Gothenburg / New Delhi, May 18, 2026 — When Swedish Gripen fighter jets escorted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aircraft into Gothenburg on May 17, the symbolism was deliberate and multilayered. Sweden was not merely welcoming a visiting head of government. It was signalling the arrival of a potential customer for its most advanced combat aircraft…
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By Staff Reporter | May 18, 2026 Global financial markets are navigating one of their most turbulent stretches in decades as the US dollar firms, government bond markets crack under pressure, and crude oil prices continue their relentless climb — all converging forces rooted in the escalating US-Iran war that has fundamentally altered the calculus…
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New Delhi / Washington / Moscow, May 18, 2026 — The deadline arrived. This time, Washington did not blink. On May 16, 2026, the Trump administration allowed the US sanctions waiver permitting India and other nations to purchase Russian seaborne crude oil to expire without renewal — the first time since the US-Iran War began…
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By Staff Reporter | May 18, 2026 A classified Pakistani diplomatic cable — now at the center of one of South Asia’s most explosive political controversies — has reignited global scrutiny over Washington’s alleged role in the removal of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, raising urgent questions about US foreign policy interference at a time…
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New Delhi / Abu Dhabi / Washington, May 18, 2026 — Three drones entered UAE airspace on the evening of May 17. Two were intercepted. One was not. The surviving drone struck an electrical generator at the perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant — the UAE’s sole nuclear facility, a four-reactor complex in Abu…
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Mumbai / New Delhi, May 18, 2026 — The Indian rupee broke through yet another floor on Sunday, touching a record low of 96.17 against the US dollar — a level that would have been unthinkable eighteen months ago and is now, grimly, a milestone in a slide that has made the rupee Asia’s worst-performing…
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New Delhi / Tehran / Washington, May 15, 2026 — The ceasefire in the US-Iran War is technically alive. The diplomatic channel is technically open. And yet, standing before the world’s press at the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reached for a word that no negotiating framework, no…
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New Delhi, May 15, 2026 — The optics were supposed to project solidarity. Eleven foreign ministers gathered in the Indian capital under India’s 2026 BRICS presidency, with the West Asia Crisis — the US-Iran War in its 77th day, the Strait of Hormuz closed, oil markets in turmoil — as the central item on the…
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New Delhi / Washington, May 15, 2026 — On April 15, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said publicly and unambiguously that the sanctions waiver allowing India to purchase Russian crude would not be renewed. Forty-eight hours later, he reversed himself. A new deadline was set: May 16, 2026. That deadline is now here. And India’s…
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Beirut / Jerusalem / Washington, May 15, 2026 — On paper, it is a ceasefire. In practice, it is a live conflict with a diplomatic label attached. Israel and Lebanon agreed on Thursday to extend their fragile truce by 45 days, following a third round of direct talks in Washington brokered by the United States.…