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…
Amman, July 27 (Petra) – The Jordan Strategy Forum (JSF) issued a policy paper titled “Jordan and Economic Corridors: Strategic Opportunities in a Changing Global Economy,” which addressed the rapid transformations in international trade and transport networks, and opportunities that emerging economic corridors offer Jordan to enhance its standing in the regional and global trade…
Ian Austin, who was elevated to the Lords by Boris Johnson, is tasked with boosting Britain’s trading relationship with the rogue state. Lord Austin is a deeply controversial figure with a history of smearing his rivals, for which he has been forced to apologise in the past. A Green Party of England and Wales source…
Oil tankers move through the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran and Oman negotiate fees for Western ships passing through this sea route. Photo: Xinhua On July 28, according to TASS news agency, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali said that Iran and Oman are negotiating to decide on the fee applied to Western ships passing…
Israel has closed its newest investigation into Canadian allegations of dumping of cannabis into the Israeli market from Canada, citing human error. Israel’s Commissioner for Trade Levies and the Ministry of Economy and Industry have quietly closed their new investigation into allegations of dumping of medical cannabis into the Israeli market from Canada. In an…
TEHRAN- Rashid Meredov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, and Farzaneh Sadegh, Minister of Transport and Urban Development of Iran, as the heads of the Turkmenistan-Iran Economic Cooperation Committee, held talks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat. According to the news portal of the Ministry of Transport and Urban Development, in…
Oliver Towfigh Nia 28 July 2026•Update: 28 July 2026 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday ruled out general sanctions against Israel, while voicing deep concern over the Israeli government’s activities in the occupied West Bank. “We are observing the Israeli government’s activities in the West Bank settlements with great concern,” Merz said at a joint…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 28. Turkmenistan’s rapidly growing construction sector offers significant opportunities for suppliers of steel products, an Uzbek manufacturer said. The assessment was made by Alisher Abdurakhmanov, a representative of Uzbek company Pipe Metal, during the Turkmen-Uzbek business forum in Ashgabat, according to a press release issued by the Turkmen government on July 28….
Israel is among dozens of countries hit with a higher duty on local goods exported to the US, after President Donald Trump’s administration unleashed a fresh round of tariffs targeting its trading partners. The Trump administration on Friday imposed new tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on goods from more than 60 trading partners, premised on…
According to vessel-tracking data from Kpler cited by Reuters, only 11 commodity tankers passed through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Sunday, the lowest daily volume recorded in several months. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, serves as the southern gateway to Egypt’s Suez Canal. …
