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Long Reads21 Jul 26
Saudis learn the cost of ignoring Yemen: two tankers, one corridor, and the geography of coercion
Asia21 Jul 26
Washington greenlights Saudi enrichment, quietly skipping the non-proliferation script
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Saudi crude exports hit a multi-year low as a Houthi blockade rewrites Red Sea risk pricing
Americas21 Jul 26
Meliá hands Havana back to Washington
MENA21 Jul 26
Kuwait summons Iranian ambassador after attack on oil tanker in the Gulf
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Kuwait blasts break a Gulf quiet, and the questions stack up fast
MENA21 Jul 26
Satellite imagery shows two new impact points at Jordan's King Faisal Air Base
Africa21 Jul 26
Ruto Reshuffles the Spokesperson's Chair, Moving Mwaura Into a New Diversity Office
Africa21 Jul 26
Kenya's two-editorial moment: AG Dorcas Oduor and the limits of prosecutorial discretion
Long Reads21 Jul 26
The July That Reshuffled Three Tables: Iran Calculus, Canadian Steel, and the Netanyahu Question
MENA21 Jul 26
Iranian drones over Amman: what Jordan's interception reveals about the new Iran-US truce
MENA21 Jul 26
Sirens across Jordan: what the morning's explosions actually tell us
MENA21 Jul 26
Japan backs Iran wetland restoration as Tehran courts environmental capital
Asia21 Jul 26
Jakarta tilts toward Beijing's AI body as Brussels lands in Beijing with a long agenda
MENA21 Jul 26
Israel raises alert to highest tier as Iran escalation odds shorten
MENA21 Jul 26
Israel raises alert to highest level as reports surface of an Iranian strike on its embassy in Bahrain
MENA21 Jul 26
IRGC vows "unforgettable response" to enemy aggression, framing posture around the Supreme Leader's strategic line
MENA21 Jul 26
IRGC strikes US-linked targets from Kuwait to Bahrain as Geneva accord hangs in the balance
Defense21 Jul 26
Iran’s IRGC claims strikes on US-linked infrastructure across the Gulf: what the claims, and the silence, actually tell…
Europe21 Jul 26
IRGC claims new strikes on US infrastructure across Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain
MENA21 Jul 26
IRGC claims cruise-missile strike on Amazon data hub in Bahrain
MENA21 Jul 26
IRGC claims strike on Amazon data infrastructure in Bahrain; Tehran and Manama stay silent
Intelligence21 Jul 26
IRGC claims 24th-wave strikes on US radar systems inside Kuwait
Europe21 Jul 26
Tehran widens threat circle as US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites appear imminent
Europe21 Jul 26
Tehran signals British interests in West Asia are in scope if London backs US strikes
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran war bill passes $37.5 billion as Trump–Tehran truce window narrows
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran strikes hit Erbil and Sulaymaniyeh as Kurdish Iraq absorbs a widening drone campaign
MENA21 Jul 26
Strikes in Bahrain and Kuwait: Iran's drones test the architecture of the US Gulf shield
MENA21 Jul 26
Tehran's schools are closing. The Supreme Cultural Revolution Council is being blamed.
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran moves centrifuges deep underground, U.S. and Israel assess
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran claims Patriot battery strike in Bahrain as Gulf airspace closure widens
MENA21 Jul 26
Tehran frames Trump nuclear-facility threat as escalation, signals calibrated response
MENA21 Jul 26
Satellite imagery points to new strike damage at Jordan air base used by US troops
MENA21 Jul 26
Missiles from northwestern Iran and explosions in Zarqa: a fast-moving Tuesday on the Iran-Jordan corridor
MENA21 Jul 26
Missile activity reported from western Iran and eastern Jordan within minutes on Tuesday morning
Asia21 Jul 26
Tehran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Pakistan-Iran security track tightens
Europe21 Jul 26
Iran declares full-scale war with the US after losing a third of its gas capacity
Europe21 Jul 26
Tehran summons French envoy as diplomatic row deepens over 'unconventional' conduct
Asia21 Jul 26
Iran's science minister lands in Islamabad for ECO summit as Tehran widens its regional science diplomacy
MENA21 Jul 26
Iranian drone strikes hit Kuwait and Bahrain as regional confrontation widens
Europe21 Jul 26
Iran warns Bulgaria off US basing as the post-12-day war logic hardens
Europe21 Jul 26
Iran warns Bulgaria over Bezmer airbase reports as Sofia weighs US strike aircraft
Asia21 Jul 26
India's three-front squeeze: capital gains, rate-cut delay, and the Tehran shadow
Asia21 Jul 26
India summons Russian envoy as four sailors die in strike off Ukraine
MENA21 Jul 26
Houthi blockade on Saudi Red Sea shipping reopens a corridor Tehran has tried to choke before
MENA21 Jul 26
Saudi oil tankers turned back in the Red Sea as Houthi blockade threat meets Trump's lethal-force pledge
Asia21 Jul 26
Houthi blockade turns two Saudi crude tankers back in the Red Sea
MENA21 Jul 26
Hegseth tells Senate Iran is in the worst place it has ever been as anti-war protesters shut down his hearing
MENA21 Jul 26
Hegseth puts a $37.5bn price tag on the Iran war, and tells Tehran the worst is yet to come
Asia21 Jul 26
Hegseth tells senators Beijing and Moscow are helping Tehran fight, and the read from Beijing and Moscow is that…
Business21 Jul 26
Geneva accord, Gaza strikes, and a press under pressure: the Middle East's split-screen week
Europe21 Jul 26
Gas Carrier Burns Off Romanian Coast After Strike Near Ukraine Border
Europe21 Jul 26
EU weighs carbon charges on outbound flights as Iran concedes a third of its gas capacity is gone
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Drones over Erbil: how an Iraqi strike became a US evacuation
MENA21 Jul 26
Drones hit Erbil as Tehran signals pressure on US posture in Iraqi Kurdistan
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Justice Department subpoenas for journalists' family phone records expose the limits of press freedom in a securitised…
Asia21 Jul 26
China flexes a fully domestic AI data centre, and suspends an aviation operator after a Beijing tower strike
Markets21 Jul 26
China holds back its reserves as Iran war reignites and car sales skid
Asia21 Jul 26
Beijing trims Iranian crude as Treasury claims credit
Americas21 Jul 26
Beijing rejects US allegations of Chinese military facilities in Cuba
Asia21 Jul 26
China's AI bottleneck meets its pork glut: two signs of a single supply story
Asia21 Jul 26
China races to harden its AI stack as export curbs loom
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Eleven nights over Iran: what the CENTCOM strike tempo is signalling
Long Reads21 Jul 26
VAT off the bill: Andy Burnham's first 48 hours at Number 10
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham gambit: VAT cuts, a Manchester summit invite, and the long road to a UK reset
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's first foreign-policy call: keeping British bases open to a US campaign against Iran
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham takes Downing Street: a Greater Manchester stamp on the Treasury
Culture21 Jul 26
Burnham's first reshuffle keeps Nandy at Culture, hands Narayan a new AI portfolio
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's Manchester moment: Labour's left flank tests Starmer's new grip
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham’s first 36 hours: VAT cut on electricity, Miliband at the Foreign Office, and the money question no one in…
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham takes Downing Street: what the Labour handover to its Manchester figurehead actually means
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's Britain: Labour's heir apparent and the arithmetic of unity
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Burnham takes 10 Downing Street with a 10-year plan, and a Britain that, in his own words, 'has not been good enough'
Europe21 Jul 26
Bulgaria caught in Iran’s crosshairs as US airpower pivots east
Crypto21 Jul 26
Brent above $90 and a whale at 40x: the two stories now pricing Middle East risk
Asia21 Jul 26
Bessent Floats Sanctions on Chinese Open AI Models, Calling IP Theft a Trade-Line Item
Asia21 Jul 26
Beijing tower crash, aviation licence freeze and a tariff-shaped week: parsing the China file from 21 July 2026
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Bangkok's Beijing turn: how China's high-rise pig farms became the silk road's quietest export
MENA21 Jul 26
Bahrain strike claim points to widening shadow war over Gulf data infrastructure
Europe21 Jul 26
Attack on Ukrainian teenagers in Poland tests the limits of a frontline alliance
Europe21 Jul 26
Andy Burnham enters Downing Street promising a decade-long fix for a country he says has not been good enough
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Zelenskyy swaps his top general: what the Drapatyi appointment actually changes
Americas21 Jul 26
Xbox workers take to the pavement: a labour pushback at the world's largest gaming platform
Sport21 Jul 26
Two-hour queues and a half-time parade: the 2026 World Cup final as security spectacle
Oceania21 Jul 26
Rock art and climate groups take Woodside's North West Shelf extension to federal court
Arts21 Jul 26
A Whitewashed Washington, Quietly Reinstalled
Africa21 Jul 26
Thirteen countries, one pipe: West Africa’s $25bn bet to monetise its own gas
MENA21 Jul 26
Washington wobbles: Iran policy fractures between escalation, secrecy and a quiet blockade exit
Americas21 Jul 26
Washington's Venezuela messaging machine trips over its own paperwork
Asia21 Jul 26
How Washington's China anxiety became the loudest story in town
MENA21 Jul 26
Warren's Iran casualty count puts a number on a war the administration has not named
Asia21 Jul 26
Seven Years to Quit, Seven Months to Start: The Vietnam Parallel Haunting Trump's Iran Calculus
Americas21 Jul 26
Hantavirus resurfaces in Anzoátegui as Venezuela's Health Ministry reports three deaths
Energy21 Jul 26
Generic-drug tariffs, Hormuz threats, and an 11th night of CENTCOM strikes: a single week cracks open US policy on…
MENA21 Jul 26
Strikes on the Gulf coast: US pounds southern Iranian ports in widening air campaign
MENA21 Jul 26
US strikes on Iran enter a tenth consecutive night as a 30-day truce expires
MENA21 Jul 26
US strikes hit Chabahar as Iran intervention enters a new, riskier phase
MENA21 Jul 26
Four strikes on Behbahan and a market pricing 44%: the US-Iran escalation that the wire isn't calling an escalation
MENA21 Jul 26
US strike hits site in Iran's Lorestan province, IRIB confirms
Long Reads21 Jul 26
America's oil piggy bank is breaking: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at its lowest since 1983
Crypto21 Jul 26
War restarts with Iran, oil traders already pricing the risk
Europe21 Jul 26
US says Iran war has cost $37.5bn, as Sofia balks at hosting American aircraft
Asia21 Jul 26
US-Iran Tensions Throw a Shadow Over Southeast Asia's Diplomatic Calendar
Defense21 Jul 26
Ten nights, one question: how a US-Iran air war redraws the global gas map
Americas21 Jul 26
Canada's pollution tariff threat lands as US public turns on AI: two political economies, one news day
MENA21 Jul 26
Teetering on stalemate: the United States and Iran trade strikes for signals
MENA21 Jul 26
US–Iran on a knife edge: intelligence doubts pressure campaign as casualties mount
MENA21 Jul 26
Tehran, Washington trade blows as Jordan strikes expose the cost of disclosure silence
MENA21 Jul 26
A wildfire, a 44% bet, and a $400 million war chest: parsing the US–Iran impasse on 21 July 2026
Asia21 Jul 26
Three months after declaring Iran's missile program destroyed, Washington is running a $37.5bn blockade it says will…
MENA21 Jul 26
U.S. intelligence casts doubt on whether bombing can break Iran
Asia21 Jul 26
Washington and Beijing reopen the AI conversation, on September's terms
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Sanctions, AI, and the new perimeter of US-China competition
Crypto21 Jul 26
Three capitals, three crypto moves: US-Canada tariff shock meets a Lagos council and a Moscow bill
Americas21 Jul 26
Washington Hits Canadian Steel and Aluminium With 50% Tariffs, Citing Trade Imbalance
Americas21 Jul 26
Unusual Whales turns on Ottawa: a tariff cudgel built from a Canadian pipeline
Culture21 Jul 26
Universal parks Christopher Nolan at the summit. Hollywood takes the hint.
Africa21 Jul 26
UNAIDS chief presses Africa to rebuild health financing as donor aid contracts
Defense21 Jul 26
Ukraine swaps its top general after days of street pressure
Europe21 Jul 26
Belgian overhaul keeps Ukraine's F-16s flying as fleet strains under wartime tempo
Europe21 Jul 26
Projectile strike off UAE coast latest in mounting Strait of Hormuz shipping toll
Europe21 Jul 26
Britain's electricity bill: why the VAT cut won't close the gap with Europe
Europe21 Jul 26
UK borrowing eases in June, but the debt mountain keeps moving
Europe21 Jul 26
UK bases cleared for US strikes on Iran as Trump flags Pickaxe Mountain action
Europe21 Jul 26
UK reportedly clears US use of British bases for strikes on Iran
Europe21 Jul 26
British bases offered for US strikes on Iran, report says, as Trump targets 'Pickaxe Mountain'
Africa21 Jul 26
Uganda Tells Bunyoro Health Workers: Uniforms Are Now Compulsory On Duty
Americas21 Jul 26
"We took over Venezuela": Trump tells a story the war record cannot yet support
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump splits the North American trade axis: Canada tariffed, Mexico courted
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Beirut opens for American carriers: what Trump’s Lebanon flight order actually changes
Long Reads21 Jul 26
America's receding umbrella: Trump, the UN, and a week that reset three relationships at once
Europe21 Jul 26
Trump's UK blast and the Guantanamo detention plan: two signals in one night
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Five Threads, One Week: How Trump's Trade War, Iran Strikes, and the World Cup Bid Map a Single Doctrine
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Tariffs, treaties, and taunts: the Trump second-term trade doctrine takes shape in a single news cycle
MENA21 Jul 26
Trump signals 'pretty soon' strike on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, then hedges when pressed
Energy21 Jul 26
Trump threatens to hit 'Pickaxe Mountain' as Syria enters the crossfire
Energy21 Jul 26
Trump threatens Pickaxe Mountain strike as Iran tensions spread to Red Sea shipping
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Trump's Blanket Shield for Netanyahu Tests the Limits of US-Israel Political Theatre
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Trump opens the gate to Beirut: an airline détente and a Lebanon war the White House cannot quite explain
Intelligence21 Jul 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum puts markets on a hair trigger as decision window narrows
MENA21 Jul 26
Trump signals no interest in Iran talks as tanker warnings sharpen around the Strait of Hormuz
MENA21 Jul 26
Trump vows to stay in Iran fight, says rebuilding would take decades
MENA21 Jul 26
Trump and the Iran question: strike talk, nuclear whispers and a MEMRI tape that won't go away
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Trump opens a second front with Iran while Lebanon's president walks into the Oval Office
Long Reads21 Jul 26
The desalination question: what Trump's Iran rhetoric on 21 July 2026 actually tells us
MENA21 Jul 26
Trump taunts Tehran as Hormuz blockade claim rattles oil markets
Opinion21 Jul 26
The White House turned the spigot off. Now universities are scrambling.
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump pressures Carney on Ontario wildfire smoke as transboundary air crisis drags into a second month
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump tells Carney to bring Canada's wildfires under control
Asia21 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canada tariff lands as Beijing punishes an airline and shrugs off US election-hack allegations
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump Hits Canada With Fresh 50% Tariff Layer, Citing "Trade Discrimination"
Energy21 Jul 26
Washington draws a hardened-target red line at Iran's Pickaxe Mountain
Geopolitics21 Jul 26
Trump to Lebanon's Aoun: Hezbollah is a problem Washington intends to solve
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump slaps 50% tariff on Canadian goods, cites wildfire smoke as provocation
Americas21 Jul 26
50 percent and counting: Trump's tariff escalation against Canada tests the USMCA bargain
Long Reads21 Jul 26
The 50 Percent Tariff: How a Tuesday-Night Trade Shot Is Rewriting the US-Canada Bargain
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump raises the ante on Canada with a 50% tariff proclamation
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canadian tariff lands, and Ottawa draws the line
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canada tariff arrives without the wildfire cover story
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canada tariff threat returns, with wildfires now in the frame
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canadian tariff lands: what Ottawa's retaliation options look like
Crypto21 Jul 26
Trump's 10% tariff letter drops into a market already priced for friction
Arts21 Jul 26
Toronto lines up its 51st edition with Mirren, Rock and Rogen at the top of the marquee
Tech21 Jul 26
The Prompt They Posted, the Model They Wouldn't Name: Reading Three Tech Posts Against the Hype
Culture21 Jul 26
Nolan's $250M 'Odyssey' was written off before a frame was shot. The receipts are uglier than the trolls.
MENA21 Jul 26
A tenth night of strikes: what the US campaign against Iran has actually changed
Europe21 Jul 26
Silicon Valley's workforce rebels: tech workers take on the AI rollout
Crypto21 Jul 26
Tech ETF count heads past 500 as prediction markets bet on US crypto rules
Europe21 Jul 26
The Tates, shackled in Florida, face the long road to a London courtroom
Europe21 Jul 26
The Tate brothers just made American soil the next legal ground in a UK case
Energy21 Jul 26
Unidentified projectile strikes tanker off Oman as Hormuz corridor quiet ends
MENA21 Jul 26
Tanker crew abandons ship in Strait of Hormuz after reported projectile strike
Europe21 Jul 26
Tanker struck off Oman as US-Iran accord signing lands in Geneva
Markets21 Jul 26
Tanker attack off Limah reopens the question of who guards the Strait of Hormuz
MENA21 Jul 26
Tanker abandoned in the Strait of Hormuz as UKMTO updates advisory on attack
Asia21 Jul 26
Takaichi puts growth back at the center of Japan's economic map
Asia21 Jul 26
Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager as chip-secrets fight with Beijing sharpens
Asia21 Jul 26
Taiwan rehearses a severed link, and reads its own market for signals
Asia21 Jul 26
Taiwan to throttle mobile internet in civil-defence drills as cross-strait pressure builds
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Taipei's drills, Beijing's chips: the slow-motion architecture of a Taiwan crisis
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Strikes on Tabriz, markets on Tehran: the night the US–Iran war talk and peace-talk markets diverged
MENA21 Jul 26
Strikes reported on Tabriz as US-Iran confrontation escalates overnight
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Syrskyi out? The thin evidence behind Ukraine's loudest rumour of the summer
Arts21 Jul 26
At SVA's MFA Thesis Show, the Rubble of History Becomes a Working Surface
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Sulaymaniyah wakes to blasts: what we know, what we don't, and what an Iraq–Iran shadow war looks like in 2026
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Two billion dollars a day: the Strait of Hormuz dispute and the limits of US power projection
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Washington's Worldwide Caution: The State Department's Global Warning and the Long Shadow of a West Asia on Edge
Asia21 Jul 26
Sri Lankans rally outside US embassy in solidarity with Iran school attack victims
Culture21 Jul 26
Sony and Marvel drop the third trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, leaning on a console game for its visual grammar
Culture21 Jul 26
Sony drops the third 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' trailer and puts Hulk in the frame
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup mural lands in central Barcelona, and the celebration does not stop at the wall
Europe21 Jul 26
Ferran Torres' 106th-minute strike seals the World Cup for Spain
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's 2026 World Cup Victory and the Diabetes–Dengue Warning: Two Stories, One Week in Global Health and Sport
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's 'Kings of the World' return: how La Roja turned a World Cup into a coronation
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's bench becomes the joke, and the joke lands in Moscow
Europe21 Jul 26
When the flag hits the floor: Spain's street politics meet the Middle East fault line
Africa21 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup win, and the soft-power scramble behind it
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup win puts the country back at the centre of European football's soft-power map
MENA21 Jul 26
South Lebanon's pilot zones: a model canton, or a slow annexation?
Defense21 Jul 26