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Live updates: Ship traffic appears to halt in Strait of Hormuz
Ships have stopped moving through the Strait of Hormuz, an intelligence firm said, and oil prices resumed their climb Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced on social media that the United States would blockade the waterway.…
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Why Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party Lost
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Why Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party Lost
The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.
By Thomas Carothers, the director of the Democracy, Conflict, an…
Orban ousted after 16 years as Hungarians flock to pro-EU rival
BUDAPEST – Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a key opponent of European Union efforts to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion, lost power after 16 years on April 12 as Hungarians voted in record numbers for a pro-EU course spearheaded by cen…
Wrong-way bets on oil had a star trader hundreds of millions in the hole
A team led by a star trader at Vitol, the world’s biggest oil merchant, took a several hundred-million dollar hit early in the Iran war after bets in the petroleum market went awry, people familiar with the matter said.…
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“Trump risks impeachment if war continues,” says ex diplomat Mahesh Sachdev
New Delhi [India], April 12 (ANI): Popularity of US President Donald Trump is waning with approval ratings at its lowest, according to former diplomat Mahesh Sachdev, who notes that with two-thirds of Americans not approving of a continuation of the w…
Top 5 countries in the world with the highest GDP (2026); check India’s position
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is among the most widely used indicators to measure a country’s economic strength. As per latest data by Worldometer (based on IMF projections), the ranking of the world’s largest economies highlights long-stand…
‘It’s time for China and India to really start providing foreign aid’
Too much focus is being given to the impact of US aid cuts and not enough to the fact that countries like China and India continue to provide very little foreign aid, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), one of the world’s largest humanita…
‘Excessive demands’, ‘Strait of Hormuz’: Inside US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan
The Strait of Hormuz, expectedly, emerged as a major point of contention during the peace talks between Iran and the United States in Pakistan, with the Iranian media saying that the other side was making “excessive demands” regarding the Strait.̷…
UK startup Altilium bags £18.5m to build Britain’s first commercial EV battery refinery
In short: Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured £18.5 million in grant funding from the government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country’s first commercial refinery for recovering critical minerals from end-of-life elec…
The Economy Is on the Ballot in Hungary
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The Economy Is on the Ballot in Hungary
How longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s economic record could shape Sunday’s election.
By Cameron Abadi, a deputy editor at Foreign P…