(Reuters) PARIS, March 20 – The French Navy seized an oil tanker on Friday in the Western Mediterranean that President Emmanuel Macron said belonged to Russia’s shadow fleet, a network of vessels that enables Moscow to export oil despite Western sanctions. Local officials told Reuters earlier on Friday that the navy had boarded a Mozambique-flagged […]
(Reuters) TEL AVIV/DUBAI/WASHINGTON, March 20 – Iran attacked an oil refinery in Kuwait on Friday and Israel killed a spokesman of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran showed no sign of ending. Israel promised to avoid further attacks on Iran’s South Pars gasfield the day after an Iranian retaliatory strike on Qatar caused damage […]
(Reuters) Beijing, March 20 – China called for an end to the war in the Middle East on Friday, warning of the impact on global energy, shipping and trade, with the near three-week conflict showing no sign of slowing. “History and reality have repeatedly shown the world that force is not the solution to problems and armed […]
BBC: Several people have been injured after a Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Sydney was hit by turbulence on Friday morning. Delta Flight 41 “encountered brief turbulence” as it landed at Sydney Airport, an airline spokesperson told the BBC. Four flight attendants were injured. The New South Wales Ambulance Service said it assessed […]
BBC: Just under 100 ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of March, according to data analysed by BBC Verify, despite periodic attacks on shipping in the area by Iranian forces. While some energy and everyday goods are still moving through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, daily traffic is […]
BBC: Lotkoy Ebey has just five scrawny goats to her name where she once had 50. She has watched the rest of her animals die as the pasture has dried up due to a prolonged drought in her part of north-western Kenya. In her culture in Turkana, where livestock are not merely a source of […]
BBC: Shipping disruptions from the US-Israel war with Iran have squeezed gas supplies to India, risking a temporary shift back to polluting fuels like coal, kerosene and biomass, experts say. There are reports that suggest some regions in India are witnessing a spike in timber sales, while others see increased sales of cow dung cakes – both biomass fuels. […]
(Reuters) DOHA/RIYADH, March 19 – European countries scrambled to cushion the impact of soaring oil prices on Thursday after tit-for-tat strikes on Gulf energy plants, including the world’s largest gas plant in Qatar – the most economically significant escalation of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. State oil giant QatarEnergy reported “extensive damage” after Iranian missiles hit the Ras […]
Al Jazeera: Qatar has said Iranian missile attacks on the Ras Laffan Industrial City, the country’s main gas facility, have caused “significant damage”. “The State of Qatar expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the blatant Iranian attack targeting Ras Laffan Industrial City, which caused fires resulting in significant damage to the facility,” Qatar’s Ministry […]
BBC: At least three Palestinian women have been killed and eight more injured after missile debris hit a beauty salon in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says. The PRCS said shrapnel hit the site in the town of Beit Awwa, near Hebron, in the southern West Bank. The official Palestinian […]