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The Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Iran is of central importance for the trade of oil and liquefied natural gas. To date, approximately one fifth of all oil transport around the globe has been routed through this bottleneck. That's why the strait's closure has fueled supply fears among buyers and raised questions about alternative sources of supply ― including

The election of Menaka Guruswamy as an MP last week marks a significant moment for LGBTQ+ visibility in India's political life, with the openly queer lawyer now entering the country's upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha. Guruswamy is a constitutional lawyer educated at the University of Oxford, Harvard Law School and the National Law

An Azerbaijani court sentenced Martin Ryan of France to 10 years in prison on Monday, after finding him guilty of collecting secret information about Baku's military cooperation with Turkey and Pakistan. He was also accused of cooperating with employees of France's security services allegeldy operating out of the French embassy in Baku. Ryan had pled guilty

While the days of soccer being a go-to conservative punching bag for being "socialist " or a "sign of the nation's moral decay " have largely subsided, right-leaning publications still regularly trot out arguments for why the "US doesn't care about soccer " or the sport is "unjust and un-American ". In recent years, the sport has also

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Hungary's ruling and opposition parties each held major rallies on Sunday as they race to shore up support ahead of hotly contested elections on April 12. The rallies, held to mark the country's national day, pitted right-wing, pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Orban, 62, against opposition leader Peter Magyar, 44, who is seeking to end Orban's 16-year

Kosovo, Europe’s youngest country and the second-smallest nation in the Western Balkans with a population of 1.7 million, has fallen short of political and institutional stability for more than a year. Following two parliamentary elections in 2025, which Prime Minister Albin Kurti and his left-leaning Self-Determination party, Vetevendosje, won decisively, it is now the presidential

Kenya's Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi departed for Moscow on Sunday to press Russian authorities to end the recruitment of Kenyan citizens into the Russian military for the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin has roped in the nationals of dozens of foreign countries for its war effort, with many deceived into thinking they were being hired for

Skip next section Thank you for reading March 15, 2026 Thank you for reading The results from the Hesse local elections have already started to trickle in, but it will likely not be clear for a while how the various parties have fared. So for now, we will be winding down this blog, but be

Voters in France are going to the polls on Sunday in muncipal elections that are being considered as a final major gauge of political sentiment in the country ahead of a presidential vote next year. In particular, the ballot is being seen as a test of the far right's strength as mainstream parties seem to