International Energy Agency head says global economy faces ‘major, major threat’ because of Iran war
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that the global economy faces a “major, major threat” b…
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Iran has threatened to attack Mideast electrical plants powering American military bases, as President Donald Trump’s deadline on opening the Strait of Hormuz approaches. The statement Monday from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard marks the latest attempt by Tehran to try and explain its attacks on the Gulf Arab countries.
Cuba has begun restarting its power grid after another nationwide blackout left millions without electricity. Officials said Sunday about 72,000 customers in Havana got power back, including five hospitals. Crews set up small local systems to feed key sites in several provinces. Officials blamed U.S. sanctions and pressure tied to oil supplies. President Miguel Díaz-Canel says Cuba has not received foreign oil for three months. Residents describe broken appliances, water worries and exhaustion from constant outages. Officials link the collapse to a shutdown at a thermoelectric plant.
President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets. Iranian missiles, meanwhile, struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday. The attacks left buildings shattered and dozens injured in cities not far from Israel’s main nuclear research center. The developments signaled the war was moving in a dangerous new direction at the start of its fourth week.
President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets. Iranian missiles, meanwhile, struck two communities in southern Israel late Saturday, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel’s main nuclear research center. The developments signaled the war was moving in a dangerous new direction at the start of its fourth week.
President Donald Trump says he is considering “winding down” military operations in the Middle East. Trump's social media post comes as the U.S. is sending three more amphibious assault ships and roughly 2,500 additional Marines to the region. The mixed messages come after oil prices climbed yet again, putting pressure on the U.S. stock market. That was followed by a Trump administration announcement that it will lift sanctions on Iranian oil loaded on ships. The move aims to wrangle soaring fuel prices. The three-week-old war is showing no signs of letting up, with Israel saying Iran continued to fire missiles at it early Saturday.
President Donald Trump says his administration is considering “winding down” military operations in the Middle East even as the United States announces it is sending more warships and Marines to the region and Iran threatens to attack tourist sites worldwide. The mixed U.S. messages came after another climb in oil prices plunged the U.S. stock market, and was followed by a Trump administration announcement that it will lift sanctions on Iranian oil loaded on ships, a move aimed at wrangling soaring fuel prices. The war, meanwhile, has shown no signs of abating with Israel saying Iran continued to fire missiles at it early Saturday.
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President Donald Trump this week said he believes he’ll have “the honor of taking Cuba” soon. Without declaring a formal blockade, Trump and his administration have already crippled trade with the island and threatened the future of the Communist Party regime. In March, supplies of oil, food and other goods to the island collapsed, with no foreign-originating tankers arriving to Cuba, according to shipping data analyzed by Windward, a maritime intelligence firm. The volume of port calls, which includes tankers moving from one Cuban port to another, averaged around 50 per month in 2025 but fell to just 11 in March - all of them arriving from domestic ports. It was the lowest since 2017.