India News: NEW DELHI: West Bengal has turned saffron. Mamata Banerjee’s 15-year rule has ended and BJP is all set to form its first government in the state. So, .
Oil demand is expected to contract by 80 kb/d this year, as the Iran war upends our global outlook. This is 730 kb/d less than in last month’s Report and a forecast 1.5 mb/d 2Q26 decline would be the sharpest since Covid-19 slashed fuel consumption. Initially, the deepest cuts in oil use have come in the Middle East and Asia Pacific, mainly for naphtha, LPG and jet fuel. However, demand destruction will spread as scarcity and higher prices persist.
Vietnam unanimously elected Communist Party General Secretary To Lam as president for a five-year term, consolidating his control over both the party and the state.
Iran has executed three men accused of killing police officers during anti-government protests in January, state media say, the first hangings to be carried out in relation to the demonstrations.
The polls, held on March 15, saw an official turnout of 99.99 per cent, with the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea and its allies claiming 99.93 per cent of the vote in elections to the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly.
He added: “It’s a discussion; we’re not at the point of decisions yet. It’s obviously a difficult question, that goes without saying, in relation to how you safeguard maritime traffic … But we are discussing that with the US, with Gulf partners and with Europeans.
Oil markets are facing the “largest supply disruption in history” as the war in Iran continues to block tankers from shipping millions of barrels of crude each day, the world energy watchdog has warned.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei who has been appointed as the new head of the Islamic republic, has amassed wealth estimated at more than $100 billion. Money from oil sales has been channelled into investments in luxury British real estate, hotels in Europe and property in Dubai.
Israel has relied in part on information provided by ordinary Iranians to identify some targets for strikes inside Iran during the current conflict, a senior Israeli security official told the Wall Street Journal. The official said civilians have sent potential targets to Israel through Persian-language social media accounts operated by the country.
No images of Khamenei have been released since an Israeli strike at the start of the war killed several members of his family, including his wife and his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led Iran for more than 36 years.
“I personally apologize to the neighboring countries that were attacked by Iran,” he said. “We do not intend to attack neighboring countries. As I have repeatedly said, they are our brothers.”
Ahmadreza Radan, commander-in-chief of Iran’s Law Enforcement Forces (LEF), said Friday that police had been authorised to shoot suspected thieves on sight.
Iran struck the world-famous Fairmont hotel in Dubai, setting the hotel alight, as the war launched by the US and Israel on Iran quickly spread to the rest of the Middle East on Saturday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also expresses the State of Qatar’s condemnation of the violation of the sovereignty of the State of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the Kingdom of Bahrain in the blatant Iranian aggression, affirming the State of Qatar’s full solidarity with these sisterly states in all measures they take to safeguard their sovereignty, security, and stability.
Nilov said the new rules would come into force this summer and would “significantly reduce restrictions” on hiring teenagers in high-risk industries while continuing to protect the rights of minors.
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