Britain and the United States have discussed military options to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that carries roughly 20–21% of the world’s daily oil consumption and has become one of the most dangerous chokepoints in global shipping since Iran moved to close it in the escalation following the US-Iran conflict that began in […]

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If China confirms usable water-ice at the lunar south pole before NASA even launches its own prospecting rover, the geopolitical consequences will far outweigh the scientific ones. Whoever first establishes what’s actually in those permanently shadowed craters doesn’t just answer a research question — they set the terms for how lunar resources get claimed, governed, […]

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Week in images: 06-10 April 2026

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Taiwan’s legislature is locked in a fierce fight over a special defense budget to acquire U.S. weapons systems — and the opposition party that’s blocking it just sent its leader to shake hands with Xi Jinping in Beijing. The collision of these two events has fractured what remained of Taiwan’s cross-strait defense consensus, and Beijing […]

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