Breakfast News Recap: Middle East tensions jolt oil markets as border strike, protests and elections dominate
Oil prices surged as escalating Middle East tensions threatened key supply routes, with Brent crude moving above $107 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate topping $102, a move that quickly fed through to global risk sentiment. 🔗That backdrop also sharpened concern around diplomacy and energy security, as Iran and Oman delayed planned Gulf talks and the United States opened G20 energy meetings in Houston promoting what it called energy abundance amid the disruption to fuel markets. 🔗 🔗On the ground, Poland and Ukraine denounced Russian strikes close to the Polish border after a Kyiv Warsaw passenger train was hit about... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews Recap | 14 Sep 2026 08:33 LONDON
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Sydney council corruption inquiry hears allegations of threats and secret recording
A corruption inquiry in New South Wales has heard allegations that former Strathfield councillors threatened, followed and secretly recorded former mayor Matthew Blackmore after he refused to step down. The hearing is taking place under Operation Rosny, the code name for the investigation by the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. The inquiry is examining whether the conduct amounted to blackmail or illegal surveillance.Blackmore told the commission that he had initially agreed in 2022 to split the mayoralty, taking the role first before resigning so a Labor councillor could complete the term. He said that arrangement was expected to... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 14 Sep 2026 07:02 LONDON
