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Drone Strike Hits UAE Nuclear Power Plant: Houthis Claim Attack as Iran War Spirals Beyond Borders

Cinematic dusk view of a four-reactor nuclear power plant complex in an arid desert with sodium-amber security lighting, distant mountains, and a faint drone silhouette in a stormy violet sky; an orange emergency glow rises from a peripheral generator suggesting recent damage

A drone struck the perimeter of the UAE’s Barakah Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday, sparking a fire near the Arab world’s first operational nuclear facility. Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility. No radiation was released, but the attack crosses a dangerous threshold in the Iran war: the deliberate targeting of nuclear infrastructure by proxy forces.

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Iran Ceasefire Expires With No Deal in Sight as Gas Prices and 6% Inflation Squeeze American Households

Broadcast news studio scene with curved video wall showing a Brent crude candlestick chart climbing, a glowing amber map of the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, and a stacked data panel reading gasoline 3.58 per gallon and inflation 3.8 percent year over year. A ticker bar runs across the bottom of the wall and a dark anchor desk sits in the foreground

The Iran ceasefire expired Sunday with no deal in sight. Trump rejected Tehran’s latest proposal as “garbage.” Meanwhile, gas prices are up 45%, inflation hit 3.8% in April, and forecasters project 6% by Q2. The war that was supposed to be quick is now the primary driver of an economic crisis heading into midterm season.

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