Thailand and Vietnam yesterday urged public employees to work from home and adopt other energy‑saving measures, after Israeli and US strikes on Iran disrupted oil supplies and sent fuel prices soaring.

The humanitarian crisis in Lebanon has deepened amid the wider Middle East war, with 84 children killed and more than 667,000 people displaced, two UN agencies said yesterday, as lives are upended on a massive scale across the country.

Almost half of Iran’s uranium enriched to up to 60 percent purity, a short step from weapons-grade, was stored in a tunnel complex at Isfahan and is probably still there, UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.

Iran is wagering it can outlast the United States and Israel--not militarily, but by grinding the war into a brutal contest of endurance. Its strategy is stark: Unleash drones and missiles, cut vital energy routes and jolt global markets hard enough to force Washington to blink first.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they would block oil shipments from the Gulf unless US and Israeli attacks ‌cease

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The heightened rhetoric did little to quell a sharp retreat in crude prices and a rally in global shares

The US and Israeli attack on Iran triggered the biggest spike in oil prices since the turmoil following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as Gulf producers reduce output after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they would "determine the end of the war" in the Middle East after US President Donald Trump said the conflict would end "soon"

Drones reportedly killed 60 civilians, including 17 children

Trump said on Monday in a CBS News interview that he thinks the war against Iran "is very complete" and that Washington was "very far ahead" of his initial four- to five-week estimated timeframe.

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Iran's Revolutionary Guards in response said they would "determine the end of the war" and not the Americans

The war had sent stock markets slumping and oil prices soaring on Monday as Tehran, under new leader Mojtaba Khamenei, fired a fresh barrage of missiles at its Gulf neighbours and signaled that the strategic Strait of Hormuz would likely remain closed

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Global weapons flows grew by almost 10 percent in the past five years, with Europe more than tripling imports, a report showed yesterday.

The government yesterday condemned attacks that have claimed innocent lives after two Bangladeshis were killed in a strike in Saudi Arabia amid the US-Israel war on Iran.

Global stock markets tumbled and energy prices surged yesterday as supply disruptions caused by the US-Israel war on Iran rattled investors, fuelling volatility and inflation fears.