Throughout 2024 and 2025, assessments of Red Sea security focused primarily on the threat to commercial shipping. Houthi attacks against merchant vessels transformed one of the world’s busiest maritime corridors into a high-risk transit route, forcing shipping companies to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, increasing freight costs and disrupting global supply chains. International…
March 29, 2025, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands: A pro-Palestinian demonstrator burns a hand-fashioned Israeli flag. Photo: James Petermeier/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect The Netherlands is expected to become the latest European country to restrict trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, advancing one of the most far-reaching measures yet as international efforts to…
Maritime chokepoints have repeatedly shaped the outcomes of international disputes by offering those who can influence them a potent means of leverage. In 1951, when Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry, the United Kingdom responded by deploying the Royal Navy to blockade Abadan and restrict Iranian tankers from transiting the Strait of…
The campaign includes 100 ads on buses across the country with a photo of an animal taken from inside animal transport trucks, with the message, “You’re on your way to a vacation. They’re on their way to hell.” In order to ensure her wishes are honored, a team from the Brigitte Bardot Foundation flew to…
0 US-Israel-Iran War Latest News: The conflict between the US, Israel and Iran is moving into another stage that is both dangerous and potentially disastrous, where economic sanctions and attacks on energy infrastructures take place in almost the same period of time while the US authorities announce new sanctions related to Iran, a drone attack…
When Israel goes to the polls this year, voters will weigh in on conscription, the economy and how the state should investigate its inability to prevent Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. AFP looks at the key issues shaping the campaign as Israel gears up for elections on October 27. – Accountability for October 7 –…
Saudi Aramco Pipeline: The smoke was still hanging low over Yanbu when the reality of the Red Sea blockade hit the operations desk at Saudi Aramco. For weeks, the calculus had been simple: take the long way around the cape, absorb the freight hikes, or cross fingers that the patrols hold. But when a Houthi…
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology was ranked 25th worldwide in a new index measuring universities’ ability to advance AI research, talent, and entrepreneurship. The Technion ranked first among Israeli institutions and fourth in Europe. The index also ranked the university eighth in the world for the number of graduates who go on to found AI companies….
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 29. Turkmenistan and Türkiye have discussed expanding cooperation in trade, energy, transport, and construction during political consultations in Ankara. The consultations were held at the level of heads of structural divisions of the foreign ministries of the two countries, according to a press release issued by Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The…
There is a temptation to read a deepening Turkey-South Africa relationship as a story about trade diversification and multipolar hedging – two “middle powers” finding common cause in a post-Western world. That framing misses what is actually gluing the two governments together. Ankara joined Pretoria’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice…
