CNBC(center)
The insurance giant will work with the U.S. Development Finance Corporation to help backstop shipping.
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Farmers from Iowa to India depend on fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Much of their supply is stuck in the Persian Gulf.
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The war with Iran has brought shipping traffic to a virtual standstill in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow Persian Gulf channel through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas fl
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It was a little after 1PM on Friday, February 28th, and Samantha Lujano was about to board her flight from Dubai to Colombo, Sri Lanka, when the drone attacks began.
She had already received her boarding pass and gone through customs. Her flight was at the gate and her bags were loaded. She was sim
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US ignites Iran war, but Gulf Arab states pay the price, Gulf sources say Reuters
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We speak with Kareem Shaheen, Middle East editor at New Lines Magazine, about the regional response to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. He says the Gulf countries are in a no-win situation, stuck between a belligerent Israel that has no qualms about using violence to achieve its strategic aims and
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