All 22 Indian crew of the tanker MT Gem No. 2 were rescued off Ras Al Khaimah on Sunday, India’s consulate in Dubai said. We list at least eight incidents at sea in eight days and the ships on which Indian sailors have been killed or hurt this year.

Pakistan’s cabinet meets on an emergency or governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; CJP’s three leaders remain in police custody after more than 7,000 detentions in Delhi; Johor keeps 1,198 schools shut; ships are hit almost daily near Hormuz; North Korea marks its party anniversary quietly.

Ships have been struck in or near the Strait of Hormuz almost every day in October, with 12 attacks in one week, the most since the war began. Yet Middle East crude exports are back near pre-war levels. Our tables track the attacks, the shipping numbers and the cost for Asia.

UKMTO says a tanker was hit by multiple projectiles about 51 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, with casualties reported. Iran and Oman have agreed coordinates for Hormuz transit routes, and QatarEnergy force majeure runs to the end of November.

A projectile set the Panama-flagged tanker On Peace on fire off Oman’s Musandam coast, injuring 12 of its 19 crew, 11 of them Indian. India condemned the attack. A day later, Houthi missiles struck near the runway at Aden airport minutes before a flight was due to land.

G7 leaders have agreed to release 100 million barrels of crude and diesel from emergency reserves over four months, with diesel front-loaded in the first 20 days. Brent fell 1.48% to $100.80 after the announcement.

The US is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group and about 9,000 sailors and Marines to the Middle East. President Trump has rejected Iran's latest proposal as "not good enough".

The Sensex fell 1,124 points and the Nifty 360 points to six-month lows on September 28 as Brent crude neared $108 after US–Iran talks stalled and foreign investors kept selling.

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Brent fell 2% to $101.75, an 11-day low, on recovering Saudi exports and hopes of US–Iran talks, before a projectile struck a tanker entering the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump says the Iran war is "hopefully" near its end and claims direct contact with Tehran, but Iranian officials call it mixed signals amid a UN war crimes probe.

Brent crude remained near $101 after jumping above $100, while major Asian indexes fell as investors assessed supply and inflation risks.