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(CNN) The US military said all six service members aboard a refueling aircraft were killed when it crashed Thursday in Iraq. The US said the incident was “not due to hostile fire,” but an Iranian proxy group claimed responsibility. In other news: Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankersto pass through the Strait of Hormuz, provided that the cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, a senior Iranian official told CNN. The Pentagon is deploying a Marine Expeditionary...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of the capital Tehran for a protest in support of Palestinians, as the death toll from United States and Israeli attacks on the country continues to mount. At least one person was killed after multiple explosions were heard around the al-Quds Day march on Friday, Iranian state television reported. The cause of the blast in Tehran’s Ferdowsi Square was not immediately known, but it came shortly...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has laid out terms for ending the war with the United States and Israel in what analysts say is a possible sign of de-escalation from Tehran as the US-Israel war on Iran entered its 13th day on Thursday. In a post on Wednesday on social site X, Pezeshkian said he had spoken to his counterparts in Russia and Pakistan, and that he had confirmed “Iran’s commitment to peace”. “The...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) A major cyberattack has crippled the global networks of Stryker, one of the world’s largest medical device companies, with an Iran-linked hacking group claiming responsibility and warning it marks “the beginning of a new chapter in cyber warfare”. Handala, a hacking persona with documented ties to Tehran, said it carried out the attack in retaliation for the killing of more than 170 people, most of them schoolgirls, in a strike on a school...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Shell, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) trader, has declared force majeure on LNG cargoes it buys from QatarEnergy and sells to its clients worldwide, the Reuters news agency reports, quoting three unnamed sources. Qatar, the world’s second largest exporter of LNG, announced last week a production halt at a facility that produces 77 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) and declared force majeure on LNG shipments. Shell declined to comment on Wednesday. Other Qatari...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pakistan has ordered sweeping emergency austerity and fuel conservation measures after a disruption in oil and gas supply caused by the United States-Israel war on Iran and an escalating Middle East conflict. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced the measures in a televised address to the nation on Monday night, warning that disruptions to maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – a vital waterway for traded oil – had placed Pakistan’s economy...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to conditionally supply oil and gas to Europe as the US-Israeli war on Iran brings shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to a halt. The Russian president said in televised comments on Monday that Moscow was ready to work again with European customers, which largely stopped buying from his country in a bid to stop funding its war on Ukraine, if they wanted to return...

(New York Times) When United States President Donald Trump issued an abrupt order last month compelling the production of glyphosate, the controversial weedkiller known as Roundup, he angered health activists who have long campaigned to ban the product for its links to cancer. But largely overshadowed in the furor was the order’s mention of something contentious in another way: the manufacture of munitions used by the United States military. Bayer, which makes glyphosate, is also the only company...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Bahrain has said an Iranian drone attack caused material damage to a water desalination plant in the country, marking the first time a Gulf nation has reported targeting any such facility during the eight days of the war between Iran and the US and Israel. The attack on Sunday comes a day after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island in southern Iran was attacked...

(New York Times) Israeli airstrikes pounded the southern outskirts of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, late on Thursday and into the early hours of Friday morning, collapsing buildings and sending residents fleeing. The Israeli military said late Thursday that it was striking Hezbollah infrastructure in the Dahiya, a densely populated commercial and residential area in the Beirut area that is a stronghold of the Lebanese militant group. A series of violent strikes then rocked the city, the most...