{"id":179141,"date":"2026-03-29T21:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:26:43","slug":"how-the-iran-war-has-rippled-across-the-world-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179141\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Iran War Has Rippled Across the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butter chicken has disappeared from some Indian menus<\/a>. So has\u00a0dosa. <\/p>\n

These culinary staples consume cooking gas, which has become harder to get from India\u2019s suppliers in the\u00a0Gulf.<\/p>\n

Australian farmers are planting less\u00a0wheat<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Farmers around the world are worried about their harvests as fertilizer prices rise. A third of the world\u2019s fertilizer is shipped through the Strait of\u00a0Hormuz.<\/p>\n

South Koreans were urged to take shorter\u00a0showers<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Much of the energy they use to heat water comes from the Middle\u00a0East.<\/p>\n

A shorter workweek<\/a> in Sri Lanka. A shorter school week<\/a> in\u00a0Laos. <\/p>\n

To curb commutes and conserve fuel, Sri Lanka declared Wednesdays a public holiday, and Laos adopted a three-day class\u00a0schedule.<\/p>\n

Track suits could get more\u00a0expensive<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The polyester in them is made from petrochemicals. Oil and gas prices are\u00a0rising.<\/p>\n

Party balloons may be harder to\u00a0find<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Qatar produces a third of the world\u2019s helium, a byproduct of natural gas. As production and exports halt, balloon suppliers may run\u00a0short.<\/p>\n

Formula 1 canceled some\u00a0races<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With missiles targeting Gulf nations, competitions in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were\u00a0scratched.<\/p>\n

Concerts were\u00a0postponed<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Shakira, Christina Aguilera and others postponed shows in the region over security\u00a0concerns.<\/p>\n

Cancer drugs might not reach<\/a> some patients on\u00a0time. <\/p>\n

Shutdowns in cargo hubs like Dubai and Doha threaten medicines that must be kept\u00a0refrigerated.<\/p>\n

Buying a house in the United States is more\u00a0expensive<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Oil prices are driving fears of higher inflation, pushing up mortgage\u00a0rates.<\/p>\n

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Sugar mills in Brazil, the world\u2019s biggest producer, may switch to making more biofuel to cash in on high energy\u00a0prices.<\/p>\n

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Airlines are paying more for jet fuel, and passing along the\u00a0costs.<\/p>\n

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Usually a safe investment in turmoil, gold has fallen for myriad reasons including speculative investors cashing out gold\u00a0investments.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of flights\u00a0canceled<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With some airspace closed in the Middle East, carriers have had to suspend routes. At the same time, jet fuel costs are\u00a0soaring.<\/p>\n

Venezuela gets to <\/a>export fertilizer<\/a>\u00a0again. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration loosened sanctions to help U.S.\u00a0farmers.<\/p>\n

Even the chess world has been shaken\u00a0up<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A grandmaster withdrew from a major competition in Cyprus over safety concerns. A drone hit a British base there early in the\u00a0war.<\/p>\n

Ukraine may run short on Patriot\u00a0missiles<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The war has depleted stocks of the U.S. interceptors used by Kyiv to fend off Russian\u00a0attacks.<\/p>\n

Thailand\u2019s premier wore short-sleeved shirts<\/a> to work and urged others to do the\u00a0same. <\/p>\n

Government offices are required to cap air conditioner use to conserve\u00a0energy.<\/p>\n

Take the stairs<\/a>. Leave the\u00a0mall<\/a>. <\/p>\n

To conserve energy, the Philippines asked civil servants to skip the elevator, and Egypt curtailed shopping hours five days a\u00a0week.<\/p>\n

Zara clothes piled up at airports<\/a> in\u00a0Bangladesh. <\/p>\n

Textile exports have also been disrupted by the canceled\u00a0flights.<\/p>\n

Gas lines are back<\/a>. Even in\u00a0Texas. <\/p>\n

Worried about a price spike, drivers in San Antonio lined up for 30 minutes at a\u00a0Costco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Butter chicken has disappeared from some Indian menus. So has\u00a0dosa. These culinary staples consume cooking gas, which has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-179141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}