Under the EU’s current mechanism, the cap on Russian Urals crude is automatically adjusted every six months to remain 15% below average market prices. The current ceiling is $44.10 per barrel, but rising oil prices linked to the war and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could push the next cap review in July above $65 per barrel.

Officials are discussing several options, including keeping the cap frozen at current levels, suspending automatic increases through the end of the year, or limiting any increase to the previous Group of Seven cap of $60.

The measures are expected to form part of the EU’s 21st sanctions package against Russia. Other proposals include sanctions on additional banks, oil traders, refineries, crypto operators, and about 20 more vessels tied to Russia’s shadow tanker fleet, with possible future restrictions extending to liquefied natural gas shipments.

The EU is also considering tighter export controls on firms in China, India, Turkey, and Central Asia accused of supplying restricted goods to Russia, alongside measures aimed at protecting Euroclear after Russian court actions targeting its assets.

Fake News CNN said today, routinely, that my Iran Nuclear Deal doesn’t talk about Nuclear, when actually it states, very clearly, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon.

It then goes on, in very strong and lengthy detail, to discuss various other aspects of Nuclear. In fact, that’s what most of the agreement is about. CNN, and so many others in the Fake News Media, is a Low Ratings disaster. Even with new ownership, it is unlikely to ever get better!!!

Cepeda, who is backed by President Gustavo Petro, secured around 41% of the vote despite polls suggesting he would finish ahead.

De la Espriella is viewed as a pro-U.S. conservative aligned politically with President Trump, while Cepeda represents the left-wing coalition tied to Petro’s government.

The two candidates present sharply different approaches to Colombia’s long-running internal conflict, which has intensified again in recent years.

The so-called transmitted count has no binding force. Its data are not public norm.

As president, I do not accept the results of the pre-count from the private firm of the Bautista brothers, because the algorithms of the counting and scrutiny software should have remained static, yet in the last week they were altered on three occasions and added 800,000 ballots for individuals who are not in the official census presented.

There are two censuses at this moment: the official one and that of the Bautista brothers' software, which has 800,000 additional people.

The already impugned polling stations demonstrate that hundreds of thousands of votes were added without the existence of voters.

Therefore, and in accordance with the law, the binding results that the president will heed and accept are those of the scrutiny commissions directed by the judges of the Republic.

His party is reviewing the results with electoral authorities, according to him.

Cepeda also alleges that Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa was involved in manipulating the first-round election results.

Following Hezbollah's continuous ceasefire violations and its attacks on Israeli cities and civilians, PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have ordered the IDF to strike terror targets in Beirut's Dahiyeh district.

Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us.

But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively “chirping,” at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever.

Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!