India is preparing to send oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since Iran closed the waterway on March 4, 2026 — a high-stakes maritime gamble that reflects the severity of the energy crisis now gripping the world’s third-largest oil importer as the US-Iran war reshapes global supply chains from the…
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Washington / Tehran / Global Markets, May 20, 2026 — In a historic rebuke that cuts to the constitutional heart of America’s role in the iran crisis, the US Senate voted 50-47 on May 19 to advance a war powers resolution requiring congressional approval before President Trump can launch any further Iran strikes. Four Republicans…
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Days before Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing for a two-day state visit with President Xi Jinping, a cascade of intelligence disclosures, European sanctions filings, and investigative reports laid bare the most detailed picture yet of how China has quietly sustained Russia and Ukraine war machine — even while presenting itself to Washington as…
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Washington / New York / London, May 20, 2026 — The pattern is too precise to be coincidence. Too profitable to be luck. And too consequential — for the global market, for the integrity of America’s war-making, and for every ordinary investor trading oil futures without a hotline to the White House — to go…
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By Staff Reporter | May 20, 2026 When Operation Epic Fury launched in the early hours of February 28, 2026, NATO’s European allies were neither consulted nor informed until US and Israeli warplanes were already in Iranian airspace. The alliance that had defined Western collective security for seven decades watched from the sidelines as Donald…
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Washington / Tel Aviv / Tehran, May 20, 2026 — In the canon of modern geopolitical miscalculations, this one may rank among the most audacious — and the most revealing. A bombshell report published this week, drawing on US officials and first detailed by The New York Times, has disclosed that Israel developed and the…
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In the most concrete commercial outcome to emerge from the high-stakes Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, China has agreed to purchase 200 Boeing jets worth an estimated $17–19 billion — the largest Chinese aviation order in nearly a decade — while simultaneously pushing Washington to extend their fragile US tariff ceasefire beyond its current November 2026…
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New Delhi / Gulf of Oman, May 19, 2026 — When India’s Shipping Ministry quietly reported that three Indian-flagged vessels carrying 76 Indian seafarers were stranded east of the Strait of Hormuz in the opening days of the iran crisis, it was a human detail buried inside a geopolitical catastrophe. The US-Iran War had begun…
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By Staff Reporter | May 19, 2026 Donald Trump’s presidency has entered its most politically treacherous stretch since returning to the White House, as a cascade of polls confirms what critics have warned for months: a clear majority of Americans believe his decision to wage war against Iran was wrong — and his approval ratings…
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New Delhi / Washington, May 19, 2026 — For seventeen years, one of the most strategically significant civilian nuclear agreements in history sat largely dormant. The 2008 US-India 123 Civil Nuclear Agreement opened the door. India’s nuclear liability law — which held foreign suppliers legally responsible for reactor accidents in ways no global company would…