
The Guardian - 2 hours 44 min ago
Watchdog says about 1,700 people were affected during a price surge triggered by the Middle East crisis Heating oil customers whose deliveries were cancelled when the war in the Middle East caused a price surge are to receive compensation of up to 350 each following an investigation by the UK competition watchdog. As the crisis unfolded, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was investigating heating oil suppliers after complaints that existing orders were being scrapped, with customers...

The Independent - 3 hours 6 min ago
The UAE has been the hardest-hit by Iranian retaliatory strikes and seeks to protect itself from further hostilities...

The Independent - 3 hours 9 min ago
Trump's 20 per cent toll on shipping could more than double the cost of transporting oil from the Gulf to Europe, say analysts...

The Independent - 3 hours 11 min ago
The US and Iran continue tit-for-tat strikes over the vital shipping route while a fifth of the world's oil supply remains at a standstill. But Gulf countries have been looking towards alternatives for a more independent future, Maira Butt reports...

The Independent - 3 hours 13 min ago
Prolonged conflict in the Middle East will likely see markets impacted but investors are being cautious for now...

The Independent - 3 hours 41 min ago
Iran has launched a new bout of airstrikes targeting US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait...

The Guardian - 5 hours 1 min ago
US president says Iran has to get to the table and negotiate' as US imposes fresh naval blockade on strait of Hormuz Trump again threatens to strike Iran's power plants amid impasse over strait of Hormuz Resurgent oil and fuel prices could cement a fourth interest rate rise in Australia this year if Donald Trump's renewed conflict with Iran is not resolved within a week , economists warn. US missile strikes on Iran and Trump's announcement of a new maritime blockade has lifted oil...

The Guardian - 7 hours 46 min ago
US president says he will knock out all Iran's power plants and bridges next week in bid to force Tehran to agree to a deal Middle East crisis live updates President Donald Trump has threatened to expand US strikes on Iran next week to target power plants and bridges if Tehran does not agree to a deal amid a continuing dispute over the strait of Hormuz. "Next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges," Trump said in a Fox News...

PBS Newshour - 8 hours 58 min ago
As the U.S. and Iran battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz, Nick Schifrin discusses the latest developments with Alan Eyre and Miad Maleki. Eyre was part of the Obama administration's negotiating team for the Iran nuclear deal and is now at the Middle East Institute. Maleki was born and raised in Iran and is now at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Esquire - 9 hours 24 min ago
And another TACO Tuesday passes us by.

The Guardian - 12 hours 49 min ago
Alistair Burt will bring diplomatic clout to complex cases involving human rights violations and arbitrary detention The Foreign Office has appointed a special envoy for British citizens detained overseas, a new role to deal with "complex consular cases" such as that of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national who was imprisoned in Tehran for six years. Alistair Burt, the former Conservative Middle East minister, has taken on the role, fulfilling a pledge by David Lammy...

BBC - 14 hours 10 min ago
While the US inflation rate fell in June, concerns remain over price rises increasing again due to the renewed conflict in the Middle East.

The Hill - 16 hours 19 min ago
President Trump is welcoming Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to the White House on Tuesday morning as tensions in the Middle East simmer over renewed strikes between the U.S. and Iran. Al-Zaidi, a political newcomer who took office earlier this year after receiving Trump's backing, has made anti-corruption efforts a centerpiece of his government while...

NBC News - 16 hours 28 min ago
Watch live coverage as President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with the Iraqi prime minister amid tensions rising in the Middle East.

Daily Signal - 17 hours 55 min ago
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) – U.S. consumer inflation slowed more than expected in June, but that will probably offer little comfort to households or rule out an interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve this year, with the conflict in the Middle East still unresolved. The Consumer Price Index increased by a still-high 3.5% in...

BBC - 18 hours 45 min ago
While US inflation rate fell in June, concerns remain over prices rising again due to the renewed conflict in the Middle East.

The Guardian - 18 hours 49 min ago
Oil prices hit four-week highs and European shares fall after fresh US-Iran attacks and blockade on Iranian shipping Crude oil prices have hit their highest levels in four weeks, as Washington and Tehran traded attacks and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iran. Brent crude has jumped $3.79 a barrel to $87.08 a barrel, a 4.55% increase, the highest since 12 June, before the ceasefire. The US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding to end the conflict on 17 June and engaged in negotiations...

The Independent - 19 hours 38 min ago
Andrew Bailey's remarks come as the Labour MP is now guaranteed to be the successor of Sir Keir Starmer next week.

The Guardian - 20 hours 7 min ago
US hits targets in port cities of Bushehr and Bandar Abbas while Iran attacks two tankers in strait of Hormuz Middle East crisis live latest updates The US launched strikes on Iran for a third day and Iran retaliated with strikes on US allies and tankers, hours after Donald Trump said the US would take control of the strait of Hormuz and charge a toll to ships for safe passage. The US military said its five-hour operation early on Tuesday hit targets across Iran, including the port cities of Bushehr...

ABC News - 20 hours 47 min ago
Oil prices are higher and world shares are mixed after markets in Tokyo and Seoul rebounded from early losses...

ABC News - 20 hours 47 min ago
Oil prices are higher and world shares are mixed after markets in Tokyo and Seoul rebounded from early losses...

The Independent - 21 hours 21 min ago
Oil prices hit a four-week high as the US and Iran traded strikes...

The Guardian - 22 hours 1 min ago
Plane bringing Houthi delegation home from Tehran had to divert after Yemeni government bombed Sana'a airport Middle East crisis live latest updates Iranian flights to and from Yemen are an unacceptable violation of the country's sovereignty, the vice-president in Yemen's Saudi-backed, UN-recognised government has said. Abdullah al-Alimi said in an interview that the planes contained equipment for the Houthi movement, which he said had transformed from merely a domestic threat into a...

The Independent - 23 hours 23 min ago
The oil giant will report second quarter figures on August 4.