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May 1, 2026, 03:30 PM - 6 min read
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered a huge energy supply crisis. Middle Eastern oil exporters are scrambling to explore alternative routes to get their oil and gas exports out of the region.
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May 1, 2026, 09:25 AM - 2 min read
Brent crude futures for July rose $1.19, or 1.08 per cent, to $111.59 a barrel by 0149 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate futures were up 39 cents, or 0.37 per cent, to $105.46 in early trade on Friday.
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April 30, 2026, 08:48 PM - 3 min read
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has asserted that the country will safeguard its nuclear and missile capabilities as “national assets”, adopting a defiant stance amid US pressure and ongoing tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and regional security.
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April 30, 2026, 12:57 PM - 7 min read
Charles’s speech was almost an implicit reproach to the president’s own rambling, undisciplined public pronouncements. And in more than one way the address was pitched over the head of Trump.
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April 29, 2026, 01:47 PM - 7 min read
The global balance of power has shifted. The global south has both demography and economy on its side. The era of a Western-dominated world order is over. This is obvious, but it will take some time to sink in across the West.
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April 27, 2026, 06:11 PM - 6 min read
Trump’s attack on the Pope – indefensible for Meloni as someone who has defined herself as a Christian and whose party draws on a vast Catholic electorate – gave the Italian Prime Minister the exit she needed to signal her distance from Trump’s recent actions to voters.
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April 27, 2026, 01:15 PM - 3 min read
“The spending pattern suggests that the world is feeling less secure and is spending on its military to compensate for the global landscape,” researcher Lorenzo Scarazzato said.
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April 24, 2026, 01:17 PM - 7 min read
If winning means forcing Iran into submission or fundamentally reshaping its strategic posture, the answer is increasingly difficult to avoid – they cannot. What they can do is continue. Manage the conflict, contain its spread and shape its margins. But that is not victory. It is endurance.
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April 23, 2026, 05:47 PM - 7 min read
The US war on Iran, alongside Israel’s war on Lebanon, is accelerating a notable reshaping of European alliances and strategic thinking about the union’s future.
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April 20, 2026, 04:13 PM - 6 min read
Any claim the 25th Amendment was “written with Donald Trump in mind” must be questioned.
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April 17, 2026, 03:33 PM - 7 min read
As the entire South Asia is watching with surprise and curiosity, it needs to be recalled that during his first presidential term, Trump had been completely hostile towards Pakistan. In January 2018, he had suspended about $2 billion in security assistance to Pakistan for sheltering the terrorist groups like the infamous “Haqqani Network”. He went to the extent of saying, Pakistan had given the US nothing but “lies and deceit”.
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April 17, 2026, 09:11 AM - 3 min read
The two-week fragile ceasefire, which was agreed upon in April, is just days away from coming to an end.
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