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The Trump administration naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz failed after at least 34 tankers with links to Iran passed through the narrow waterway and exited the Persian Gulf in defiance of the US warships attempts to halt Iran’s oil exports.

In the second such incident in the country in recent days, an explosion at a fireworks factory in the southern Indian state of Kerala, has killed at least 13 people and injured more than 40.

EU member states approved the creation of a working group to draft Montenegro's accession treaty.

Venezuela's Chavista government, which spent decades demonising the IMF, is now pressing it to unfreeze $5bn in assets. The ideological U-turn is straining revolutionary ranks.

Plahotniuc sentenced on five counts including the appropriation of money as part of a criminal group responsible for the so-called $1bn bank fraud.

Tech

Toyota Motor Corp has unveiled a new research and development hub aimed at advancing mobility products and services within its experimental Woven City in Susono, Shizuoka prefecture in central Japan.

Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has announced plans to become the world's first financial centre fundamentally built on artificial intelligence taking on regional and global rivals.

China's Alipay has launched an AI Pay service enabling autonomous AI agents to complete purchases and payments on a user's behalf.

Iran’s digital economy has suffered around $1bn in losses since February 28 as the country remains offline for more than six weeks.

Russian gamers are facing growing payment and access problems amid the government crackdown on circumvention tools like VPNs.

Opinion

Expectations that Budapest will pivot sharply away from Russia and back a more assertive European Union policy on Ukraine post-election may prove misplaced, says commentary by Carnegie Politika.

Armenia's fragmented, pro-Russia opposition appears ill-equipped to convert discontent with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan into progress in the polls, says Carnegie Politika comment.

As the US-Israel-Iran war enters its second month, one of the most consequential geopolitical actors has been conspicuous by its silence. China has not intervened, has not condemned, and has not chosen sides in any meaningful public way.

The Middle East conflict halted growth momentum. The right policies and stronger global cooperation are needed to contain the damage.

Former Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov has emerged as a political leader in his own right.

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Tehran's informal currency market is being flooded with counterfeit dollars sold below market rates, as organised networks extract high-denomination Iranian banknotes for use in cross-border fuel smuggling settlements via Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Argentina's central bank expects greater room to build international reserves on export inflows, $3.2bn in unconverted corporate debt and investment incentive programme receipts, targeting $8bn of reserve accumulation in 2026.

For the first time in the history of transatlantic polling, more Europeans view the United States as a threat to their continent than view China in the same light — a seismic shift in public sentiment.

Japan has forecast tsunami waves of up to 3m for Pacific coastlines of central Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate after a magnitude 7.4 quake off Sanriku, with the first wave of 0.4m observed at Miyako.

Several Middle Eastern economies are expected to contract in 2026 in the wake of the war in Iran, which broke out in late February, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook, reports Statista.

Features

Russia's coal industry is heading toward a systemic crisis from which the Kremlin's patronage network can no longer shield it, according to a paper published this week by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Freedom Holding Corp has undergone a transformation that few could have predicted. It listed on Nasdaq in 2019 as a mid-sized Kazakh brokerage, and grew into a $9.6bn fintech platform. Now it wants to go global.

Iran is not a superpower in any honest reading of the term. But the Hormuz closure has rendered the "middle power" framing absurd. Tehran now occupies a tier of its own, and the diplomatic vocabulary has not yet caught up to the reality.

For over a century, the geographical gap between the southern coast of Iran and the bustling ports of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was less a barrier and more a bridge

Is Russia’s virtual economy reappearing thanks to the sky high interest rates and economic slowdown?

Blogs

Party leader Ozgur Ozel has so far proven so ineffective that president Erdogan finds him entirely tolerable outside of a prison cell.

As Taiwan’s opposition leader, Cheng Li-wun leads a delegation across China the fine line between opposition outreach and quasi-diplomacy is being blurred. It is an issue that should concern anyone with a stake in Taiwan’s democratic integrity.

Iranians remain split in the early hours of the two-week ceasefire between their government and US and Israel on the otherside, but as things stand any return to normality is better than nothing.

Nikol Pashinyan made unusually blunt comments to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Moscow.

Superficially the war in Iran has dealt Ukraine a huge blow. The White House is now completely distracted, and the Trump administration seems to have abandoned, or at least paused, the ceasefire negotiations with Russia.

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Ten years after the Paris Agreement was opened for signature by member states at the UN Headquarters in New York on April 22, 2016, the global energy transition is beginning to reshape the electricity mix, Statista reports.

Much of this has been underpinned by falling technology costs and a hard fought push for energy security in which the pace of expansion over the past 12–18 months has been particularly notable.

Tehran has entered its sixth consecutive year of drought with rainfall down 35%, as the capital's water utility warns dam levels remain fragile and calls on residents to cut consumption ahead of summer.

Iraq's environment minister says authorities have contained a Tigris river pollution crisis caused by sediment from water releases, days after a mass fish die-off in Wasit province killed over 1,000 tonnes of fish.

Germany has extended a €200mn concessional loan to South Africa to support grid expansion & renewable energy, reinforcing European backing for the country’s just energy transition as transmission constraints continue to limit new power capacity.

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