{"id":660299,"date":"2026-05-01T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660299"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:20:01","slug":"the-week-that-was-in-international-affairs-uae-to-exit-opec-ukraine-makes-russia-jittery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/the-week-that-was-in-international-affairs-uae-to-exit-opec-ukraine-makes-russia-jittery\/","title":{"rendered":"The week that was in international affairs: UAE to exit Opec; Ukraine makes Russia jittery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5. This week we are covering UAE\u2019s exit from Opec, how Ukraine is taking the war to Russia, King Charles\u2019 successful US trip, Syria\u2019s transitional justice, and China\u2019s coercion of three African countries to block overflight of Taiwanese President. So, let\u2019s get to it:<\/p>\n<p>UAE to exit Opec: In a big move, UAE has announced its decision to exit the Opec oil cartel by May 1. This comes as a serious blow to the group amid the ongoing double blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of global oil supplies flowed before the outbreak of the Iran war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5. This week we are covering UAE\u2019s exit from Opec, how Ukraine is taking the war to Russia, King Charles\u2019 successful US trip, Syria\u2019s transitional justice, and China\u2019s coercion of three African countries to block overflight of Taiwanese President. So, let\u2019s get to it: UAE to exit Opec: In a big move, UAE has announced its decision to exit the Opec oil cartel by May 1. This comes as a serious blow to the group amid the ongoing double blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of global oil supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660300,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660299\/revisions\/660300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}