WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. is moving thousands of people out of various countries throughout the Middle East amid the military conflict between the U.S., Israel and Iran.
"It is being done quietly, but seamlessly," Trump said in a social media post without providing further details.
(Reporting by Katharine Jackson and Ryan Patrick Jones, editing by Michelle Nichols )
Global energy prices have shot upwards after the US and Israel unleashed war in the Middle East, but just how far those shocks will ripple across the economy remains unclear.
Still, the spectre of "stagflation" -- high inflation coupled with stagnant economic growth -- once again looms over the global economy in the event of a prolonged conflict.
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The risks are still highly uncertain at this stage, as they largely depend on how long conflict lasts.
By Abir Ahmar and Federico Maccioni
DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - When Samuel Lait launched his private flights firm focused on pet travel in Dubai on Saturday, he was expecting to receive queries from owners looking to travel with their pets between the glitzy Gulf hub and the United Kingdom.
BRUSSELS, March 6 (Reuters) - EU leaders Antonio Costa and Ursula von der Leyen will hold a video conference with Middle Eastern leaders on Monday to discuss the situation in the region, a spokesperson for Costa said on Friday.
"This exchange will provide an opportunity to hear leaders' assessments of the situation and to discuss further support from the EU and its member states to countries in the region, as well as ways to bring the current conflict to an end," the spokesperson said.
By Antonio Bronic
KARLOVAC, Croatia March 6 (Reuters) - Croatia is set to resume mandatory military service for the first time in 17 years as part of the European Union member's broader strategy to address security concerns in Europe and the Western Balkans.
On Monday, 800 recruits will start two-month basic training in military compounds across the country.
Croatia amended its defence law last October to introduce mandatory service in line with European trends and as tensions with Russia spurred calls for stronger defence capabilities across Europe.
In the lobby of a vocational school packed with hundreds of people, Zeinab Moqdad, who fled Beirut's southern suburbs, rages at a new war between Hezbollah and Israel whose consequences she is once again forced to bear.
"It's a nightmare. To be safe at home and then suddenly have to flee... only those who've lived it can know what it's like," she said.
"It’s a war that’s been forced on us… We can’t do anything."
WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday there would be no deal struck with Iran except "unconditional surrender."
(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya; editing by Susan Heavey)
By John Davison
BAGHDAD, March 6 (Reuters) - Iran has spent decades and billions of dollars preparing foreign proxy fighters like A.J., a commander in a pro-Iranian paramilitary group in Iraq, for a moment just like this. Since the U.S. and Israel went to war on the Islamic Republic a week ago, A.J. has been awaiting marching orders from Tehran.
MUNICH, March 6 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday called for Iran's territorial integrity to be preserved as the war against Tehran initiated by Israel and the United States last week threatens to expand across the Middle East.
Merz said that the collapse of Iranian statehood or proxy conflicts fought on Iranian soil were not in anyone's interest.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Friday that "loyal cooperation" should prevail over "confrontation" in relations with the United States after tensions over Madrid's opposition to Washington's use of its bases against Iran.
Relations should take place "with respect, in a spirit of loyal cooperation and on an equal footing", he added during a news conference with Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro in the southern Spanish city of Huelva.
