HAVANA, MAY 18, 2026 — On a sweltering morning in Centro Habana, where blackouts now swallow up to 18 hours a day, a retired schoolteacher named María Elena Torres held…
IRAN: Iran-US Nuclear Deadlock Deepens As Tehran Rejects Pressure Over Uranium Enrichment.
TEHRAN/WASHINGTON - The fragile diplomatic track between Iran and the United States appears increasingly close to collapse, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declaring that negotiations over uranium enrichment have…
CHINA-US: Xi Warns Trump, Taiwan Could Become Flashpoint For Major US–China Conflict.
BEIJING/WASHINGTON - Chinese President Xi Jinping has issued one of Beijing’s starkest warnings in years over Taiwan, cautioning visiting US President Donald Trump that Washington’s continued political and military backing…
IRAN: Tehran’s ‘Reasonable and Generous’ Peace Bid and Washington’s ‘Unreasonable Demands’: Inside the Crisis Diplomacy That Is Pushing West Asia to the Brink.
TEHRAN / WASHINGTON / BEIRUT - In the smoke-choked towns of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah drones are outmanoeuvring Israeli air defences. In the Gulf, American warships shadow Iranian tankers. In the…
US: Trump, Epstein, Iran And The Politics Of Diversion: Growing Questions Over Accountability In Washington.
WASHINGTON - As renewed tensions with Iran dominate global headlines, critics of U.S. President Donald Trump argue that another story, one involving Jeffrey Epstein, allegations of elite protection networks, and…
IRAN: Strait Of Hormuz On A Knife-Edge: Inside Iran’s ‘Deterrence Through Punishment’ And The Unravelling Of Trump’s Ceasefire.
The predawn quiet of the Sea of Oman was shattered again on Friday. According to maritime security sources and local witnesses, a tense standoff unfolded at the mouth of the…
IRAN-US: Iran Calls Washington’s Media Bluff On Tehran Talks As US-Israeli Pressure Campaign Faces Collapse.
TEHRAN/WASHINGTON, 7 MAY 2026 — The Persian Gulf this spring is a powder keg wrapped in a narrative war. In the month since a shaky two-week ceasefire between the United…
US-IRAN: Inside Iran’s 14-Point Ultimatum, Trump’s Rejection, And A World Held Hostage By Two Blockades.
WASHINGTON / TEHRAN — May 3, 2026. The world’s most perilous geopolitical poker game entered a dangerous new phase this weekend. Iran has formally submitted a comprehensive 14-point peace proposal…
IRAN: “No Well Exploded”: Inside Tehran’s Taunt, Washington’s Blockade Theory, And The Oil Shock Threatening To Reshape Global Order.
TEHRAN / WASHINGTON / DUBAI — For three days, the world waited for Iran’s oil fields to detonate from within. On April 26, from the gilded confines of a Fox…
IRAN: The Blockade And The Brink: Iran Vows “Unprecedented” Response To US Maritime Seizures Condemned As Piracy.
TEHRAN - The narrow, 30-kilometre-wide corridor of water known as the Strait of Hormuz has long been the world’s most critical energy chokepoint, a maritime highway through which a fifth…
