India Cuts Fuel Export Duties Amid Global Refined Product Shortage

🛢️ NEW DELHI — India cuts fuel export duties while the world hunts non-Gulf supply. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: India's fortnightly duty cut on petrol, diesel, and ATF makes refined product cheaper to export — relevant when Gulf refinery output is disrupted and Hormuz runs at 10%. Indian refiners on Russian crude are the last major alternative supply node. The catch: duties reset in 14 days, making this a data point, not a structural shift.

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Smoke Rises Over Western Tehran, Cause Unknown

💥 TEHRAN — Smoke over western Tehran; cause and origin unconfirmed. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Western Tehran hosts IRGC facilities and missile infrastructure. With B-1Bs airborne from Fairford and Sanaa struck hours ago, unconfirmed smoke draws immediate attribution questions. No claim, no confirmation — but markets and Gulf capitals won't wait for

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Brent Rises After Houthi Strike on Riyadh, Sanaa Already Hit

🛢️ MARKETS — Riyadh struck while Sanaa burns; oil moves before the morning. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Houthis hitting the Saudi capital — not just energy infrastructure — triggers a different risk premium. Riyadh is a political target; markets price regime threat, not just barrels. With Sanaa already struck and the IRGC co-belligerent warning live,

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Powerful Blasts Strike Aleppo as Syria Front Opens Amid UNGA Crisis Week

💥 ALEPPO — Blasts hit Syria's second city while Sanaa burns and UNGA talks. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Aleppo sits on Iran's land corridor to Hezbollah. Strikes there sever logistics at the worst moment: Pezeshkian is at UNGA, Sanaa is already hit, and the IRGC co-belligerent warning is live.

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Explosion Reported in Sanaa, Yemen — Houthi Capital Struck

💥 SANAA — B-1Bs departed Fairford loaded; Sanaa is burning within hours. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Trump cut Camp David short over Houthi-Saudi escalation. B-1Bs left RAF Fairford heavy within 24 hours. A Sanaa explosion — Houthi command center — is the direct strike Trump refused for months. If confirmed US action, the

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Smoke Rises Over Western Tehran, Cause Unknown

Brent Rises After Houthi Strike on Riyadh, Sanaa Already Hit

Powerful Blasts Strike Aleppo as Syria Front Opens Amid UNGA Crisis Week

Explosion Reported in Sanaa, Yemen — Houthi Capital Struck