Bedouin com­mu­ni­ty of Khan al-Ahm­ar in the occu­p­ied West Bank. “Last night I The post Isra­el finan­ce minis­ter says ICC seeks arrest war­rant against him appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

The US Sta­te Depart­ment on Tues­day stron­gly urged Ame­ri­cans to not tra­vel to the Demo­cra­tic Repu­blic of Con­go (DRC), South Sudan or Ugan­da amid moun­ting worries over a dead­ly Ebo­la out­break. The depart­ment gave the three Cen­tral Afri­can count­ries its hig­hest tra­vel advi­so­ry — “Level 4: Do Not Tra­vel” — and also urged citi­zens to The post US urges citi­zens to not tra­vel to DRC, S. Sudan, Ugan­da over Ebo­la risk appeared first on Insi­der Paper.

Rus­si­an Pre­si­dent Vla­di­mir Putin lan­ded on Tues­day night in Bei­jing, whe­re he will meet his Chi­ne­se coun­ter­part Xi Jin­ping as they aim to show­ca­se iron­clad rela­ti­ons just days after a visit by geo­po­li­ti­cal rival Donald Trump. Putin touch­ed down in Bei­jing Capi­tal Inter­na­tio­nal Air­port short­ly after 11:15 pm (1515 GMT), whe­re a mili­ta­ry band wai­ted The post Putin lands in Bei­jing for talks with Xi: Chi­ne­se sta­te media appeared first on Insi­der Paper.