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Global markets are declining following President Trump's primetime address on the Iran war.
Europe's main stock index fell more than 1 percent.
Oil prices trading above $107 a barrel.
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
President Trump says Iran war objectives are nearing completion.
Trump delivered a roughly 20-minute primetime speech from the White House.
He repeated claims that the U.S.
has destroyed Iran's military, urged patience with high costs brought on by the spike in oil prices, and said countries that receive oil through the Strait of Hormuz should take action to secure the passage.
Following the speech, oil prices rose above $105 a barrel.
Stocks in Asia lost ground after Wednesday's gains on Wall Street.
A top world energy policy group has detailed the extent to which Gulf countries have had to drastically reduce their oil and gas production due to the lack of
export possibilities through the state of Hormuz.
And Paris Eleanor Beardsley reports a Paris-based international energy agency says millions of barrels of oil and billions of cubic meters of natural gas have gone unexploited since the war began.
A medical examiner in Buffalo, New York, has ruled the death of a Rohingya refugee a homicide.
And 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam had been dropped off by Border Patrol agents in freezing weather.
Ryan Zunder of Buffalo, Toronto Public Media reports on renewed calls for justice from Alam's refugee community.
The four astronauts who blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center Wednesday evening are currently in Earth orbit.
Officials say they are to spend a day checking their capsule before firing the main engine that will propel them toward a flight around the moon.
Three Americans and a Canadian are on board.