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…

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…

Standing before reporters on Air Force One as he flew home from Beijing, Donald Trump delivered the headline he had flown 7,000 miles to announce: China is buying 200 Boeing jets. “Boeing wanted 150 — got 200,” Trump said with characteristic satisfaction. “A lot of jobs.” The deal, announced on May 14, 2026 following Trump’s…

A sitting president is suing a government agency he controls for $10 billion — and his own Justice Department is now considering settling that lawsuit and potentially writing him a cheque. The legal, ethical, and constitutional alarms ringing across Washington are deafening. The story began not in 2026 but years earlier, with one of the…

Donald Trump walked into the most important bilateral summit of his presidency carrying something no diplomatic briefing can fix: a domestic political crisis so severe that his own voters have become the invisible third party at the Beijing negotiating table. As Trump sat down with President Xi Jinping on May 14, the geopolitical stakes were…

He was the candidate who promised to make America affordable again. Now, with gas at $4.50 a gallon, inflation at a three-year high, and 75% of Americans saying the Iran war has hurt their finances, Donald Trump has delivered the most politically explosive quote of his second term: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.…

Washington — It began just after midnight. By 2 a.m., the posts had accumulated into something that veteran White House correspondents, opposition researchers, and even some Republican strategists were struggling to characterise with their usual clinical detachment. President Donald Trump, in what observers are calling one of his most sustained and factually untethered late-night social…

Caracas / Washington / Georgetown — In a defiant rejection that carries echoes of the broader global confrontation between American power and the axis of nations aligned against it, Venezuela’s acting president has flatly refused President Donald Trump’s extraordinary request — framed in terms that blurred the line between diplomatic pressure and territorial annexation —…

Wall Street enters one of its most consequential weeks of 2026 carrying six straight winning sessions, a fragile Iran peace process teetering on the edge of collapse, and an inflation print that could rewrite the Federal Reserve’s script for the rest of the year. It is the kind of week where three separate macro forces…

The United States military has struck another alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two men and leaving one survivor — the latest operation in a rapidly escalating campaign that has now killed nearly 200 people since it began in September 2025 and sits at the centre of the most aggressive anti-cartel strategy…