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Oil price passes $100 a barrel for first time since 2022, as Khamenei's son named new Iranian leader

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves will join an emergency meeting of G7 finance ministers later to discuss oil prices. Meanwhile, 32 civilians are injured by an Iranian drone attack on Bahrain.
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