REUTERS On a stretch of barren coast 550 km south of the capital Muscat, workers at a ship repair yard swarm over cargo vessels from around the world, labour that will help to determine Oman’s fate in an era of cheap oil. The yard, owned by the government’s Oman Drydock Co and operated by South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & …

  New York / AFP Billionaire Donald Trump and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton won sweeping victories in the New York primary, bolstering their bids to secure the Republican and Democratic nominations for the White House. It was the most decisive New York primary in decades and leaves self-styled democratic socialist Bernie Sanders with a tough decision on how …

  PARIS / AP France’s presidency says that President Barack Obama will meet with French, British, Italian and German leaders in Hannover next week for discussions expected to touch on IS, Libya and migration. The statement released Wednesday gave few details except that Obama, French leader Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Britain’s David Cameron and Italy’s Matteo Renzi would …