NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices dropped back to where they were in the early days of the Iran war. The S&P 500 leaped 1.2% Friday. The Dow Jones leaped 870 points, or 1.8%, while the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.5%. Oil prices fell 9%.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The French government is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release the 85-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody after she was detained earlier this month.

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) – Iran is not yet ready to hold a new round of face-to-face talks with U.S. officials, a senior Iranian official said Saturday, citing Washington’s refusal to abandon “maximalist” demands on key issues.

MIDDELBURG, Netherlands (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was awarded the prestigious International Four Freedoms Award at a ceremony Thursday for his and his nation’s courage and resilience in resisting the full-scale invasion launched more than four years ago by Russia.

LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer probably wishes he had never heard the name Peter Mandelson. Starmer is again facing questions over his future. And again, it’s do with his misguided decision to appoint a self-professed “best pal” of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

LONDON (AP) – Counter terror police in London confirmed on Thursday they are the lead investigator into three separate arson attacks in the capital after two men and a teenager were arrested in connection with an attempted attack on a Persian-language media organization.

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LONDON (AP) – The Archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday expressed solidarity with Pope Leo XIV in calling for peace in the Middle East. Archbishop Sarah Mullally, who assumed her role as head of the Church of England in January, said she stood with the pope in his “courageous call for peace.”