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By Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, March 14 (Reuters) - Stranded for two weeks at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas as drones and missiles set ships ablaze nearby, 26-year-old seafarer Ambuj says he has not been home for six months and cannot wait to see his family. Ambuj, who asked Reuters not to use his second name for security reasons, is one of about 23,000 Indians working on merchant, harbour and offshore vessels across the wider Gulf region, which is bearing the brunt of the war between Iran and the United States and Israel.

China's Middle East envoy touring in the region to mediate between Iran, America and Israel to stop the war  Modern Diplomacy

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Iran war fuel price hikes 'put our firm at risk'  BBC

Iran war ramps up, Uber goes 'women only': Week in review  USA Today

Supermarket shelves could soon be empty due to soaring energy and transportation costs, fruit and vegetable growers have warned

Charting the Global Economy: Oil Hits $100 in Second Week of Iran War  Bloomberg.com

One of most significant launch events in years from North Korea comes as rival South Korea holds a joint military exercise with the US

Bryony Gooch reports on the jarring contrast between footage of drones hitting the emirate while the Iran war rages, with social media influencers and expats claiming it’s business as usual in Dubai

With some ex-captives released as recently as this past October, the sirens and missile attacks stir up traumatic experiences, especially for those held underground in Hamas tunnels The post For freed former hostages, the war with Iran is a trigger, but far from their darkest hour appeared first on The Times of Israel.

A Russian missile and drone strike hit the Kyiv region and killed at least four people, Ukrainian officials say

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff say approximately 10 ballistic missiles were fired by Pyongyang.

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Explosion at school on the south side of Amsterdam only caused limited damage, with no reported injuries An explosion damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, in what the city’s mayor described as “a deliberate attack against the Jewish community”. The explosion at the school in an upmarket residential neighbourhood on the south side of Amsterdam only caused limited damage, the mayor, Femke Halsema, said in a press release, as police and firefighters arrived at the scene quickly. Continue reading...

Hezbollah says it launched multiple attacks on Israeli positions Hezbollah on Saturday said it carried out a series of overnight attacks targeting Israeli towns and military positions along the Lebanon-Israel border. The group said it fired rockets at the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona and launched two waves of attacks on Metula. It also said missiles targeted the Ein Zeitim base near Safed and claimed separate strikes on Israeli soldiers in Lebanon’s border areas of Odaisseh, Blida and near a detention centre in Khiam.

The missile attack causes damage to the mission, according to sources, as smoke is seen rising from the building.

These are the casualties and cost of the war in Iran 2 weeks into the conflict  NPR

March 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad was hit in a missiles attack, Iraqi security sources told Reuters on Saturday. The attack caused smoke to rise from the embassy's building, the sources said, without providing details on the damage. (Reporting by Muayad Hameed; Editing by Stephen Coates)