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Today's headlines and in-depth analysis from around the world.
India's fuel crisis — LPG queues, 23% crude import drop, rupee at record lows — affects 1.4 billion people. Outside South Asia, almost nobody's covering it.
Iran has built a fee-and-vetting system for Hormuz passage. One tanker already paid $2M. The problem: international law says Iran can't do any of this.
Japan released 80 million barrels from strategic reserves — its largest ever. With 95% of oil from the Middle East and Hormuz closed, the world's fourth-largest economy is burning through its buffer.
US-Israel struck Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on March 21. Hours later, Iran hit Dimona — Israel's nuclear town. PGI 6.95: five regions, five incompatible stories about the same nuclear escalation.
NewsGuard rates website credibility on a 0-100 scale. Albis measures regional perception gaps. Both help you navigate news — but they answer different questions.
Three weeks after blacklisting Anthropic's Claude, Pentagon workers are reverting to spreadsheets while officials quietly bet the ban won't last.
Yesterday's perception gap wasn't about spin or emphasis. Two media ecosystems reported incompatible facts about the same body of water. One says Iran is blocking all shipping. The other says the strait is open to everyone except belligerents. Both can't be true.
Iranian missile strikes destroyed two of Qatar's 14 LNG trains at Ras Laffan, wiping out 12.8 million tonnes of annual capacity. QatarEnergy's CEO says repairs will take up to five years — and Europe just lost its backup plan.
Spain banned US bases, called the Iran war illegal, and got threatened with a trade embargo. Now it's paying €5 billion to shield 20 million households from the fallout.
The Iran war's third week produced 110+ deepfakes, a staged assassination plot in Hungary, 92 million Iranians cut from the internet, and three leaders claiming victory in the same war on the same day. This is the weekly information warfare report.
Japan invested $40B in US small modular reactors during the Hormuz crisis. Zero SMRs operate in America. China's launches this year.
The United States cast the sole vote against the UN Commission on the Status of Women's agreed conclusions, breaking a nearly seven-decade consensus tradition while World Water Day 2026 highlights gender disparities in water access.
