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Russia has lost over $1bn in oil export revenues Ukraine’s week-long attacks on its two most important Baltic Sea ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk. Weekly shipments through both ports have fallen by two-thirds.

Gazprom Export filed a lawsuit in St Petersburg against its former German trading subsidiary SEFE, the latest in a series of Russian court actions against European energy firms since Western sanctions severed gas ties.

Israeli strikes killed a family of four in Nabatieh and five in Beirut's Jnah district on April 1 as Lebanon's death toll since March 2 rose to 1,268, with Israeli forces expanding ground operations in the south.

UK PM Starmer announced military planners would draw up options to secure the Strait of Hormuz after the war, saying "this is not our war" but its economic impact on Britain demands action on Gulf maritime security.

An Iranian cruise missile struck an oil tanker leased to Qatar Energy in Qatari waters on April 1 after two others were intercepted, escalating Tehran's targeting of Gulf energy assets as the war enters its second month.

Tech

Iran's IRGC named 18 US tech and AI firms including Google, Microsoft, Palantir and G42 as targets for retaliation

Saudi Arabia has launched a new autonomous vehicle passenger route between two Riyadh malls.

Iran's AI-generated Lego propaganda videos, depicting Trump, Netanyahu and the devil launching missiles, have shocked the internet.

Core district with 272-metre landmark skyscraper to offer panoramic views of surrounding Tian Shan mountains.

Six financial institutions agreed to finance Firebird AI’s artificial intelligence data centre project in Armenia.

Opinion

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.

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.

The spillover effects of recent developments in Iran have already begun to manifest themselves in ways that demand investor attention.

A tentative thaw between Washington and Minsk is gathering pace. The US has lifted some sanctions after Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko release hundreds of political prisoners. But time for deal-making is running out.

As war threatens Middle East, just outcomes for the Kurds and the president's jailed chief rival are needed to build solidarity, say analysts.

Data

Impacts of conflict disrupted supply chains and pushed up costs for inputs including fuel and oil.

Russia’s manufacturing sector slipped further into the red in March, as weakening demand, falling output and declining business confidence highlighted mounting pressure on industrial activity, according to the latest data from S&P Global.

Trade deficit posted at $4.5bn.

Eurasianet’s China-Central Asia Monitor: March 20-26, 2026.

Agaoglu Avrasya REIT cleared for lift-off. Consternation among scores of non-property firms awaiting permission to list.

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Hungary’s ability to unlock billions in frozen EU funding will depend heavily on the outcome of its parliamentary election on April 12. The opposition Tisza party led by Peter Magyar will need to win a supermajority to unlock the money.

Air cargo rates from India to the United States have risen between 200% and 350% since the outbreak of the third Gulf war on February 28, as capacity constraints rather than demand drive pricing, according to industry estimates.

Kurdish representatives tread carefully in referring to dwelling that is part of latest peace process.

China’s emergence as a dominant force in industrial metals is increasingly being driven not only by its access to raw materials, but by the scale and structure of its electricity system.

Four of the five European Union members identified as actively “dismantling” democratic safeguards are located in Central and Southeast Europe, says Civil Liberties Union for Europe report.

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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.

America and Iran have two very strategies for fighting this war.The US is still using the old school approach of building extremely powerful and incredibly accurate flying bombs that will definitely destroy anything they hit and are hard to stop.

A “permits-for-passage" system emerges as the US heads towards a strategic defeat in Iran after the White House makes a string of strategic blunders.

Caracas stands to gain from surging crude prices triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but Washington's control over its oil income means the bonanza may consolidate authoritarian rule rather than rebuild a broken state.

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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.

Chinese industrial conglomerate Sany Group plans to invest more than €1bn in a large-scale hybrid energy and data centre project in western Romania.

Singapore is taking another step toward the possible deployment of nuclear power, with the National Environment Agency announcing plans to commission three studies focused on nuclear safety standards and environmental safeguards.

Sales of EVs overtook standard petrol cars in the EU for the first time in December 2025, marking a milestone in the bloc’s transition to cleaner transport and reducing its reliance on oil imports.

Dubai was underwater after torrential rain overwhelmed the sewage system and left roads under water and street level shops swimming in water on March 28.

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