00:00Oil prices edged up about 1% on Wednesday and renewed concerns about additional energy supply disruptions in the Middle
00:06East
00:07due to continued fighting in Yemen and attack on a refinery in Saudi Arabia
00:11and worries the US could strike Iran after next week's US mid-term elections.
00:16Brent features rose $1.44 or 1% to settle at $115.62 per barrel,
00:23while US-West Texas Intermediate Crude rose $2.88 or 3% to settle at $102.78.
00:33That price gain pushed Brent back into overbought territory for the fourth time in five days.
00:38Yemen's Houthis attacked Aden Airport on Wednesday.
00:41Yemeni government forces said after the Iran-aligned group warned people to evacuate the facility
00:47as fighting escalated in the perished country caught in the wider Middle East conflict.
00:51On Tuesday, the Houthis said they had hit Saudi Arabia's biggest oil refinery with a missile,
00:58intensifying their strikes against the world's second-largest group producer behind the US.
01:03Saudi authorities did not immediately confirm the strike on the 550,000-barrel-per-day facility.
01:09In recent weeks, several analyses have said renewed US strikes on Iran
01:13could happen sometime after the US mid-term elections on November 3.
01:17In hopes of ending the now eight-month-long conflict,
01:21Qatari mediators have presented Iran with a new draft deal to end the war with the US and Israel,
01:26an official briefed on the negotiation said.
01:29A senior Iranian official, however, said Doha had only put forward unacceptable ideas
01:34that did not amount to an offer.
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