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Will Trump’s Diesel Threat Force Europe to Release Its Emergency Fuel Reserves?
The Trump administration has warned France and Germany to release emergency diesel reserves to help lower global fuel prices or risk facing a potential...
Trump’s $200 Billion Korea Deal Faces Its First Test Over Alaska LNG
US President Donald Trump has unveiled up to $200 billion in new South Korean investment in the United States, presenting the commitments as a...
Trump May Not Win the Nobel Peace Prize, But He Could Shape Who Does
US President Donald Trump is unlikely to receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but his confrontation with the international institutions and political actors involved...
America’s Diesel-Ban Threat Shows Europe Is Paying for the Iran War
A Promise Meets a Midterm
On 22 September, Donald Trump said he might support a ban or quantitative limit on US diesel exports. Soon afterwards...
The Last US Troops Have Left Iraq, and It Is Now Iran’s Launchpad
A Departure, and a Drone Launcher
On 30 September the last American troops left an air base in the Erbil region, ending the US military...
Trump Set to Unveil Major $54 Billion South Korea-Alaska LNG Investment
President Donald Trump is set to announce plans to use $54 billion from South Korea's $350 billion investment package for building a liquefied natural...
The World Is Spending $8 Trillion on Weapons and AI Is at the Center of It
The global investment boom is no longer being driven by artificial intelligence alone. Governments are preparing to pour trillions of dollars into defence, creating...
As US Troops Leave Iraq, Could Iran’s Proxies and Islamic State Gain Ground?
US forces are withdrawing from their remaining bases in Iraq, raising concerns that their departure could create a security vacuum, strengthen Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias...
Russia’s Sanctions Resilience Has a Ceiling: The Structural Limits Behind Moscow’s Adaptation
Sanctions are designed to impose economic costs that eventually generate political pressure for behavioral change. Yet Russia has absorbed years of unprecedented economic restrictions...
Debates Dominate Over South Africa’s Exclusion From G20 Summit
At the 81st UNGA in New York, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated, unreservedly, Russia's objection to South Africa's exclusion from the G20 summit while...