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California’s jet fuel supply drops to three-year low as Middle East turmoil squeezes global oil market

Iran. Asia [imported](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/why-is-asia-so-reliant-middle-eastern-oil-2026-03-04/) more than 14m barrels a day of crude Middle Eastern oil in 2025. Traffic in the strait of Hormuz, a major waterway for oil vessels, has plunged. Since

Iran war: What’s happening on day 63 as Trump signals possible attacks

Strait of Hormuz. - **US urges meeting of Israel, Lebanon:** The US embassy in Lebanon called for a meeting between Lebanese and Israeli leaders as the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said Israeli strikes

US military equipment worth billions of dollars destroyed in Iran war

conflicts around the world — only to then fail strategically. “In Vietnam, they did a series of operational victories. In Afghanistan, they did. But then [they suffered] the strategic loss in the end. Because the operational

Iran war: What’s happening on day 61 as UAE exits OPEC?

US president’s approval rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 36, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, as dissatisfaction grows over the cost of living and the war with Iran. ## In Israel - **Ultra-Orthodox

Australia news live: Albanese and Sultan of Brunei pledge energy cooperation; antisemitism royal commission to hold first public hearings in May

us to navigate what may be a longer economic tail of this conflict. ![(L-R) Penny Wong, Brunei Fertilizer Industries (BFI) CEO, Dr Harri Kiiski, and Anthony Albanese during a visit to the BFI plant

US Senate rejects another war powers resolution to limit Trump on Iran

Iran’s actions since the Islamic revolution in 1979 represented an imminent threat to the US. Speaking before Wednesday’s vote, US Senator Chris Murphy called the conflict a “bungled, mismanaged war” that has failed

How the UAE’s decision to leave Opec could recast the Middle East

conflict with Iran started, the UAE, the Gulf state politically closest to Israel and most hostile to Tehran, has been privately pushing [Saudi Arabia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/saudiarabia) and Qatar to launch joint counterattacks against Iran

Europe’s smaller airports ‘under threat’ if fuel shortages cause many cancellations

US-Israel war on Iran and the effective closure of the strait of Hormuz have doubled the price of jet fuel, prompting some carriers to cancel flights. The Airports Council of [Europe](https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news)

US House votes down latest effort to curtail Trump’s power to wage Iran war

Strait of Hormuz and the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, remain unresolved. There were also indications that the US was preparing to re-start military operations, should the ceasefire with Iran fail to hold

$25bn or $1 trillion: How much has Iran war really cost the US?

conflict,” Hurst said, promising to also provide a cost breakdown later. The estimated figure only reflects “the costs of the war”, Hurst said, explaining: “We’re factoring in costs of munitions expended in that total

Two weeks that pushed Trump to the edge. Is his presidency unravelling?

Hormuz. The US has also lost credibility with European and Middle Eastern allies. His frustration boiling over, Trump lashed out in an Easter Sunday social media post: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards

Iran supreme leader issues defiant statement on strait of Hormuz

Hormuz. History will record that the Iranian nation sank the superpower of America in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of ​​Oman. Both the field and diplomacy are moving forward with the coordination

Ed Miliband to double down on net zero with measures to combat Iran energy shock

strait of Hormuz was reopening – but those hopes were dashed over the weekend, with Iran insisting it would remain under “strict control”. ![Ed Miliband speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London last

China’s Xi meets Russian FM Lavrov, calls relations with Moscow ‘precious’

Hormuz could trigger a global food crisis as critical fertiliser and fuel exports are blocked from leaving the Gulf. The strait has been de facto shut down to most maritime traffic by Iran since shortly

Wall Street scales fresh record high as investors bet on end of Iran war

Iran announced a two-week ceasefire deal last week. In an interview on Wednesday, Donald Trump claimed that the war was “very close to over”, spreading hope among traders that the conflict, and the volatility

Fertiliser boss says Iran war puts 10 billion meals a week at risk

Strait of Hormuz, are jeopardising global food production. Reduced crop yields as a result of lower fertiliser use could lead to a bidding war for food, he warned. He urged European nations to consider carefully

Australia news live: Wong heads to Japan, China and South Korea to secure fuel supply; new ADF armoured vehicles ordered

Iran war, after underwriting several additional shipments, but Wong is on her way across Asia to make sure the supplies keep coming. Wong will travel to China on Wednesday and Korea on Thursday, and said

Trump buys time for Iran deal after frantic day of diplomacy

conflicting comments in press interviews, during which he said the talks were going well but also warned that he would consider resuming the war if Iran refused to negotiate. "There is no clear formula

How the US-Israeli war is collapsing the sanctions regime on Iran

conflict carries the potential to push further the process of weakening the effect of US sanctions, which had already been ongoing, and reshape the preferences of both regional and global actors through different mechanisms, including

Iran's foreign minister awaits U.S. delegation to Pakistan for peace talks

conflict in the Middle East: [Possible Iran talks](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/g-s1-118595/middle-east-war-updates#One) | [NATO rift](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/g-s1-118595/middle-east-war-updates#nato) | [Mines in Hormuz](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/g-s1-118595/middle-east-war-updates#five) | [New sanctions](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/g-s1-118595/middle-east-war-updates#six) | [Journalist killed](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/g-s1-118595/middle-east-war-updates#Two)[Pope Leo](https://www.npr.org