Strong rates to limit prompt tanker sales as owners milk cash cows one last time
Analysts and brokers say market still active, but healthy spot rates on offer could change this
Day: August 28, 2025
Main highway from Damascus to Sweida reopens to aid convoys weeks after Syria violence
An aid convoy has entered the city of Sweida in southern Syria via the main highway from Damascus for the first since a major outbreak of sectarian violence last month that shook the country’s fragile recovery from nearly 14 years of civil war.
Bermuda Triangle mystery could be solved: Scientist claims this natural phenomenon is responsible for ship vanishings and plane disappearances
For centuries, the Bermuda Triangle has been associated with mysterious disappearances, fueling supernatural theories. However, oceanographer Dr. Simon Boxall proposes a scientific explanation: gigantic rogue waves. These massive waves, capable of over…
Final arguments conclude in Jimmy Lai national security trial
Government-picked judges consider verdict in high-profile case against Hong Kong media mogul and activistFinal arguments have concluded in the national security trial of the pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong.Government-picked judges are…
American Military Power and World Peace: A Strategic Paradox?
Reliance on military primacy as a tool of governance often undermines the very stability it seeks to guarantee.
Russian drone and missile attack kills 15 and injures 48 in Ukraine’s capital
Four children, aged between two and 17, were among those killed in the attack on Kyiv.
Iran’s rial currency falls to near-record lows on European ‘snapback’ sanctions threat
Iran’s rial currency has fallen to near-record lows as concerns grow that European nations may reimpose United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program
Japanese officials apologize at grave of wrongfully detained man denied timely cancer treatment
Japanese police and prosecutors have apologized at the grave of Shizuo Aishima, a wrongfully accused man who died of cancer without proper treatment due to prolonged detention.
US health agency’s Susan Monarez fired
Health scientist and longtime civil servant Susan Monarez was fired from her short-lived role as head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the White House confirmed Wednesday. Monarez said she had refused to sign off on what she…
‘My friend got hit in the back’: Witnesses describe terror of US school shooting
One young boy says he was protected from gunfire in a church by a friend who lay on top of him and was shot.