Russia
Mini-Refineries Reveal the Limits of Russia's Fuel Response
The debate over small refineries points less to a viable fuel solution than to the strain on Russia's wartime economic management.
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Africa
Zimbabwe opens a new land-reform chapter with three routes for disputed farms
The government will return 67 treaty-protected farms, restore 840 properties acquired in error and let 409 remaining white farmers buy occupied land, while insisting redistribution is irreversible.
Brazil
Lula campaign recasts agribusiness as central to Brazil's growth and trade
The president's new platform gives agribusiness a more explicit economic role than in 2022, promising easier credit, diversified financing, technology and greater value added to exports.
United States
Trump threatens to declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory
The president linked his territorial threat to the US blockade and control of shipping, while Iran insisted that only Tehran can decide whether the international waterway opens or closes.
Oceania
Penny Wong frames Australia's multicultural cohesion as a national-security asset
The foreign minister's planned speech links domestic cohesion to Indo-Pacific partnerships, trade and resilience as One Nation's support rises and Pauline Hanson calls for a monoculture.
Middle East
Austria and Greece enter widening effort to restart US-Iran diplomacy
Washington's contacts with Vienna and Athens were followed by calls to Tehran, broadening an uneven diplomatic search for a way out of the war and the Strait of Hormuz crisis.
Europe
Black Sea strikes threaten Egypt's food supplies as maritime attacks intensify
Kyiv warned that attacks on cargo shipping are reducing food deliveries and raising prices, while Moscow rejected a proposed halt to strikes on civilian vessels in the Black Sea.
Oceania
China rejects New Zealand claims of espionage and foreign interference
Beijing's embassy disputed New Zealand's latest security assessment, which identifies China as the only country conducting espionage at scale and the most active foreign-interference actor.
Latin America
Colombia races to find survivors after century's strongest quake kills more than 110
A magnitude-7.4 earthquake devastated western Colombia, damaging about 1,600 buildings and confronting a newly inaugurated government with a national rescue, security and humanitarian emergency.
China
Bozhong 19-6 gas field reaches full Phase I operation in Bohai Sea
China's largest offshore gas field in the east is producing more than 5,200 tonnes of oil and gas a day, strengthening supply near the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as work advances on a second phase.
India
India considers tripling Cabinet threshold for foreign investment approvals
A proposal to raise the CCEA review line from ₹50 billion to ₹150 billion would give ministries greater authority over large FDI applications, while a parallel review seeks to prevent duplicate approvals for indirect investment.
Europe
Italy and Spain escalate Ceuta dispute with reciprocal border checks
Reciprocal checks on travellers have turned the Ceuta migration crisis into a dispute between two major EU governments, testing free movement while both sides insist the measures are temporary.