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 are…
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New Delhi / Washington, May 19, 2026 – For seventeen years, one of the most strategically significant civilian Nuclear Goldmine 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…
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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 oil seaborne crude oil to expire without renewal the first time since the US-Iran War began…
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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 agenda. Instead,…
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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 largest…
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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 Trump’s Xi Summit Beijing negotiating table. As Trump sat down with President Xi Jinping on May 14, the…
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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.…
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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 media episodes…
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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 that Venezuela…
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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…