Issue 2026-03-12
Stories
- IEA Green-Lights Historic 400 Million-Barrel Reserve Release After Hormuz Blockade
- Hormuz Nearly Shut: Brent Rockets to $119 then Slides to $90 as World Scrambles for Oil Fix
- Trump Administration Opens Section 301 Excess-Capacity Probe Into 16 Economies After Court Nixes Tariff Program
- Iran Blocks Hormuz and Strikes Dubai, Forcing Record 400-Million-Barrel Emergency Oil Release Plan
- US Airstrikes Sink 16 Iranian Mine-Laying Boats Near Strait of Hormuz
- White House Disavows Energy Secretary’s False Hormuz Escort Claim, Rattling Oil Markets
- Iran-Linked ‘Handala’ Hack Wipes Stryker’s Networks After US-Israel Strikes
- Spain Unveils HODIO: Public AI Scoreboard for Hate Speech on Major Social Networks
- 11 March 2026: Corporates Mobilise Compute, Culture and Governance to Shift AI From Pilots to Production
At a Glance
- On 11 Mar 2026 the 32-nation International Energy Agency unanimously ordered a one-off injection of 400 million barre...
- Iranian mining and drone attacks cut Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic from ~50 a day to near-zero, yanking 15-20 milli...
- On 12 March 2026 Washington formally invoked Section 301 to investigate ‘structural excess capacity’ in 16 trading pa...
- On 11 Mar 2026 Iran widened the war by droning Dubai’s airport and hitting at least three merchant ships, effectively...
- On 11 March 2026, U.S. Central Command conducted precision strikes that destroyed 16 Iranian vessels suspected of dep...
- On 11 March 2026 the White House refuted Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s deleted post that the U.S. Navy had escorted...