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Iran's Hormuz blockade sees US fuel prices jump 21 per cent as Donald Trump boasts "we make money", but polls show 48 per cent of American voters are unhappy over the war.

At a massive shipyard in North Vancouver, Canadian workers grind metal beams for a powerful new icebreaker crucial to cementing the country's presence in the increasingly contested Arctic.

US-Israel Iran Attacks LIVE Updates: Buildings in Dubai shook after loud explosions were heard, and a thick cloud of smoke rose over a central part of the city.

The US is relocating parts of the terminal high-altitude area defence (THAAD) missile-defence system along with other military hardware out of South Korea to the Middle East for its war against Iran.

With anger stoked by Channel 4’s drama Dirty Business, we look at what has happened to some of the main playersWater companies have been in the public eye for the wrong reasons again recently. South West Water was in the dock pleading guilty to supplying water unfit for human consumption, while the regulator fined South East Water £22.5m for repeated supply failures that affected more than 280,000 people over three years.As the full scale of the sewage pollution scandal has been revealed to the public over the past six years, key figures working for the regulators and the privatised companies have been heavily criticised. Channel 4’s drama Dirty Business has focused attention on individuals at the heart of the scandal. Continue reading...

Experts warn of ‘attack on Americans’ lungs’ from cuts to health programs, environmental rollbacks and other plansDonald Trump’s policies are likely to drive soaring rates of lung disease and premature death, according to a wide-ranging new study by pulmonary specialists and public health experts.The analysis, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, examines policies adopted during Trump’s second term across 10 areas, including healthcare access, environmental regulation, workplace protections and vaccine uptake. Continue reading...

Donald Trump has repeatedly called his Iran war an “excursion,” which drew rolled-eyes on MS NOW on Friday morning, with one host claiming the president doesn't seem to know the true meaning of the word. The “Morning Joe” segment began with a supercut of the president making statements like, “This is an excursion. We figured oil prices would go up, which they will. They'll also come down,” and later claiming, “We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.” That led co-host, Willie Geist to suggest, “President Trump repeatedly calling the war with Iran a 'little excursion'; a war that has killed American troops, injured about 150 of them, destabilized the Middle East and driven oil over $100 a barrel. A little excursion is kind of like a half-day snorkeling trip you book on your vacation to the Bahamas, not a war with Iran.”“In its definition of an excursion, [is] ‘a short, organized pleasure trip a la snorkeling, often lasting a few hours. Incursion, a sudden, often hostile entrance or invasion into a territory or place’,” Jonathan Lemire read to his colleague.“The smart money would say that one of President Trump's advisors used the word incursion with him: ‘Sir, it's an incursion. It's going to be a short military action.’ I mean, it may not be that short, but that's the word that he was given,” he explained.“He heard it as ‘excursion’ and no one has had the guts to correct him. And now he has said it over and over and over. And as you say, Willie, excursion, whether he means to or not, really diminishes the stakes in the lives lost in this conflict.” - YouTube youtu.be

Large explosions heard across Iranian capital as the US and Israel threatened to intensify airstrikesMiddle East war creating ‘largest supply disruption in history of oil markets’How have you been affected by the latest Middle East events?Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry is saying that two drones have been intercepted and destroyed in the eastern region.More now after reports of explosions in Dubai on Friday morning: thick black smoke rose over the financial hub’s skyline after what authorities described as a fire in an industrial area of the city-state. Continue reading...