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Asia20 Aug 26
Beijing floats a robotic South China Sea and a public push on Seoul

Europe20 Aug 26
China tells firms to boycott EU probe into JD.com’s Ceconomy takeover

Opinion20 Aug 26
Braid's exit and the White House's congressional problem

Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin retests $71,000 as Trump demands Congress clear the CLARITY Act

Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin clears $71,000 as Coinbase's Armstrong points to a 15 September Clarity Act vote

Oceania20 Aug 26
Australia's bargaining code, a 4.5% unemployment print, and an ASX close that nudged higher

Markets20 Aug 26
Three Trump statements in 36 hours: a Strait he says is open, a venue he says is coming onshore, a crypto bill he says…

Defense20 Aug 26
Bessent puts economic pressure on Iran in the same week as Treasury bond-market jitters

Investigations20 Aug 26
Jessica Bowie, Albany woman, charged with ISIS-inspired plot to bomb New York State Capitol

Markets20 Aug 26
Beijing tightens one capital handle and opens another: offshore trust scrutiny meets a new yuan debt market
Asia20 Aug 26
US debt crosses $40 trillion as Beijing stages its robot showcase

Business20 Aug 26
Trump's 'Economic D-Day' framing draws Araghchi rebuke and Gharibabadi's 'economic war' critique

Business20 Aug 26
Forty trillion dollars and a bond market shrug: Trump's debt-and-rates standoff enters a new phase
Americas20 Aug 26
Washington tightens the screws on Havana while loosening the SBA's small-business definition
Asia20 Aug 26
India's testing apparatus under fresh scrutiny as UGC-NET is rerun and Punjab bets on bamboo
Long Reads20 Aug 26
Six years after Megxit, British outlets report the Sussexes are preparing a UK return

Asia20 Aug 26
China's technology strategy is not a single race, but a stack of leverage points
Asia20 Aug 26
Four China signals in 36 hours: a rate hold, a C919 supply-chain piece, a tax-enforcement headline, and an EV volume…
Oceania20 Aug 26
Australia's jobs miss lands as China's rate pause stretches into a 15th month

MENA20 Aug 26
Khamenei family joins political and religious figures at Mashhad shrine for fortieth-day commemoration

Opinion20 Aug 26
The Treasury’s bond-market rescue is also a warning

Europe20 Aug 26
Bowes's two morning videos argue the West is dismantling itself and Britain reaches for Article 5

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Five Western capitals condemn Israel's E1 settlement tender

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Bessent tells oil markets they're misreading the Iran campaign, and leaves China in the dark

Tech20 Aug 26
Zuckerberg's Irish castle and the same-day challenge to Meta's AI pitch

Opinion20 Aug 26
Washington's August fire drill: gas, Haiti, judges, and a Canada file that won't close

Opinion20 Aug 26
Washington's two-front squeeze: Bessent bets that economic warfare can replace the bomb

Asia20 Aug 26
Nvidia’s China-chip contradiction exposes the limits of the headline

Europe20 Aug 26
A return by design: Harry and Meghan's reported UK move, six years on
Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Harry and Meghan's reported UK return reads less like a homecoming than a rebrand

Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin breaks back through $70K as Trump presses Congress on the CLARITY Act

Business20 Aug 26
Trump declares "most crushing" economic operation against Iran after deal window closes
Europe20 Aug 26
Harry and Meghan UK return: wire-driven story in search of a primary document

MENA20 Aug 26
Bessent: the bond market can finish what bombers started

Oceania20 Aug 26
Australia's jobless rate climbs to 4.5%, per a Polymarket wire post

Opinion20 Aug 26
Kyiv under fire: tracking the overnight missile wave on 20 August 2026
Opinion20 Aug 26
Kyiv wakes to another missile night: what the AMK Mapping tracker tells us before the morning brief

Sport20 Aug 26
Carrick rejects 'easy start' framing as Manchester United push to land Baleba

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Trump's Iran Sanctions Push Frames Tehran as a Global Trade Risk

Business20 Aug 26
Trump opens 'economic warfare' front on Iran; oil traders reposition on the rhetoric

Tech20 Aug 26
China's chip, drone and rare-earth squeeze lands on the AI race wager

Business20 Aug 26
China's bond markets sit still while the rest of the world sells off

Business20 Aug 26
Nvidia's China chip and the 10% bet: how a year-end delivery is rewriting the AI race

Opinion20 Aug 26
Trump's economic-warfare pivot against Iran and the case it makes for itself
Opinion20 Aug 26
Trump's 'economic warfare' pivot on Iran: pressure tactic or admission of limits?

Crypto20 Aug 26
BlackRock, Citi and the OCC all move on crypto the same week the US debt clears $40 trillion
Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin clears $72,000 as short liquidations mount and BlackRock, Citi and OCC make parallel moves
Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin clears $70,000 as $2.5bn in shorts liquidate and Citi unveils a custody line

Oceania20 Aug 26
Australia's fiscal exposure, paired with Washington's $40 trillion line

Tech20 Aug 26
Nvidia denies China chip report; the day's contradictory headlines tell their own story

Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin's $72,000 surge exposes leverage as Washington returns to crypto's agenda

Business20 Aug 26
'Tehran''s counter: Araghchi frames Trump''s new sanctions threat as a Washington
Business20 Aug 26
Bessent's bond-market rescue collides with his own sanctions bravado
Business20 Aug 26
Bessent's buyback playbook meets a Treasury rout and an oil spike he blames

Business20 Aug 26
Bessent's three-line fiscal message meets a restless long end, as India zeroes out sugar duties

Opinion20 Aug 26
Trump's 'economic warfare' on Iran meets a market that already repriced

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Trump's Iran isolation threat lands in a market already looking elsewhere

Opinion20 Aug 26
Bessent's three Wednesday remarks, read as one posture

Opinion20 Aug 26
Kyiv Under Missile Fire Tests the West's Ability to Keep Air Defences Coming
Asia20 Aug 26
Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin gets life sentence as Shenzhen court convicts on fraud charges

Opinion20 Aug 26
Putin's quiet escalation: what the Kyiv barrage tells us about Russia's war calculus
Investigations20 Aug 26
Russian missile barrage hits Kyiv overnight as casualty count climbs

Arts20 Aug 26
Shygirl returns with "Alyse," a four-way drama staged for the camera

Opinion20 Aug 26
China's robocops, rare-earth leverage, and the quiet arithmetic of US–China friction

Opinion20 Aug 26
Israel widens Lebanese airspace operations as a separate explosion jolts Syria's Idlib
Opinion20 Aug 26
What a single Telegram channel saw over southern Lebanon

Culture20 Aug 26
China’s chip gap, a cultural test, and a joke about US power

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Israel's Katz rebukes Erdogan over Syria after strike Damascus says was pre-empted

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Russian missiles hit Kyiv overnight, killing at least eight in 'massive attack'

Africa20 Aug 26
DRC's Ebola outbreak crosses 5,000 cases as access, not the virus, becomes the binding constraint
Africa20 Aug 26
Ebola's 5,000-case threshold in eastern DRC, and the war underneath the outbreak

Asia20 Aug 26
Chinese textiles, drones and a 10% AI line: three signals from one day

Opinion20 Aug 26
A drone, a Romanian F-16, and the slow widening of the Black Sea fight

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Settler attack near Al-Mughayyir leaves six Palestinians injured, two channels diverge on the scene

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Imran Khan leaves Adiala for an Islamabad hospital. The politics of the move matter more than the medicine.

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Tehran's two messages on one news day: defiance abroad, an execution at home

Long Reads20 Aug 26
Hui Ka Yan's life sentence settles one question about Evergrande, not the property crisis

Arts20 Aug 26
Geologist turns the full moon into a recording instrument

Culture20 Aug 26
Anderson .Paak and Cordae Lock In Joint LP 'Heavy Is the Crown'

Business20 Aug 26
Walmart's slowest sales growth in six years exposes the US consumer squeeze

Europe20 Aug 26
Two Canary pieces put UK newsrooms on the defensive over SAS coverage and the Birmingham 4

Americas20 Aug 26
Panama Canal to thin daily transits from 3 September as El Niño pulls reservoir levels down

Business20 Aug 26
Panama Canal transit cap claims meet a prediction market in a season of uncertainty

Opinion20 Aug 26
Lights over Boryspil: what an early-August drone track tells us about the war's geography

Opinion20 Aug 26
Walmart’s Weak Sales Are a Warning About the American Consumer

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
EPA winter-gas waiver reported as Iran war drives pump prices toward $4.10

Opinion20 Aug 26
Drones over Norosí and jets over the Bekaa: one wire, two registers

Sport20 Aug 26
Premier League 2026-27: corner crackdown, pundit poll and the BBC's opening-weekend playbook

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Trump announces an 'unprecedented economic operation' against Iran; the cited posts leave the mechanics blank

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Vance signals a sanctions-first phase in the US-Iran endgame

Opinion20 Aug 26
Yemen's Ansarallah reopens the Saudi drone front

Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin reclaims $71,000 as $3.1 billion in shorts liquidate and OCC moves to stablecoin rules

Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin clears $73,000 as shorts take $679 million in liquidations

Opinion20 Aug 26
A country that cannot get its planes off the ground

Opinion20 Aug 26
A carrier in the Arabian Sea, and the message Washington is sending Tehran

Sport20 Aug 26
'Arsenal''s title defence and the Premier League''s set-piece problem: what

Sport20 Aug 26
Arsenal's title defence and a refereeing reset: the Premier League returns

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
UK summons Israel’s envoy over E1 settlement tender, calling the move ‘destructive’
Sport20 Aug 26
Verstappen signs through 2030, and frames the decision as a near-retirement

Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin clears $73,000 as miners tilt their capex toward AI

Africa20 Aug 26
Biya's 73-day absence ends in Yaoundé, but Cameroon's succession question stays open
Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin's $70,000 reclaim and a $2.7 billion short wipeout, the squeeze that redrew the tape

Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin clears $72,000 as Treasury doubles its debt buyback and US debt crosses $40 trillion
Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin miners spent 15-to-1 on AI. The rally that followed says the bet is starting to pay off
Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin's $69,500 move meets an unsettled SEC proposal

Opinion20 Aug 26
Beijing's quiet fortress: capital, circuits and the new arithmetic of doing business with China

Opinion20 Aug 26
The earnings parade hides a quieter question about who is actually lending
Opinion20 Aug 26
Deere's quarter was good. The story Wall Street is telling itself is better.

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Six armed boarders seize tanker in Gulf of Aden as UKMTO logs second incident off Yemen in hours

Sport20 Aug 26
BBC Sport asks fans for their best XI as 26 pundits log their 2026-27 title calls

Opinion20 Aug 26
Tehran's parliamentary bark
Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin tears through $72,000 as a $190bn market-cap surge punishes $3.1bn of shorts
Asia20 Aug 26
Malaysia Airlines jet aborts Narita departure after engine fire during takeoff roll
Crypto20 Aug 26
BlackRock reframes the drawdown while Tether pairs it with gold
Africa20 Aug 26
DRC's Ebola outbreak hits 5,000 cases as rebel controls and community hostility choke the response
Markets20 Aug 26
BofA fund managers still call it stagflation, just less loudly
Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin pushes through $71,000 as $190bn returns to crypto in a single session
Africa20 Aug 26
Above 100 dead as landslide buries artisanal gold mine on the CAR-Cameroon border

Opinion20 Aug 26
Southern Lebanon bombardment on 19 August: what an evening of airstrikes tells us

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Brovary strike reports leave casualty toll disputed
Oceania20 Aug 26
ACT's policy brief becomes the price of coalition arithmetic after New Zealand's count

Geopolitics20 Aug 26
Russian strikes hit Kyiv overnight, killing three and wounding twenty across two districts
Crypto20 Aug 26
Solana takes the tape as Bitcoin reclaims $70,000, and Polymarket is leaning into the breakout
Africa20 Aug 26
Kenya's school games keep the running economy running
Crypto20 Aug 26
Bitcoin reclaims $70,000 as $2.5 billion in shorts get wiped in 24 hours
Africa20 Aug 26
Nigeria's 2027 campaign opens with inflation on the ballot and a Tinubu machine already moving

Markets19 Aug 26
Ghalibaf at the Soleimani memorial: a Baghdad staging that doubles as policy

Long Reads19 Aug 26
Capital stays in the chips while Beijing rewrites the rules of the AI race

MENA19 Aug 26
Iran's parliament speaker heads to Baghdad as Tehran and Iraq deepen a 'historical and unbreakable' alignment

Long Reads19 Aug 26
Beijing blocks Chinese firms from helping Europe's JD.com probe

Asia19 Aug 26
Beijing's August stack-up: a reef, a 2030 health roadmap, and a rate hold that says more than the number
MENA19 Aug 26
Houthi military spokesman claims 14 operations across Yemen, vows escalation if siege holds
Crypto19 Aug 26
Washington pulls three levers on the dollar, the strait and the stablecoin rulebook in 48 hours

Asia19 Aug 26
Volkswagen's India deadline and a rate panel signalling hikes: two clocks, one negotiation

Markets19 Aug 26
US-run Hormuz oil corridor moves millions of barrels a day, Axios reports; Polymarket prices 35% chance of normal…

Long Reads19 Aug 26
A 48-hour fracture: how the US-Iran diplomatic track snapped in mid-August

Crypto19 Aug 26
Blockade, expiry, and a trust charter: Washington's Iran week narrows crypto's perimeter
Long Reads19 Aug 26
The Gulf's Risk Calculus Is Shifting as the UAE Freezes Transactions With Iran
Defense19 Aug 26
Trump's exercises cut and Kim rebuff lands same hour, with markets pricing a 2026 summit at 39%
Energy19 Aug 26
Trump pulls envoys from Iran talks as Hormuz standoff hardens
Defense19 Aug 26
Trump's Korea reset compresses US exercises, opens Wang Yi room to nudge Seoul toward Beijing's orbit
Geopolitics19 Aug 26
Trump pushes for fall meeting with Kim Jong Un, WSJ reports, as Asia trip takes shape
MENA19 Aug 26
Trump turns a rejected deal into an economic threat

Americas19 Aug 26
Trump pauses Canada tariffs three days as negotiators land in Washington
Business19 Aug 26
'A Three-Day Pause, a Pipeline Clue: Reading Trump''s Canada Tariff U-Turn'
Americas19 Aug 26
Trump pauses 50% Canada tariffs for 72 hours, says deal is close

Opinion19 Aug 26
Target's grocery pivot is working, and Wall Street still can't decide if it likes that

Opinion19 Aug 26
OpenAI sells safety to parents. The capital structure sells something else entirely.

MENA19 Aug 26
Open-source monitor attributes southern Lebanon blasts to two Israeli airstrikes on Ali al-Taher

Asia19 Aug 26
Japan in one week: night-shift farms, a bond market at a 3% reference point, and a TikTok reach post the sector is now…
MENA19 Aug 26
Tehran demands 'end to the war' as Trump insists no talks are scheduled
Asia19 Aug 26
Four Indian Express dispatches on 19 August 2026, read as one pressure test of Indian state capacity

Opinion19 Aug 26
Hong Kong’s market posted a record. Its court posted a different kind of record. Both published on the same day.

Markets19 Aug 26
Ghalibaf's Baghdad Visit Puts Soleimani Memory Beside a Wider Diplomatic Agenda

MENA19 Aug 26
A Gaza City strike, reported twice within minutes

MENA19 Aug 26
Gaza City strike on a police station kills six as aid trucks stall at the border
Oceania19 Aug 26
Erin Patterson appeal cites hotel-room mix-up, as Israel strikes a Syrian airbase

Long Reads19 Aug 26
Show, Then Sell: China’s Robot Industry Hits a Harder Pivot Under EU and AI Scrutiny

Asia19 Aug 26
Beijing pitches a multipolar AI rulebook as Nvidia's cloud loophole moves to Congress
MENA19 Aug 26
Australia summons Israeli ambassador over 'insulting' decision not to prosecute over Zomi Frankcom killing

Africa19 Aug 26
Cotton, copper in the soil: Africa's manufacturing gamble takes shape as South Africa's July inflation cools

Markets19 Aug 26
Yuan share of Hong Kong fast-payment rail hits six-month high on a quiet trading day
Asia19 Aug 26
Unitree's 629% Shanghai debut prints a price for China's humanoid bet
Crypto19 Aug 26
Trump opens White House door to crypto executives as Reuters poll flags 63% disapproval over presidential profits
Crypto19 Aug 26
Trump's crypto book, Citi's custody bid, and a Reuters poll that won't go away
Asia19 Aug 26
Hong Kong bourse logs record first half as Singapore widens its talent net
Long Reads19 Aug 26
China's robots want a job, and its bond markets want a foreigner's wallet
Markets19 Aug 26
China's industrial stack pulls in two directions: a record year for electric trucks and buses, a yuan bond push offshore

MENA19 Aug 26
Six reported killed in Gaza a day after Kushner meets Netanyahu

Defense19 Aug 26
Five days, one signal
Americas19 Aug 26
Three-day pause on $20 billion of Canadian tariffs extends into a market that has already priced the rumour

Opinion19 Aug 26
Two Telegrams, no stringers: an hour in southern Lebanon
Markets19 Aug 26
Three signals from Beijing on the same morning, none of them reversible on a quarterly cycle

Opinion19 Aug 26
Unitree's 629% debut is a market event, not yet a verdict on China's robotics lead

Opinion19 Aug 26
Trump wants to see Kim again. The announcement is most of the news.

Opinion19 Aug 26
Trump halts Iran talks, UAE intercepts Iranian missiles, and a Kim summit resurfaces: three signals, one administration

Europe19 Aug 26
Zelensky's wartime cabinet shuffle draws its first open rebellion
Crypto19 Aug 26
Bitcoin reclaims $70,000 as Trump signals a US strategic crypto reserve

Investigations19 Aug 26
Three same-day reports put India’s imported-energy bill back in focus

Asia19 Aug 26
Four High Court rulings in one morning expose how Indian family law keeps the burden on the survivor

Europe19 Aug 26
Europe's heat economy breaks open: tankers, withered fields, and a sea that won't cool

Geopolitics19 Aug 26
IDF opens criminal probes into Hind Rajab killing and aid-worker deaths as Ben Gvir touts execution facility

Culture19 Aug 26
Forty days in Qom: Tasnim's English channel turns a memorial into a doctrinal dispatch

Europe19 Aug 26
Greece's deepening alignment with Israel is starting to cost it at home

Geopolitics19 Aug 26
Trump tells White House briefing room Iran talks possible 'at some point'

Opinion19 Aug 26
Trump’s Korea bargain is strategic contraction masquerading as diplomacy
Crypto19 Aug 26
Two billion back, two trillion in limbo: Washington closes the FTX file while bitcoin tells a different story
Crypto19 Aug 26
Bitcoin Rips Through $68,000 as a Stack of Catalysts Hits the Same Tape
Crypto19 Aug 26
Bitcoin reclaims $69,500 as $1.9bn in leverage washes out and a quiet regulatory draft lands in Washington
Geopolitics19 Aug 26
Trump's Iran endgame: a second sanctions spiral, with Asia and the Gulf caught in the seam

Business19 Aug 26
Trump floats Hormuz reroute to Texas, Alaska and Louisiana; insists US has "complete control" of the strait

Europe19 Aug 26
Three videos, one Europe: street clashes, programmable money, and tractor lines

Business19 Aug 26
UAE cuts Iran off, Hormuz talks stall: oil ticks up on a market running out of easy answers

Business19 Aug 26
Trump pressures the Fed, the FCC, and the bond market in a single trading day

Geopolitics19 Aug 26
Iran's top general warns Gulf states over US military support

Opinion19 Aug 26
Trump's Hormuz Swagger Meets a Tehran That Won't Blink

Sport19 Aug 26
Root's return and Robinson's recall steady England on a Headingley day that asked to be read with caution
Geopolitics19 Aug 26
Tehran weighs European targets as diplomatic track stalls, per Telegram relays

Geopolitics19 Aug 26
Iran plays two games at once: warning to Gulf states, sunbelf on the home front
Africa19 Aug 26