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Updated: 2026-09-03
Saudi oil exports sink to nine-year-low: Report The Yemeni blockade in the Red Sea and Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz have crippled Riyadh's main source of income
Why Washington’s Kurdish-led proxy became expendable Washington’s turn toward Damascus left the SDF bargaining over how much of its influence could survive inside the Syrian state.…
Europe enters winter with 'dangerously low' gas reserves amid Persian Gulf supply shock: Report The US has become the world's largest supplier of LNG following the Russia–Ukraine w…
❗️A short while ago, Israeli artillery shelling targeted the southern Lebanese town of Mansouri.
White House pressures US firms to skip Paris space summit The Paris summit comes as Europe looks to lessen its dependence on the US space industry
❗️Gulf stocks rise as strong economic data offsets renewed US-Iran exchange of strikes Gulf stock markets advanced on Thursday, led by Dubai, as upbeat economic data from the UAE a…
BREAKING | Sky News Arabia reports that the handover of the four Lebanese and Syrian detainees by Israel to the International Committee of the Red Cross has been postponed until 11…
Nearly half of US citizens say Washington's post-9/11 wars 'worth the cost' Some 4.5 million people are estimated to have died due to US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere as…
A head-to-head of how Backpack and Phantom advertise on Telegram — the Solana-rooted exchange-and-wallet versus the leading self-custody wallet, their creative and targeting differences, and what the Telegram Ads Spy archive reveals.
How advertisers reach Belgian audiences on Telegram — one of Europe's toughest gambling and ad-restriction regimes pushing operators offshore, a Dutch/French/German language split, and EU-regulated crypto and trading.
How advertisers reach Irish audiences on Telegram — an English-speaking EU member inside the UK-Ireland creative pool, a fintech and tech-HQ hub, EU-regulated crypto and forex, and offshore gambling under a tightening licensing regime.
How advertisers reach Korean audiences on Telegram — the real-name banking regime that pushes activity offshore, one of the world's most intense retail-crypto cultures, gaming and esports adjacency, and won-denominated payment friction.
Flags — the regions we asked our observer pool for while recording this ad in this channel. That is a label on our request, not a confirmed place of viewing: when no account is available in the requested country the pool silently substitutes another and does not say so. It is not the advertiser's targeting country either. We stopped requesting the region on {date}, so newer creatives carry no flags at all. The channel's main country (by its language) is highlighted in blue; regions under 5% are collapsed into +N.