Category: World
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King Harald V of Norway died at Rikshospitalet in Oslo early on Friday, aged 89, after eleven days in hospital with a blood disorder and an infection. His son became king at the moment of his death.
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A federal court held that judicial immunity protects a judge accused of outsourcing a ruling to AI. That is not the same as saying judges may do it — immunity blocks a civil suit and leaves appeals, discipline and court rules entirely intact.
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The timetable changed again in July, days before the deadline it revised. A package sold as deregulation added a new prohibition on nudifier apps and consolidated supervision in Brussels. What the AI Act requires now, and what is still to come.
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A ship without insurance cannot sail — charterers won’t hire it, ports may refuse it, banks won’t fund the cargo. So when underwriters raise the war risk premium on a stretch of water, the shipping leaves. How the mechanism works, and why it is also a sanctions tool.
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The only chokepoint in this series that people dug. Egypt earns tolls on every transit, which makes the canal a national budget line as well as a trade route — and in 2024 it emptied out without Egypt closing anything at all.
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The IAEA cannot compel entry, impose sanctions or close a facility. It counts material, seals equipment and takes swipe samples — and only where a state has agreed to let it. What safeguards actually involve, and what happens when an inspected site is bombed.
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The White House says Iranian inflation is above 100 per cent and the state cannot pay its police. Neither figure is attributed to any index or source, and wartime disruption makes Iranian price data unusually hard to verify. What can and cannot be established.
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A tanker was hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. Iran and Oman are close to a deal on a temporary corridor. The United States, which is enforcing the strait militarily, says it is not part of the talks.
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Oil through the Bab el-Mandeb collapsed to 4.1 million barrels a day in 2024, then doubled to 8.1 million this year as Saudi crude was rerouted away from Hormuz. The escape route from one chokepoint runs straight through another.
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The world’s biggest oil chokepoint is not Hormuz. It is a 1.7-mile-wide channel near Singapore carrying nearly a third of seaborne oil and a quarter of all traded goods — and its collapse in volume this year shows how chokepoints are linked.