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Hormuz effect? How US, China are ramping up tensions over the Panama Canal

attacks and seizures of ships during that time. Together, these frictions point to a broader shift in international shipping, demonstrating that major powers are increasingly willing to contest control of global shipping lanes, raising questions

Could Trump’s Iran ‘excursion’ be a bigger global turning point than Vietnam?

impact on the US, the international strategic fallout may prove more long lasting. Photograph: Tim Page/Corbis/Getty Images --- Clearly the domestic US consequences of Iran will never match Vietnam. True, the war was unpopular from

Is Israel’s ‘buffer zone’ inside Lebanon an attempt to grab gas reserves?

Iran, France’s TotalEnergies, Italy’s Eni and QatarEnergy signed an offshore exploration permit with the Lebanese government for Block 8. Reports of potential gas and mineral reserves off the Levantine coast go back

‘In the days of old, the world was safe’: West Bank family’s enduring unity

impact. The collision left Musa with severe internal bleeding. A teenage Thabet and others rushed to the scene, about two to three kilometres from the family home, attempting to give first aid. An Israeli ambulance