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Global oil prices have risen to their highest levels since 2022, following an escalation of the US-Israel war with Iran. Source: Getty / Ian Forsyth
The escalating conflict involving Iran in the Middle East is reverberating across global shipping lanes, triggering higher freight rates, rising insurance costs and growing uncertainty across international supply chains. For Sri Lanka, an island nation whose economy is closely tied to maritime trade, the crisis has …
For some 46 years, until 2025, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, self-destructive, nihilistic and inevitably, one day, nuclear.
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At least 11 countries have come under attack from Iran in retaliation for ongoing U.S. and Israeli strikes, but no country, other than Israel, has been hit harder than the Emirates.
Senator Ron Johnson pushes back, saying he’s not in favor of government meddling in freedom of speech
Crisis talks over petrol prices and supply will be held in Sydney today as the war in the Middle East expands further.The war, which shows no signs of ending soon, has upended global air travel, disrupted oil exports from the region and sent fuel prices rising across the world.The critical meeting chaired by NSW Ene…
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Good morning and welcome to our rolling coverage of the war in the Middle East, this Monday March 16.
Iranian Kurdish Korban Ali stands on the Iraqi side of the Haji Omeran crossing between Iran and the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), Sunday, March 15, 2026, as the border remains open. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A senior US senator has raised the alarm that the United States and Israel have pushed the Middle East into a rapidly escalating crisis after launching a war on Iran, saying President Donald Trump has “lost control” of the conflict.
Australia offered humanitarian visas to members of Iran's women's football team but how much further will the government go in offering support to refugees from the war? (AAP: Dave Hunt)
The war with Iran is affecting petrol prices and inflation will be next. (ABC News: John Gunn)
There is little sign of imminent regime change in Iran as its blockade of strait of Hormuz shocks global economy
Move comes as 12 people were killed, including 2 boys, a pregnant woman and 8 police officers, in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Sunday
WASHINGTON — The war in Iran has cost at least $12 billion so far, President Trump’s top economic adviser revealed Sunday.
After two weeks of war with Iran, looking behind the mirage of the US president's words paints a picture of his true intentions.
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Wall Street’s losses deepened as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher, ratcheting up inflationary pressure on the global economy.
‘I did it for the people,’ says Farbod Mehr, of song drawing lyrics from the work of revolutionary 20th-century poet Aref Qazvini
Zahra Ghanbari is the fifth member of the delegation to change her mind amid claims players had received threats against their families
Maryland: Janet Stolba keeps a close eye on petrol prices. “These two gas stations used to be the cheapest gas around, and everybody came,” she says as she fills up near a major intersection in Hyattsville, Maryland.
A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling tanker aircraft takes off from the Kadena Air Base airfield in Kadena town, west of Okinawa, southern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
Israel is expanding the scope of its attacks against Iran’s terror infrastructure, with strikes hitting western and central Iran on Sunday, the IDF said.
A trifecta of uncertainty — from the Iran war to AI disruption to private credit — is crushing financial stocks this year. While shares of Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo have been caught up in the downdraft, their businesses should be largely insulated from these headwinds. Nevertheless, Club stocks Goldman Sachs and…
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman ripped fellow Democrats for opposing US attacks on Iran pm Sunday — and reminded them that their 2024 presidential candidate called the country America’s “greatest adversary.”
The captain of Iran’s women’s soccer team has withdrawn her bid for asylum in Australia, making her the latest member to do so as fears grow that the players are being intimidated by Tehran to return home.
Democrat says Congress ‘doing nothing’ may embolden president to attack countries such as Cuba and North Korea
Energy supply shock from US-Israeli attack on Iran fuels record valuations for Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron
Nicola Jennings on Trump’s Iran war strategy – cartoon
Israeli military also says on social media brother of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali was ‘eliminated in airstrike last week’
Influencers still living in Dubai have criticized fleeing internet creators in the wake of Iran’s missile strikes on the United Arab Emirates.
THE current Middle East war — brewing for several months and finally erupting with the United States and Israel bombarding Iran with precision missiles, causing extensive damage to the oil-rich country, with Iran retaliating with its own arsenal of modern weapons targeting vital military installations of the US in t…
Iraq's federal government has warned the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) not to allow Kurdish groups to become involved in the war on Iran, telling Kurdish authorities that Iraqi forces could move to take control of border areas if they fail to prevent it from happening.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said Iran's missile and drone strikes on the Gulf were responses to US forces using the territory of its regional allies.
El astro argentino Lionel Messi alza una réplica de la Copa Mundial tras un partido amistoso contra Panamá, el 23 de marzo de 2023, en Buenos Aires. (AP Foto/Gustavo Garello)
US forces have struck military facilities on Kharg Island off Iran’s coast, with US President Donald Trump warning that a major oil terminal there might also be attacked if Tehran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz.
US forces have struck military facilities on Kharg Island off Iran’s coast, with US President Donald Trump warning that a major oil terminal there might also be attacked if Tehran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz.
Response to Donald Trump’s callout for military support in the waterway has so far been vague and reluctant
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA said Sunday that the game between Argentina and Spain known as Finalissima that was supposed to be held in Qatar has been canceled after the widening Middle East war.
Oil could pass 2008 record of $147.50 a barrel as damage and field closures risk compounding supply shock caused by Iran war
United States President Donald Trump has called for a naval coalition to deploy warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of world oil shipments transit, as oil markets reel from supply disruptions caused by the US-Israeli war with Iran.
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The pope did not cite the US or Israel by name but did mention the strike on a school in Iran that killed over 165 people
DUBAI — Dozens of people accused of sharing sensitive information with Israel have been arrested in several areas of Iran, local media reported on Sunday, as Israeli and U.S. fighter jets continue to strike new targets in the country.
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Gas prices are through the roof, the world might be at war, and somehow Timothée Chalamet is involved. Saturday Night Live’s March 14 cold open tackles it all, with James Austin Johnson’s Trump blaming Iran, ballet, and literally everything else for your $100 gas bill.
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright predicted that soaring oil prices will cool off within the “next few weeks” after the war in Iran wraps up, while sidestepping a question about whether he expects it to top $200 a barrel.
My family fled Iran in 1979 as members of a religious minority. Now we watch from the safety of Australia as our community is persecuted again