Global Economy Faces Widening Strains as Mideast War Intensifies

An Airbus Beluga transport airliner flies over storage tanks at a Liquefied Petroleum Gas factory in Pinto, near Madrid, on March 5.

Photographer: Oscar Del Pozo/AFP/Getty Images

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The economic fallout from the war in the Mideast is spreading outside the region.