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Senior Trump administration officials told members of Congress during a closed-door briefing on Tuesday that Iran’s Shahed attack drones are a major threat to the US military and that not all of them will be intercepted by US air defenses, CNN has reported. The report said that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of […]

"The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) proclaimed that “the current violent death toll” in Gaza likely exceeded 100,000..."

Standard Chartered Says Hormuz Oil Flows Are Far From Normal Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Gulf oil exports rebounded to roughly 16.5 million bpd in September, near pre-war levels, despite only 60% of those barrels crossing Hormuz versus 83% before the war. Exporters have adapted through pipelines, bypass ports and extensive ship-to-ship transfers, but the system is more expensive, inefficient and increasingly stretched, with elevated freight and security costs. Iran’s ability to choke off regional oil exports has weakened, while its own seaborne crude exports have fallen from around 1.7 million...