Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that carries much of the world's oil, has slowed further, Reuters reports, as the United States threatens new economic penalties on Iran.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin threatened to seize ships flying European Union flags anywhere from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, says talks with Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are almost finished, but Iran now wants compensation for war damages and other unnamed conditions met first.
As Typhoon Dolphin approached, China ordered ships to follow its traffic controls in the Taiwan Strait, the narrow sea passage between China and Taiwan.
Iran, the US and Oman say they are making progress on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that carries much of the world's oil shipping.
A bulk carrier hit by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman through which much of the world's oil is shipped, is now on fire, with its crew fighting the blaze and one seafarer missing.
A drone hit a U.S.-owned tanker storing gas at Damietta, an Egyptian port on the Mediterranean Sea, near the Suez Canal, a key route for oil and shipping.
Oman has given Iran a plan, backed by other Gulf countries, to jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that much of the world's oil ships through.
Yemen's Houthi movement announced an immediate maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia in retaliation for a Saudi blockade of Yemeni ports and airports, per the BBC. The declaration raises the threat to shipping across the Red Sea and the Gulf.
Donald Trump says he has reinstated a US blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will bill ships for safe passage, days after fresh strikes and an Iranian attack on a vessel in the waterway.
The Trump administration revoked Iran's oil sanctions waiver after three tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, testing a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire and the world's most important oil chokepoint.