Havana goes dark at sunset. Not because the city sleeps — but because there is no electricity. Cubans queue for bread before dawn. Hospitals run on generators that break down. Fuel-powered vehicles sit idle because there is no petrol to fill them. Families burn wood to cook. Children study by candlelight. This is Cuba in […]
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Iran had a plan. Close the Strait of Hormuz. Watch oil prices explode. Make the war so economically painful that America stops. It nearly worked. Three weeks into Operation Epic Fury, Brent crude hit $119 per barrel. US gas prices jumped nearly a dollar per gallon. Stanford economists estimated American households would pay an extra
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The United States is at war with Iran. Oil sits above $110 a barrel. Gas prices jumped nearly a dollar a month. And on March 20, the Trump administration did something that defies easy logic: it lifted sanctions on Iranian oil. The country the US is fighting. The regime it is trying to destroy. Its
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On March 19, 2026, the world lost one of its most enduring icons. Chuck Norris — martial arts world champion, 1980s action hero, Walker Texas Ranger star, and internet legend — died in Hawaii at the age of 86. His family confirmed the news the following morning. “It is with heavy hearts that our family
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The Bank of England held interest rates at 3.75% on Thursday, March 19. The vote was unanimous. Just weeks ago, markets treated a cut as a near certainty. The Iran war changed everything. Oil prices surged 50% since February 28. Gas prices spiked 20% in a single morning. Inflation — falling toward 2% before the
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Just after midnight on March 2, a loitering munition — a Shahed-type kamikaze drone — slipped through the air defences at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and hit a hangar near the runway. It burst into flames. No one died. But Britain had just experienced its first attack on a sovereign military base in Cyprus since
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On March 19, Brent crude surged to $116.2 per barrel — up 8% in a single day. That is the highest oil price since 2022. Moreover, it marks a 50% rise since the US-Israel war on Iran began on February 28. The trigger was a wave of Iranian missile and drone strikes on energy infrastructure
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On the morning of March 8, residents of Tehran woke to something that looked like ordinary rain until it landed. It was black. Oily. It coated cars, windows, and clothes with a dark, sooty residue. It stung the eyes and irritated the throat. Within hours, Iran’s Red Crescent Society had issued an emergency warning: stay
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It was a Monday morning in Minab, a small town in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province. The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school — a two-storey building painted with pink flowers and green leaves — was full of children aged six to twelve when the war began. Parents received panicked phone calls and rushed to collect their
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For most of the twentieth century, human evolution was taught as a tidy story — a single ancestral line stretching from ape-like ancestors in Africa to modern Homo sapiens. That story has been unravelling for decades. Ancient DNA from a Siberian cave revealed the Denisovans in 2010. The “Dragon Man” skull from Harbin introduced Homo
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