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Oil tankers lined up in the Persian Gulf unable to transit the Strait of Hormuz

Hormuz Is Cracking Open — and 110 Million Stranded Barrels Could Crash Oil Prices to Pre-War Levels

Oil tankers carrying more than 110 million barrels have been waiting in the Persian Gulf for months, and analysts warn that a genuine Hormuz opening could flood markets and push Brent from

June 14, 2026

Business·Economy·News

Turkey petroleum energy dependency data 2026 TurkStat Brent crude oil price

Turkey Gets Its Energy Bill for the Middle East War

New government data shows petroleum products account for 41.9% of Turkey's final energy consumption — a structural exposure that a $5-a-barrel Brent swing in 48 hours has just made impossible to ignore.

June 14, 2026

Business·Economy·News

Vessels stranded near the Strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran negotiate a toll-free shipping agreement in June 2026

Iran Agrees to Toll-Free Strait of Hormuz Under US Deal, but Tehran Is Already Calling Service Fees a Done Deal

Washington says the Islamabad MOU bans tolls on Hormuz shipping. Iran's foreign minister says service fees are already embedded in the same text — a distinction that could define the deal's durability.

June 14, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·Government and Politics·News

Royal Marines Board Russian Oil Tanker Smyrtos in English Channel in Britain’s First Shadow Fleet Strike

Royal Marine Commandos and National Crime Agency officers descended onto the Cameroon-flagged tanker Smyrtos from RAF Chinooks in the early hours of Sunday, seizing a vessel that left the Russian Baltic oil

June 14, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Qatari Envoys Land in Tehran as Iran’s New Leadership Holds the Iran-US Deal Hostage to Its Own Internal Reckoning

Qatari mediators flew into Tehran on Sunday morning to try to secure Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's sign-off on the Islamabad Declaration, even as Trump declared the war effectively over and the

June 14, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·Government and Politics·News

NASA Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS satellite image of Black Sea phytoplankton bloom June 20 2022 with Crimea Russia Ukraine Turkey coastlines

Ukrainian Drones Just Hit Russia’s Largest Black Sea Hydrocarbon Terminal. The SBU Says It’s the Pattern, Not the Exception.

A joint SBU Alpha, Special Operations Forces and military-intelligence drone raid on Saturday struck five fuel tanks, two oil loading racks and Russian air-defence positions at the Tamanneftegaz terminal in Volna, the

June 14, 2026

News

NASA astronaut photograph from ISS of Persian Gulf with Strait of Hormuz showing Iran Iraq Kuwait Saudi Arabia Bahrain Qatar UAE Oman September 2023

Trump Says the Iran Deal Signs Sunday. Iran’s Foreign Ministry Says It Doesn’t.

President Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday that the U.S.-Iran framework agreement would be signed Sunday and the Strait of Hormuz reopened. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the memorandum

June 14, 2026

News

Residents walk past burning rubbish during protests over power cuts in Cuba

The UN Says Cuban Children Are Dying. Washington Just Sanctioned the Company That Keeps Cuba’s Lights On.

As Cuba endures blackouts of up to 20 hours a day and the UN warns that children are dying for lack of medicine, the Trump administration has sanctioned Union Cuba-Petroleo, the state

June 13, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

The Burj Khalifa towers over the Dubai skyline in the United Arab Emirates

The UAE Agreed to Unlock Billions for Iran to Stop the Missiles, Sources Say. Then It Denied It.

After weeks of Iranian strikes on its territory, the UAE has agreed to unlock billions in frozen funds for Tehran in exchange for a halt to the attacks, four sources told Reuters.

June 13, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

NASA TROPOMI satellite image of nitrogen dioxide concentrations across the continental United States showing the largest urban and industrial source regions

California’s Carbon-Capture Rulebook Just Made Industry Happy and Environmentalists Furious

The California Air Resources Board released its draft rules this week to govern carbon-capture, removal and storage projects under the 2022 SB 905 law. Industry asked for the scope to expand to

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

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Hormuz Is Cracking Open — and 110 Million Stranded Barrels Could Crash Oil Prices to Pre-War Levels

Turkey Gets Its Energy Bill for the Middle East War

Iran Agrees to Toll-Free Strait of Hormuz Under US Deal, but Tehran Is Already Calling Service Fees a Done Deal

Royal Marines Board Russian Oil Tanker Smyrtos in English Channel in Britain’s First Shadow Fleet Strike

Qatari Envoys Land in Tehran as Iran’s New Leadership Holds the Iran-US Deal Hostage to Its Own Internal Reckoning

Ukrainian Drones Just Hit Russia’s Largest Black Sea Hydrocarbon Terminal. The SBU Says It’s the Pattern, Not the Exception.

The UN Says Cuban Children Are Dying. Washington Just Sanctioned the Company That Keeps Cuba’s Lights On.

The UAE Agreed to Unlock Billions for Iran to Stop the Missiles, Sources Say. Then It Denied It.

California’s Carbon-Capture Rulebook Just Made Industry Happy and Environmentalists Furious

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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