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The truth: Trump promised no new US strikes on Iran before Americans vote on 3 November, while high fuel prices hurt his party's candidates.
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Friday, 9 October 2026
Iran hits more tankers, and Europe's gas operators warn of a winter shortage
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War pushing up fuel before winter High ↑
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World
Iran's forces hit two tankers outside the Strait of Hormuz in two days, and ship traffic through the strait fell to a two-month low.
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Climate
Europe's gas stores went into October 11 points emptier than a year ago. The companies that run its gas pipes warn of a shortfall of up to 15% in a severe winter.
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Finance
The world's main oil price closed at $104.28 a barrel after the tanker attacks and a hurricane. Pakistan raised its petrol price again on Friday.
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Money
Heating oil in Massachusetts averaged $6.12 a gallon last week, nearly 75% more than a year ago.
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Food
PepsiCo, a US drinks and snacks company, is raising some snack prices to cover higher energy and farm costs.
Computers and consoles getting dearer High ↑
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Tech
IDC, a firm that counts tech sales, says PC shipments fell 20% in a year because of short supply and high prices. Amazon's new tablets cost far more than the Fire models they replace, as memory chip prices surge.
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Gaming
US console sales in August were the lowest for that month since 2013. The average new console cost a record $541.
US officials going after foreign hires Building ↑
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Tech
The US Labor Department stopped green-card applications from Microsoft, Adobe and six IT firms. A green card lets a foreign worker live and work in the US for good.
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Biotech
The US Labor Department sent subpoenas, orders to hand over records, to nine universities over visas for foreign researchers.
US health officials reopening safety questions Building ↑
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Biotech
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, opened a clinic at the National Institutes of Health, the US medical research agency, to study injuries blamed on vaccines. He also plans to pay doctors for each report of a serious vaccine side effect.
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Mind & body
The FDA, the US medicines regulator, said its new safety review of mifepristone, the main abortion pill, will run until March 2027.
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Finance
The truth: T-Mobile sold these airwaves to Grain Management in August, and two months later Grain agreed to sell them to SpaceX, the phone companies' newest rival.
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Tech
The truth: OpenAI's sales did not shrink this week.
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Mind & body
The truth: England's official review found that people now need a diagnosis to get NHS care, school help or disability benefits, which is why more than 800,000 are queuing for an ADHD or autism assessment.
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Climate
The truth: Europe replaced much of its Russian pipeline gas with gas that comes by ship, and the Iran war has cut the ships from Qatar; EU stores are 72% full against 83% a year ago, and the pipeline operators warn of a 12-15% shortfall in a hard winter.
41 stories · 52 sources
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Space
The truth: Amazon has built 1,000 satellites for its Leo internet network, but only 396 are in orbit, because the rockets it booked have been late, and missing a July deadline cost it first claim on its airwaves.
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Biotech
The truth: An outside board stopped argenx's Sjogren's trial a year early because it could no longer succeed, and argenx shares still fell 15%, though several analysts had never counted on a win.
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Money
The truth: Britain's competition watchdog let E.ON buy Ovo without an in-depth check, so three companies now supply almost three in four homes in Great Britain.
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Sports
The truth: MLB's owners offered the players a weekly day off and a shorter season, but only as part of a salary cap the union has refused in several past negotiations.
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Gaming
The truth: Xbox has cut about 3,200 jobs and sold five studios this year, and its US console sales fell 31% in August.
32 stories · 66 sources
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Food
The truth: The US government is paying crop farmers a record $13.8 billion for 2025 because a law Trump signed raised the price floors, and market prices for 16 crops fell below them.
30 stories · 32 sources
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Cyber
The truth: The US cannot arrest the staff of Integrity Tech, a Chinese company it says builds hacking tools for groups tied to China's government, because they are in China.
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