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Coverage · August · 2026 · 3,786 articles

The Pentagon is thinking out loud about leaving the Gulf. That is the story.

Three bulletins, one strike, and the relay problem at Al-Mukha

Two children shot by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank, MEE liveblog reports

Three US balance sheets moved on Bitcoin in a single afternoon, and a White House summit followed the next morning

Tehran's Basij chief tells Iranians they are a 'bastion of national power.' The wording is the story.

Araghchi's Tell: Pezeshkian as Iran's Diplomatic Anchor Through the Air War

The diesel crack just hit a record, and the rest of the basket followed

Iran says US security umbrella cracked in '40-day war', pitches regional architecture

'Trump declares Hormuz ''open,'' Iran says otherwise: a duelling-claim day

Tehran's speaker reads the room on the US negotiating team, and says so out loud

Hormuz, headlines, and the gap: how a single strait exposed the split between Trump's narrative and Iran's posture

Laos turns to hydropower as Iran war disrupts fuel supplies

Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at record speed as MSF demands a larger

Tehran's 'Forty Day War' victory lap, and the regional security story Iran is now telling

Two clocks, one deadline: Trump leans on Ottawa while sanctioning the court in The Hague

US sanctions ICC president and senior trial lawyer

OpenAI's teen ChatGPT arrives years late and asks parents to finish the job

China's new long-arm law meets an AI race the West says it's already losing

Ghalibaf to Washington: 'stop waiting for the clown crew'

Fifa's house of cards: a sell-off plan, a sacked COO, and a Premier League chief who saw it coming

Pentagon weighs smaller Gulf presence as US reviews 'vulnerabilities' exposed by Iran war

Laos leans on hydropower as Gulf war drains fuel imports

Trump calls Hormuz "open," Iran says it stays shut: the most-watched waterway in the world is in two places at once

Bitcoin's $65K rebound runs through the Strait of Hormuz

Two Indian Express wires, one afternoon: a film-set anecdote and a tax sweep

No talks, plenty of pressure: Trump opens three new fronts while Iran diplomacy goes dark

Trump labels Strait of Hormuz 'US territory' as Geneva accord remains unsigned and blockade holds

OpenAI sells parents a safer chatbot. The harder question is who watches the watcher.

Trump declares Strait of Hormuz "open" while Iran keeps it shut: a 90-minute messaging war

Hong Kong's demographic slide meets an outbound corporate surge

Hormuz Shut on Tehran's Terms: One Quote, Two Prices, No Deal Yet

Hormuz becomes the chokepoint that pays for its own closure

No talks, 6% odds: Trump's Iran denial meets a market that isn't buying it

Two SCMP items, one day: what pairing a road trip and a general's loyalty speech leaves visible

Hong Kong customs arrests ten in HK$56m cannabis seizure bound for Europe and Africa

PLA logistics drill moves gold, New Taiwan and US dollars to frontline units, as Taipei pushes a NT$10,000 universal handout

Trump says no Iran talks in train, Hormuz blockade stays live

OpenAI pauses frontier model training the same afternoon it pledges sharper

Strait of Hormuz strike, UAE alert and Trump's no-talks line land in 85 minutes

Syria opens the door to the IAEA, but the guarantees remain unresolved

Bulk carrier hit in Hormuz as Trump rules out talks with Tehran

Delhi weighs a common family ID card, and a centralised database with it

Three wires on 18 August 2026 put a number, a finding, and a slump on the same page

'Hormuz stays shut: Iran says blockade must lift before any deal, and Hormuz''s

Polymarket puts US-Iran talks at 6% as Trump denies any conversation

Trump says no Iran talks are scheduled as pressure campaign runs into a harder Tehran line

OpenAI’s teen-friendly ChatGPT arrives late to a problem it helped create

Xiaomi's 43% profit drop and a 30-bank digital yuan, read in the same news cycle

Trump's one-line denial puts Iran diplomacy on hold and certifies Hormuz as open

Baidu's Q2 miss lands in a quarter Beijing would rather not be relitigating

Two Urdu-press headlines, one anxiety: what the Indian Express column flagged this week

UBS's $90M IBIT Build Lands the Same Week US Savings Drain Hits a New Low

Japan and Australia sign ten-year hypersonic test deal, with a laser detection programme alongside

Syria’s runway diplomacy collides with Israel’s security logic

Pressure without an off-ramp

Agents, token pitches and a Unity demo: three AI-circulation stories from one weekend

US-Iran MOU lapses as debt print nears $40 trillion and Armstrong's AiFi pitch resurfaces

Three wires from the same morning, and the building site is not Washington

Huber+Suhner's record first-half order book met a margin line the market priced

China's quiet monetary empire and the smartphone slump that just exposed it

Israeli forces shell Haddatha as combing operations reported nearby

Pakistan's top court orders Imran Khan shifted to a capital hospital. The system that put him there is back under the spotlight.

Three Kenya stories, one morning: a Sh203bn illicit market, twenty dead elephants, and a police admission on domestic violence

Marker on the forehead: what the IDF admission does and doesn't settle

Ghalibaf's Hormuz demands widen the bargaining table

Qalibaf sequences Hormuz, Islamabad and martyrdom in a single ten-minute broadcast

Japan's bond market is sending a message Tokyo can't keep ignoring

The Return Ticket: Canada’s Indian Talent Pipeline Runs in Both Directions

NOBA’s 21% profit rise is good news. The share slip is not a verdict

Treasury opens the GENIUS rulebook: 60 days to comment

Sixty days gone: Trump's Iran posture hardens as Delhi rewrites Class 9

Brent back above $91 as the 60-day US-Iran deal window lapses and Trump rejects an extension

Six posts in ninety minutes: how Iran's state media is selling a victory it has not yet detailed

Ethereum opens Glamsterdam testing as a Trump-linked stablecoin charter tests OCC's political guardrails

Elopak's Q2 print: a 4.9% revenue line, and the deck's own margin framing

The market sold the earnings. That's the only story worth reading today.

Israel says it killed Islamic Jihad commander tied to Kibbutz Be'eri assault in Khan Younis strike

Brookfield returns to Reliance with a $2.9 billion bid while BHP wage talks stall

Iran ceasefire lapse puts bonds and crude on a 'fully offensive' footing