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...“Whilst I’d like to see some kind of kinetic action against the Behshad, I’m not sure we’ll see that in the near term,” he said. Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London...
...But she added that “if China were to actually enforce these sanctions, we’d have much less of a problem.”...
...Western powers are protecting the Gulf with such assets as the US aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower....
...Almost all of that is tanked to China from the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz....
...Choose between Cape Verde, Straits of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego and the Cape of Good Hope....
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...Across the strait on the mainland? “In the bunker.” The bunker? “Yep....
...When we spoke he was managing the museum but he’d really come to Pitcairn to open a diving business. He’d brought money and ideas to the island, but in 15 months he’d found it hard to fit in....
...“If there was competition then I’d have a choice,” he said on a busy street in Dhaka, the capital....
...“You’d have one ship on patrol like you saw in [the Tom Hanks movie] Captain Phillips and so when there was some kind of problem, they’d come respond,” says Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute...
...It expects demand to increase by 880,000 barrels a day in 2024, compared with a 2.3mn b/d increase in 2023. Additional reporting by Jamie Smyth in New York...
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...He noted that while some list Reform alongside major parties, others such as Ipsos require individuals to select “other party” in a narrow poll of large parties before spelling out who they’d vote for in...
...That has also been in dire straits and has had a really deleterious impact on the economy, just as bad as the electricity shortages....
...“They have happened with more frequency than we’d like,” he said of the intercepts. “Not all of them are unsafe and unprofessional, but these two were.”...
...“Then you’d have to probably take more specific actions to deter that specific action at a specific time and place.”...
...Globalisation repeatedly defied all the threats I’d warned about the previous year, and yet somehow it still seemed easier to detail risks for the 12 months ahead than to point at specific causes for optimism...
...Financial Times was ahead of the pack in spotting that superstar lawyers were earning enormous salaries that would rival top bankers, but one firm beat us to the punch decades ago and it isn’t one that you’d...
...A few days after they’d left Albania, another boat transporting more than 100 migrants, mainly women and children, was hit by an Italian military vessel in the Strait of Otranto....
...But he is also essentially on trial for having attempted to stage a coup d’etat....
...US president Franklin D Roosevelt was concerned that the Chinese leader might otherwise negotiate a peace deal with Japan on his own....
...“President Xi . . . and I agreed that either one of us could pick up the phone, call directly, and we’d be heard immediately.” Xi was equally conciliatory in tone....
...To get anywhere else in the world, they have to transit the Danish straits....
...One of the camera traps we’d set captured his departure....
...You know, the whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait....
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