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The US must respond after Iran shot down an Army Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, Trump says, in the first such loss of the war and a fresh threat to a fragile ceasefire. Both pilots were rescued.

Iran's football federation says its World Cup fan ticket allocation has been revoked days before the tournament, the latest dispute over the team's participation amid the Middle East war and US visa rows.

US forces disabled a Palau-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman after it allegedly broke through an ongoing blockade imposed by the United States against Iran by trying to sail to an Iranian port, the American military said.

Technip Energies (EPA: TE) has secured a contract worth more than $1.15bn for the Coral Norte floating LNG project offshore Mozambique, a major step in the development of one of Africa's largest gas provinces.

The head of Hungary's Integrity Authority accused ministers in Viktor Orban's former government of attempting to stop investigations into politically sensitive cases and orchestrating a campaign of intimidation.

Tech

Bahraini investment firm Investcorp has launched a formal AI investment methodology spanning its private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and credit strategies.

For decades, Uzbekistan was known for its cotton, gold and fruit. Today, it is increasingly attracting attention for something entirely different: technology.

Ashgabat takes steps to neutralise Starlink use.

Uzbekistan is betting heavily on technology as the next engine of economic growth, with state-backed IT Park emerging as the centrepiece of the country’s ambitions to become Central Asia’s leading exporter of digital services.

Russia has presented a domestically developed neuromorphic processor called “Altai”, a brain-inspired chip designed to perform artificial intelligence tasks with significantly lower power consumption than conventional processors.

Opinion

Ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election, Russia is carrying out a full-scale pressure campaign against Nikol Pashinyan’s government.

Europe is in a historic decline that threatens its economic model, political autonomy and global influence, and lacks the intellectual framework needed to reverse the trend, according to the head of France's elite Sciences Po university.

The world has changed in a very fundamental way. For most of the last century the world has been run on the lines of Great Power Geopolitics: them and us; the enlightened and the barbaric; the rich and the poor.

An opposition win would not be an economic, political or geopolitical disaster.

I actually suspect that no-one seriously believes in the existence of the "Thucydides trap": not the Chinese, not the West, and probably not even Graham Allison, the author of the concept (he's too smart for this).

Data

Global supply chain pressures have risen again in recent months, returning to levels last seen during the height of pandemic-related disruptions, Statista reports.

Fitch Global Ratings cut its forecast for Poland’s economic growth in 2026 to 3.3% from 3.6%, citing weaker GDP data and lower external demand, the rating agency said on June 8.

According to NASA, there is “unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate”, Statista reports.

Fitch has raised its 2026 oil and gas outlook to improving, lifting its Brent assumption to $87 on a five-month Strait of Hormuz closure, with prices seen at $100-110 before easing to $70 by September.

Data from the Indonesia Stock Exchange reveals that the Composite Stock Price Index or Indeks Harga Saham Gabungan has plunged more than 36% from its historical peak.

Features

A Eurasianet partner post from the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst.

Azerbaijan used Baku Energy Week to push new gas exports, upstream investment, and a larger US role in its energy sector.

The escalating crisis in the Middle East and severe disruptions to energy transportation through the Strait of Hormuz have once again demonstrated how vulnerable the global oil and gas market remains to instability.

Russian strikes close to Romanian territory and Ukrainian counter-operations highlight the growing complexity of security challenges facing Romania as the war increasingly affects the wider Black Sea region.

Government failing to convince “cautious people trying to prepare for the storm ahead”, he says.

Blogs

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.

Kyrgyzstan wants more infrastructure maintenance funds. Afghanistan is preparing to divert river flows for irrigation. Disagreements could mount.

Is Aleksandar Vučić finally running out of road? In Serbia, it is the question that follows every large protest.

bneGREEN

Poland’s updated National Energy and Climate Plan assumes a sharp increase in power capacity, renewables and nuclear generation by 2040, the government said.

The 169 MW Iepurești photovoltaic park in Giurgiu County, fully owned by Israeli developer Nofar Energy, has entered the operational phase and is moving towards commercial operation, the company announced.

The cooling of the North Atlantic "cold blob" is being driven by a weakening AMOC current system that may be nearing a tipping point, a new study using observational data has found.

Several countries across the region, including the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan, issued tsunami warnings following the quake, although most have since been lifted.

The tremor struck at 7:37 am at a depth of 33 km, with its epicentre located 32 km south of Maasim.

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