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Oil surges more than 8% as US-Iran conflict fuels supply fears
NEW YORK (Realist English). Crude oil prices jumped more than 8% on Sunday evening as investors reacted to the escalating...
Libya awards new oil and gas exploration licences in first round since 2007
TRIPOLI (Realist English). Libya has awarded new oil and gas exploration and production licences to foreign energy companies in its...
BP suspends share buybacks as oil price slump weighs on profits
LONDON (Realist English). British oil and gas major BP reported fourth-quarter earnings in line with expectations on Tuesday but announced...
Low oil prices seen strengthening Trump’s hand on Iran
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Low global oil prices are giving Donald Trump increased leverage in dealing with Iran, US Energy Secretary...
US threatens Iraq with sanctions over Iran-backed groups’ role in next government
BAGHDAD (Realist English). The United States has warned senior Iraqi politicians that it could impose sanctions on the Iraqi state...
Hormuz risks resurface as Trump weighs options against Iran
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Strait of Hormuz has returned to the centre of global energy concerns as the prospect of...
U.S. to receive up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil, Trump says
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that interim authorities in Venezuela will transfer between 30 million and 50...
Trump’s move against Maduro unlikely to shake oil markets, analysts say
NEW YORK (Realist English). The removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by the administration of US President Donald Trump is...
Baker Hughes wins multi-year contract to deploy artificial lift systems in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY (Realist English). Baker Hughes has secured a multi-year contract with Kuwait Oil Company to roll out advanced artificial...
Armenian battalion named after Marshal Bagramyan established in Donetsk: veterans of Abkhazia hand over their banner to Donbas volunteers
MOSCOW (Realist English). On 6 May, a historic ceremony of handing over a battle banner took place at the Cathedral of...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
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