Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday that Ottawa has suspended trade negotiations with Washington, rejecting a proposed agreement after US officials presented “last-minute” demands that he described as “unfair” and “uneconomic” and that failed to protect national interests. Sectoral barriers The proposed framework included a 4-million-tonne quota on Canadian steel exports coupled with…
By Staff Writer August 23, 2026 Global affairs this week were dominated by the continuing US-Iran conflict, growing uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz, the…
A number of grassroots Labour Party organisations plan to press UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to recognise Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip as genocide and to introduce a full embargo on arms supplies to Israel. The campaign will be stepped up ahead of the first party conference that Burnham will attend as head of…
7 US-Israel-Iran War Latest Live News: French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are expected to discuss ways to bypass the Strait of Hormuz as disruption to shipping through the strategic waterway continues to put pressure on regional trade and global energy flows. The development comes amid the continuing fallout from…
UK Lawyers for Israel has warned the UK government that a proposed ban on trade with Israeli businesses in east Jerusalem and the West Bank would breach several of Britain’s international legal obligations. Former trade minister Chris Bryant argued that the UK has a legal obligation not to “aid or assist” the Israeli settlements, saying…
Cairo, Egypt – Israel is moving to establish Haifa Port as a key link in the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) project, a move with implications that extend beyond traditional port competition and could reshape trade routes between Asia and Europe. In May 2026, the Israeli Ministry of Transport presented its “National Master Plan for…
Colombia’s new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has reversed a decision by his predecessor, Gustavo Petro, and ordered the resumption of thermal coal exports to Israel. Petro halted coal exports to Israel in 2024 against the backdrop of the war in Gaza and his government’s increasingly hostile policy toward Israel. De la Espriella said the…
The prediction that fierce regional competition would follow the ‘war’ in Gaza and the upheavals it caused, compounded by the war in Iran and the wholesale reshuffling of the balance of power that conflict triggered, and that this competition would centre on Turkey and Israel, is now being borne out by the latest developments. Turkey,…
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has warned the UK Government that introducing a ban on trade between the UK and Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem and the West Bank would breach several binding international obligations. The UK Government is actively considering banning trade in goods and services between the UK and areas of Israeli settlement…
. The writer is a non-resident research fellow in the research and analysis department of IPRI and an Assistant Professor at DHA Suffa University Karachi For centuries, the Caucasus was one of the great frontiers of imperial rivalry, separating and connecting the competing spheres of the Ottoman, Russian and Persian empires. In the twentieth century,…
