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Earth & Us

Earth & Us is a section dedicated to the concepts, doers and thinkers striving for a more sustainable and compassionate planet. Climate change, conservation, renewable energy, green innovation and responsible development – this section explores the issues that confront our planet and the solutions when and where they emerge. 

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We also highlight humanitarian projects, community projects, environmental achievements and inspiring work that continues to make a difference. The future of humanity and the future of the planet are bound together. 

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Earth & Us is a way to learn about this connection, to honor the advances that have been made, and see what can be improved.

India’s AI Data Centre Boom Could Trigger ₹2 Lakh Crore Clean Energy Investment Race

This is a huge opportunity for renewable energy producers, power equipment manufacturers and power infrastructure investors for India to become a global artificial intelligence infrastructure hub.

16 Oct 2026

Climate Change Pushes Global Food Prices Higher as India Faces Fresh Inflation Shock

The price of climate change does not limited to the environmental repercussions, melting glaciers or future forecasts of warmer weather.

13 Oct 2026

COP31 Climate Funding Crisis: Nations Raise Defence Budgets While $310 Billion Adaptation Gap Threatens Global Economies

The world is poised to invest trillions to guard its borders, military bases and strategic interests, but is not ready to invest in an adequate amount of resources to guard the land, infrastructure and economies those troops are supposed to protect.

13 Oct 2026

El Niño’s Global Warning: Bharat Must Prepare for a Climate Shock to Economic Power

A warming Pacific may appear far removed from India’s strategic concerns. Yet its consequences can reach our farms, electricity bills, food markets and foreign policy.

8 Oct 2026

Two thousand five hundred volunteers, one ancient tree and a lesson on how much help science can use

The leaves of the ginkgo resemble a small green fan. It's also, to a paleoclimatologist, a record of the air's condition when the leaf first grew.

29 Sept 2026

Kariyachalli Is Down to 3 Hectares, and India Is Spending Millions to Keep It Above Water

It takes approximately 25 minutes to reach Kariyachalli from the boat in the Thoothukudi mainland.

29 Sept 2026

A Chicago Study Says 15,800 Indians Could Die From This Winter's Heat. The Real Story Is How Shaky That Number Actually Is

It's a startlingly exact number that's going around this week, and it's one that nobody can yet measure: 15,800.

26 Sept 2026

The Planet Just Lost Its Water Savings Account And Nobody's Talking About the Bill

For the fourth consecutive year all the glacitated areas of the world have been in the red in the annual ledger. Not most regions.

22 Sept 2026

China’s Taklamakan Green Belt Proves Deserts Can Be Controlled But Not Conquered

The story of China's campaign around the Taklamakan Desert is often told as a great success of tree planting a 3,046-kilometre green belt around one of the most extreme environments in the world.

18 Sept 2026

A herd of nearly five hundred goats has gone to work on a US Marine Corps base outside San Diego, and the story says as much about the economics of American wildfire policy as it does about hungry livestock.

The Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Fire Department hauled in 471 female Spanish Boer goats from California's Central Valley and released them into an approximately 600-acre area of parched scrub at Camp Elliott just east of Highway 15 earlier this month.

17 Sept 2026

Extreme Heat Is Colonizing Spring and Autumn, and Cities Aren't Ready

A "heat season" used to be a straightforward concept: put away the sweaters, toughen up for a couple of harsh seasons, and then chill.

11 Sept 2026

The Planet Just Ran Out of Cool Options, and the Invoice Is Already in the Mail

The world's attitude towards heat has changed. It was a seasonal malady it was a miserable summer, a miserable hot spell, a tale which died with the first cool front.

11 Sept 2026

Brussels Backs Greece with a €4.77 Billion Bet Ahead of Europe's Carbon Reckoning

The European Union has disburse Greece the biggest single cheque it has issued under its Social Climate Fund and the timing of the transaction is as significant as the amount.

8 Sept 2026

The World Just Admitted It Will Blow Past 1.5 Degrees Now the Real Fight Begins

The world was for 10 years a temperature that was not to be crossed. So this week the United Nations is effectively giving in that line is going to be crossed regardless, and not in a begrudging manner but more in a triage kind of way.

3 Sept 2026

Who Pays for the Planet's Clean-Up: The Uncomfortable Math Behind the Green Transition

It deserves a moment's reflection, because it helps to understand why the argument has the effect it has in Delhi, Jakarta or Lagos.

2 Sept 2026

Nepal's Deluge Is the Bill the Himalayas Have Been Sending for Years

On Tuesday morning, the death toll due to the last week's flash flood along the border between Nepal and China rose over 1,000, and continues to rise.

1 Sept 2026

The Swamp That Kerala Forgot: Why a 140-Million-Year-Old Forest Is Dying in Silence

In the fold of the valleys at Kulathupuzha, Anchal and Shendurney in the southern part of Kerala, a forest is silently but inexorably disappearing in less than a wink.

1 Sept 2026

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Iran Uses Houthi Strikes on Saudi Arabia to Pressure Trump as Oil Prices Cross $106

16 Oct 2026

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China Sells India $125 Billion in Goods While Blocking Indian Exports: The $106 Billion Trade Deficit Exposes Beijing’s Unequal Trade Policy

16 Oct 2026

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Hegseth Warns Iran Against Nuclear Weapons as US Military Pressure Mounts and Oil Trade Faces Fresh Threats

15 Oct 2026

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Netanyahu Delays Iran Strike as Israel Faces Election Crisis and Wider Middle East Conflict

14 Oct 2026

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Iran War Threatens Global Oil Supply as US Military Build-Up and Gulf Attacks Raise Fears of Wider Conflict

14 Oct 2026

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Pakistan Army Takes Control in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as Imran Khan’s Political Stronghold Faces Emergency Rule

13 Oct 2026

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Israel’s October 27 Election: Netanyahu Faces Political Revolt as Iran War, Gaza and Economic Pressures Mount

12 Oct 2026

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Hormuz Tanker Attacks Put Indian Sailors at Risk as Oil Prices Surge and Global Trade Faces Fresh Threat

12 Oct 2026

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UAE Confirms 9/11-Style Plot to Crash Flydubai Jet Into Israel: Indian Captain Foils Terror Attack, Global Aviation Security Under Scrutiny

10 Oct 2026

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US Prepares 72-Hour Iran Strike Plan as Trump Delays Military Action Until After Midterms

9 Oct 2026

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Trump’s Green Card Curbs on TCS, Infosys and Wipro Could Shift Billions in US Technology Business to India

9 Oct 2026

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Israel’s Hardest Battle Is Turning Military Power into Lasting Security

8 Oct 2026

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When Coexistence Becomes Betrayal: New York’s Warning to Democracies

8 Oct 2026

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Trump’s Promise of Cheap Oil Faces the Hard Test of Peace

8 Oct 2026

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North Korea Backs China on Taiwan as Kim Deepens Russia Alliance

7 Oct 2026

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Three Years After October 7, Israel Faces a Wider War and the World Is Paying the Price

7 Oct 2026

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Iran’s Oil Minister Quits as Tehran’s Oil Economy Comes Under Unprecedented Pressure

5 Oct 2026

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India Steps Into the Russia-Ukraine Peace Process With a Plan Built Around the Black Sea

5 Oct 2026

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A Cockpit Attack Has Put the Dubai–Tel Aviv Air Bridge on Trial

3 Oct 2026

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Flydubai FZ1073 Exposes a New Aviation Security Risk for the Middle East

1 Oct 2026

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US and Iran Talk to Mediators, Not to Each Other, and the World Pays the Bill

30 Sept 2026

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Mamdani's Antisemitism Plan Funds the Locks but Skips the Hardest Question

30 Sept 2026

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Kabul Says It Killed 28 Raiders From Pakistan. Islamabad Calls It Fiction, and Nobody Outside Can Check

29 Sept 2026

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Washington and Tehran Are Talking Again, Just Not to Each Other, and Oil Traders Are Not Convinced

29 Sept 2026

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Iran Says It Has Caught a Second US Underwater Drone. The Pentagon Says Nothing Is Missing. Oil Markets Aren't Waiting to Find Out

28 Sept 2026

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Egypt Warned Israel Three Times Before October 7, and Voters Now Want to Know Why It Made No Difference

28 Sept 2026

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Trump's Iran Gamble: Why Washington Is Choosing Patience Over Peace

26 Sept 2026

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When a Terror State Tries to Lecture India, the Room Goes Quiet

26 Sept 2026

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The Black Sea Shipping Talks Put India at the Table. Can They Put Grain Back at Sea?

25 Sept 2026

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Netanyahu's Defiant UN Speech Can't Hide Israel's Mounting Isolation and Gaza's Economic Ruin

25 Sept 2026

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The Mecca Pact's Iran Gambit: Grand Promises, Unproven Guarantees

24 Sept 2026

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Tehran's Ocean Gambit: Why the Next Iranian Threat Reaches Far Beyond the Gulf

24 Sept 2026

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Beijing Is Building a Nuclear Machine Big Enough to Rival Washington And It No Longer Wants to Hide It

24 Sept 2026

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Jaishankar’s 4F Warning: Fuel, Food, Fertiliser and Finance Are Breaking the Global Order

22 Sept 2026

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The Mecca Pact Won't Fix What America Broke in the Middle East

22 Sept 2026

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Radar Locks and Diplomatic Notes: The Arabian Sea Standoff That Has Both Navies on Edge

19 Sept 2026

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Trump Leaves Netanyahu Off His New York Calendar, and Jerusalem Is Reading Between the Lines

19 Sept 2026

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Trump's Iran Reckoning: A President Torn Between Annihilation and an Exit Ramp, With Oil Markets and Gulf Capitals Watching Every Word

18 Sept 2026

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Houthis Claim Downing of Saudi F-15 Over Marib as Red Sea Conflict Drags Global Oil Markets Deeper Into Chaos

17 Sept 2026

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Washington Just Told the World It Has Weapons in Orbit And Beijing Is Not Blinking

17 Sept 2026

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Brussels Moves to Build the Emergency Button Europe Never Had

16 Sept 2026

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When Riyadh Called Israel, Not Islamabad

16 Sept 2026

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Zelensky's Conditional Yes Turns a Trump-Announced Truce Into a Test of Trust

15 Sept 2026

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Norway Moves to Criminalize Settlement Trade as Israel's Western Isolation Deepens

14 Sept 2026

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Yemen's Red Sea Coast Falls to the Houthis, and the Gulf Faces a Reckoning It Can No Longer Postpone

14 Sept 2026

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Gulf capitals prepare to sit across the table from Tehran as the Hormuz standoff drags oil markets deeper into uncertainty

12 Sept 2026

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Riyadh's Late-Night Calls to Washington Reveal the Limits of America's Middle East Safety Net

12 Sept 2026

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Beneath the Bonhomie: What Modi and Xi Really Want From Each Other

12 Sept 2026

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Putin Flies Into Delhi Carrying Oil Deals, Fighter Jets and a Peace Pitch

11 Sept 2026

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Six Months Into a War He Won't Call a Mistake, Trump's Numbers Are Turning Against Him

11 Sept 2026

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Britain Bets Its Middle East Standing on a Trade Ban Whose Final Shape Nobody Has Yet Written

10 Sept 2026

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Washington's Iran War Has No Exit Date, and the World Is Paying for It at the Pump

10 Sept 2026

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Tehran's Two-Front Squeeze: How Yemen and Iraq Became a Single Weapon Against the Gulf

9 Sept 2026

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Washington Trades Tankers for Missiles as the Gulf War Enters Its Bloodiest Economic Phase

9 Sept 2026

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The Warning He Chose Not to Hear

8 Sept 2026

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Britain Turns Trade Into Its Newest Weapon Against Settlement Expansion

8 Sept 2026

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Kushner's "Crazy Election" Remark Exposes the Real Fault Line Behind the Gaza Ceasefire

7 Sept 2026

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Iran Draws a New Line in the Gulf, and the Global Oil Market Is Already Pricing In the Risk

7 Sept 2026

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Kushner and Witkoff Touch Down in Moscow as Washington Makes Its Boldest Push Yet to End the Ukraine War

5 Sept 2026

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Lebanon's Ceasefire Is Already Dead in Everything but Name

5 Sept 2026

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Israel Snatches Hamas's Spymaster in Gaza City, Exposing How Fragile the Ceasefire Really Is

4 Sept 2026

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Vance's "Not a War" Gambit Runs Into a Seventh Month of Iranian Fire

4 Sept 2026

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Trump Says the Iran War Is Winding Down. The Numbers Tell a Different Story

3 Sept 2026

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Pakistan Rejects a $27 LNG Cargo, and the Lights Start Going Out

3 Sept 2026

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Washington and Tehran Are Back at War Over Hormuz, and the World Is Paying at the Pump

2 Sept 2026

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When the Bombs Fall Again: Iran Weighs Its Shrinking Arsenal of Options

2 Sept 2026

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Trump's "Hit Them Hard" Vow Reopens a War Wall Street Thought Was Cooling

1 Sept 2026

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Moscow Is Winning the Air War at Night and Losing the Economy by Morning

1 Sept 2026

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Iran Hits Back in Jordan and the Gulf, and the Oil Market Is the One Telling the Truth

31 Aug 2026

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Trump Says Putin Won't Touch NATO. His Own Intelligence Chief's Trip Says Otherwise.

29 Aug 2026

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Qassem's Fourth Rejection Leaves Lebanon's Fragile Truce Hanging by a Thread

29 Aug 2026

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On the eve of the invasion of Ukraine, the missile maths game is playing itself out.

27 Aug 2026

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CIA'S Silent Warning to Moscow signals Washington's fear of a Wider War

27 Aug 2026

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A Quiet Landing at Vnukovo- Why the CIA Chief's Unannounced Moscow Trip Matters More Than Washington Is Letting On

26 Aug 2026

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China's Fingerprints Are All Over the Drone That Rewrote the Rules of War

26 Aug 2026

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Washington's economic siege on Tehran enters its sharpest phase yet

25 Aug 2026

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Tehran's Death Threat Against Barron Trump Exposes a Regime Running Out of Road

25 Aug 2026

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Trump's North Korea Charm Offensive Is Quietly Reshuffling Washington's Asia Playbook

24 Aug 2026

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Skies over the Suez are getting crowded, and Beijing wants everyone to notice

24 Aug 2026

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India and Japan just told Beijing where the line is drawn in the Indo-Pacific

22 Aug 2026

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Trump's Hormuz Boast Runs Into an Economy Iran Still Won't Surrender

22 Aug 2026

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Trump's Economic D-Day: Betting Sanctions Can Finish What Six Months of War Could Not

21 Aug 2026

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Brussels prepares its sharpest economic weapon yet against Israel over East Jerusalem settlement push

21 Aug 2026

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Trump's Drill Cut Hands Kim a Win Washington May Struggle to Take Back

20 Aug 2026

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Pentagon's Gulf Rethink- Washington Weighs a Smaller Military Footprint After a Costly War

20 Aug 2026

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Iran raises the stakes on its Gulf neighbours as US weighs pulling back forces

19 Aug 2026

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Trump Ditches The Hammer For A Slow Chokehold On Iran, And Global Markets Are Bracing For The Squeeze

19 Aug 2026

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Netanyahu holds the line on Gaza as Kushner's disarmament push runs into an election clock

18 Aug 2026

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Trump's Tilt Toward Kim Jong Un Leaves South Korea and Washington's Entire Alliance System Exposed

18 Aug 2026

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Gaza's Disarmament Deadline Nobody Will Say Out Loud

17 Aug 2026

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Iran's Deadline Just Expired, and Washington Has No Good Exit Left

17 Aug 2026

Russia, WAR, Ukraine, defence

Ukraine Takes the War Deep Into Russia: Is the Battlefield Being Redefined?

16 Aug 2026

WAR, LATEST

Hormuz at the Centre of a New US-Iran Power Struggle

16 Aug 2026

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Iran's Nuclear Bomb Now Ranks Below Gas Prices on Washington's To-Do List

14 Aug 2026

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Washington Bets Iran's Broken Economy Will Crack Before the Global Oil Market Does

14 Aug 2026

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Pakistan can't answer a simple question: is Imran Khan alive, and if so, why can't anyone see him

13 Aug 2026

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Yemen slides back into war, and the world's oil map trembles with it

13 Aug 2026

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Missiles over Turkey: how an Israeli warning sent Trump fleeing Air Force One in a catering truck

12 Aug 2026

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Delhi's Hasina dilemma: a press conference that reopened an old wound between two neighbours

12 Aug 2026

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Israel Vows to Keep Hunting October 7 Killers Even as Gaza's Disarmament Plan Stalls

11 Aug 2026

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