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Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent

“We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting. The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a future threat. It is our present reality,” the EC said

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Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite venture seeks Kenyan licence to take on Starlink

SpaceX’s Starlink has already established a foothold in Kenya and dominates the country’s high-speed connectivity segment.

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Asian trade jitters spark fresh Malacca Strait monetisation push

The collapse of maritime stability in the Middle East has cast a long, overdue shadow over the busiest maritime chokepoint in Asia: the Strait of Malacca.

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Iran's oil sector fails to "explode" as Trump's shut-in deadline passes

The US blockade of tankers serving Iran’s oil exports is intended to cut Iranian oil exports to near-zero and force its production to stop as storage tanks fill, forcing Tehran to return to the negotiation table. The plan hasn't worked.

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Colombia climate conference closes with push to end oil, gas and coal

War and climate crisis collide in Colombia, where over 50 nations are mapping a path away from oil, gas and coal — outside the UN process that has repeatedly failed to act.

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Europe bought more Russian LNG in March than at any point in history, the same week it banned imports

Despite threatening to end Russian LNG imports completely next year, prompting the Kremlin to threaten to cut off gas exports to Europe before then, the EU just imported the most LNG in history as it slides into an expanding gas crisis.

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Inconsistent messaging on Turkey shows EU cannot pretend to be geopolitical power, says analyst

Gaffe or not, remarks from European Commision president played into hands of Turkish politicians who want Ankara to pursue closer ties with Moscow and Beijing.

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Europe buys the most Russian LNG in history, just as first bans on imports come into effect

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Iran oil minister says US blockade 'failing' to curb oil exports

How Tehran systematically dismantled America's Gulf military network in the first days of the war- NBC

Uzbekistan registers strong first-quarter growth of 8.7%

Iran oil minister says US blockade 'failing' to curb oil exports

Iranian officials said a naval blockade had failed to choke off the country’s oil exports and that Tehran had enough storage capacity to see it through for another 30 days, pushing back against reports that Washington plans to widen pressure.

How Tehran systematically dismantled America's Gulf military network in the first days of the war- NBC

When US and Israeli forces launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, striking Iran's nuclear sites, missile factories and military infrastructure, the Trump administration was expecting a walk in the park. It wasn't.

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US President Donald Trump revealed that he instructed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to limit military operations in Lebanon to surgical strikes against Hezbollah.

Bursa Malaysia ended the morning session in the red on April 30 as investor sentiment soured following news that the United Arab Emirates will officially exit the OPEC+ alliance on May 1.

Andrei Belousov tells SCO meeting Moscow is “closely monitoring” moves made by “non-regional states”.

Royal Jordanian Airlines posted a 15% rise in Q1 operating revenue but more than doubled its net loss to $19.2mn, with airspace rerouting driving flight hours up 19% and inflating fuel and insurance costs in the wake of the US-Iran war.

Albania signed a 20-year agreement with AKTOR Group’s US subsidiary to import liquefied natural gas.

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The world's largest battery maker has just placed a very large bet on a technology that, until recently, most of the industry considered was science fiction.

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.

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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.

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Taiwan's role as the global hub for AI chips is now directly inflating domestic private capital. While the equity boom is creating massive paper wealth, the concurrent spike in mortgage debt suggests a growing divide between rich and poor.

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.

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Beijing now trades nearly $400bn a year with the Middle East, runs the region's largest infrastructure programmes, and brokers its diplomacy. America still sells the weapons. It is not enough

Demographers warned for decades that ageing, declining states grow more dangerous, not less. The wars now spreading from Eastern Europe to the Gulf to East Asia look increasingly like the opening engagements of a long contest over who outlasts whom.

The Kremlin has announced that it will end a three-year old deal to deliver “Kazakh” oil to Berlin from the start of May, plunging Berlin into a fresh energy shortfall crisis as it scrambles to find an alternative source of crude.

The EU is in a slow-moving identity collapse crisis. Disunity in the EU is growing more obvious each month and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is casting about for ways to rebuild a consensus without much luck.

US policy is increasingly variable, shaped by domestic politics, transactional needs, and at times which side of the bed its leader wakes up on.

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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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