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Doubts about Trump’s Iran strategy spread among troops – 'Do not want to die for Israel'

12:21 24.03.2026

Doubts about Trump’s Iran strategy spread among troops – 'Do not want to die for Israel'

The possibility of an American ground operation in Iran is growing, but one service member familiar with troops in the region told HuffPost the prospect would be "an absolute disaster," ‘HuffPost’ reports. As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week and President Donald Trump orders the deployment of …

3200 ships stranded in Persian Gulf – Running out of drinking water and food

11:50 24.03.2026

3200 ships stranded in Persian Gulf – Running out of drinking water and food

3,200 ships are TRAPPED in the Persian Gulf right now. Crews are running out of drinking water. One ship called the local port authority and BEGGED for permission to dock — just to get water. They were DENIED. Let that sink in. These aren't military ships. These are commercial vessels …

View from London: How Ukraine and Europe got caught in a geopolitical lovers’ tiff

11:50 24.03.2026

View from London: How Ukraine and Europe got caught in a geopolitical lovers’ tiff

The first sign of tension between Europe and Ukraine came in January in Davos, after Mr Trump launched his quixotic crusade to seize Greenland from Denmark, a NATO ally. Europe got Mr Trump to back down by showing a united front. Just as the continent’s bigwigs were basking in their …

FT: World faces gas supply cliff edge as Gulf’s final LNG shipments approach ports

11:46 24.03.2026

FT: World faces gas supply cliff edge as Gulf’s final LNG shipments approach ports

Countries around the world are facing a cliff-edge as the flow of liquefied natural gas from the Gulf comes to an abrupt end in the next 10 days, when a handful of final tankers from the region reach their destinations, ‘Financial Times’ notes. Qatar, which produces a fifth of the …

Russian Foreign Ministry statement on Western countries’ unlawful actions in the World’s oceans

19:26 23.03.2026

Russian Foreign Ministry statement on Western countries’ unlawful actions in the World’s oceans

Russian Foreign Ministry statement on Western countries’ unlawful actions in the world’s oceans: The recent developments in the World’s oceans have reached the point where they have become outright unacceptable. European countries such as France, Sweden, and Finland are acting with impunity as they stop vessels they deem undesirable and …

Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

19:26 23.03.2026

Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

On March 23, a telephone conversation took place between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the initiative of the Iranian side, Russian MFA informs. The ministers discussed the situation in the Persian Gulf, which has sharply deteriorated as a result of US and Israeli aggression. …

View from Delhi: Three 'fatal' assumptions that have derailed Trump's Iran war

11:12 23.03.2026

View from Delhi: Three 'fatal' assumptions that have derailed Trump's Iran war

America may now well be trapped in a war of its own making. The unending war against Iran is now being seen as a turning point in world order. How did the US get it so wrong? The US made three big assumptions before pulling the trigger on February 28, …

Iran ballistic missile hits Israeli city in terrifying strike near top-secret facility that is key to country's atomic weapons program

11:10 23.03.2026

Iran ballistic missile hits Israeli city in terrifying strike near top-secret facility that is key to country's atomic weapons program

Iran targets Dimona and Arad, injuring more than 100 people, in retaliation for an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, ‘Al Jazeera’ reports. The Israeli Ministry of Health says at least 180 people have been wounded in Iranian missile attacks on the southern city of Dimona – home to the …

‘Eurasian Times’: 16 U.S. aircraft shot down, THAAD knocked out, F-35 Hit, USS Ford ablaze

11:08 23.03.2026

‘Eurasian Times’: 16 U.S. aircraft shot down, THAAD knocked out, F-35 Hit, USS Ford ablaze

Iran’s low-cost strikes expose trillion-dollar flaws. The US and Israel have lost more than two dozen aircraft in the Iran War, alongside many high-profile radar systems, including up to four THAAD radars and Qatar’s AN/FPS-132 Block 5 Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR). Even the USS Gerald R. Ford, the US’s …

FT: Xi Jinping calls for China’s renminbi to attain global reserve currency status

11:06 23.03.2026

FT: Xi Jinping calls for China’s renminbi to attain global reserve currency status

Xi Jinping has called for the renminbi to become a global reserve currency, in some of his clearest comments on his ambitions for China’s currency as Beijing seeks to play a greater role in the international monetary system, ‘Financial Times’ notes. In commentary published on Saturday in Qiushi, the ruling …

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