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Iran condemned the US seizure of two tankers carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean, calling the confiscation of 3.8mn barrels of oil an example of “US addiction to lawlessness” and the “outright legalization of piracy” amid a naval siege.

In spite of the diplomatic impasse at the declaration level, the consultations reportedly addressed humanitarian conditions across several conflict-affected states and examined prospects for post-conflict stabilisation in the broader MENA region.

Anant Ambani, a director at Reliance Industries and son of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has asked Colombia's government to suspend a planned cull of 80 hippos descended from animals brought to the country by drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Iraq’s President, Nizar Amidi, formally tasked Ali Al-Zaidi, the nominee of the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Iran-aligned political parties, with forming a new government within 30 days.

Nato is considering abandoning its recent practice of holding annual summits, six sources have told Reuters, in a development that would mark a significant shift in how the world's most powerful military alliance.

Tech

Katerina Tikhonova reportedly oversees a broad institutional network at MGU including a research centre, an AI Institute, the MGU-270 supercomputer and the newly launched faculty.

Russia’s Ministry of Finance has advanced a draft law that would tax cryptocurrency income broadly in line with securities investments.

Around 40% of all EU citizens lacked at least basic digital skills in 2025, despite 93% using the internet at least once a week.

Pantheon AI project to be the largest investment in Croatia's history and one of the biggest private US investments in Europe.

Russia's intensified VPN crackdown is causing widespread collateral disruption to legal banks, marketplaces, Yandex services and government platforms, with Novosibirsk worst-hit.

Opinion

Many highly indebted advanced economies face a grim fiscal outlook. Under current policies, the public debt ratios of countries including Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States are set to deteriorate over the next two decades.

Russia’s deepening entanglement in the crisis around Iran is delivering short-term geopolitical dividends, but at a potentially high strategic cost.

Granted candidate status in 2005, North Macedonia was once considered a frontrunner among Western Balkan aspirants. However, a series of bilateral disputes has repeatedly derailed its progress.

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.

Data

Poland’s population is projected to decline to 25.6mn by 2100, the third-largest drop in the European Union, with only Lithuania and Latvia expected to record steeper declines.

The record-breaking performance masks a deepening fracture in the Korean financial landscape: while parent groups are thriving, core banking units are hitting a wall.

Corporate market reaches record size of UZS 5.28 trillion ($437mn).

The outlook revision reflects uncertainty over CPC’s ability to restore interest coverage above 4.0x, amid higher oil prices and limited cost pass-through.

South Korea’s economy rebounded sharply in the first quarter, driven by strong semiconductor demand, though policymakers are warning that a global energy shock is likely to weigh on activity in the months ahead.

Features

Sanctions may hurt Bishkek’s image more than its economy.

The contracts were signed. The funds were transferred. The weapons were manufactured. Then came the notification that they would not be arriving on schedule — because the United States needed them elsewhere.

Deputy Trade Minister Aset Nusupov says changing global trade patterns are opening new opportunities for Kazakhstan thanks to its position on the Middle Corridor.

From canceled travel arrangements to a decline in bookings, events in the Middle East are impacting the Western Balkan tourism sector, industry representatives tell IntelliNews.

Anyone studying the calculated outrage of politicians should take a look at this glaring example.

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Phew. That was an effort. EU leaders met in Brussels yesterday and signed off on releasing the €90bn loan for Ukraine that will keep it in the fight with Russia for another two years. They also passed the twentieth sanctions package on Russia,

Rumours have swirled for months that Kazakhstan’s president wants to succeed Antonio Guterres. An appearance at an event in Turkey did his chances no harm at all.

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.

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India has recently told the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme to reduce, remove, or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in the Indian economy by pricing such emissions through the trading of Carbon Credit Certificates.

With investments into renewables accelerating, the region faces a widening gap between labour market needs and available skills.

The numbers released last week by an international consortium of climate scientists are remarkable in their uniformity. Every single key indicator of the state of the Earth's climate system set a new record in 2025. And not in a good way.

47 civil society organisations call on Western Balkan governments to abandon plans for new gas infrastructure, warning the region risks becoming locked into costly fossil fuel dependence.

Greater regional coordination seen as key to solving conundrum.

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