The world’s most critical energy corridor remains effectively shut — and the shipping industry says no ceasefire on paper will be enough to reopen it. Nearly two months into the US-Iran war, the global shipping industry is sending a clear and unified message: vessels will not return to the Strait of Hormuz until passage is…
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As a pope and a president find themselves on a collision course, the Vatican’s moral voice grows louder, and more American than ever. In a moment that blends the spiritual and the geopolitical, Pope Leo XIV the first American-born pope in the history of the Catholic Church, has delivered one of his most striking warnings…
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It was not a Persian Gulf intercept. It was not a Strait of Hormuz operation. The oil tanker M/T Tifani — capable of carrying two million barrels of crude — was stopped in the Indian Ocean, in the waters between Sri Lanka and Indonesia, more than 2,000 miles from the nearest point of the conflict…
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France and the UK have had enough of watching from the sidelines. Today they convened an emergency multinational meeting on the Strait of Hormuz — because Iran already answered the question the world had been asking for decades. Can Iran close the Strait of Hormuz? Yes. It did. And Europe was never more unprepared for…
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Trump has announced he will extend the iran ceasefire past its April 21 expiry. But the state of the Islamabad peace talks is, by every independent assessment, deeply unclear. Iran hasn’t confirmed the extension’s terms. Israel isn’t bound by them. Ships are still being targeted. And “extension” is doing a lot of diplomatic work for…
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Britain’s inflation nightmare returned with a number that economists had dreaded and households had already felt at the pump: 3.3%. The UK inflation rate accelerated sharply in March, driven almost entirely by the most dramatic monthly fuel price surge the country has seen in more than three years — and the war in Iran wrote…
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The Islamabad talks have been suspended, extended, violated, and resumed three times in two weeks. But strip away the tactical noise — the ship seizures, the fast boat encounters, the Truth Social posts — and what remains is this: the US and Iran history has been building toward this moment for 73 years. And for…
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The morning of April 22 began with a threat. “I expect to be bombing,” Trump told CNBC when asked whether he’d extend the Iran ceasefire past its Wednesday deadline. By evening, the ceasefire had been extended indefinitely. The blockade stayed. The deadline was gone. And across social media, a single acronym reappeared like a recurring…
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Trump extended the ceasefire. Iran acknowledged it. Then ships started getting hit anyway. Three commercial vessels have been targeted in the Strait of Hormuz in the 24 hours since the “Trump extends ceasefire” announcement — raising the defining question of this conflict: does the ceasefire Iran agreed to reflect the position of the Iranian government,…
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On Tuesday, with hours remaining before the deadline he had called “highly unlikely” to move, Donald Trump moved it. The ceasefire with Iran — which the White House had repeatedly signaled would expire Wednesday evening — was extended indefinitely. No new end date was set. The blockade stayed. And the question that immediately followed was…