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Business18 Aug 26
Trump rules out interim renewal, Iran holds the Hormuz clock

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Ghalibaf heads to Baghdad as Tehran reaches for its Arab lever

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Strait of Hormuz strike, UAE alert and Trump's no-talks line land in 85 minutes
Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Trump says no Iran talks in train, Hormuz blockade stays live
Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Trump's one-line denial puts Iran diplomacy on hold and certifies Hormuz as open

Opinion18 Aug 26
Erdogan courts the middle as Trump and Tehran test the limits of a deal

Business18 Aug 26
Polymarket puts US-Iran talks at 6% as Trump denies any conversation
Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Trump courts Kim, slams Seoul, and warns Tehran, three foreign-policy fronts open in a single news cycle
Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Trump says no Iran talks are scheduled as pressure campaign runs into a harder Tehran line

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Trump pauses Big Bend border build as CBP chief visits West Texas

Opinion18 Aug 26
Elopak's Q2 print: a 4.9% revenue line, and the deck's own margin framing

Opinion18 Aug 26
Gulf after the missiles: the UAE-Iran rupture, and what it costs everyone else

Africa18 Aug 26
Gulf capital, fragmented rails, and a succulent heist: four African threads on one news day

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Barrack flags Israel-Syria-Turkey deconfliction track, says Turkey was not warned before Israeli airbase strikes

Markets18 Aug 26
Japan’s bond market tests a ceiling policymakers can no longer ignore

Africa18 Aug 26
Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at record speed as MSF demands a larger

Long Reads18 Aug 26
Ankara's bid for the chair no one has vacated

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
China’s next growth test is no longer only at home

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Mexico weighs tighter Chinese import rules as Washington talks stall

Opinion18 Aug 26
Pakistan's top court orders Imran Khan shifted to a capital hospital. The system that put him there is back under the…

Opinion18 Aug 26
Tehran's Basij chief tells Iranians they are a 'bastion of national power.' The wording is the story.

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Syria opens the door to the IAEA, but the guarantees remain unresolved

Opinion18 Aug 26
China's quiet monetary empire and the smartphone slump that just exposed it

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Hormuz becomes the chokepoint that pays for its own closure
Opinion18 Aug 26
Three wires from the same morning, and the building site is not Washington

Opinion18 Aug 26
The Pentagon is thinking out loud about leaving the Gulf. That is the story.

Opinion18 Aug 26
Syria’s runway diplomacy collides with Israel’s security logic

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Trump labels Strait of Hormuz 'US territory' as Geneva accord remains unsigned and blockade holds

Business18 Aug 26
UAE halts trade and finance with Iran as US debt marker hits $39.93 trillion

Sport18 Aug 26
Fifa's house of cards: a sell-off plan, a sacked COO, and a Premier League chief who saw it coming

Opinion18 Aug 26
Tehran's speaker reads the room on the US negotiating team, and says so out loud

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
China's three-thread day: external demand, drone denial, and African sea lanes

Business18 Aug 26
Ghalibaf's Hormuz demands widen the bargaining table

Business18 Aug 26
Hichilema wins a second term; the harder fight is over Zambia's copper

Opinion18 Aug 26
The diesel crack just hit a record, and the rest of the basket followed
Business18 Aug 26
Hormuz Shut on Tehran's Terms: One Quote, Two Prices, No Deal Yet

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Hichilema keeps Zambia, but the opposition's stronger-than-expected finish narrows his mandate

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Paris and Tehran trade diplomats within hours

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
Hormuz under strain: Tehran signals an offensive posture, Berlin hits a 13-year troop high
Sport18 Aug 26
Israel pulls backing for Infantino as the latest federation to break with FIFA's president
Investigations18 Aug 26
UAE claims it intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles; Tehran denies launch and frames the moment as a 1953…

Opinion18 Aug 26
Three bulletins, one strike, and the relay problem at Al-Mukha

Opinion18 Aug 26
TikTok's next act isn't a ban. It's a wallet.

Opinion18 Aug 26
Two Urdu-press headlines, one anxiety: what the Indian Express column flagged this week

Business18 Aug 26
Laos leans on hydropower as Gulf war drains fuel imports

Opinion18 Aug 26
When the Numbers Are Good and the Stock Sells Off Anyway

Opinion18 Aug 26
The Bekaa clock, unwitnessed

Business18 Aug 26
Laos turns to hydropower as Iran war disrupts fuel supplies

Opinion18 Aug 26
The southern Lebanon airstrike cycle nobody is calling a war

Opinion18 Aug 26
Huber+Suhner's record first-half order book met a margin line the market priced
Opinion18 Aug 26
Denial, then claim, then freeze: how the Iran–UAE night turned a contested intercept notice into an economic rupture

Tech18 Aug 26
OpenAI pauses frontier model training the same afternoon it pledges sharper

Sport18 Aug 26
FIFA's COO is gone. Infantino's grip on the World Cup is the question now.

Business18 Aug 26
Ottawa and Washington try to bridge the auto-tariff gap
Crypto18 Aug 26
SEC's $75 million crypto carve-out lands as Bitcoin's volatility shrinks to a whisper
Crypto18 Aug 26
SEC token-offering carve-out lands the same week Bitcoin retests $65,000 and Citi prepares custody desks

Investigations18 Aug 26
Hormuz Without Iran: The Polymarket That Sums Up a Stalled Ceasefire

Tech18 Aug 26
Agents, token pitches and a Unity demo: three AI-circulation stories from one weekend

Culture18 Aug 26
Two Indian Express wires, one afternoon: a film-set anecdote and a tax sweep

Culture18 Aug 26
Two SCMP items, one day: what pairing a road trip and a general's loyalty speech leaves visible

Tech18 Aug 26
An open-weights model, a prediction market, and the labour stack keeps splitting

Opinion18 Aug 26
One Moscow drone alert, and the danger of seeing a pattern too quickly

Opinion18 Aug 26
Tehran's 'Forty Day War' victory lap, and the regional security story Iran is now telling

Africa18 Aug 26
Kenya's Sh203 billion illicit alcohol market, and the only number anyone is

Geopolitics18 Aug 26
US sanctions ICC president and senior trial lawyer

Opinion18 Aug 26
Six posts in ninety minutes: how Iran's state media is selling a victory it has not yet detailed

Opinion18 Aug 26
Anthropic prints $65 billion, and asks the public to wait for the cure

Culture18 Aug 26
Boss as virtual pet: what the SCMP trend item actually says
Opinion18 Aug 26
Cochlear's cash-flow print masks a margin problem the market cannot keep ignoring

Culture18 Aug 26
Delhi notifies single-window SOP for cinema-hall licensing
Opinion18 Aug 26
Earnings season is handing AI the mic, and the market is already deciding who gets to keep it
Opinion18 Aug 26
Earnings season keeps handing markets the same uncomfortable lesson
Opinion18 Aug 26
Earnings season is telling two stories, and only one of them is honest

Opinion18 Aug 26
Marker on the forehead: what the IDF admission does and doesn't settle
Opinion18 Aug 26
NOBA’s 21% profit rise is good news. The share slip is not a verdict
Opinion18 Aug 26
The market sold the earnings. That's the only story worth reading today.
Asia18 Aug 26
Delhi weighs a common family ID card, and a centralised database with it
Asia18 Aug 26
Xiaomi's 43% profit drop and a 30-bank digital yuan, read in the same news cycle

Crypto18 Aug 26
Cash App Pay meets MoonPay: a US retail-crypto rail gets its first plumbing piece
MENA18 Aug 26
Pressure without an off-ramp
Crypto18 Aug 26
UBS's $90M IBIT Build Lands the Same Week US Savings Drain Hits a New Low
Crypto18 Aug 26
Treasury opens the GENIUS rulebook: 60 days to comment

Oceania18 Aug 26
Brookfield returns to Reliance with a $2.9 billion bid while BHP wage talks stall
Oceania18 Aug 26
A $468m bid, a wage-deal deadlock, and a record print: three prints on a flat ASX day

Oceania18 Aug 26
BHP stalls at the bargaining table while private capital circles EQT
Asia18 Aug 26
Ateneo de Zamboanga shooting, livestreamed by a Grade 7 pupil, becomes the Philippines' second school attack in under…
Asia18 Aug 26
Delhi's SIR draft puts a third of roll entries on notice

Long Reads18 Aug 26
A postponed trial, a drone strike, and a profits print: the week's fracture lines
Opinion18 Aug 26
Yalla's quiet quarter says more about MENA consumer tech than the headlines do

MENA17 Aug 26
Kata'ib Hezbollah sets US troop exit as precondition for any deal with Baghdad

MENA17 Aug 26
Tehran's two-track escalation: diplomats barred, oil jittery, yen on watch
MENA17 Aug 26
Tehran declares the 60-day clock void as oil gives back part of a strong week

MENA17 Aug 26
Trump extends the clock on the US-Iran ceasefire, restates the nuclear red line
Markets17 Aug 26
Trump pulls the MoU off the table while the 30-year yield prints a 19-year high

Europe17 Aug 26
Spain's quiet boom and Ukraine's draft dodge economy: two faces of 2026's long summer

Crypto17 Aug 26
US-Iran MOU expires as Trump weighs broader sanctions and Coinbase pitches crypto as 'AiFi' money

Asia17 Aug 26
Two China stories from one thread: a cyber wave against European governments and a Beijing call to steady export demand

Crypto17 Aug 26
Bitcoin clears $64K as Trump widens the pressure on Tehran, and gold rides along

Energy17 Aug 26
Wright plans refiner meetings on fuel output, then tells reporters the US 'gets' 8-9 million b/d through Hormuz

MENA17 Aug 26
UAE's quiet stress test, Iran's loud ultimatum: the Gulf's two-sided August

Asia17 Aug 26
Trump scales back US–South Korea drills, citing Seoul's refusal to help with Iran
Defense17 Aug 26
Trump Tells Pentagon to Cut South Korea Drills, Cites Kim Ties and Seoul's Iran Refusal
MENA17 Aug 26
Trump tells Fox News US will 'bomb the shit out of' Oman if it blocks Iran path
Defense17 Aug 26
Trump trims US-South Korea drills and courts Kim Jong Un, in the same news cycle
MENA17 Aug 26
Trump rules out Iran MOU extension as approval sinks to 33%
Business17 Aug 26
Trump's Hormuz ultimatum: a one-day war of words that turned a chokepoint into a negotiating chip
Defense17 Aug 26
Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint drills with South Korea, citing Kim ties

MENA17 Aug 26
Trump's 33% and Iran's 128% expose two brittle political economies

Long Reads17 Aug 26
The $9 Burger Story in Beijing, Read Against the Cattle Signal Out of Chicago
Long Reads17 Aug 26
The Strait Hesitates: What a Weekend of Tanker Attacks Tells Us About Hormuz, and the World That Uses It

Sport17 Aug 26
SportsLine is pitching 10,000 simulations. The marketing leans on two prior calls.

Europe17 Aug 26
Russia says its A-50U tankers are reading Ukraine's Flamingo routes; NATO answers with sensors and drones

Sport17 Aug 26
The Premier League's £2.14bn question is about power, not parity
Energy17 Aug 26
Oman–Iran Hormuz deal priced at 60% on Polymarket; US-Iran track sits at 12%, Trump threat lands
Energy17 Aug 26
Oman in the crossfire: a Hormuz deal takes shape as Trump floats bombing and territory

Tech17 Aug 26
Nvidia's $105B Ohio guarantee puts the chip vendor on the hook for AI buildout credit risk
Tech17 Aug 26
Nvidia backs the buildings around OpenAI’s Ohio bet
Americas17 Aug 26
Mexico's homegrown electric bus lands against a wider Chinese industrial push

MENA17 Aug 26
Israeli armour moves into two south Lebanese towns as Beirut presses to extend UNIFIL mandate
Long Reads17 Aug 26
Tehran's Hormuz gamble: oil markets brace as Iran signals shift to an "offensive" posture
Energy17 Aug 26
Tehran signals Hormuz shift as traders price one-in-three odds on a deal

Asia17 Aug 26
India's legal aid retreat, lunar outreach, and the pothole problem: three threads from the Indian Express

Tech17 Aug 26
The Compliance Report Says Yes. The Network Says Something Else.
MENA17 Aug 26
Hormuz on a single day: three Iran-side lines, six hours apart, pointed at three audiences

Africa17 Aug 26
Hamas backs second-phase Gaza roadmap; Israeli position remains unclear

Europe17 Aug 26
Two crises, one French state: a tax-data breach and a PM booed by wildfire survivors

Sport17 Aug 26
Seven SportsLine posts, one 10,000-simulation pitch
Asia17 Aug 26
China's private security fleets in African waters: what the limited record shows

Long Reads17 Aug 26
The 50% tariff threat tests the architecture of North American trade
Crypto17 Aug 26
Bitcoin holds $64K as Trump declares Iran "in big trouble" and Hormuz deal
Europe17 Aug 26
BBC asks US court for help compelling Trump family testimony in a defamation suit, as Polymarket prices a Trump-Burnham…
Africa17 Aug 26
Africa's resource map is being redrawn: poachers hit succulents, the UAE buys ports, and African governments try to…

Long Reads17 Aug 26
China's July print: factories hum, shops stay quiet, and the supply-demand gap widens
Crypto17 Aug 26
World Liberty Trust Co. receives OCC's preliminary conditional approval for a national trust-bank charter

Defense17 Aug 26
Three weekend clips that say more together than apart: an Indian kamikaze-drone test, an American convoy flying a…

Asia17 Aug 26
China's Premier Reaches for External Demand as July Data Stalls

Europe17 Aug 26
Polymarket puts a 52% line on a second Trump–Burnham touchpoint this month
Crypto17 Aug 26
The Bitcoin Distribution Nobody Talks About

Opinion17 Aug 26
Trump meets the press: diplomacy by volume control

Africa17 Aug 26
Nyoro defects to opposition, bets his technocratic brand on a counter-Ruto vehicle

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Trump orders Pentagon to scale back South Korea exercises, cites Kim relationship

Sport17 Aug 26
Fifa sacks chief operating officer three weeks after he publicly criticised Infantino

Opinion17 Aug 26
Trump's Iran line lands as a marker, not a policy

Economy17 Aug 26
Two Southeast Asian heavyweights hit the same consumer wall

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Trump threatens to bomb Oman and confirms direct backchannel with Iran's IRGC

Sport17 Aug 26
SportsLine's 2026 fantasy football pitch runs through seven CBS Sports drops in under 26 hours

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Trump kills the Iran MoU, casts Tehran as defeated, claims oil flows are normalising

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Trump ties Korean drill cut to Kim and to Seoul's stand on Iran

Long Reads17 Aug 26
Congo’s Ebola toll passes 2,300, exposing a public-health failure in slow motion

Opinion17 Aug 26
America's AI ultimatum meets China's burger economy

Opinion17 Aug 26
Asia's slow quarter is a verdict, not a wobble
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Trump orders Pentagon to scale back South Korea drills, citing Seoul's failure to back Iran push

Asia17 Aug 26
Maharashtra's 2.08 crore question, and a draft roll due August 24

Business17 Aug 26
Polymarket puts a Hormuz deal at 12% as Tehran widens its option set
Opinion17 Aug 26
Seoul holds the line on drills, and Trump's North Korea overture hits a wall
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Trump pulls US-South Korea drills, says Seoul refused Iran 'disarm' help
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Trump pulls US drills back from the Korean Peninsula, citing his Kim relationship
Opinion17 Aug 26
Trump on Hormuz: coercion, negotiation, or both
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Trump's 'US territory' line on Hormuz spreads across Telegram in minutes; venue and Iranian response unspecified
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Iran's pressure problem is becoming a timing problem

Opinion17 Aug 26
Hormuz diplomacy is not yet de-escalation

Opinion17 Aug 26
Trump is gutting the drills Seoul paid for in blood, again

Business17 Aug 26
Wright signals refiner help as PBF clears a 52-week high and CMS slides to a 52-week low

Business17 Aug 26
Russia strikes Danube port infrastructure after heavy Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Russia expands drone-launch footprint along the Ukrainian and Belarusian frontier

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Six dead in Ukrainian missile strike on Russia's Belgorod region

Opinion17 Aug 26
Oman Is Not the Prize in Hormuz Talks

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Reports of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon raise the cost of escalation

Opinion17 Aug 26
The 30-year yield just hit a 19-year high. Nike hit a 12-year low. That's not a coincidence.

Opinion17 Aug 26
Tehran's tape, Tehran's tone, and a market that won't price a surrender

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Israeli drone activity and strikes reported across southern Lebanon
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Kushner puts a clock on Gaza: 30 days to start Hamas disarmament, 60-90 for tunnels, no rebuild until the group disarms
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Beirut abolishes the death penalty as Aoun presses to keep UNIFIL in the south

Opinion17 Aug 26
Hamas strike on the Yellow Line: a small incident, a loud argument about Gaza's future
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Kushner and Netanyahu agree on a US role in verifying Hamas disarmament
Culture17 Aug 26
A Russian summer of music: Sonatrip, a lost Mozartean, and a record-breaking conservatory

Business17 Aug 26
'Canada''s tariff clock: prediction market prices a 40% chance of further duties

Sport17 Aug 26
Bangladesh stun Australia in Darwin to record first Test win on Australian soil

Culture17 Aug 26
Inside Gnesinka’s summer school: a backstage pass to Russia’s conservatory pipeline

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Kushner and Netanyahu align on a US general to verify Hamas disarmament before Israeli withdrawal from Gaza

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Kushner lands in Tel Aviv with a second-phase Gaza plan in hand
Opinion17 Aug 26
A 60-day pause, artillery in the south: the Lebanon ceasefire that isn't

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Three Oval Office clips, three tests of Trump's second-term power

Business17 Aug 26
Canada's tariff risk is becoming an investment question
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Drone strike on Barzani's Erbil office: what the early Telegram accounts actually show

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
DR Congo's Ebola outbreak now the country's deadliest, with 2,235 reported dead
Geopolitics17 Aug 26
DR Congo's Ebola outbreak becomes the country's deadliest on record

Opinion17 Aug 26
Ferrari's $40m Luce sale shows what EV sceptics were missing
Opinion17 Aug 26
Southern Lebanon ground incursion: what six Telegram dispatches tell us, and what they don't
Opinion17 Aug 26
Vector's 55% profit jump is a regulatory story dressed up as an earnings story

Opinion17 Aug 26
The 30-year yield just hit 5.30%. The bond market is not behaving like a country at peace.
Crypto17 Aug 26
US savings near a record low, and the wallet math sits next to it

Tech17 Aug 26
Three posts from one account, one weekend, and the case that generative AI has reached the shop floor

Geopolitics17 Aug 26
Five posts, one village: what an hour of open-source traffic on al-Mansouri does and does not establish

Tech17 Aug 26
Hacker News flags MCP as an enterprise attack surface, while community model posts pile up behind it

Opinion17 Aug 26
The Channel That Sends Them: How a Telegram Post Becomes a Border Crossing

Opinion17 Aug 26
What the Grubhub–Serve Robotics line actually buys anyone
Crypto17 Aug 26
Binance cuts off 11 crypto venues; JPMorgan's quiet Polymarket re-engagement

Tech17 Aug 26
Seoul's undersea data-center pitch lands the same weekend Trump thins the drills

Geopolitics17 Aug 26