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Trump’s Iran Deadline: Pope Leo XIV and World Leaders Call for Peace Amid Hormuz Crisis

As Donald Trump’s 8pm Washington deadline looms on Tuesday, the world is confronting not just another flashpoint in the Middle East but a stark moral and diplomatic reckoning: almost every major voice on the international stage — from the United Nations and European capitals to Gulf states and religious leaders, including the Pope — is urging restraint and dialogue, even as American rhetoric escalates toward threats of widespread destruction.The immediate crisis centres on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow chokepoint through which a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil once flowed. Iran effectively closed the waterway after US and Israeli…

Indian Refiners Freeze New Russian Oil Orders as Trump Claims ‘Zero’ Imports Deal, But Loopholes Persist Amid Trade Leverage

In a stark illustration of the tightrope India walks between energy pragmatism and U.S. geopolitical pressure, major Indian refiners have halted new orders for Russian crude oil following fresh American sanctions on Moscow’s oil giants, industry officials have said. The move comes as President Donald Trump, aboard Air Force One en route to Kuala Lumpur, doubled down on claims that New Delhi has pledged to slash Russian imports to “zero” by year-end, a narrative Indian diplomats quietly dismiss as exaggeration, even as they signal willingness to diversify supplies to ease escalating trade frictions. The pause in procurement, confirmed by sources…