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King Dollar still reigns supreme in liquidity-starved Gulf

There is a certain irony in seeing some of the world’s richest countries quietly ask the United States for financial relief. For decades, the Gulf monarchies cultivated an image of inexhaustible wealth: sovereign funds the size of nations, skylines raised from desert sands and

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Photoshopping the package

I bought a snack food the other day, and was disappointed to discover that the thing inside the container had little in common with the picture on the front. It was pallid, lifeless and drab. The marketer who decided to improve the picture was making a choice, one with

India’s Hormuz restraint is running out of time

India’s response to the unfolding crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has, so far, been restrained. That restraint was not accidental but reflected a conscious adherence to strategic autonomy at a time when the situation was still evolving, outcomes were uncertain, and premature

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Assessing climate change risks along Spain’s coast

A new project aims to assess the risks that climate change pose to the development of marine aquaculture along the entire Spanish coastline. AcuAdapt – Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies for Spanish Marine Aquaculture is funded through the PLEAMAR call from the

Japan’s Idemitsu Maru allowed through Hormuz, history in tow

The Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), Idemitsu Maru, has passed through the Strait of Hormuz on its way to Nagoya with a cargo of 2 million barrels of oil from Saudi Arabia. The vessel also carries a reminder that it was the Japanese oil refiner

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