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With the Iran war disrupting air shipping routes through the Middle East, European companies importing semiconductors from Asia are using backup warehouses and increasing shipping fees, industry sources told CNBC.The Iran war has disrupted cargo routes, with ships and airports targeted since the war began on February 28. Global air cargo capacity, which transports cargo such as semiconductors and other expensive electronic equipment, is down about 9% from pre-war levels, according to data from logistics company DSV.This has resulted in higher costs and delivery delays for European companies that import semiconductors from Asia, and some manufacturers are reducing the amount…
Israel’s attack on Iranian facilities in the South Pars gas field marked a major escalation in the war, prompting an enraged Iran to attack key energy facilities in its Gulf neighbours, sending oil prices soaring and prompting the US president to threaten to “blow up” South Pars if Iran did not stop. But what is the South Pars gas field and why is the strike so important? South Perth is part of the world’s largest natural gas reserves. Iran shares a gas field with Qatar in the Persian Gulf, part of which it calls North Dome. The entire gas field…
Jessa Duggar (mother: Ben Seewald)Jim Bob and Michelle’s fifth child, Jessa Duggar, was born on November 4, 1992. Jessa met Ben through church and began courting him in 2013. The old-fashioned approach to romance seemed like an entirely new concept to many viewers. Since the children had never talked about their romance before their engagement, Jim Bob explained to People magazine, “Courtship is about getting to know each other in a group, where both families spend time together, and where the couple sets goals together to decide whether they intend to get married. On dates, couples are often paired up…
A view inside the furnace of an aluminum foundry.Monty Luxen | From Getty ImagesThe U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran has disrupted aluminum supplies in the Middle East, sending prices for the base metal soaring.Aluminum may be the most abundant metal on Earth, but it is critical to the functioning of the global economy. It is an essential material in electronics, transportation and construction, as well as other industries such as solar panels and packaging. When the Iranian conflict erupted on February 28, three-month LME aluminum futures initially soared as much as 10 percent by March 12, before paring back…
Lionel Messi joins Cristiano Ronaldo in the 900-goal club as Nashville eliminates Miami from the CONCACAF Champions Cup.Published March 19, 2026March 19, 2026Cristian Espinoza scored a second-half goal to lead Nashville SC to the CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinals, defeating Inter Miami on a milestone night for Argentina star Lionel Messi.Wednesday night’s game in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ended 1-1, with both teams tied at 1-1 in total goals scored. Nashville advanced with an away goals tiebreaker.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listMessi took the lead in the seventh minute with his 900th goal for club and country, but reigning MLS…
When Naseema McElroy was 25 years old, she owned five rental properties. That’s how she planned to build her wealth.Taking advantage of the subprime lending practice that made it easy for borrowers with weak credit histories to get high-interest mortgages in the early 2000s, McElroy borrowed as much as she could to buy multiple properties, thinking everything would work out in the end, she told CNBC Make It.About a year later, in 2008, the housing market crashed. “I was really naive,” McElroy says. Suddenly, she owed the lender more than the value of her property. To avoid foreclosure, she says…
If you need some catharsis from the news that Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees, Block is cutting nearly half its workforce, Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, and Meta is reportedly considering even more massive layoffs, all in the name of AI, you might want to read the response to Sam Altman’s recent post on X. OpenAI CEO Altman said Tuesday. “I’m so grateful to the people who wrote such complex software, letter by letter. It’s already hard to remember how much work it really took. Thank you for getting us this far.” I’m very grateful to the…
Latest information on Spanish Like the Hydra of Lerna in Greek mythology, a serpent-like monster that grows two new heads for every head it cuts off, organized crime in Latin America is proving difficult to defeat with the kind of decapitation tactics apparently favored by President Donald Trump. Every time a drug lord falls, several others aspire to succeed him. A case in point was the case last month when Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was fatally wounded in a Mexican military operation supported by U.S. intelligence. His death sparked violent retaliation across Mexico, resulting in 60 deaths…
You may have missed Kaia Gerber and Louis Pullman’s date night at the Vanity Fair Oscar PartyNicholas Hoult’s wife Briana Holly doesn’t tolerate body shamers. After the Mad Max: Fury Road actor and model enjoyed a romantic date night at the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Brianna clapped back at critics who commented about her breasts. The mother-of-two wrote on her Instagram Stories Match 17 alongside a photo of herself and Nicholas from the evening: “I see the comments about my breasts and I don’t owe *anyone* an explanation,” adding: “But this is the product of a nursing mother who…
Instability and rising geopolitical tensions brought about by the Iran war pose a threat to automakers based in the Middle East.European luxury and high-performance brands such as porsche, mercedes benz, BMWrolls royce, ferrari All of these companies have thriving businesses in the Middle East market, and although their market size is less than one-fifth that of the United States, they boast a scale that exceeds that of the United States in terms of profits.”The Middle East has recently become one of the most profitable structural growth regions for luxury automakers,” said Metzeler Research analyst Pal Sukata. These automakers face declining…