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Hormuz is reopened.” Which means despite the IMF’s grim warnings, investors have “already decided that the risk of recession is receding”. [Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) Oliver
close to the mediation efforts remain cautiously hopeful that Iran might send a negotiating team for the talks by Wednesday, a series of escalatory steps taken by the US over the past 48 hours
Strait of Hormuz](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5811770/iran-war-updates) — through which some 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas typically travels— will fully reopen. "Even if an agreement was reached today … we're talking weeks
Iran war with the “largest quarterly growth figures … since 2022”. Soapbox figures released last week showed that exports from the EU to China fell 16.2% in February, with pork shipments notably in decline. Although China
Hormuz, according to Steve Dunn, author of *Blockade: Cruiser Warfare and the Starvation of Germany in World War One*. "Detection of vessels is much easier, with satellite, [planes and drones] and radar," using helicopters
Hormuz has become a focal point of the US-Israel war with Iran after Tehran effectively choked off one of the world's most important shipping lanes. The disruption to shipping since the conflict began
Strait of Hormuz partially closed, would limit the immediate price impact. Analysts pointed to the longstanding tension with the quotas imposed on Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) ambition to reach five million barrels
close international coordination to ensure peace and stability”, the prime minister’s office said. From Doha, Sharif heads to Antalya with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. They are expected to meet counterparts
Strait of Hormuz, January 17, 2012 [Raheb Homavandi/Reuters] ## What’s in Chabahar port for India? In southeastern Iran, perched on the Gulf of Oman, the Chabahar port comprises two terminals: Shahid Kalantari and Shahid Beheshti
Hormuz is a natural waterway governed by the law of the sea, which guarantees freedom of passage, and it cannot be treated as a channel subject to sovereign control or political extortion. Any attempt
Strait of Hormuz, aiming to choke Iran's economy by cutting off its main international trade route — and hoping to force Iranian concessions at the negotiating table. But Iran has threatened to retaliate with blockades
close to Peter Mandelson. He hadn’t worked with him in the past, as some of us had. He was weighing a decision, but I’m quite sure had he known that, he would
Strait of Hormuz, April 21, 2026. **Meysam Mirzadeh/Tasnim News Agency via AP** Meysam Mirzadeh/Tasnim News Agency via AP After a shooting incident at the White House Correspondent's Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday
close relationship with United States President Donald Trump and the latter’s mounting tensions with the United Kingdom have drawn attention to the future of the contested territory. Trump and Milei have met several times
Strait of Hormuz, along with attacks on regional energy infrastructure, has [reduced](/news/2026/4/28/oil-prices-rise-despite-irans-proposal-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz) global oil production by 14.5 million barrels per day – equivalent to a 57 percent decline. ## Africa’s import dependence Despite being
close ties with Baghdad. So who is the 40-year-old businessman al-Zaidi, and what worked in his favour? How will he navigate Iraq through one of its most volatile geopolitical chapters? . It argues
Hormuz. The pause, which came just one day after its launch, would be for “a short period” to give space for US efforts to finalize a settlement with Iran to end the war, Trump said
Strait of Hormuz. Trump has renewed a waiver allowing countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil because of spiralling costs worldwide. The more money Russia has, the longer and, in theory, harder, it can prosecute
Strait of Hormuz having been blocked for the past eight weeks, however, those supplies have not been available, prompting a scramble for fuel produced elsewhere. This has pushed up prices dramatically. In late February, before