Oil crosses $110 a barrel after gas field strike

Middle East crisis live: Pentagon reportedly requests $200bn in Iran war funds; Tehran retaliates after Israeli strike on gas field

Pentagon request could cause uproar in Congress, Washington Post reports; United Arab Emirates denounces Iran’s attacks targeting Habshan gas facility as a ‘dangerous escalation’Iran threatens Gulf energy facilities after Israeli attack on its largest gasfieldFighting intensifies between Israel and Hezbollah in southern LebanonIran is still exporting millions of barrels of oil, with about 90 ships, including oil tankers, having crossed the strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the war with Iran, according to maritime and trade data platforms reports.This is despite Iran saying it had closed the vital waterway to vessels from the US and its allies. Continue reading...

Iran War Live Updates: Missile Attack Kills at Least 3 in West Bank

Several others were injured in the Iranian attack that was the first to kill Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the war began. Residents in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran describe lives gripped by fear and anger.

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Australia news live: Cyclone Narelle becomes category five storm as it nears Queensland; unemployment rate rises to 4.3%

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAgriculture minister says government monitoring any price gouging of fertiliserJulie Collins, the federal minister for agriculture, said the government is monitoring any price gouging for fertiliser amid the turmoil in the Middle East.I think our government has been very clear that this should not be seen as a commercial opportunity for anybody. This is about what is in the national interest. This is a conflict that is impacting globally, and what we need Australians to do is to act in the national interest, and that includes everybody along that supply chain. Continue reading...

Pakistan Pauses Afghanistan Airstrikes for Eid

At least 143 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation facility in Kabul on Monday, according to a top U.N. official.

Senate Republicans vote down Democrats’ war powers resolution to check Trump on Iran – US politics live

Vote of 53-47 was unchanged from that on previous war powers resolution two weeks agoTrump news at a glance: president’s war on Iran is putting billions on the US tillSign up for Breaking US News US emailsRand Paul seemed immediately frustrated with Mullin as he opened the hearing. While he was speaking, he suggested that Mullin wasn’t listening to his remarks, during which he pushed Trump’s nominee on his vote against Paul’s amendment to stop all funding for refugee welfare programs.“You decided to transfer the blame. You told the media that I was a ‘freaking snake’ and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted,” Paul said, referring to when he was attacked by a neighbor in Kentucky in 2017, which resulted in Paul breaking several ribs and developing pneumonia. Continue reading...

Democrats walk out in protest over ‘outrageous fake’ Epstein briefing from Pam Bondi

Lawmakers leave closed-door meeting after AG refuses to commit to honoring subpoena to testify under oathDemocrats on the House oversight committee walked out of a closed-door briefing from attorney general Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein files on Wednesday, leaving what California congressman Robert Garcia called “an outrageous fake hearing” after Bondi refused to commit to honoring a subpoena to testify under oath.The committee voted to subpoena Bondi earlier this month, with five Republicans joining Democrats to demand that the attorney general answer questions about the justice department’s failure to properly release files from the federal investigations into Epstein. Continue reading...

US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez accused of sexual abuse

The allegations have prompted the cancellations of events and celebrations planned in his honour later this month.

Couple Killed in Cluster Bomb Attack Near Tel Aviv

Neighbors told Israeli news media that their apartment building was hit soon after a siren sounded.