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Coverage · August · 2026 · 3,786 articles

Three currents in Chinese political economy, surfacing in the same news week

China's bond markets sit still while the rest of the world sells off

Kenya's school games keep the running economy running

Beijing's quiet fortress: capital, circuits and the new arithmetic of doing business with China

Lights over Boryspil: what an early-August drone track tells us about the war's geography

Harry and Meghan UK return: wire-driven story in search of a primary document

Kyiv wakes to another missile night: what the AMK Mapping tracker tells us before the morning brief

A denied boarding in Amritsar, a Rs 1.53 lakh payout, and the question Indian flyers rarely get to ask

Washington Tests a Bitcoin Bid While the Market Sleeps

The earnings parade hides a quieter question about who is actually lending

The 60-day clock ran out, and Hormuz is still pinched

Kyiv Under Missile Fire Tests the West's Ability to Keep Air Defences Coming

Trump declares 'Economic D-Day' on Iran as 60-day ceasefire expires without off-ramp

Four China signals in 36 hours: a rate hold, a C919 supply-chain piece, a tax-enforcement headline, and an EV volume figure

A return by design: Harry and Meghan's reported UK move, six years on

Trump declares 'economic D-day' on Iran, threatens third-country penalties

Kyiv under fire: tracking the overnight missile wave on 20 August 2026

Bitcoin reclaims $70,000 as $2.5 billion in shorts get wiped in 24 hours

BlackRock, Citi and the OCC all move on crypto the same week the US debt clears $40 trillion

Forty trillion dollars and a bond market shrug: Trump's debt-and-rates standoff enters a new phase

Two Canary pieces put UK newsrooms on the defensive over SAS coverage and the Birmingham 4

Three Trump statements in 36 hours: a Strait he says is open, a venue he says is coming onshore, a crypto bill he says he wants

Six years after Megxit, British outlets report the Sussexes are preparing a UK return

Trump's "most crushing" framing lands the same day a Telegram channel ties it to a Senate Russia-Iran bill

Trump's Iran Sanctions Push Frames Tehran as a Global Trade Risk

From Zen scrolls to fishing sims: Claude quietly becomes a default build tool

Nigeria's 2027 campaign opens with inflation on the ballot and a Tinubu machine already moving

Wolfspeed's Q4 Miss, Read Against the Sliders

Trump declares "most crushing" economic operation against Iran after deal window closes

Japan's export engine hits double digits for an eleventh straight month, with cars and chips doing the heavy lifting

Russian strikes hit Kyiv overnight, killing three and wounding twenty across two districts

Bitcoin clears $70,000 as $2.5bn in shorts liquidate and Citi unveils a custody line

Geologist turns the full moon into a recording instrument

Anderson .Paak and Cordae Lock In Joint LP 'Heavy Is the Crown'

Brovary strike reports leave casualty toll disputed

Beijing tightens one capital handle and opens another: offshore trust scrutiny meets a new yuan debt market

DRC's Ebola outbreak crosses 5,000 cases as access, not the virus, becomes the binding constraint

Southern Lebanon bombardment on 19 August: what an evening of airstrikes tells us

Bill's earnings beat hides a more interesting question: what does fiscal 2027 actually look like?

Trump turns a rejected deal into an economic threat

Open-source monitor attributes southern Lebanon blasts to two Israeli airstrikes on Ali al-Taher

China's industrial playbook goes on three fronts at once: robots, electric trucks, and offshore yuan

Australia summons Israeli ambassador over 'insulting' decision not to prosecute over Zomi Frankcom killing

Kyiv hit overnight by multi-wave Russian ballistic and hypersonic strikes

China's industrial stack pulls in two directions: a record year for electric trucks and buses, a yuan bond push offshore

Kyiv under fire: reading the 19 August barrage against the documented strike pattern

Three tests, one afternoon: the Fed, the Comey novel, and an ABC disclosure

Russian missile barrage strikes Kyiv in late-evening salvo, Ukrainian channels log impact reports

Canberra calls in Israel’s ambassador after Jerusalem closes the file on Zomi Frankcom

Three-day pause on $20 billion of Canadian tariffs extends into a market that has already priced the rumour

Root's return and Robinson's recall steady England on a Headingley day that asked to be read with caution

Kyiv’s minute-by-minute record should end the habit of abstracting bombardment

Bitcoin breaks $69,000 as OCC and SEC move on stablecoin and market rules

A single $500,000 Gulf tanker print, and what the thread evidence does and does not let us say

US-run Hormuz oil corridor moves millions of barrels a day, Axios reports; Polymarket prices 35% chance of normal traffic by year-end

Tariff man, oil man, sanctions man: parsing the Trump remarks on Iran, Hormuz, and rates

Trump marks a year of the GENIUS Act with a quip, and a pitch for AI data centres

Trump's exercises cut and Kim rebuff lands same hour, with markets pricing a 2026 summit at 39%

US steel equities slide on Canada tariff-cut report; Trump separately cites 57-warhead North Korea estimate

Compute derivatives and yuan bond futures: the new front line in financial plumbing

Bitcoin reclaims $69,500 as $1.9bn in leverage washes out and a quiet regulatory draft lands in Washington

Fed minutes flag a hawkish-leaning FOMC; CFTC opens door to AI-compute hedging

China's robots want a job, and its bond markets want a foreigner's wallet

Iran's Strait of Hormuz rhetoric hardens into a deterrent doctrine

Moderna's double isn't a comeback story; it's a reminder that biotech markets trade narrative, not data

Trump pauses Canada tariffs three days as negotiators land in Washington

Forty days in Qom: Tasnim's English channel turns a memorial into a doctrinal dispatch

Trump's Strait of Hormuz Sales Pitch Reveals the Limits of US Energy Coercion

Volkswagen's India deadline and a rate panel signalling hikes: two clocks, one negotiation

Bitcoin Rips Through $68,000 as a Stack of Catalysts Hits the Same Tape

Trump's Hormuz Swagger Meets a Tehran That Won't Blink

Bitcoin’s 60-minute surge forces $1.1bn in short liquidations

Trump tells reporters 'maybe at some point' to Iran talks, hours after Iranian outlets said none existed

Trump floats Hormuz reroute to Texas, Alaska and Louisiana; insists US has "complete control" of the strait

Beijing blocks Chinese firms from helping Europe's JD.com probe

Trump claims the Strait of Hormuz, again. The map, the oil, and the line he keeps drawing

Show, Then Sell: China’s Robot Industry Hits a Harder Pivot Under EU and AI Scrutiny

Trump tells White House briefing room Iran talks possible 'at some point'

Bitcoin tags $66,000 and Ether clears $2,000 as $1.19 billion in positions liquidates