## Oil giant BP announces huge rise in profits in first results since Iran war

Authored by news.sky.com

The oil and gas producing giant BP has recorded a more than doubling of profits as it benefits from high prices from the Iran war.

BP has been a significant beneficiary; its results for the first three months of its financial year show its underlying profits hit $3.198bn (£2.366bn).

BP was explicit about the contribution of higher oil prices.

Oil has consistently cost more than $100 a barrel since the outbreak of war but only one month of higher prices featured in the results released on Tuesday.

It made such high profits during the three months, on oil averaging $82.80 a barrel for the benchmark Brent crude.

That means it has not yet fully benefited from more expensive oil and that profits are likely to rise yet further.

Referencing the energy profits levy, Mr Miliband said "taxing these windfall profits to help fund support with the cost of living". »

### Judge Just Noticed The Obvious Problem With Trump Suing His Own IRS For $10 Billion

Authored by techdirt.com

Judge Just Noticed The Obvious Problem With Trump Suing His Own IRS For $10 Billion.

But at least one federal judge (luckily the one overseeing this “case”) is at least somewhat concerned about all this.

Filed Under: case or controversy, charles littlejohn, donald trump, irs, kathleen williams, tax returns. »

### Jimmy Kimmel defends Melania ‘widow’ joke after the Trumps call for him to be fired

Authored by theguardian.com

host made the joke on Thursday, well before the Saturday attack on the White House correspondents’ dinner, during a skit in which the ABC host pretended to be the event’s MC.

In her post on X, Melania Trump wrote: “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.

“I am so deeply sick of Jimmy Kimmel and the hate he spreads in the world,” Meghan McCain said in a post on X. »

### Russia's Tuapse oil refinery disaster deepens after Ukraine's drones strike yet again

Authored by kyivindependent.com

Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in the southern Russian city of Tuapse in the Krasnodar Krai overnight yet again, the General Staff said on April 28.

After the April 20 strike, 24 storage tanks were destroyed and four more damaged, according to the General Staff.

On April 26, an oil refinery in the Russian city of Yaroslavl and several targets inside Russian-occupied territories were struck by Ukrainian drones overnight, Ukraine's General Staff confirmed. »

### Orbán Rigged the Game—and Still Lost

Authored by thebulwark.com

AEI’s Dalibor Rohac analyzes Hungary’s stunning rebuke of Orban and implications for other democratic nations.

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