BEIJING, TEHRAN - A year ago, on a sweltering May afternoon in 2025, a freight train painted in the livery of the China-Europe Railway Express negotiated the final kilometre of…
JAPAN: Japanese Tanker Transits Strait Of Hormuz After Obtaining Iran’s Permission.
A Japanese-owned supertanker carrying two million barrels of crude oil has successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz after securing permission from Iranian authorities, marking a rare passage through the strategic…
GAZA: Israel Releases 15 Gaza Detainees Showing Signs Of Torture And Starvation: Bodies As Evidence Of Systematic Abuse In Israeli Prisons.
GAZA - On Sunday, April 26, 2026, fifteen Palestinian detainees were released from Israeli custody through the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza. They were not freed into a world…
CHINA: A Financial Stranglehold On Shandong’s Shore: How America’s Sanctions War On Chinese “Teapots” Is Straining Global Trade And The Rules-Based Order.
DALIAN/BEIJING — The vessel-tracking screens at the world's commodity desks are painting a picture of a global oil trade in convulsions. On April 24, 2026, the U.S. Treasury Department escalated…
LEBANON: IDF Bulldozers Tear Through Christian Town’s Lifeline, An Entire Project Has Been Destroyed.
DEBEL, LEBANON — The Israeli military has bulldozed the solar power grid and water infrastructure of the predominantly Christian town of Debel in southern Lebanon, in a methodical operation that…
UK: Shielding The Far Right, Silencing Palestine – The Battle For London’s Streets On 16 May.
LONDON — On Saturday, 16 May, the streets of central London are set to become a dramatic stage for two visions of the United Kingdom. The Palestine solidarity movement has…
US: Trump Evacuated After Shooting At White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
WASHINGTON - The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner marks one of the most serious security breaches at a high-profile US political-media event in years, raising urgent questions not…
UK: The Home Secretary Considers Sending Failed Asylum Seekers Back To Afghanistan.
LONDON, UK - In the spring of 2026, the United Kingdom's Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, stood before reporters in the French port city of Dunkirk and declined to rule out…
IRAN: Leader’s Aide: Unified Iran Stands Tall While ‘Deep Fracture’ Grips US-Europe Alliance.
TEHRAN, AYIA NAPA, LONDON — As the embers of the most devastating Middle Eastern conflict in a generation still smoulder beneath an unstable ceasefire, the geopolitical plates are shifting with…
CHINA-THAILAND: Chinese, Thai FMs Hold 3rd Consultation Mechanism Meeting.
BEIJING/BANGKOK - On April 24, 2026, as a late-afternoon Bangkok sun softened the hard edges of Government House, a carefully choreographed piece of political theatre unfolded. Thailand’s new prime minister,…
