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The shipment arrived at Changi before dawn — sixteen pallets of PAMP Suisse bars, crated and heat-sealed in Zurich, routed through a cargo carrier that had...
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On November 19, 2023, Houthi militants seized a Bahamian-flagged cargo ship in the Red Sea. That single act of piracy — framed as solidarity with Gaza...
Russian oil prices have surged from $40 to over $100 a barrel in less than a fortnight. Vladimir Putin didn’t engineer this stroke of fortune —...