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Britain
Britain’s seizure of the Smyrtos, carrying 101,400 tonnes of Russian crude towards India, has exposed the extraordinary machinery behind Moscow’s shadow oil trade. The tanker had lost its flag, its ownership leads to Hong Kong, and its captain now faces prosecution. But the most important question remains unanswered: who owns the £35 million cargo Britain has seized?
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Middle East
Middle East
Defence
Russia’s larger population, deeper industrial base, greater energy resources and superior capacity in missiles, aircraft, air defence and large-scale weapons production are steadily widening the imbalance with Ukraine. As the war moves from the…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Japan
Economics
Economics
Military strength no longer rests on armies alone. Artificial intelligence, sovereign debt, industrial capacity, energy security and manufacturing…
Spain
The dramatic scenes in Ceuta were widely described as an invasion of Europe. They were not. The migrants…
Iran
A Ukrainian drone has killed an Iranian sailor in the Caspian, Russia has paralysed Ukraine’s Black Sea corridor,…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Ukraine
Germany
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Iran
America prepared a wider attack on Iran, but senior commanders warned Trump that further bombing might expose US forces without breaking Tehran’s control of…
World
Education
European governments are spending heavily on rearmament and warning of a possible conflict with Russia. Yet their citizens have not…
Germany
Germany has committed almost €80 billion in assistance and pledges to Ukraine, but the AfD says Berlin has failed to…
Germany
The AfD could win more than 40 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt without entering government. Germany’s anti-AfD firewall remains constitutionally legitimate, but permanently excluding such a decisive election winner could deepen the political grievance that…
Iran
After six nights of American attacks, Iran says it has struck US radar stations, air defences, aircraft facilities…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo argues that competition between leading AI companies could encourage faster development at the…
Defence
Western strategy in both Iran and Ukraine increasingly relies on the belief that more military and economic pressure…
Economics
America has accumulated extraordinary financial wealth, yet its productive economy increasingly struggles to deliver affordable housing, modern infrastructure, skilled employment and industrial renewal. For…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Iran
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Iran
Iran
As U.S. strikes hit Iran and Tehran claims rocket attacks on American bases in the Gulf, Russia’s reported Su-35 transfer…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The privacy debate is no longer about secrecy. In the age of AI, the danger is that scattered fragments of…
Iran
Iran is turning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral into a vast act of mourning and defiance, challenging Washington’s claim that the late Supreme Leader was merely feared rather than loved.
Russia
Russia
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Australia