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Sport04 Aug 26
Pochettino's extension gives US Soccer continuity it may not need

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Rubio flags progress on Hormuz talks as Iran and US race to reopen the strait

Investigations04 Aug 26
Three China signals in one week: chip IP, a 56% prediction-market line, and a Pacific missile test
Opinion04 Aug 26
Two currents, one doctrine: outside money and the equity stake

Crypto04 Aug 26
S&P prints above 7,700 and Burry keeps the 1987 tape loaded

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Trump's 'decapitation' warning and an oil appeal, hours apart, frame the Iran file as a price-stability problem

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Pezeshkian rejects resignation rumours, draws a ceiling on regional escalation

Opinion04 Aug 26
Fourteen Crew, One Stretched Strait: What the Faize Noore Oliya Tells Us About Red Sea Governance

Business04 Aug 26
Iran weighs letting European navies help clear Hormuz mines as Bessent floats a 48-hour deal window

Opinion04 Aug 26
Tehran Tests a Maritime Off-Ramp in Hormuz
Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Trump frames Iran talks as Tehran's 'last chance' as Strait of Hormuz pressure builds
Business04 Aug 26
Commercial vessel hit near Strait of Hormuz as UKMTO logs marine incident off Khasab

Opinion04 Aug 26
Iran's Arbaeen processions expose a theocracy crowdsourcing its legitimacy from the streets

Culture04 Aug 26
Karbala on three handles: a 4 August 2026 thread and the caption that travelled with it

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia kill at least six, fire hits Wildberries warehouses

Opinion04 Aug 26
Middle powers keep talking about an AI third path. They still have to build it.

Opinion04 Aug 26
Iran's Arbaeen devotional wave, broadcast from city to city

Opinion04 Aug 26
Mars, rats and the heat: what a single Tuesday tells us about where 2026 is heading

Opinion04 Aug 26
SpaceX's earnings moment is a prediction-market moment, and that is the story
Opinion04 Aug 26
SpaceX's first earnings print arrives, and a prediction market is already pricing the next move

Investigations04 Aug 26
SpaceX's first public earnings report lands: $7.8bn revenue, $100bn cash, and an Nvidia satellite deal
Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Twenty-five Democratic-led states sue over tariffs, as Tehran is told it has a 'last chance'

Crypto04 Aug 26
Cloudflare puts a wallet in the hands of the agents, not the people at the checkout

Opinion04 Aug 26
Netanyahu's Gaza precondition and the artillery that followed

Opinion04 Aug 26
Qassem's five-country frame, in his own words, asks the reader to do the work he cannot

Opinion04 Aug 26
A bulk carrier, an unknown projectile, and the Strait of Hormuz on edge
Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Three Trump decisions in one evening: an Iran deadline, an AI safety-test concession, and a climate-grant rebuke

Tech04 Aug 26
OpenAI's quiet week: a math breakthrough, a $3.2m settlement, and a 3% bankruptcy line on Polymarket

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Qassem in Baalbek: Hezbollah readies for a Syria track while Lebanon's army moves on the rocket pipeline

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Tehran's Arbaeen procession coverage folds ritual into political messaging

Sport04 Aug 26
Wales walks, Wenger backs the U-turn: pressure on Infantino builds from inside the house

Opinion04 Aug 26
When the news cycle forgets it is at war

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
A single clan, 112 names: Gaza City buries remains recovered three years after the strike that killed them

Opinion04 Aug 26
Qassem's Baalbek pitch: Hezbollah's Syria gambit and the Tehran-Washington line in the sand
Science04 Aug 26
Four science items in one week point to a quieter shift: tools that finally let researchers look closer
Long Reads04 Aug 26
Six bulletins, one afternoon: a portrait of a year arriving sideways
Crypto04 Aug 26
Mastercard closes $1.8 billion BVNK deal as stablecoin rails move inside the card networks
Asia04 Aug 26
Three supreme courts, three very different stories
Crypto04 Aug 26
Wells Fargo joins the tokenization rush as the S&P 500 punches through 7,700

Opinion04 Aug 26
A daughter called an 'ill-omen': what one Delhi court's refusal to discharge says about the gap Indian dowry law still…

Culture04 Aug 26
Obituary, scam, exhibition: three Indian Express items in a single morning

Opinion04 Aug 26
The "last chance" that follows the strike

Opinion04 Aug 26
Prediction markets are now running US foreign policy in real time
Markets04 Aug 26
SpaceX faces its first public earnings test while rivals watch the satellite squeeze

Tech04 Aug 26
Apple pulls Telegram from its App Store, per channel reports; GRAM slides

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Drones over Kuwait: attribution unresolved as Gulf airspace lit up near the Iraqi border

Culture04 Aug 26
Takashi Miike's 'Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo' gets a Neon first look and a Toronto slot

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Telegram restored to Apple App Store after hours-long outage

Science04 Aug 26
Three biology results this week each reset a different corner of 'repair'

Opinion04 Aug 26
Ukraine's air-defence headline, and the questions it raises
Long Reads04 Aug 26
A chokepoint, a deadline, and a market pricing 15%

Geopolitics04 Aug 26
Senate clears funding hurdle 89–4 as Boeing's smallest MAX finally earns FAA certification

Crypto04 Aug 26
Saylor says he never sold a satoshi. His company just sold 1,638 bitcoin
Europe04 Aug 26
Apple files fresh UK legal challenge over encrypted iCloud access

Defense03 Aug 26
Wildberries warehouse burns in Vladimir region after Ukrainian drone strike

MENA03 Aug 26
Trump's "last chance" warning, Iran's "no talks" reply: a 48-hour messaging collision

Defense03 Aug 26
Trump claims Hormuz under US Navy control; Tehran denies talks, points to Oman route
Long Reads03 Aug 26
What Middle East Eye's Iran-Kuwait retrospective reveals, and what its source lets us claim

Energy03 Aug 26
Tehran plays the chokepoint: Hormuz reopens to friends, stays shut to the rest

Defense03 Aug 26
Hegseth's family-stability line travels two Telegram relays, while Polymarket prices the signing itself

Long Reads03 Aug 26
The dollar and the deal: Trump's twin suspensions

Asia03 Aug 26
China tightens chip-design protection as Beijing reframes the contest in legal terms

Asia03 Aug 26
Washington and Tokyo move together on the yen, and the question turns to motive

Markets03 Aug 26
The U.S. Treasury Joined Japan in the Yen on Friday. By Monday, Tokyo Was Already Trading the Aftermath.

Europe03 Aug 26
Fuel theft at British forecourts climbs a fifth since the Iran war began

Defense03 Aug 26
Trump says Iran talks resume Monday, sets no deadline for a deal
MENA03 Aug 26
Trump says Iran talks are live, Tehran says they aren't, US officials tell CBS the same: three-way contradiction

MENA03 Aug 26
Trump says Iran deal is "imminent," Tehran says nothing of the sort
Crypto03 Aug 26
Trump claims US grip on Hormuz as Tehran denies 4 August talks ever took shape

MENA03 Aug 26
Trump cancels Iran strike, claims a deal is near; yen soars on confirmed Japan-US intervention
Oceania03 Aug 26
Two seriously injured as building collapses in inner Sydney

MENA03 Aug 26
Pentagon tells commanders to find 'creative options' against Iran as pressure campaign widens
MENA03 Aug 26
Oil slides on Iran deal hopes as Tehran pushes back on bank-rumour chain
MENA03 Aug 26
Oil drops 5% on US-Iran talk announcement; Tehran channel signals the Strait card
Americas03 Aug 26
Lula makes the fourth-term bid official, with the Fed rate call and a restless Congress already on the board

Asia03 Aug 26
Tokyo and Washington open the wallet to break the yen's slide
Asia03 Aug 26
Tokyo's $32bn weekend: the yen defence the wire covered as a Japan story
Markets03 Aug 26
Tokyo and Washington back the yen as Japan runs three pressures at once
Asia03 Aug 26
Tokyo's $32bn yen defence now sits inside a US-Japanese understanding
MENA03 Aug 26
Two clocks over Iran: a refinery windfall on the Gulf, and a tabloid's collapse claim
Long Reads03 Aug 26
Iran says no talks, oil market says otherwise
MENA03 Aug 26
Tehran pushes back: Iran says no US talks, hours after Trump announces Monday negotiations
MENA03 Aug 26
Iran's Assembly of Experts backs the Supreme Leader and calls US diplomacy a 'mirage'

Defense03 Aug 26
Beijing shows off an AI air-strike coordinator as US-bound Chinese capital keeps retreating home
Asia03 Aug 26
Anwar's coalition wobbles in the states while Tokyo courts a homegrown drone industry

Investigations03 Aug 26
Workers Say They're Busy. Their Managers Say So Too. Almost Nobody Believes Either.

Crypto03 Aug 26
Beijing's quiet crypto policing, Moscow's grid crisis, and a Seoul equity surge: Asia's crypto map redraws in a single…

Culture03 Aug 26
Ariana Grande Steps Out of the Spotlight, Citing 'Public Scrutiny'

Long Reads03 Aug 26
Trump's oil sermon to a bankrupt Britain: an anatomy of a transatlantic energy row

MENA03 Aug 26
Gaza health ministry puts cumulative toll at 73,375; 1,250 reported dead since 'ceasefire' began

Opinion03 Aug 26
Kyiv's wartime reshuffle moves a deal-maker into foreign intelligence

Africa03 Aug 26
Ruto's re-election pitch leans on delivery record as Kindiki mounts the regional counter-attack
Africa03 Aug 26
Ruto's post-Vision 2030 pitch lands alongside Kindiki's unity line

Africa03 Aug 26
Kenya's Vision 2060 pitch lands in a re-election year, and the timing is doing the talking

Defense03 Aug 26
Sudanese army drone strike on Darfur village hits traditional court, killing at least 35

Americas03 Aug 26
Venezuela earthquake: Tasnim relay cites 6,125 victims as Polymarket prices a 2026 Caracas vote at 24%

Europe03 Aug 26
'Spain''s Ceuta barrier and the EU letter: what a Polymarket relay can and

Oceania03 Aug 26
Canberra lifts levy on Big Tech holdouts from local news deals, per Indian Express relay

Europe03 Aug 26
Italy edges back toward nuclear, with next-generation reactors targeted for the early 2030s

Americas03 Aug 26
Three Polymarket contracts, one week: a 9% ICE rebrand, a 46% Canada tariff, a Bedminster trophy

Americas03 Aug 26
Cuba's sixth nationwide blackout of 2026 pulls the plug on an already-fragile grid
Investigations03 Aug 26
Beijing tightens chip-design IP rules; a Polymarket contract prices China into the AI top three

Long Reads03 Aug 26
When the Fakes Outnumber the Work: Three August Items That Describe the Same Economy

Europe03 Aug 26
Haugset snatches Tour de France Femmes lead as Wiebes yields yellow in Poligny

Markets03 Aug 26
Japan's $32bn yen defence, and the line Tokyo is now holding

Opinion03 Aug 26
Hormuz talks surface, then submerge: what Iran's Baghaei actually said

Business03 Aug 26
Oil off 6% as Trump halts Iran strike, gold firms: a market that priced escalation in hours

Sport03 Aug 26
Infantino's World Cup sell-off died in four days. The fight over FIFA's soul is just starting
Sport03 Aug 26
Wales breaks ranks as Uefa readies legal fight over Fifa's World Cup sell-off

Opinion03 Aug 26
Trump's Last-Minute Reversal on Iran Tests the Line Between Bluff and Policy

Opinion03 Aug 26
Mediator bloc, not Israel, sets the Gaza cease-fire tempo

Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Iran's top military adviser claims Iran readied strikes inside Ukraine, then stood down after a public apology
Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Trump presses Iran with a "last chance" ultimatum as Gulf states broker talks

Opinion03 Aug 26
The graph that moved between two posts: a workflow, not a count

Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Tehran narrows the channel: confirms Oman talks on Hormuz, denies a US track
Investigations03 Aug 26
Trump's 'duplicitous' Truth Social post and the gap Tehran keeps negotiating around
Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Trump says US-Iran talks on Hormuz are underway; Tehran says its only channel runs through Oman
Opinion03 Aug 26
The AI capex story is finally meeting the tape

Opinion03 Aug 26
Trump’s 330,564 ‘missing children’ graph and the spectacle of the missing number

Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Iran's foreign minister lands in Najaf as Tehran pushes back on Monday-talks

Opinion03 Aug 26
Tehran frames Araghchi's Najaf trip as pilgrimage, not as the diplomacy Western wires were promising
Investigations03 Aug 26
The 3 August wire cluster: Trump's 'decapitation' line, an Iranian rebuttal, and a cancelled Ukraine strike

Opinion03 Aug 26
Two announcements, one strait: what Tehran says it is actually negotiating
Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Gulf diplomacy, not airstrikes: Trump credits regional allies for calling off Iran strike
Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Trump calls Iran "unbelievably duplicitous" as Tehran denies any ceasefire with Washington

Tech03 Aug 26
China tightens chip-design protection as AI hardware moves off the data centre floor

Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Iranian state media chronicles settler raids across northern and central West Bank
Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Trump's 'decapitation' warning lands as Iran shuts the door on negotiations

Science03 Aug 26
Muscle, teeth, and tumour DNA: three August biology papers, read carefully

Opinion03 Aug 26
The SpaceX earnings bet tells you where the AI bubble is leaking

Opinion03 Aug 26
The four-day week lands, the labour force thins, and Musk tells the cash-rich to relax

Business03 Aug 26
Three wires from one weekend: the Palantir pop, the $500B chip-debt headline, and a labor note framed in 2008 language

Business03 Aug 26
Three AI-funding wires, one 24-hour window: where the strain is mechanical

Tech03 Aug 26
AI funding shows strain as SpaceX softens; Jakarta's IPO freeze runs in parallel
Science03 Aug 26
Four science stories in three days, and a shared thread on system stress
Opinion03 Aug 26
Petrol, Pressure, and the Optics of a Stalled War
Business03 Aug 26
SpaceX's first earnings report lands on an AI funding market that is already flinching

Culture03 Aug 26
Surat's textile belt clocked in on a Sunday, and a Delhi panel demanded Zuckerberg apologise

Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Trump calls Iran "unbelievably duplicitous" as Geneva accord teeters on mediator handoff
Geopolitics03 Aug 26
Four killed as Ukrainian drone strikes beach in Gelendzhik
Opinion03 Aug 26
Seven Telegram posts, eleven seconds, and the shape of a newsroom at war
Long Reads03 Aug 26
The CDC diary and the transmission question: how a four-year-old argument is reopening in 2026
Americas03 Aug 26
Venezuela's Quake Toll Climbs Past 6,000 as Caracas Courts Dominican Recognition and Oil Markets Reprice
Crypto03 Aug 26
Strategy trims Bitcoin, Bitmine keeps stacking: two corporate balance sheets, two directions

Crypto03 Aug 26
Saylor says he has never sold a satoshi. Strategy just sold 1,638 bitcoin
Long Reads03 Aug 26
When the cloud absorbs the tariff, and the household absorbs the rest
Crypto03 Aug 26
Saylor's personal stack stays put as Strategy prints and trades its own
Long Reads03 Aug 26
The Productivity Mirage: Three Data Points, One Uncomfortable Convergence
Crypto03 Aug 26
Hashdex winds down a $14M bitcoin ETF as four August 3 crypto wires redraw the market's plumbing
Crypto03 Aug 26
Strategy trims bitcoin hoard to keep STRC preferred above water
Crypto03 Aug 26
CLARITY Act stalls as Bernstein warns $867bn crypto complex could swing into agency rulemaking
Long Reads03 Aug 26
The labour market is missing a million workers, and the ceiling isn't the economy
Crypto03 Aug 26
Strategy widens its runway: a $5 billion bitcoin shelf, a held STRC dividend, and the 200-week line Coindesk says the…
Crypto03 Aug 26
Coldcard hack deepens as Bitcoin slides: a week that exposed crypto's self-inflicted wounds

Geopolitics03 Aug 26
AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb edge toward a $400bn combination
Crypto03 Aug 26
Coldcard-linked losses top $88.6M as a third sweep wave hits 4,585 addresses
Europe03 Aug 26
UK court clears puberty-blocker trial for 226 children, Polymarket wire reports
Crypto03 Aug 26
Coldcard wallet exploit deepens as losses pass $88 million and Bitcoin tests $60,000

Culture02 Aug 26
'A Saransk audition, a New Orleans win, a centenary song, and a possible Carnegie
MENA02 Aug 26
Trump calls off planned Iran strikes, casting the cancelled operation in historic terms
MENA02 Aug 26
Tehran pairs the 'corridor' pitch with a hard-line warning, while Polymarket keeps US-Iran talks under 50-50
Defense02 Aug 26
Trump cancels planned Iran strike, says ‘parameters’ agreed on Hormuz and nuclear file
Defense02 Aug 26
White House pairs Iran strike threat with a pause, citing request from Tehran and regional capitals
Energy02 Aug 26
Trump claims a deal, Tehran says no: the Strait of Hormuz claim-counterclaim in real time

Americas02 Aug 26
Lula, 80, opens a fourth and final bid as Brazil's October ballot takes foreign-policy shape
Culture02 Aug 26
Steadfast, on camera: how three accounts carried the same Iran line on 1 August 2026
Long Reads02 Aug 26
Tehran reads the order as collapsing: what an Iranian diplomatic warning changes about the US-Iran track

Asia02 Aug 26
Indonesian ferry fire off Madura Island kills at least five, with 41 still missing from a manifest of 271

Asia02 Aug 26
India's app market prints a record quarter. What the number does, and does not, prove.

Crypto02 Aug 26
Japan sells dollars to lift the yen; US joins by selling euros
Crypto02 Aug 26
China's police AI hits 90% on illicit-crypto detection, as Moscow freezes mining and Seoul's KOSPI jumps 18%

Oceania02 Aug 26
Australia flags penalties for Google, Meta and TikTok over news-payment impasse

Energy02 Aug 26
Trump cancels Iran strike, cites Gulf states' appeal as Hormuz and nuclear talks reset

Africa02 Aug 26
Ruto retires Vision 2030's income target and opens a successor conversation on August 12
Africa02 Aug 26
Ruto admits Vision 2030's middle-income target will slip, and asks Kenya to start over

Asia02 Aug 26
US justice department subpoenas journalist over North Korea report, Iranian state media amplify framing
Economy02 Aug 26
India's July Tax Print, a Record App Quarter, and a Scroll Essay Push Back
Africa02 Aug 26
Ruto bets the next decade on a plan Kenya has never quite finished

Defense02 Aug 26
IRGC marks Haniyeh anniversary by declaring Hamas disarmament plot has failed

Sport02 Aug 26
The four-day collapse of Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan, and what comes next
Asia02 Aug 26
Korea’s leverage unwind: 360,000 margin accounts force-liquidated as retail ETF complex peaks and unwinds

Long Reads02 Aug 26
Three Dissenters, a Drone Alert, and a $130,000 Mortgage: Reading the Week on One Balance Sheet

Europe02 Aug 26
Spain tail risk: a 24% number, an Al Jazeera framing, and what the Polymarket book is actually saying

Opinion02 Aug 26
FIFA pulled the stake sale. The fight over who owns football's commercial future isn't over

Oceania02 Aug 26
Wellington moves on three Pacific pacts; the China file is subtext, not text
Geopolitics02 Aug 26
Trump pauses Iran strikes for a 'rapid deal' on Hormuz, but the move reads as coercion, not de-escalation

Asia02 Aug 26
Feather squeeze and a westward pivot: two Japanese consumer-economy pressure points

Sport02 Aug 26
FIFA scraps World Cup stake-sale as confederations revolt, but the governance question stays open

Sport02 Aug 26
Fifa scraps World Cup sell-off plan after confederations revolt
Geopolitics02 Aug 26
New York Times framing of US 'heading for strategic defeat' lands the same day Tehran leans on Riyadh
Geopolitics02 Aug 26
Trump cancels Iran strikes, cites Saudi preference for deal

Geopolitics02 Aug 26
Trump claims Hormuz deal, Tehran calls it 'baseless' in hours-long diplomatic whiplash

Geopolitics02 Aug 26
Italian marines rappel onto sanctioned Russian tanker in Mediterranean as shadow-fleet squeeze escalates
Opinion02 Aug 26
Hormuz deal or Hormuz theatre: the 24 hours that put the Strait back on the table
Geopolitics02 Aug 26
Tehran's MFA names a Hormuz-Oman track and a London-Sofia-Kyiv abstention list
Geopolitics02 Aug 26
Saudi Crown Prince urged Trump to stand down from Iran strike, open-source feeds report
Geopolitics02 Aug 26
Araghchi's Saturday evening: three calls in two hours, with the US posture named in plain text

Opinion02 Aug 26
The Fed pivot, the parent at the interview, and the price of admission

Opinion02 Aug 26
Trump Cancels Iran Strike at the Last Hour, Then Tells the World Why
Opinion02 Aug 26