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According to CNBC: The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve on April 16.

The head of Rosatom: The Bushehr nuclear power plant began evacuating on Saturday morning local time, and 198 people have been evacuated.

[Israeli Official: The Israeli Air Force has suspended air strikes to assist the U.S. military in searching for downed fighter jet personnel] According to the Wall Street Journal, an Israeli security official said that the Israeli Air Force has stopped air strikes in the area where a U.S. F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran on Friday. The official added that Israel was still assisting the United States in locating the fighter jet's unrescued crew. The search and rescue operation appears to be focused on Khuzestan province, an area located on the Persian Gulf coast adjacent to Iraq and the core of Iran's onshore oil production.

The Indian government: Extended the duty-free import policy for yellow peas until March 31, 2027.

Ukraine's state oil and gas company said Russia attacked its facilities in the Poltava region.

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: The main sources of insecurity in the region must be eliminated and a security system built without the participation of the United States and Israel.

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: Escalating tensions against Iran will invite a decisive and broad response from U.S. interests in the region.

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: In order to maintain its existence, Iran is forced to launch strikes against US bases and interests in the region.

Russian Presidential Assistant Ushakov: Many foreign dignitaries have expressed their willingness to come to Moscow on May 9. Putin is expected to hold an international meeting that day.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, at around 19:36 local time on the 4th, a 4.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in the sea east of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The maximum earthquake intensity was 3 and the focal depth was 60 kilometers. There is no risk of a tsunami from this earthquake.

Iranian Foreign Minister: Remember the anger expressed by the West over the hostilities near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Ukraine? Israel and the United States have now launched four bombings of our Bushehr nuclear power plant. Radioactive fallout will end life in the GCC capitals, not Tehran. Attacks on our petrochemical facilities also convey true intent.

Iranian Foreign Minister: The US media has misrepresented Iran’s position. We are deeply grateful to Pakistan for its efforts and have never refused to go to Islamabad (for mediation talks). We are concerned with clear and lasting conditions for an end to the illegal war that has been imposed on us.

Authorities said Russia launched an attack on a market in the Ukrainian frontline city of Nikopol, killing five people and injuring 19 others.

According to Iran's Tasnim News Agency: Iranian authorities stated that in the "terrorist attack" launched by the United States and Israel on Karaj's B1 Bridge, the number of victims has risen to 13, and many of the injured died of serious injuries.

Indian Petroleum Ministry: India’s crude oil demand in the coming months has been fully guaranteed.

Indian Oil Ministry: Indian refiners have secured crude oil supplies, including crude oil from Iran; there are no payment barriers to Iranian crude oil imports.

Market news: Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a proxy advisory agency, recommended voting against the BP (BP.N) board's proposal to revoke some previous climate information disclosure resolutions and potentially allow shareholder meetings to be held online only.

According to Reuters: The finance ministers of Germany, Italy, Portugal, Austria, and Spain called for a windfall profit tax on energy companies.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing is recalling some U.S. vehicles because an insufficient pedestrian warning sound may fail to alert pedestrians to reversing vehicles, thereby increasing the risk of injury.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing Company recalls 73,528 vehicles in the U.S. market.