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Oil tanker insurance costs to jump after Gulf attacks

The Joint War Committee, a group that advises insurers, designated the entire Persian Gulf and waters just outside it a so-called Listed Area after the incidents a month ago. The classification gives underwriters room to charge more. As of Thursday, owners were reluctant to send vessels to the region while there was also a dearth of cargoes, according to traders and shipbrokers involved in that market, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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Pan-India doctors go on day-long protest in solidarity with Kolkata medicos

After entire healthcare system in West Bengal was crippled over the past four days, now doctors’ in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities in India especially AIIMS hospitals in the national capital, Raipur, Patna and Punjab are observing protest shutdown. Resident doctors in several government hospitals in Kerala and Hyderabad also staged protests as they started their ‘cease work’ demonstrations in respective cities. Around 4,500 Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) stopped attending to patients in all the 26 government hospitals in the state simultaneously on Friday. 

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Suspected attack on 2 oil tankers near Strait of Hormuz stokes fears of War

The prospects of a conflict have spiked since the Trump administration tightened in early May its sanctions on Iranian oil exports. Trump abandoned a year ago the 2015 deal that was meant to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb and reimposed sanctions in a bid to force the Islamic Republic to rein in its military program and proxy militias. Facing economic catastrophe, Iran has threatened to retreat from the accord itself unless European parties throw it an economic lifeline.

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EU says it’s ready for ‘Undesirable’ No-Deal Brexit, but some insurers are unprepared

The EU considers the Brexit deal, negotiated over 18 months, to be complete and not open to renegotiation. Departing Prime Minister Theresa May tried and failed three times to convince Parliament to approve it. The EU no-deal preparations are mainly unilateral measures. The bloc refuses to enter into “mini-deals” with the U.K. to help make no-deal Brexit easier.

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