India's Central Bank Tells Oil Refiners To Stop Buying Dollars On Spot Market

Watch: Armed Robot Dog Leads Close-Quarters Combat Drill A video circulating on X appears to show a close-quarters battle exercise, possibly involving the Chinese military, in which a heavily armed quadruped robot is used for clearing of rooms and hallways. A private company in Shandong, China, demonstrated the correct use of robotic “wolves” and drones: they first provide fire suppression, then soldiers advance. I think the only shortcoming of the robotic wolves is that they don’t perform flanking maneuvers and are not yet smart… pic.twitter.com/QCgWIsS7xh — China pulse 🇨🇳 (@Eng_china5) April 1, 2026 That...

Diesel Crunch Set To Worsen As Refining Capacity Falls Short, Industry Warns The global diesel market - already trading at record prices - is set to further tighten in the coming months and keep fuel prices high, raising the prices of all goods and threatening the inflation targets of the central banks. Industry officials, who gathered at the APPEC petroleum conference in Singapore this week, warned that the market has not seen the worst of the diesel crisis yet. Analysts say the real stress in oil markets is in the diesel...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday denied that Tehran was behind a drone attack that targeted the office of Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Earlier in the day, the Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service said that drones fired from Iranian territory targeted Barzani’s office and also the home of the region’s intelligence […]