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The $30 trillion US Treasury market is exhibiting mounting signs of stress as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East trigger heightened volatility in government bonds that underpin the global financial system.

Iran's parliament speaker Ghalibaf has publicly mocked the US military's ability to protect its troops in the region.

Russian MPs and US congressmen swapped Trump socks and a Soyuz-Apollo postcard during talks in Washington

Russia is now selling oil at a premium on some routes as Strait of Hormuz disruption tightens global supply, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has said, marking a sharp reversal from post-sanctions discounts.

Around 13 consumer brands are set to leave Russia in 2026, including German fashion label Bugatti and several Russian retailers, as the post-sanctions retail exodus continues into its fourth year.

Tech

Montenegro has chosen Hungary’s 4iG Group to implement large-scale ICT projects aimed at modernising law enforcement technology and establishing a state-of-the-art data centre.

Plans to scale the service to thousands of robotaxis in the coming years, with potential expansion into other European cities and international markets.

WhatsApp is effectively dead in Russia and Telegram is "dying right now."

Poland’s government will prepare legislation to introduce a digital services tax, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski said, likely heightening tensions with the United States.

Albania is going through major digitalisation, says Dimitris Petrilis of Backbase, which is partnering with Jet Bank to deliver a fully app-based banking experience.

Opinion

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.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) is taking a big gamble. He is pressing Washington for a more aggressive stance in its Iran campaign betting the short term damage cost is the price of leaving the Kingdom as the dominant regional power.

As critical elections approach in Hungary and Armenia this spring, the recent experience of Moldova is increasingly being brought up by politicians, analysts and election observers.

Russia’s oil industry has been handed a short-term reprieve by the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but the boost from triple-digit crude prices does not alter the sector’s deeper trajectory, Sergey Vakulenko says.

Will GCC be drawn into war and unite against Iran? The foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan met in Riyadh on March 18 to discuss a possible security pact and taking up arms against Iran.

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All of Nato’s members have met the alliance’s 2% of GDP defence spending target for the first time, pushing total military expenditure to a record $1.4 trillion, according to data reported by Euractiv on March 20.

Qatar Airways has parked 22 jets at Spain's Teruel airport in under a week as Gulf airspace closures force carriers to store surplus capacity, echoing fleet grounding patterns last seen during Covid-19.

Fitch has kept Israel's credit rating at A with a negative outlook, forecasting a 5.7% deficit in 2026 and warning that debt will keep rising beyond 2028 unless post-war fiscal consolidation is pursued.

Contraction reflects a growing propensity to save among households amid rising uncertainty, a trend also visible in retail trade.

Obtains $700mn syndicated loan in five tranches.

Features

South Asian rivalry adding new dimension.

China is well on the way to becoming the world's first “Electrostate”. The nature of the global economy is changing. The carbon-based economy that has dominated since the industrial revolution giving away to a silicon-based economy.

Bolstering border defences while stepping up diplomatic engagement.

Troubles are brewing, though.

Iran targeted and hit Qatar’s Ras Laffan gas plant on March 18, the backbone of Qatar's LNG exports and source of a third of the world’s supply of liquid gas. If key components were destroyed the plant could take five years to fix.

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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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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.

With the Middle East in turmoil, the new Bangladesh government faces a critical moment in its power and energy landscape.

Poorer countries are projected to suffer sharply higher mortality from the increasing frequency of extreme heatwaves than wealthier nations, with death rates potentially rising by as much as tenfold.

A powerful storm system has hit Dubai with torrential rain, hail and strong winds, compounding aviation disruption at Dubai International Airport as Emirates works to restore full operations by March 29.

Shares in clean energy companies have outpaced oil majors since the outbreak of conflict involving Iran, as investors bet that higher fossil fuel prices will accelerate the shift towards renewables, the Financial Times reports.

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