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How the Middle East crisis could affect the global economy, from oil to shipping
The Middle East stands on the brink of a potentially devastating regional conflict, as Iran weighs up a retaliatory strike on Israel. Tehran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have vowed to inflict revenge for the presumed Israeli assassinations of …