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Spain condemned Israel's new death penalty law as "draconian" and discriminatory against Palestinians, deepening the rift between Madrid and Tel Aviv as Spain refuses to support the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Afreximbank has underwritten $2.5bn of a $4bn syndicated loan for the Dangote Refinery in Nigeria, supporting Africa’s largest refining project and boosting energy security.

A coordinated gang assault on rural communities in Haiti's Artibonite region over the weekend left scores dead and thousands displaced, with rights groups putting the death toll as high as 70 while authorities confirmed only 16 fatalities.

Italy secretly blocked the US from using its Sigonella air base in Sicily for Iran strikes after jets were already airborne, the second NATO ally after Spain to refuse Washington access for the war.

Operators uncertain as to demand. European traveller opting for “last minute” approach.

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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.

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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.

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.

Iran's deadliest weapon is not airborne. Seventeen submarine cables on the Persian Gulf floor carry 30% of global internet traffic and the world's financial bloodstream. The IRGC may already have orders to cut them.

The world has fixated on oil prices and LNG disruption. It has almost entirely missed the far more consequential story: Iran’s asymmetric strike on Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility has severed one-third of the global supply of helium.

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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.

Trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin has fallen to its lowest level since before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as economic pressures and prolonged war fatigue weigh on public sentiment, according to new survey data reported.

Iran’s oil revenues have climbed sharply in March, rising by an estimated $25mn per day from the previous month to reach $139mn per day, as exports increase and price discounts narrow despite tensions in the Middle East, says Goldman Sachs.

Protests in the United States against President Donald Trump or the Trump administration by far outweigh rallies organized by Trump supporters, Statista reports.

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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.

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.

Iran has doubled its oil exports since the start of Operation Epic Fury, sustaining flows of between 2.4mn and 2.8mn barrels per day (b/d), including 1.5mn to 1.8mn b/d of crude. It has also doubled the amount of money it’s earning.

Disruptions to the fertilisers market are starting to bite as stockpiles run low in Asia and beyond just as the spring planting season gets underway.

In the eyes of the government of Iran, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) is a terrorist organisation operating its own armed group as part of its push for self-determination for the Kurdish people of Iran.

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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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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.

Three quarters of the world's population live in fossil importing countries and bleed out at least 3% of GDP every year to import oil to run their cars and power plants.

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