Iran-US War Escalates, Gulf Nations Hit

0:00It's March 29th, global news today starts now, AI powered and always on. The US Israel War against Iran just hit its fifth week, and now Gulf nations are catching heat with strikes on key industrial spots. In the United Arab Emirates, an Iranian hit on a major aluminum plan in Abu Dhabi injured several folks and caused heavy damage. Over in Bahrain, two workers got hurt at one of the world's biggest aluminum smelters. Meanwhile, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis jumped in over the weekend, firing missiles at Israel and promising more. They targeted what they call sensitive military sites, but Israel knocked down two coming from Yemen. Oman is probing a drone strike on its southern port of Salala that injured a foreign worker and Kuwait's airport radar took a beating from 15 drones. Oil and gas prices are already surging because Iran shut down the strait of Hormuz that vital route for global energy out of the Persian Gulf. Everyone's worried if Houthis start hitting Red Sea shipping like they did after the Gaza

1:03War kicked off on October 7th, 2023. Prices could skyrocket even more. Iran spying back two, accusing Israel of hitting two still plants and some universities, with their revolutionary guard threatening US and Israeli. Schools in the region, as payback, Israel kept pounding Iran in Lebanon, taking out a Hezbollah-linked journalist they labeled a terrorist, though no proof dropped on that. Health workers are paying a steep price in southern Lebanon, with the World Health Organization counting nine paramedics killed in just one day, pushing the March total to 51. As tensions boil over, these attacks on infrastructure and civilians signal the conflict spreading fast, hitting economies and lives hard across the board.