Missile strike on Tel Aviv; airlines cancel more flights

Thank you for reading the blog for tonight. We’ll be back after midnight with our new blog for Wednesday.

Here’s what we know so far:

• After a recent warning about an incoming Iranian missile barrage, an explosion could be heard and smoke could be seen in central Tel Aviv.
• Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said 83 petrol stations had run out of petrol and 97 were without diesel as of noon on Tuesday. However, she stressed the outages were localised and temporary, with some able to refuel during the day.
• The Iran war is a “disastrous mistake” that breaches international law, Germany’s president said on Tuesday in an unusually blunt rebuke of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
• Iran named a former Revolutionary Guards commander to replace the powerful security chief, Ali Larijani, killed in US-Israeli strikes last week.
• An oil refinery fire near the Texas coast was put out Tuesday and a shelter-in-place order was lifted, hours after a large explosion at the complex shot plumes of smoke into the air, officials said.
• An oil supertanker hauling two million barrels of Iraq’s crude has made it through the Strait of Hormuz after sailing with its signal switched off.