Europe Is Looking for Its Own Hormuz Fix

Amid uncertainty around the war in Iran, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its outlook for the global economy under three different scenarios depending on how long the conflict would last.  Meanwhile, the United Nations Development Programme is warning that even if hostilities were to end today, the war could push more than 32 million people around the world into poverty by a 'triple shock' of energy disruption, food price increases and weaker economic growth.

Beijing’s relative quiet amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis underscores a domestic shift.

Palestinians in Gaza recorded victims of an Israeli strike on the Shati refugee camp being rushed to a medical facility.

Crowds from the Bangladeshi community in Barcelona celebrated the approval of a mass amnesty programme.