1. Lebanon Approves Cyprus Maritime Border, Syria Next

    ...11, but Syria – not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) – rejected this in 2014. Since the end of its civil war in 1990, Lebanon has oscillated between Iran-Syria and western influence. But with Hezbollah out of government in Lebanon and Syria now moving to...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2025
  2. Lukoil to Sell International Assets to Gunvor

    ...taining permission from the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Contral (Ofac), says Lukoil. Gunvor was founded in 2000 and has previously had to deny links to the Kremlin. In 2014, Russian co-founder Gennady Timchenko sold his 43% stake to his Swedish co-founder and Gunvor CEO Torbjörn Törnqvist ju...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 44
    Published at Fri, 31 Oct 2025