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Three tankers carrying Iranian crude oil have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the United States imposed a naval blockade against Iran in mid-April, a vessel tracking website said.

Iran's private sector has urged Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf to use his upcoming visit to China to attract more Chinese investment.

Mission 300 has connected more than 50mn people to electricity across 40 African countries since its launch in 2024, marking a key milestone towards its target of reaching 300mn people by 2030.

The world is entering a more dangerous era, marked by war, hybrid threats, disinformation, political division and rapid technological change, Gitanas Nauseda says in annual address.

Petrol sales at Sinopec, China’s largest refiner and fuel retailer, fell 8% year on year in April, while diesel sales were also down – by 6%.

Tech

Israeli AI stock catalogue company Artlist confirmed that it would lay off 200 of its 500 employees in what has been categorised as a strategic move rather than one influenced by financial pressure.

The global airborne geophysical services market was valued at more than $1.35bn in 2026.

Thorium Space develops technologies targeting Europe's growing demand for independent and secure satellite communications infrastructure.

China-Central Asia Monitor: June 5-11, 2026.

Planned logistics platform is expected to function as a marketplace for freight customers.

Opinion

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan secured a decisive election victory, resilient pro-Russian opposition could slow his efforts to advance peace with Azerbaijan and deepen ties with the West, says Carnegie Politika analysis.

Syria envisioned as key cog in new energy distribution network.

Relations across the Gulf have been ruined following more than 100 days of war between Iran, Israel and the US with the Gulf neighbours to the south and east of the Islamic Republic left exposed following a new memorandum with the Trump admin.

A planned EU-backed gas pipeline linking Bosnia & Herzegovina to Croatia could intensify political divisions within the country rather than easing its energy vulnerabilities.

Compromised politicians in Ukraine and Europe see the continuation of the war as a lifeline for their expiring careers.

Data

Inflation falls from 3.9% registered in April amid rising fuel prices in connection with the war in the Middle East.

Growth is expected to decelerate to 2% in 2026, as the conflict in the Middle East and spillovers from Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure weigh on activity.

Azerbaijan's crude oil exports fetched an average of $79.5 a barrel in the first quarter of 2026, well above the $65 a barrel assumed in the state budget.

Inflation remains elevated, with increasing pressures from energy prices and core inflation pointing to continued upside risks.

The move had been widely anticipated and followed rate increases by the European Central Bank and Indonesia’s central bank last week after the conflict fuelled higher prices and economic disruption worldwide.

Features

Local institution, not foreign import.

Panama is turning the EU's own blacklist costs against Brussels — and Sweden's biggest multinationals are its most powerful argument for removal before October's ECOFIN vote.

ran's memorandum of understanding with the US commits to ending the war on all fronts including Lebanon, releasing blocked Iranian funds and lifting a blockade, Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi has said.

The tentative peace agreement between the United States and Iran has been greeted with a mixture of relief and caution across much of East and Southeast Asia, a region that has borne more than its fair share of the economic fallout of late.

On June 10 2026, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the longest serving constitutionally elected prime minister of India.

Blogs

Prime Minister Edi Rama’s government has been targeted by a wave of mass protests dubbed the "Flamingo Revolution".

The E3 European leaders met in London over the weekend to thrash out a new formula to take to the Kremlin and end the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the document they produced takes us all the way back to the very beginning of the process.

What began as an environmental campaign against the planned development linked to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has rapidly evolved into a broader protest movement.

He’s passionate but ultimately dull. While he’s directing matters, the regime can happily go about dismantling the opposition.

German businessmen are going to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia’s premier investment forum, in a public show of the fraying commitment to cutting off commercial ties under the sanctions regime.

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Vietnam is betting on wind power to fuel its green transition amid the energy uncertainty, while fuel price is changeable.

OMV Petrom will build a large-scale solar and battery storage project in Bulgaria, in a further expansion of its renewable energy portfolio in Southeast Europe.

India’s increasingly severe summer heatwaves are becoming a structural threat to economic growth, raising costs for businesses, reducing worker productivity and slowing growth in an economy that remains heavily dependent on physical labour.

Country has opportunity to move “zero waste” agenda item from rhetoric to actual implementation ahead of COP31 co-hosting, says Greenpeace.

Under the lease, Acwa Power Philippines will develop an integrated solar and battery storage facility with an eventual capacity of up to 500MW.

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