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Review from global think tanks (7 april 2026 pm)

Today's sources: ASPI The Strategist; Crisis Group; Lowy The Interpreter; Royal United Services Institute; The Soufan Center; The Washington Institute Australia/US (John Coyne - ASPI The...

Worlds in Brief (7 april 2026 5:30 pm)

Afghanistan/Pakistan (Reuters/Al Arabiya) Afghanistan said on Tuesday that useful discussions have taken place in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi to resolve its conflict with...

Trump threatens “whole civilization will die tonight” amid 11th hour Iran negotiations

(Barak Ravid - Axios) President Trump threatened on Tuesday to wipe out the entire Iranian "civilization" if the regime doesn't meet his 8pm ET...

Qatar warns region ‘close’ to point where war escalation cannot be controlled

(AFP/Al Arabiya) Qatar on Tuesday warned the war in the Middle East was close to a threshold where it cannot be controlled after US...

Worlds in Brief (7 april 2026 12 am)

Haiti  (Caitlin Stephen Hu - CNN) As a new multinational force musters in Haiti, its foreign police and soldiers could soon find themselves face-to-face with...

IEA chief says current oil and gas crisis worse than 1973, 1979, 2022 together

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) The current oil and gas crisis triggered by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is “more serious than the ones in...

Iran war jeopardizes US global leadership, warns Italian minister

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) The Iran war has put US global leadership on the line, Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said, expressing fear about the “madness”...

Worlds in Brief (7 april 2026 9:30 am)

US (Holly Otterbein - Axios) Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is making the case that his primary race against Gov. Janet Mills is all but...

Trump’s tipping point: Destroy Iran’s infrastructure or give talks a chance

(Barak Ravid, Marc Caputo - Axios) President Trump faces a momentous decision on a tight timeline: carry out his threat to obliterate Iran's infrastructure...

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