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US forces struck military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, as Iranian sources insisted the country’s main oil export hub remained fully operational despite heavy bombardment.

A synagogue in central Tehran was destroyed in an overnight airstrike with Iran blaming Israel. Tehran's Jewish community condemned the attack. Israel denied targeting the site but made no formal comment on the incident.

The US-led Gaza Board of Peace has submitted a disarmament proposal to Hamas, demanding a response by the end of the week.

Hungary has called for the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil and gas imports, as Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that Europe faces a potential energy crisis and ordered military protection for a key pipeline.

Russia evacuates 175 Rosatom nuclear workers from Iran's Bushehr plant via Armenia after April 4 strike near the facility killed a guard and damaged an auxiliary building.

Tech

Russia has launched a major crackdown on the use of VPNs as part of a wider move to establish control of the Internet in the country.

Russia’s largest electronic procurement platform B2B-RTS announced it will proceed with an IPO on the Moscow Exchange.

Russia ordered major websites to block VPN traffic from April 15 or face penalties, tightening internet controls that mirror Iran's wartime blackout as Moscow positions itself as a mediator in the Gulf conflict.

Iran's NZ embassy mocked Trump's "stone age" threat with AI images of the US president as a caveman beside an ancient Persian king, the latest in a social media information war running alongside the military conflict.

Iran-linked hackers Handala claimed to have breached Israeli air defence contractor PSK Wind Technologies and passed classified command and control data to resistance missile units, though the claims remain unverified.

Opinion

Hungary’s parliamentary elections on April 12 would, under normal democratic conditions, point towards a change of government, but the country’s political system no longer operates on conventional terms.

Public discourse can appear disproportionately animated by US culture wars, US electoral cycles and US policy fashions. Foreign sports coverage on local media essentially means NBA or Major League baseball reports.

Erosion of Moscow’s influence in Balkans and South Caucasus creates an opportunity for Europe to expand its strategic role, says Carnegie Europe paper, but authors warn retreat is unlikely to be permanent.

A chorus of analysts and traders have spent recent weeks warning that oil prices will spike. But market is foward-looking and has already priced in the worst case. $200 oil won't happen.

Energy prices, supply chains, and financial markets are the main transmission channels, but the regional effects will vary significantly. The world faces yet another shock.

Data

Iranian Light crude is trading at a $1 premium to the benchmark Brent price since the US waived a sanctions-ban on buying Iran crude already at sea to ease prices on the international market.

A record 48% of adults worldwide now disapprove of the United States’ leadership, marking the highest level since tracking began, according to Gallup.

Romania’s manufacturing sector remained in contractionary territory in March, despite a slight improvement in business conditions, according to data from the BCR Romania Manufacturing PMI cited by Erste Group.

Year-on-year food price growth slowed to 5.6% from the 7.6% seen 12 months previously.

Inflationary pressures recede further, marginal growth in new business recorded.

Features

The war in Iran has delivered a systemic shock to global energy markets, but few regions have felt the strain as acutely, or quite as quickly, as Southeast Asia.

The Indonesian government has initiated a major campaign of regulations aimed at removing children under the age of 16 from social media platforms, representing one of the most intense government actions in the worldwide digital environment.

Iran's elite IRGC troops and mountain villagers joined forces in a manhunt for a down US pilot after Iran shot down a F-15 jet fighter over its territory. The US flew in special forces to try and find him.

Just days before Iran claimed to have hit one of the US Air Force's most formidable jets - an F-35 stealth fighter - a Chinese social media account published a detailed guide on how such an attack could be carried out.

The war in Iran has triggered a potential step change in the rate that China is selling off its US Treasury bill holdings. T-bill holdings are a good barometer for geopolitical tensions. China and the BRICS are dumping their T-bills.

Blogs

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.

Strong pro-Palestine sentiment in Slovenia causes alleged interference by Israeli private security firm ahead of general election to backfire.

For more than 3,000 years, Nowruz has been Iran's national festival, but this year's war has darkened the mood.

US Commander-in-Chief, meanwhile, says he told Netanyahu “don’t do that”. But he did do that.

bneGREEN

The world could face a severe shortage of chocolate by 2050 as climate change disrupts cocoa production in key growing regions, according to scientific estimates and industry data.

Serbia’s state power utility EPS has begun trial operations of a flue gas desulphurisation unit at its Nikola Tesla B coal-fired power plant, part of efforts to curb emissions and align with European environmental standards.

A year ago this week, Spain’s grid ran entirely on renewable power for a full day for the first time ever. Wind, solar, and hydro met all the peninsula’s electricity demand on April 16.

The last three years were the hottest ever recorded and it’s only going to get worse – to the point where people will start to die from overheating. Unless you have an air conditioner.

Iran is building four solar plants and a wind farm targeting 100MW as the war batters the power grid, with the first phase due online by July 2026 amid repeated strikes on electricity infrastructure.

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