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A China Strategy That Lasts automated-news
A China Strategy That Lasts

Congress must lead to compete with Beijing.

25 Aug 2026 🔒
Iranian tankers gather off Sri Lankan coast automated-news
Iranian tankers gather off Sri Lankan coast

Cut off from home ports by the US blockade, ships seek shelter close to Sri Lanka’s territorial waters

25 Aug 2026 🔒
Iran and Oman edge towards deal on Strait of Hormuz automated-news
Iran and Oman edge towards deal on Strait of Hormuz

Interim proposal on managing shipping is first hint of diplomatic progress to reopen the waterway in weeks

25 Aug 2026 🔒
Canada unveils retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of U.S. goods automated-news
Canada unveils retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of U.S. goods

Canadian trade negotiators left the U.S. last week after failing to clinch a trade deal that would stop President Donald Trump's new tariffs from taking effect.

25 Aug 2026 🔒
Replay: Canada announces countermeasures to new US tariffs automated-news
Replay: Canada announces countermeasures to new US tariffs

Rewatch as Canadian ministers lay out a series of countermeasures as its trade war with the US deepens after the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on Canadian goods.

25 Aug 2026 🔒
Store water and tinned food to prepare for emergencies, UK citizens to be told automated-news
Store water and tinned food to prepare for emergencies, UK citizens to be told

Ministers step up work on ‘war book’ in push for resilience against extreme weather and cyber threats

25 Aug 2026 🔒
Can Trump’s ‘economic D-day’ force Iran to capitulate? automated-news
Can Trump’s ‘economic D-day’ force Iran to capitulate?

Tehran made no concessions as a result of ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions eight years ago. Few expect it to yield this time

25 Aug 2026 🔒
‘Embarrassing’: US officials recoil fromTrump’s Canada attacks automated-news
‘Embarrassing’: US officials recoil fromTrump’s Canada attacks

Deepening trade war between two long-term allies descends into insults and recrimination

25 Aug 2026 🔒
Canada announces $20bn retaliatory tariffs as US trade war escalates automated-news
Canada announces $20bn retaliatory tariffs as US trade war escalates

Hundreds of US goods will face increased levies after September 8

25 Aug 2026 🔒
Can Trump’s ‘economic D-day’ force Iran to capitulate? automated-news
Can Trump’s ‘economic D-day’ force Iran to capitulate?

Tehran made no concessions as a result of ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions eight years ago. Few expect it to yield this time

25 Aug 2026 🔒
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