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the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world's oil passes,
“Brent Crude, trading 9% higher at around $80 per barrel, and Piersayah Petroui has the latest”
one to buy. Iran's counter-attacks in the region have now expanded to energy targets in the Gulf. Qatar Energy says attacks on two of its facilities forced the state-owned company to halt production of LNG Gas Monday. Qatar is one of the world's biggest exporters of gas.
Also, oil giant Saudi Arabia says it's shot down drones targeting its biggest oil refinery in the country's east. The military says debris caused the fire and that some refinery units were shut down as a precaution. Meanwhile, four vessels have been hit in Gulf waters since the war began Saturday.
The latest was a tanker carrying nearly 600,000 barrels of gasoline bound for Saudi Arabia
according to Windward, a maritime intelligence platform, Omani Securities A. The Attacks sparked a fire killing one Indian crew member, Ayah Petroui and Piers News, Dubai. "The Americans are being warned away from the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia, the embassy in Riyadh is advising Americans to stay away until further notice, following an attack by Iranian drones."
No reports of injuries, but videos are circulating online of a major fire as Imperial Michelle Kellerman reports. This Saudi Defense Ministry says the Iranian drone attack resulted in a "limited fire and minor material damage to the U.S. embassy." The U.S. mission has issued a shelter in place notification for Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dahran,
“and are limiting non-essential travel to military installations in the region.”
Several days into the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, the State Department is urging Americans in more than a dozen countries across the Middle East to leave using available commercial transportation. And they've set up a 24/7 hotline for Americans in need of assistance. Michelle Kellerman and PR News Washington.
"We'll also open today in the first primary races of the 20/26 mid-term elections.
Voters will be casting ballots in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas, where Republican Senator John Corden is seeking to hold off a challenge from State Attorney General Kim Paxton and Congressman Wesley Hunt," reporter Andrew Schneider is following the race for Houston Public Media." Corden, who was first elected in 2002, is running for a fifth term.
If he's elected this fall and serves out a full term, he'll become the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Texas history.
“More to the point, he's one of the most senior senators in an institution where Schneider”
still counts for a lot, particularly in the ability to steer federal dollars to your state. That's, he already goes away if he loses the Republican primary or the general election to follow. Senator Corden tries to hold on for a fifth term, Texas Democrats choosing whether to
send Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett or State Representative James Taloreco to the November General Election. This is MPR. The Supreme Court has cited with Republicans in the latest redistricting case, and an unsigned order.
The court said the boundaries of the only Republican held congressional district in New York City do not need to be redrawn for this year's mid-term election. Corden blocks a lower court's decision that the district is unfair to black and Hispanic voters. The seat is currently held by GOP Congresswoman Nicole Malditakis.
The origins of human affinity for alcohol may be visible in our primate relatives, reporter Ari Daniel has more. When fruits ripen, they ferment and produce alcohol. For some primates, that smell may be a shortcut to finding sugar and calories. But there wasn't much evidence the chimps were actually consuming the alcohol.
So a team of researchers, including UC Berkeley PhD student Alexei Maro, sampled urine from wild Ugandan chimps. At least 10 of the animals urine contained a concentration equivalent in humans to having had one or two drinks. "The plausible that our ancestral diet may have had similar alcohol just baked into our everyday
existence." Perhaps leading to our modern attraction to the stuff, except that today we can produce and consume it at much higher concentrations. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. "Global financial markets showing the strain amid the warranty, Ron, European chairs, largely
down in the early going, following losses in Asia and uncertainty about energy supplies. Oil prices up sharply as a word disrupts tanker traffic to the state of removes. This is NPR News."
