Iran War: Symptom Of Political Failure, Mamdani Claims
Zohran Mamdani sat down with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and described his relationship with Donald Trump — a man who had called him a city destroyer on social media 24 hours earlier — as honest, direct and productive, with the unbothered delivery of someone who has decided that governing requires holding contradictions without […]
Goldman Prize 2026: Six Women Recognized For Green Activism
For the first time in its 37-year history, the Goldman Environmental Prize has awarded all six of its annual prizes to women — a milestone for a distinction sometimes called the Green Nobel, honouring grassroots activists whose campaigns have stopped oil drilling, blocked mining projects, won landmark court rulings and protected endangered species across six […]
NZ Capital Residents Urged To Leave Ahead Of More Flooding
Wellington declared a state of emergency Monday after record rainfall overwhelmed the New Zealand capital overnight, flooding homes, triggering landslides and sending emergency crews across the region on more than 150 callouts as authorities warned a second weather system was already moving in. The city received 77 millimetres of rain in less than an hour […]
Crude Prices Jump On Uncertain US-Iran Negotiation Outlook
Oil prices jumped nearly seven percent Monday as the United States and Iran careened toward renewed open conflict, with weekend attacks on commercial shipping, a seized Iranian vessel and a collapsing ceasefire combining to erase the brief optimism that had sent crude prices crashing just 72 hours earlier. West Texas Intermediate futures rose to $89.53 […]
US Captures Iranian Vessel Attempting Blockade Run — Trump
US Marines rappelled from helicopters onto an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman on Sunday, disabling its engines with naval gunfire after a six-hour standoff and seizing the vessel in the most dramatic escalation of the maritime conflict since America’s blockade of Iranian ports began — an act Tehran immediately called piracy and […]
Radev Claims Bulgaria Election Win Based On Early Tallies
Bulgaria woke Monday to a political landscape transformed, with pro-Russian former president Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party commanding nearly 45 percent of the vote after partial results — a performance that shattered opinion poll projections, humiliated parties that have dominated the country for a generation, and raised immediate questions about where a NATO member sitting […]
Eight-Year Rift Heals As Mexico President Visits Spain
Mexico and Spain took a significant step toward normalising a relationship that had soured into near-silence for years, as President Claudia Sheinbaum met Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Barcelona on Saturday in the first visit by a Mexican head of state to Spain since the Morena party came to power in 2018. The meeting on […]
Canada’s US Economic Dependence Now A ‘Weakness,’ PM Says
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a striking reassessment of his country’s relationship with the United States on Sunday, telling Canadians that the deep economic integration that defined North American partnership for decades had transformed from an advantage into a liability that the country must now deliberately dismantle. Speaking in a ten-minute video address, Carney […]
Cash Deserts Yemen Streets Despite Currency Stabilization
Yemen’s central bank succeeded in halting the collapse of the riyal. The fix has created a different crisis. A severe cash shortage has seized government-controlled cities across the country after the Aden-based Central Bank of Yemen moved aggressively to curb currency speculation — shutting unauthorised exchange firms, centralising internal remittances and establishing a committee to […]
Trade Route Darkens As Iran Reseals Hormuz, Ships Attacked
An Indian-flagged tanker was shot at and a cruise ship threatened with destruction as Iran reimposed its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, hours after a brief reopening that allowed only a handful of vessels through before traffic ground to a halt again. The India-flagged tanker Sanmar Herald was approaching the strait northeast […]
Lebanon Sheds Pawn Role As Ceasefire Holds, Leader Says
Joseph Aoun said on Friday that Lebanon would no longer serve as “an arena for anyone’s wars”, as he signalled a shift from a fragile ceasefire with Israel toward the pursuit of more lasting arrangements. In a televised address, Aoun told citizens that Lebanon was determined to move beyond years of regional entanglements and internal […]
Crude Prices Drop As Iran Confirms Hormuz Strait Access
Oil prices crashed and Wall Street hit record highs on Friday after Iran’s foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial vessels — the most significant development in the war’s economic dimension since Iranian interdiction effectively closed the waterway nearly seven weeks ago. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted the announcement on X early […]