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Today's headlines and in-depth analysis from around the world.
Desalination plants in Iran and Bahrain have already been struck. With 99% of Qatar's drinking water and 90% of Kuwait's coming from these facilities, the Iran war's least-covered escalation could threaten 100 million people's access to clean water.
Three weeks after the Strait of Hormuz closed, restaurants are shutting in Manila, petrol is rationed in Colombo, and Nepali migrants are heading home from India.
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.
Two of Qatar's 14 LNG trains at Ras Laffan are gone. 12.8 million tonnes of annual capacity won't return for 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.
