Ships in the Gulf of Oman last month.

The Strait of Hormuz seen from Musandam, Oman, this month. While the Trump administration has said that a cease-fire would fully lift Iran’s blockade of the strait, that has yet to be borne out.

Cuban revolutionaries taking over the Havana Docks Corporation facilities in 1960.

Ships in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman, on Monday. Many have been stranded since the start of the war.

A trade group that represents low-cost carriers including Frontier Airlines is seeking $2.5 billion from the Trump administration to offset some fuel costs.

New International Monetary Fund projections showed a global economy that was stopped in its tracks by the U.S. war in Iran.

A strike on the Bapco oil refinery in Bahrain in early March. A U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz may give Iran a reason to restart attacks on energy assets throughout the Persian Gulf.

A liquefied natural gas terminal in Germany. Most of that L.N.G. comes from the United States, underscoring Europe’s vulnerability to American supplies.

Aliko Dangote at home in Lagos, Nigeria, last month.

President Trump and members of his cabinet at a meeting with oil executives at the White House on Friday.

An oil tanker anchored near the Cardón Refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, in 2021.

Derricks in the Maracaibo oil fields of Venezuela in the early 20th century. American oil companies invested millions of dollars in the region, generating profits that flowed to the United States, rather than Venezuela.

Above the air-cooled condensers at the TotalEnergies power plant in Toul, France.

Ukrainian flags and the flags of various brigades hanging at OKKO gas station in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Senator Miguel Uribe, a conservative politician, was a grandson of a former president of Colombia.

Recent construction work on a sea wall to protect Charleston’s downtown areas.