By JON GAMBRELL, GHAYA BEN MBAREK, SARAH EL DEEB and JULIE WATSON Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's secretive new leader issued his first public statements Thursday, resolving to keep fighting, promising more pain for Gulf Arab states and threatening to open ...

By ALMA SOLÍS Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama Canal Administrator Ricaurte Vásquez said Thursday that the conflict in the Middle East and rising fuel costs could ultimately benefit the interoceanic waterway as global shippers adjust routes. In an interview with The ...

By JON GAMBRELL and MAE ANDERSON Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Commercial ships in the Persian Gulf continued to be a focal point in the Iran war on Thursday as Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to use the effective closure of the Strait of ...

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Iran war threatens some of the world's most critical oil and gas infrastructure — the pipelines, refineries, and shipping terminals that keep energy flowing from the countries around the Persian Gulf to the global ...

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war, raising the risk of American defense contractors, power stations and water plants being swept into a wave of ...

By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and NATALIE MELZER Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's unrelenting attacks on shipping traffic and energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf pushed oil back above $100 a barrel on Thursday, as American and Israeli strikes pounded the ...