geopolitics

Oil prices fall as markets look to Iran truce, but remain wary of attacks on oil facilities Reuters

Foreign minister says plan could see Strait of Hormuz reopen within a week

Fanfare masks some of the US president’s own troubles, including his war in Iran and plummeting domestic popularity

Use today’s calm to prepare for the next perfect storm.

The lessons of Tehran’s hse of precise mass.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, frustrated by his bogged-down war in Ukraine, is trying to intimidate the European nations that — given President Donald Trump’s severe cuts in aid to Kyiv — are now Ukrainians’ main military, economic and diplomatic supporters.

Visiting mixed villages in former Yugoslavia before it careened toward its violent breakup in 1992, I spoke to neighbors who dismissed the idea of a coming war as simply unimaginable. But as each tuned in to the increasingly nationalistic TV stations of their respective Serbian or Croatian capitals,

London has lobbied intensely to secure equal treatment for British products but continues to rule out a customs union

But conflict is worsening its industrial divide

Intelligence service cites ‘low but growing risk’ of troop movement into neighbouring country or assault on infrastructure