Iran conflict
Israeli attacks on Gaza kill at least nine people
Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis killed at least nine people on Sunday.
Reading the latest coverage…
Soaring freight rates are giving tankers a big financial incentive to run the gauntlet through the Strait of Hormuz.
Oil and natural gas prices are surging globally as geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine threaten supply routes through the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt refinery operations. These rising energy costs are driving up fuel prices for consumers, fueling cost-of-living protests across Europe, and boosting record profits for major oil companies. Investors and policymakers are now closely monitoring whether diplomatic efforts to secure new supplies can stabilize markets or if further escalations will continue to constrain energy availability.
5 stories say getting worse
Reported by several outletsReader odds appear once enough people forecast · resolves automatically from reported evidence.
3 developments from 3 outlets in the past week.
Reader odds appear once enough people forecast · resolves automatically from reported evidence.
Iran conflict
Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis killed at least nine people on Sunday.
Iran conflict
Iran says could reopen Hormuz in shorter period if conditions met, as Trump says US still has targets to 'take care of'.
Citizens, youth groups, farmers and political party workers gather ahead of the Ramlila Maidan rally, saying a united movement is needed to fight alleged vote theft and electoral roll irregularities
Outbreaks
Psychologist Mark Travers argues that the first few minutes after time apart are key to a close, happy relationship, and shares five tips to get them right.
Elections
Organizers are calling for one of the biggest demonstrations yet, in a string of rallies that has racked India since the summer.
Outbreaks
The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.
The master plan, which had been announced last year, was aimed at accelerating the city’s development along the lines of the Smart City model
Inspecting the election materials, Collector says a total of 1,104 polling stations have been set up to enable voters to exercise their franchise freely
Iran conflict
Group calls charges 'unjust', says weapons were meant to be used against Israeli forces in south Lebanon.
Iran conflict
Israel is making Palestinian existence in Palestine increasingly impossible.
India
Iran conflict
Amid the chaos, havoc and war caused by a capricious and amoral US president, countries are waking up to the dangers of being excluded and abused by AmericaNever has there been a time when the world has been more interconnected than now. What happens in the secretive inner councils in Tehran, the mountains of south-wes
Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declined to comment on Russia's participation in the G20 summit in December, telling DW that Volodymyr Zelenskyy should travel to Russia if he wanted talks with Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine
Russian strikes caused major power outages in Dnipro as a reported Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at a Russian oil refinery.
Congress’s Jairam Ramesh questions delay in providing the complete CCTV footage and audio recordings, demands impartial investigation under the Supreme Court’s supervision
India
Kashmir has a small four-month window for exporting apples and the cold chain is still poor at maintaining the quality, said Dr. N.K. Krishna Kumar, ex-Deputy Director (Horticulture) Indian Council of Agricultural Research
More than 200 passengers, mostly Americans, are stranded in Cambodia after the operator of a luxury U.S. cruise ship ran out of money due to skyrocketing fuel costs.
Ukraine
In advance of the midterms, Trump is blaming Kyiv for high gas prices while making clear moves to support RussiaAs the US midterms approach, Donald Trump is abandoning Ukraine’s democracy in a desperate effort to deny responsibility for worsening inflation. Yet this past weekend’s dramatic elections in Brazil and Serbi
The ED had blamed the former CM for removing records and devices from the sites of the raids; Ms. Banerjee had at the time countered that the raids were a deliberate attempt to derail the Trinamool Congress ahead of the 2026 Assembly election
The Committee, headed by former CEC J.M. Lyngdoh, issued the report dated May 23, 2006; it felt that party-linked student organisations politicise campus elections and split students into rival factions
India and the U.K. are aiming to double bilateral trade to around $120 billion by 2030
Climate
A recent study questioned the carbon intensity of electricity generated by such facilities