The price hike comes at a politically sensitive time for President Donald Trump as midterm elections approach, hitting voters hard.

Iran's president says countries have begun mediation efforts

The US-Israel war on Iran and Tehran's retaliatory attacks across the Gulf region have upended the world's energy and transport sectors, virtually halting activity in the Strait of Hormuz

US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, two US officials told Reuters.

The United States is not in a position to provide enough missiles to the Gulf states and Ukraine to defend themselves, EU defence and space commissioner Andrius Kubilius said yesterday.

Scientists working to cultivate the field of extraterrestrial agriculture have grown chickpeas in dirt made mostly of simulated lunar soil, a step toward enabling astronauts on long-term moon missions to produce their own food.

President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that he would turn to an unspecified project for Cuba, the Caribbean island already facing a US energy blockade, after the war against Iran.

Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East:

Prolonged war could affect November mid-term elections

Lutnick, a billionaire former New York financier, has faced pressure over his associations with the now-deceased Epstein, especially after publicly released files undercut his claims of when he had severed ties with him

Trump cites Supreme Court ruling to justify potential embargo

US President Donald Trump said the historical relationship between his country and Britain was “not like it used to be”, in an interview to British daily newspaper The Sun, amid a major transatlantic fall out over US-Israeli strikes against Iran.

"At the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be," he wrote on Truth Social

Six US service members killed in the conflict so far

First Lady Melania Trump is slated to chair a UN Security Council meeting on Monday

CIA intelligence indicating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would attend a meeting of top Iranian officials helped guide strikes in a US and Israeli attack that killed Iran’s supreme leader, the New York Times reported yesterday.

President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States would hit Iran with "force that has never been seen before"

Republicans largely welcomed strikes launched Saturday by US forces and ally Israel against Iran but prominent Democrats condemned what they called an illegal aggression.

Many returnees spent Tk 45-70 lakh through brokers

The former president gave closed-door testimony about his relationship with the late sex offender