01Geopolitics3 November 20268 accounts

US strikes Iran's Qeshm Island as the war and the midterms collide

Iran fires on an American aircraft over Hormuz, Washington answers with a limited strike, and both sides insist nothing has changed

02Geopolitics3 November 20268 accounts

Netanyahu calls the Israeli election stolen as a hung Knesset looks to Arab kingmakers

Arab turnout surged, no bloc reached 61, and the campaign's losers are now questioning the count itself

03Geopolitics2 November 20267 accounts

Western Sahara peace mission ends after 35 years as vetoes bury referendum

The Security Council's double veto ends 35 years of ceasefire monitoring in Western Sahara, and the two sides read the same vote in opposite ways

04Geopolitics2 November 20266 accounts

Iran offers two-day path to reopening the Strait of Hormuz as tankers burn

Iran offers a two-day sequence to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but accounts differ on the plan it replaced and on whether the week's tanker strikes were leverage or a loss of control

05Geopolitics31 October 20267 accounts

Oil settles at a six-month high as Washington weighs new strikes on Iran

The accounts divide on whether the price carries war risk, physical scarcity, or the cost of diplomacy that has not arrived

06Geopolitics31 October 20267 accounts

Netanyahu's bloc finishes eight seats short as Arab-led parties win 19

The accounts divide on whether nineteen Arab-led seats will decide the next government, stay shut out of it, or put the result itself in question

07Geopolitics22 October 20264 accounts

A US envoy tells the Gulf that America's guarantee is gone, and cannot say what replaces it

Tom Barrack called it realignment, not abandonment. The Gulf's own record this year suggests the guarantee lapsed months ago, and the pact Washington now endorses has terms nobody has spelled out.

08Geopolitics21 October 20265 accounts

Trump is open to a Putin-Xi summit on Ukraine that would leave Kyiv out

The US president says he would meet the Russian and Chinese leaders in China next month; the accounts divide over whether the talks would be about nuclear weapons, the war, or Beijing's standing.

09Geopolitics20 October 20266 accounts

Rubio bypasses New Delhi for Mumbai and a Reliance refinery, and India argues over why

Everyone agrees on the route; the accounts split over whether it is a snub, a routine choice, a midterm errand or a sideshow to a relationship still doing business.

10Geopolitics18 October 20266 accounts

Trump waives new Russia sanctions two days before they were due to start

The accounts agree on the signature and part ways on whether it buys cheaper diesel, a peace deal, a reprieve for India or a longer war.