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Ministers say Putin’s ‘hidden hand’ is supporting Iranian drone strikes

Farmers Warn Senate Ag Committee of Iran War Price Shocks  Civil Eats

How the Iran war will change global business  Financial Times

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Trump said he had ‘no idea’ how the Iran war would impact his future Nobel prospects

The war has fueled concerns that Iran’s operatives, or those acting in its name, could target the United States.

Kuwait says air defences intercept missile and drone attacks Kuwait says its air defence systems are responding to incoming missile and drone attacks. The country’s defence ministry said military units were actively intercepting hostile projectiles and unmanned aircraft targeting Kuwaiti airspace.

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TotalEnergies output down 15% due to US-Iran war; confirms UAE outages  Reuters

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Total shuts 15 percent of oil and gas output amid US-Israeli war on Iran TotalEnergies says it has halted around 15 percent of its global oil and gas production as the war in the Middle East disrupts energy operations across the region.

The Iran war is reviving remote work across the world — from Denmark to Vietnam  Fortune

The authority warned in December that retailers’ fuel margins remained ‘persistently high’

The controversial defense secretary once compared Tehran to a malign octopus with ‘many tentacles’

Khamenei's wife still alive, says Iranian state media The wife of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was reported to have died after an air strike on 28 February, is still alive, Iranian state media has said. The ayatollah's wife, Mansour, was reported to have died in a coma two days after the strike. But Iran now says these reports were incorrect. Khamenei's son and new supreme leader, Mojtaba, was injured in the attack and lost his wife, Zahra, and his teenage son, Mohammad Bagher.

Mortgage rates climb to 6.11% as Iran war roils markets  CNN

Two crew on the USS Gerald R. Ford -- the world's largest aircraft carrier currently deployed for the war against Iran -- were injured Thursday in a laundry room fire, the US Navy said. "Two sailors are currently receiving medical treatment for non-life-threatening injuries and are in stable condition," a statement from US Naval Forces Central Command said. The Navy said the fire, originating "in the ship's main laundry," was "not combat-related and is contained."

News stories are weighing nuclear risk as experts muse on the possibility of global warfare Intimations of world war three – the big one, nuclear Armageddon – didn’t arise yesterday. But they got more urgent when Donald Trump was elected the second time. In December 2024, Newsweek published a map of the “safest US states to live during nuclear war”. The article was not reassuring. “Nowhere is truly ‘safe’” from such consequences as “contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure”, said the senior policy director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Another expert noted that “even a ‘small’ nuclear war would ... kill at least a billion people”. And since 28 February, when the US and Israel began their bombardment of Iran, chatter about a world war has spiked, with everyone from anonymous social media users to Harvard policy wonks weighing in. Continue reading...