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The toll-keeper of Hormuz – how the US just buried its own ‘freedom of seas’ doctrine

July 15, 2026

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean The most important response to Trump’s Hormuz announcement did not come from Beijing, Brussels or the United Nations. It came from Tehran, and it was four words long. “POTUS is absolutely right.” That was Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, replying to the President’s declaration that the United States would henceforth be

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Vanuatu to take decades-long dispute with France to international court

July 15, 2026

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Vanuatu will escalate a decades-long dispute with France over two uninhabited islands to international arbitrators. Talks between the two countries left everything to be desired on June 30, with neither country budging on its claim of sovereignty. The Matthew and Hunter Islands have been controlled by France for decades,