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Coverage · August · 2026 · 3,786 articles

Iran and Oman agree on the geography of a Hormuz shipping route, leaving Khamenei's sign-off as the holdup

The Arba'een walk returns to a corridor Iraq spent a decade demining

Strait of Hormuz deal: what 5 August's whiplash tells us about Washington's Iran gamble

Gold clears $4,255 while the Crypto Clarity Act stalls in the Senate

El-Sayed's Michigan Senate primary, read through two Polymarket prints

Tehran cools on Pakistan, Qatar trips as diplomatic track stays in capitals

Trump fraud task force Vice-Chair calls Medicare skin-substitute surgeries a test of the "high-trust society" premise

The Strait of Hormuz deal that wasn't, and what it tells us about Tehran's

Tehran and Muscat near a Hormuz text; the AP relay also flags an MFA "agreement reached" line the Iranian readouts do not

Eleven U.S. World Cup cities press FIFA over an unpaid $1m legacy pledge, with Infantino in Rabat to manage the fallout

IED in Majdal Zoun kills two Israeli soldiers, seven wounded in southern Lebanon

South Korea's NICU Alarm and a Bank Buying Gold: Two Stress Signals in One Wire

Yen stuck at 157, AMD lifts capex, and the household balance sheet sits on

Ethereum researchers float a hard brake on staking issuance

Majdal Zoun and the relay problem on the southern Lebanese frontier

Explosive drone found beside Ukrainian Antonov at Leipzig/Halle, second drone incident reported overnight

Out of Patriots: The morning Kyiv could not shoot anything down

Houthis claim two Saudi tanker strikes in the Red Sea, including the Wafa off Yanbu

Three dispatches from one Indian Express morning: a rate hold, a Karnataka leak, and a Rs 60,000 refund

Kyiv wakes to a drone kill-rate it can defend, and a missile rate it cannot

Two Bethlehem-area demolitions and a July arrest toll: 25,000+ detentions since October 2023

Drone strike destroys 194,500 m² Wildberries logistics hub in Aleksin, Tula Oblast

El-Sayed declared winner of Michigan Democratic Senate primary, per NBC projection

Seventeen killed in Kyiv as Russia fires 30 missiles and 115 drones overnight

Ukrainian drones hit one of Russia's largest warehouses, a Wildberries logistics hub 150 km south of Moscow

Ukrainian drones destroy Wildberries hub in Aleksin as Tula governor logs 107-intercept overnight wave

Seventeen dead in Kyiv, and the air-defence arithmetic hasn't changed

$39.8T debt, 7,700 on the S&P, Hayes's 2008 analogy, and a Bitcoin ETF winding down: the week the wire refused to sit still on

Strait of Hormuz: the 60-day arrangement Axios says is days from announcement

After the Iran Strike: Trump’s Missile Math, an Economy Claim, and the Quiet Deregulation in the Margins

Axios reports a 60-day Strait of Hormuz deal is close. Tehran's state-aligned channels carry the terms while attacking the reporter.

Strait of Hormuz deal takes shape as Bessent signals 'today or tomorrow' and Tehran conditions include oil-sanctions relief

Visa revoked, envoy blocked: how a US-Brazil spat turned into a hemispheric row

Arthur Hayes calls the AI build-out a credit bubble. The tape is not convinced.

Russia pounds Kyiv with ballistic volleys before dawn on 5 August 2026, killing at least one and wounding a dozen

Strait of Hormuz on the table: the deal Washington cannot afford to lose

White House stops vetting open-weight AI. The industry already noticed.

Trump's LA arrest and the Japan currency play: two security stories, one dollar question

Four wire items, one Tuesday evening: a snapshot of the Trump second-term agenda on 4 August 2026

Ruto turns State House into a stage, three gatherings in four days test the delivery contract

Mastercard folds BVNK into the settlement stack

The dollar swap behind the dollar-yen fix

Kyiv under overnight Russian missile and drone barrage; KGVA-relayed toll climbs to at least twelve

Smoke over Jebel Ali: an unverified fire and the geography of an unfinished war

Explosions reported at Jebel Ali: what the wires actually say, and what they don't

'OpenAI in a 36-hour window: settlement, math claim, bankruptcy line'

Cluster munitions over Kyiv, again

Three lab results in 48 hours: a temperature dial, a detonation turbine, and chaperonins on camera

When the news cycle forgets it is at war

US missile stockpiles thinned by Iran strikes, wire reports say, sourcing remains a chain of relays

CNN: Iran strikes burned through 80% of US THAAD interceptors, exposing a munitions tempo problem

OpenAI's August is not a scandal, it is a ledger

S&P prints above 7,700 and Burry keeps the 1987 tape loaded

'Visa revoked: Washington moves against Brazil''s envoy in a two-front dispute'

Airline earnings and arms-build-up jostle for airtime as US-Iran ceasefire holds

Three supreme courts, three very different stories

Tehran floats a price for reopening Hormuz

Karbala on three handles: a 4 August 2026 thread and the caption that travelled with it

SpaceX's first public earnings report lands: $7.8bn revenue, $100bn cash, and an Nvidia satellite deal

Cloudflare puts a wallet in the hands of the agents, not the people at the checkout

Wales walks, Wenger backs the U-turn: pressure on Infantino builds from inside the house

SpaceX's first earnings print arrives, and a prediction market is already pricing the next move

Four crypto items hit the wire in three hours. Read together, they look like selection pressure.

Apple's Telegram removal is a platform-governance story. Crypto desks missed it.

Heatwave and the Won: South Korea's Two Fronts on 4 August

SpaceX's earnings moment is a prediction-market moment, and that is the story

Netanyahu's Gaza precondition and the artillery that followed

Bitcoin Holds $64K as Hormuz Reopening Hopes Lift Markets, But ING Warns the Long-Term Trend Is Bearish

Wells Fargo joins the tokenization rush as the S&P 500 punches through 7,700

Mars, rats and the heat: what a single Tuesday tells us about where 2026 is heading

Iran weighs letting European navies help clear Hormuz mines as Bessent floats a 48-hour deal window

Tehran Tests a Maritime Off-Ramp in Hormuz

Syrian army raises alert level as Iraqi PMU threats surface in eastern governorate

Japan's defence review lands as nursing-care firms cross into China

Six bulletins, one afternoon: a portrait of a year arriving sideways

Fourteen Crew, One Stretched Strait: What the Faize Noore Oliya Tells Us About Red Sea Governance

A single clan, 112 names: Gaza City buries remains recovered three years after the strike that killed them

Japan sounds the alarm over a thickening Russia-North Korea axis

Middle powers keep talking about an AI third path. They still have to build it.