Diplomacy
Every Magna Bureau story on diplomacy: 30 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day…
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals.
NewsThe first handshake in four years — Magna Bureau
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power — Magna Bureau
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box — Magna Bureau
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North — Magna Bureau
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports.
NewsNearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across…
A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now…
NewsWashington weighs exporting the dollar as stablecoin to…
Washington wants to export the dollar as stablecoin — a cross-agency push to fund deficits with token demand abroad. The plan to dollarize crypto.
NewsBeijing opens the liquidity taps with a record…
China's central bank pumps a trillion yuan a day into banks through Golden Week — its biggest liquidity backstop ever. Why Beijing is flooding the system.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S.…
Tehran's offer at the UN: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and Hormuz reopens in seven days. Trump says he said no. The full terms.
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise. Both navies blame each
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications — Magna Bureau
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a Janua
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts — Magna Bureau
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with W
NewsGulf oil exports hit a war-time high — as — Magna Bureau
Brent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; the tankers found another way.
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb — Magna Bureau
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Was
NewsThe gas field that straddles a border — Magna Bureau
Nicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diploma
NewsIsrael's gas fields post their — Magna Bureau
Gross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — and a diplomatic one.
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story — Magna Bureau
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran…
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…
Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle — Magna Bureau
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East…
NewsTrump signs “morally binding” AI accord with — Magna Bureau
Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally…
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell — Magna Bureau
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll…
NewsUS troops leave Iraq after 23 years — Magna Bureau
The last major US base in Iraq closes Wednesday, ending a 23-year presence — with Baghdad's premier demanding militias disarm by the same day.
NewsTrump accuses Xi of arming America's… — Magna Bureau
The US president says China is 'dumping' weapons into the hands of narco-terrorists killing Americans — hours before confirming a face-to-face with Xi in South Korea. Accusation and embrace, on the sa
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's… — Magna Bureau
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a
NewsFlyDubai FZ1073: cockpit stabbing and a… — Magna Bureau
Over Jordan, the co-pilot allegedly knifed the captain; the 737 MAX 8 plunged 14,000 feet and passengers stormed the cockpit — Israel's terror probe is on.
NewsTrump: "I offered Iran NOTHING"… — Magna Bureau
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's… — Magna Bureau
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting. The same day, the rial crossed 2.5 million to the dollar
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving… — Magna Bureau
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest
NewsThe POWs Seoul Wanted Kept Secret — Magna Bureau
South Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Kore
NewsLeo XIV at Lourdes: 150,000, One Defiant… — Magna Bureau
On the prairie beside Lourdes' basilica, before 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — the first American pope condemned assisted dying as “false compassion” at the shrine of miraculous cures, and dec