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Royal Marine Commandos board the Smyrtos shadow fleet tanker in the English Channel, June 14 2026

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

NASA TEMPO satellite image showing nitrogen dioxide pollution readings over Los Angeles County during the January 2025 fires

Lee Zeldin Found a Way to Skip the Courts and Kill California’s Climate Rules Anyway

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin sent four of California's Clean Air Act waivers to Congress on Thursday to be repealed under the Congressional Review Act. It is the third leg of the Trump

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

A container ship anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran

The CFTC May Block CME’s 24/7 Oil Contract, Because Letting Retail Trade Crude Through a Weekend Iran Crisis Is a Different Risk Than It Used to Be

CME Group on Thursday announced 24/7 trading for a new tenth-size WTI oil contract, launching August 30. The CFTC is weighing whether to block it. The reason is the rest of this

June 13, 2026

Business·Markets·News

NASA ISS astronaut photograph of coal mining operations in the Surat Basin Queensland Australia

Australia’s COP President Says It’s Time to Quit Fossil Fuels. Its Coal Exports Say Otherwise.

Chris Bowen, the Australian climate minister steering the COP31 negotiations, told AFP at the UN's mid-year Bonn talks that the world needs to get off fossil fuels. Australia is the world's second-largest

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Technology

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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

Lee Zeldin Found a Way to Skip the Courts and Kill California’s Climate Rules Anyway

The CFTC May Block CME’s 24/7 Oil Contract, Because Letting Retail Trade Crude Through a Weekend Iran Crisis Is a Different Risk Than It Used to Be

Australia’s COP President Says It’s Time to Quit Fossil Fuels. Its Coal Exports Say Otherwise.

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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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