Headlines AfricaIran closes Strait of Hormuz to all vessels, state TV reports http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSzmC4 #Iran #StraitOfHormuz #OilTankers #Shipping #MiddleEast
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Mathrubhumi EnglishHormuz is 'closed': So how are Indian ships still getting through? https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/india-strait-of-hormuz-maritime-trade-g4hn17f9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Hormuz #India #Iran #OilTankers #Shipping
Kyiv Independent Daily HeadlinesThursday, April 30, 2026
Ukraine may have solved its Russian Kinzhal missile problem -- Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russian explosives plant in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast -- Russian oil facilities in Perm and Orsk struck as Ukraine's drones follow up Tuapse attacks -- Russia’s offensive tactics on full display in fight for Sloviansk ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/thursday-april-30-2026/
Friday, April 17, 2026
Surviving the Russian 'human safari' in Kherson -- A new model of warfare is being introduced: drone assault units -- Russia threatens action against Finland, Baltics if Ukrainian drones strike via their airspace -- Ukrainian drone strikes turn major Russian oil refinery into 'volcano' along the Black Sea ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/friday-april-17-2026/
Trump says Iran sending 20 oil tankers to US ‘Out of respect’; truth or tactic? https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/trump-claims-iran-sending-20-oil-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz-as-tribute-y4trjz9h?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DonaldTrump #Iran #OilTankers #StraitOfHormuz #MiddleEastNews
CBC Top StoriesCanada might help oil tankers cross Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire, Carney says
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada might join efforts to ensure freedom of navigation in the Middle East if there is a ceasefire.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/strait-hormuz-iran-oil-canada-9.7103963?cmp=rss
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada might join efforts to ensure freedom of navigation in the Middle East if there is a ceasefire.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/strait-hormuz-iran-oil-canada-9.7103963?cmp=rss
CBC PoliticsCanada might help oil tankers cross Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire, Carney says
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada might join efforts to ensure freedom of navigation in the Middle East if there is a ceasefire.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/strait-hormuz-iran-oil-canada-9.7103963?cmp=rss
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada might join efforts to ensure freedom of navigation in the Middle East if there is a ceasefire.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/strait-hormuz-iran-oil-canada-9.7103963?cmp=rss
Electric TrikeScores of #oiltankers are sitting on either side of the #StraitOfHormuz, unable to move, and #vulnerable to Iranian #attack. Unable to move, that is, unless they are carrying Iranian oil.
Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday the strait would remain closed, and a defence spokesman said no oil would pass through that could assist the #UnitedStates or #Israel.
Having provoked this situation, the United States has so far #declinedToHelp, with the US military reported to have #turneddown numerous #requests from around the region to #escort oil tankers or other civilian ships through the strait. Donald #Trump has suggested that the US and its allies could provide military escorts to ships crossing the waterway "when the time comes". #NeverTrustTrump
Is there any other way of getting the 20 million barrels of oil a day that usually flows out of the Gulf to global customers? Well, yes, there is one way to get at least some oil out.
In the 1980s, #SaudiArabia built a 1,200 km-long pipeline — the East West Pipeline — across the width of the #ArabianPeninsula to carry oil that would normally be exported via the Gulf to the #RedSea.
The Financial Times reports that a "flotilla of #supertankers is steaming towards Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast as the kingdom rushes to reroute oil exports trapped in the Gulf by the Iran war".
"About 30 so-called very large crude carriers, each capable of carrying more than 2 million barrels of oil, are heading to the kingdom's western port of Yanbu over the coming days, according to ship-brokers, compared with a long-term average of about two a month."
But the new route carries its own dangers, the FT notes. "To enter the Red Sea from the south, the tankers will need to brave the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, where ships have been struck in recent years by #Yemen's #Houthi militants — and which is also within range of some Iranian missiles."
#uspol #auspol #EpsteinWars #TrumpRegime #Iran #oil
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-13/iran-israel-war-daily-news-briefing-laura-tingle/106446802
Nonilex#Trump says stopping ‘evil empire’ higher priority than high #oil prices & #inflation
Oil #prices surged in the #US following more #Iran attacks on #OilTankers.
“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. BUT, of far greater interest & importance to me, as President, is stoping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, & destroying the Middle East &, indeed, the World. I won’t ever let that happen!”Trump posted.