WASHINGTON — The War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock runs out on May 1, three days from now, and the Trump administration has
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DUBAI — On April 28, 2026, the Panama-flagged VLCC Idemitsu Maru — loaded with roughly two million barrels of Saudi crude from
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Table of Contents The Vote That Closed the Door Why Did Russia and China Veto a Resolution They Had Already Weakened? Kostyukov
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DUBAI — A 142-meter superyacht belonging to Russia’s richest man sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on April 25 without a single
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TEHRAN — Iran’s regular army told the world on Tuesday that the war is still on. Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia, spokesperson for
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Guterres Warns of Global Food Emergency as Saudi Arabia Publicly Accuses Iran at UNSC Hormuz Debate Table of Contents Eighty Nations, One
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MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin sat across from Abbas Araghchi in St. Petersburg on April 27 and listened to the Iranian foreign minister
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ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates announced on Monday that it will withdraw from OPEC and OPEC+ effective May 1, 2026,
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DHAHRAN — Physical crude oil hit $148.87 a barrel on April 13 while Brent futures traded at $97. That $47 gap is
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JEDDAH — Leaders of all six Gulf Cooperation Council states convened an extraordinary consultative summit in Jeddah on Monday, April 28, 2026
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ISLAMABAD — Saudi Arabia transferred $3 billion to Pakistan in five days last week, preventing Islamabad from defaulting on $3.45 billion in
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JEDDAH — The first cohort of Iranian Hajj pilgrims landed at Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Medina on April 27,
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s declaration that he is “not happy” with Iran’s three-phase proposal — ceasefire first, Hormuz second, nuclear last —
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday rejected Iran’s Hormuz-for-blockade offer in language no diplomatic interlocutor recovers from quickly, telling
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DHAHRAN — OPEC+ voted on April 5 to raise its May production quota by 206,000 barrels per day — a figure that
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ISLAMABAD — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad on Tuesday, April 28, for his third visit in roughly 48 hours,
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RIYADH — Three American aircraft carriers are now operating inside Central Command’s area of responsibility for the first time since the 2003
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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia announced this month that government-wide local procurement has crossed 51 per cent, up from 28 per cent when
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cancelled a planned Saturday trip by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad after Iranian Foreign
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WASHINGTON — Iranian strikes across eleven US military installations in seven countries have caused up to $5 billion in infrastructure damage —
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ABU DHABI — Israel secretly deployed a full Iron Dome battery with several dozen IDF operators to the United Arab Emirates during
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JEDDAH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held phone calls on April 27 with the foreign ministers of Iran, Bahrain,
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TEHRAN — Saeed Jalili, the hardline former nuclear negotiator whose six-year tenure at the head of Iran’s P5+1 delegation produced three UN
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