Streets Go Dark, Factories Close As Wartime Energy Crisis Bites
Recent images from around the world show far-reaching impacts of the fuel crisis caused by the war in the Middle East. Source link
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Cease-Fire Or Strategic Pause? Lebanon, Hormuz Test The Iran Truce
WASHINGTON — Forty-eight hours into a US-Iran cease-fire, the situation on the ground already appears increasingly unstable. Reports of continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, attacks across the Gulf, and renewed threats around the Strait of Hormuz are raising urgent questions about whether this pause can hold. Plus, the key disagreement between the US and Iran…
London Says It Tracked Three Russian Submarines Near Critical Undersea Infrastructure
British naval ships tracked three Russian submarines operating near the United Kingdom for more than a month in what officials described as a suspected intelligence-gathering mission targeting critical undersea cables and energy infrastructure. The Russian ships included a nuclear-powered attack vessel and two specialized deep-sea surveillance subs, Defense Secretary John Healey told reporters on April…
Ukraine, Russia Agree To 32-Hour Truce For Orthodox Easter
Kyiv and Moscow pledged to halt fighting for 32 hours to mark Orthodox Easter, as US-backed peace negotiations to end Russia’s four-year war falter and Washington focuses on its own war with Iran. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had repeatedly proposed a holiday truce and that it will “act accordingly” after Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Vance Heads To Pakistan For Highest-Level US-Iran Talks In Decades, Trump Warns Of New Strikes If They Fail
US Vice President JD Vance has departed Washington for Islamabad for their first peace talks of the war in what could be the most consequential diplomatic encounter between the United States and Iran in over four decades. Before boarding Air Force Two, Vance said on April 10 that he expects “positive” negotiations even as disputes…
As Hungary Votes, They’re Watching Closely In Kyiv, Moscow, And Beyond
Hungarians are voting in parliamentary elections on April 12 as war continues to rage in neighboring Ukraine and their government’s relationship with Russia is under intense scrutiny. Opinion polls suggest that after 16 years in office, Prime Minister Viktor Orban may be about to lose power to opposition leader Peter Magyar. But Orban has defied…
Former Top Russian Defense Ministry General Sentenced To 19 Years For Corruption
A former top Russian Defense Ministry official was sentenced to 19 years in prison for his role in a snowballing, politically charged corruption investigation that has rattled the top levels of Russia’s military amid the war on Ukraine. Pavel Popov, a former general who served as deputy defense minister until he was sacked by President…
A Sea Change In US Freedom Of Navigation Policy?
US President Donald Trump announced a two-week cease-fire with Iran after he said the Islamic Republic agreed to the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint in the transit of oil, gas, and many other commodities and goods vital to the global economy. Shortly after US-Israeli strikes against Iran began on February 28,…
Sailors Relive 1980s ‘Tanker War’ Amid Hormuz Crisis
Arild Syvertsen is one of many retired sailors reliving traumatic memories of the Strait of Hormuz amid the current crisis in the waterway. “We have this [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] flashing up again during this war,” he told RFE/RL from his home in Norway, “seamen that were there in the 1980s are having a bad…