{"id":151616,"date":"2026-05-18T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151616"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:04:02","slug":"nafta-vidreaguvala-na-dronovu-ataku-na-yadernyj-obyekt-v-oae","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/nafta-vidreaguvala-na-dronovu-ataku-na-yadernyj-obyekt-v-oae\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Reacts to Drone Attack on Nuclear Facility in the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"235\">Oil prices continued to rise on Monday, May 18, as efforts to end the war with Iran reached a deadlock following an attack on a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"237\" data-end=\"393\">Brent crude futures climbed by $2.01, or 1.84%, to $111.27 per barrel, though they failed to surpass the $112 mark, which was the highest level since May 5.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"538\">U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude traded at $107.75 per barrel, up $2.33, or 2.21%, after reaching $108.70 \u2014 the highest level since April 30.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"707\">Both contracts gained more than 7% last week amid fading hopes for a peace agreement with Iran that could end attacks and vessel seizures in the Strait of Hormuz area.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"866\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Drone attacks on the UAE and Saudi Arabia, along with rhetoric from both the United States and Iran, have raised fears of further escalation of the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151617,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151616","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151616"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151616"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}