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Oil and gas prices are soaring. Some countries are ready with solar panels and EVs  NPR

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Explosions hit Iranian capital, report says Explosions hit the Iranian capital on Monday, an AFP journalist reported, hours after Israel said it conducted large-scale overnight strikes.  The blasts were heard in central Tehran as air defence systems were activated, the journalist said. It was not immediately clear what was targeted.  The city was rocked by heavy explosions overnight, the reporter added.

Muslims prayed in the streets outside Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark the holiest night of the month of Ramadan.

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Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen breaks down Planet Labs delaying the publication of its satellite imagery during an active war.

India hopeful Iran talks will ease Hormuz route for its ships  BBC

DUBAI, March 16 (Reuters) - Oil loading operations have been suspended at the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah, two sources told Reuters on Monday, after a drone attack sparked a fire in the emirate's petroleum industrial zone. Fujairah, located on the Gulf of Oman just outside the Strait of Hormuz, is typically a critical exit point for about 1 million barrels per day of the UAE's Murban crude - a volume equivalent to roughly 1% of global demand.

BRUSSELS, March 16 (Reuters) - All EU informal councils will be held as planned in Cyprus between April and June, Cyprus Energy Minister Michael Damianos said on Monday. Cyprus, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, moved all March meetings online or postponed them after a drone strike on a British air base amid the Iran crisis earlier this month. Cypriot officials said the attack was carried out by an Iranian‑made Shahed drone, likely launched by Iran‑backed Hezbollah from Lebanon.

BRUSSELS, March 16 (Reuters) - EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday she had discussed with the United Nations the idea of freeing up transport of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz by replicating a deal that gets grain out of Ukraine during wartime. Arriving at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Kallas said she had spoken to U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres about the idea to unblock the strait, currently choked off due to the Iran war.

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Closing the Strait of Hormuz raised oil prices. It also raises the cost of bread.

Israel claims to have destroyed plane used by Iran’s late supreme leader The Israeli military claimed on Monday it had destroyed a plane used by Iran's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei at Tehran's Mehrabad airport overnight. It said the aircraft had been used by senior Iranian officials and military figures to travel domestically and internationally and coordinate with allied countries. Mehrabad is one of Tehran's oldest airports, now serving domestic and regional flights. In addition to being the busiest civilian domestic airport, it is a dual-use facility housing air force assets.

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UK declines Trump's offer of sending warships to Hormuz British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday refused to send warships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump called on allies to reinforce efforts to secure the waterway, The Telegraph reported. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said the government was “intensively looking” at options to keep the route open but stopped short of committing naval vessels. Officials are considering deploying mine-hunting drones instead. Allies including France, Germany and South Korea, also show reluctance to join the proposed mission.  US Air Force members prepare munitions for a USAF B-1B bomber, at RAF Fairford airbase in Britain on 15 March 2026. REUTERS/Jack Taylor

Iran's sports minister has said it was impossible for the players to participate in the tournament amid the conflict in the Middle East

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Oscar winner Pavel Talankin called for ‘an end to all wars’ as he received the best documentary award.

EU weighs action to keep Strait of Hormuz open for shipping European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday said the bloc is discussing ways to keep the Strait of Hormuz open amid rising tensions affecting global energy supplies. “It is in the interest of the European Union to keep the Strait of Hormuz open,” Kallas said, adding that officials had also discussed the issue with the UN secretary-general. She warned that closing the waterway would be “a very serious development for oil and energy supplies” as the war in Iran drives up oil prices. Kallas said the EU will discuss the possibility of "changing the mandate" of the Aspides Naval Mission, adding that America's easing of sanctions on Russian oil sets a "dangerous precedent". Mission Aspides is an EU naval mission to protect cargo ships in the Red Sea from attacks from Yemen's Houthis.