International Relations

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on March 7, 2026 that Russia would not publicly disclose quantitative data on its crude oil exports to India, saying: ...

A senior US official called for scientists and diplomats to jointly discuss the evolution of quantum computing, emphasising that the technology's strategic i...

According to a leaked US government memo, Washington has been pressing Sri Lanka not to repatriate Iranian sailors and survivors rescued from the IRIS Dena —...

Japan's Trade Minister Ryosei Akazawa met US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington and formally requested that Japan be excluded from a proposed US...

The US Treasury Department, led by Secretary Scott Bessent, issued a 30-day temporary waiver allowing Indian oil refiners to purchase Russian crude stranded ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, responding to the ongoing Israel-US-Iran conflict (which entered its first week by March 6, 2026), stated that modern global ...

While oil prices have attracted the most attention, the West Asia conflict is disrupting a far wider range of commodity flows — including fertilizers, LNG, a...

The United States Treasury Department, through its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), issued General License 133 — a 30-day emergency waiver allowing I...

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a temporary 30-day general licence authorising the delivery and sale of Russian-origin crude...

On February 28, 2026 — the same day the US-Israel strikes on Iran commenced — the Iranian government approached India reporting that the naval vessel IRIS La...

An Iranian naval vessel (IRIS Dena) that was sunk by a US submarine in the Indian Ocean on March 4, 2026 had previously participated in India's multilateral ...

Finland's President Alexander Stubb, speaking at the Raisina Dialogue 2026 in New Delhi (March 5–7), described India as one of the few countries capable of b...

Approximately 9,000 Indian nationals — including students, pilgrims, business professionals, and seafarers — were stranded in Iran when the US-Israel militar...

Following US-Israeli military strikes on Iran in late February 2026 — including the killing of Iran's supreme leader — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cor...

Finland's President Alexander Stubb, in a public interview, stated that Finland would back the US against Iran while also acknowledging that both the US and ...

On 4 March 2026 — the same day the US Navy submarine torpedoed and sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka — a second Iranian naval shi...

At the annual session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in early March 2026, the government announced its official GDP growth target for 2026 at 4....

US officials and intelligence assessments indicated that Russia had been providing Iran with real-time satellite imagery and intelligence data identifying th...

Iran's naval vessel IRIS Lavan, a 2,500-tonne Hengam-class landing ship, docked at the naval port of Kochi on March 4, 2026, after developing technical/engin...

Saudi Arabia intensified direct diplomatic engagement with Iran in March 2026, deploying high-level officials through a backchannel to prevent the US-Israel ...