Mourners carried coffins, draped in the Iranian and Iraqi flags, for those killed in U.S.-Saudi airstrikes on Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of predominantly Shiite militias that includes Iran-backed groups, in Mosul, Iraq, on Wednesday.
President Trump threatened retribution after Iran fired missiles at U.S. military bases in Jordan. Strikes by U.S. and Saudi warplanes on Iranian-linked militias in Iraq were a further escalation after a lull.
Mourners carried coffins, draped in the Iranian and Iraqi flags, for those killed in U.S.-Saudi airstrikes on Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of predominantly Shiite militias that includes Iran-backed groups, in Mosul, Iraq, on Wednesday.
An explosion at a port on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast set fire to two ships, including a U.S. gas storage tanker, according to maritime tracking firms.
The kingdom’s defense ministry said airstrikes in Iraq targeting Iran-backed militias were in retaliation for attacks on Saudi oil facilities this week.
The Carney government’s agreement with a German natural gas company will also reduce Europe’s dependence on a Qatari supply made more uncertain by war.
Amid the energy crisis caused by the Trump administration’s oil blockade of Cuba, our correspondent Jack Nicas visits a children’s movie night in a Havana neighborhood made possible by one family’s modified generator.
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