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Workers of French oil giant TotalEnergies walk past an gasoline tank of the former oil refinery in Mardyck near Dunkerque, France, October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

France Taps Strategic Fuel Reserves as Refinery Strike Grinds on

France has tapped its strategic fuel reserves to resupply petrol stations that have run dry, the government said on Wednesday, amid strikes by workers at refineries and depots that have stunted…

05 October 2022
FILE PHOTO: Container trucks, ships and cranes are shown at the Port of Long Beach as supply chain problem continue from Long Beach, California, U.S. November 22, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

The Supply Chain Crisis and the Future of Globalization

Last year, as the first COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out, I predicted in Foreign Affairs that the global economy would come roaring back and eventually usher in a new golden age of globalization…

Harold James 04 February 2022

Shameless Ways Companies Used COVID-19 as Marketing Tool

At the start of the pandemic, consumers were bombarded with a new and hastily constructed form of advertising. In those “uncertain times”, customers were promised, they could rely on their favorite…

Maha Rafi Atal and Lisa Ann Richey 19 December 2021
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The Israel lobby’s responsibility for the Iran war

17 March 2026

Advocates for the US-Israeli special relationship have played a special role

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Strait of Hormuz: the waterway critical to global trade 

18 March 2026

Any disruption in the Hormuz has cascading knock-on effects that extend far beyond energy markets, impacting international trade. Al Majalla explores all this and more.

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Iran after Larijani: a war without an exit

18 March 2026

Israel's assassination of the pragmatic and highly influential National Security Chief closes the path to de-escalation

Futoshi Matsumoto
Pete Reynolds
Business & Economy

Energy infrastructure attacks and the new security imperative

17 March 2026

By attacking Gulf energy infrastructure, Iran aims to apply economic and geopolitical pressure as a way to avoid large-scale conflict

Jessica Obeid
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Could the US-Iran war spark World War III?

16 March 2026

The current conflict is unlikely to go global for now, but the speed at which it has spread regionally is alarming. A look at history shows the geopolitical factors that led to world wars.

Christopher Phillips

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