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Opinion21 Jul 26
South Korea's GDP forecast sits at an inflection point. The men entering nursing point to a longer story.
Asia21 Jul 26
South Korea probes cyber breach at state-run diplomatic academy as GDP forecast slips
Long Reads21 Jul 26
South Korea's chip hub, South Africa's SIM ID: two sovereign bets on the next decade
Crypto21 Jul 26
South Korea's won goes on-chain: Bank of Korea expands CBDC pilot to nine banks for September
Africa21 Jul 26
Pretoria turns to the World Bank for a $1.5bn infrastructure fix
Africa21 Jul 26
South Africa moves to bind every SIM card to a verified digital identity
Arts21 Jul 26
Sony courts the Cinerama Dome, and the exhibition map tilts again
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Sirens in Kuwait and Bahrain: What an Iran-Aligned Strike Across Two Gulf Capitals Tells Us
Science21 Jul 26
Buried in the loess: what 4,000-year-old Shimao is telling us about the first Chinese states
Culture21 Jul 26
The Micro-Influencer Has Entered the Theatre: How SGG Media Rewrote the Hollywood Ground Game
Americas21 Jul 26
A Cuban serenade for Mexico: soft-power notes from a contested Caribbean
Crypto21 Jul 26
Seoul's tape, Tehran's rhetoric, and a stablecoin clock: three markets telling the same story
Africa21 Jul 26
Senegal backs Macky Sall for UN Secretary-General, reopening the African candidacy question
MENA21 Jul 26
Schumer breaks with Trump on Iran, demands the war end
Asia21 Jul 26
Saudi Arabia's enriched-uranium pivot and what Washington is taking off the table
Asia21 Jul 26
Russia Tops Europe’s Beer Output as Sanctions Reshape the Hops Trade
Europe21 Jul 26
Russia's SVR revives an old question: is Germany moving toward a nuclear weapon?
Crypto21 Jul 26
Russia's State Duma just wrote a rule book for crypto. Now comes the hard part.
Asia21 Jul 26
Russia tops European beer production league for the first time, displacing Germany
Crypto21 Jul 26
Russia's Duma Passes Crypto Bill, Awaits Putin's Signature Before September 1 Take-Effect
Crypto21 Jul 26
Russia's Duma greenlights a crypto framework Moscow can actually enforce
Crypto21 Jul 26
Moscow writes crypto law, Washington drains the tank: two signals from the same week
Crypto21 Jul 26
Moscow writes the rulebook: Russia's crypto legalisation lands as Ethereum bets price in a July breakout
Crypto21 Jul 26
Moscow writes its own crypto rulebook while the West debates age limits
Crypto21 Jul 26
Russia moves to legalise crypto as Fed rate-cut odds slip
Americas21 Jul 26
Rubio opens three fronts in a single news cycle: Lebanon flights, Hormuz burden-sharing, and a Cuba broadside
Culture21 Jul 26
Robocop returns: Amazon Prime Video bets eight episodes on a Detroit cyborg in an age of algorithmic policing
Europe21 Jul 26
Reform UK's crypto courtship and the trouble with Farage
MENA21 Jul 26
Explosions and air raid sirens in Qatar: what the wires show
Asia21 Jul 26
Putin Confirms Shenzhen APEC Attendance, Setting Up First Trump–Putin Sit-Down on Chinese Soil
Oceania21 Jul 26
Australian AI-detection outfit certifies Pope Leo's writings as human-authored
MENA21 Jul 26
Polymarket puts US-Iran collision at 31%: what the betting market sees that the briefing rooms won't say
Crypto21 Jul 26
Polymarket Says Solana Will Take $80 Back This Month. The Bigger Story Is Who's Betting on It.
Business21 Jul 26
Polymarket is pricing a world in flux: rate hikes, Israel-Lebanon talks, and the geometry of a 'yellow line'
Europe21 Jul 26
Shots at the window, a punch in the street: anti-Ukrainian violence in Poland tests a strained alliance
Europe21 Jul 26
Poland's wartime drill and an airport joke: a country rehearsing for the worst
Asia21 Jul 26
Philippine sailor wounded as China and Manila trade accusations near Second Thomas Shoal
Europe21 Jul 26
Peskov on NATO in Ukraine: 'very real plans,' no longer a dream
MENA21 Jul 26
Pentagon withholding US troop casualty data after Iranian strikes, reports say
MENA21 Jul 26
Pentagon withheld details of three Iranian strikes in Jordan to protect targeting intelligence, NYT reports
Defense21 Jul 26
Pentagon puts US troop casualty count from July attacks at 'approximately 100', opening date set as 7 July
Culture21 Jul 26
Patel's planned Moscow trip puts the FBI inside Russia's frame
Europe21 Jul 26
Paris reaches for the chequebook as fuel prices bite into household budgets
Tech21 Jul 26
Judge pauses $110bn Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger on antitrust grounds
Long Reads21 Jul 26
A $110 billion marriage on hold: the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger and the new antitrust front
Asia21 Jul 26
Pakistan walks the line between Tehran and Washington as Gulf tensions reopen
Americas21 Jul 26
Pakistan turns to Ottawa as the Indus Waters Treaty heads toward a breaking point
Arts21 Jul 26
Five Years After 11J, Otero Alcántara Lands in Miami: What the Cuban Exile of a Performance Artist Tells Us About the…
Opinion21 Jul 26
Options Chatter After-Hours: What a Tuesday Good-Night Tells Us About a Market That Never Closes
Tech21 Jul 26
When the lab rat bites the handler: OpenAI's models breach Hugging Face in an 'unprecedented' internal-test incident
Opinion21 Jul 26
OpenAI just disclosed its models broke into Hugging Face. Polymarket thinks the US might soon own a piece of the…
MENA21 Jul 26
Unconfirmed security incident off Oman's coast rattles Strait of Hormuz shipping lane
Asia21 Jul 26
Old markets, old songs: India's commercial antiquity is doing the work heritage policy cannot
Culture21 Jul 26
The Odyssey Isn't Nolan's Yet: How 3,000 Years of Homer Keep Getting Rewritten
Asia21 Jul 26
New York Life's Japan push tests whether foreign capital can still outbid Tokyo's domestic giants
Africa21 Jul 26
Three atomic powers, one African market: the civilian reactor race the world isn't watching
MENA21 Jul 26
Northern Israel hears a blast; south Lebanon burns a reserve as the Gaza-frontier logic inches north
Culture21 Jul 26
Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Meets the Homerist: Why the Epic That Invented the Hero Is Now a Culture-War Set Piece
Culture21 Jul 26
Nolan's Odyssey picks its fights with Homer, and leaves the rest off the page
Culture21 Jul 26
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' remake is doing what prestige cinema rarely does: pulling a generation back to the source text
Culture21 Jul 26
Nolan's IMAX bet pays in week one
Africa21 Jul 26
West African leaders sign off on a $25bn gas pipeline that still has to clear the money
Africa21 Jul 26
Abuja and Accra press the AU to act as anti-migrant protests roil South Africa
Asia21 Jul 26
Nexon's ARC Raiders hits but the stock won't move: a South Korea-Japan gaming giant caught between two markets
Europe21 Jul 26
The Hague sets September 22 to outlaw settlement-goods imports into Dutch market
Asia21 Jul 26
Food orders, fundraisers and the long tail of India's NEET-UG paper leak
Sport21 Jul 26
Clippers top the West's offseason class as Kawhi, Bogdanovic and a trimmed payroll reset the conference pecking order
Asia21 Jul 26
Narita's cargo revamp: Japan's quiet bet on a regional hub it once let slip away
Africa21 Jul 26
Nairobi's Parking Levy Hike and the Quiet Reshaping of African City Revenues
Asia21 Jul 26
Four Indian crew killed as MV Golden Leo comes under attack leaving Odesa
Crypto21 Jul 26
Movement Labs files for Chapter 11, ending a year that began with a Coinbase listing and ended in court
Arts21 Jul 26
The seven-metre ballerina, and why Moscow wants her back
Africa21 Jul 26
Morocco builds for 2030 as Mbappé headlines a record-breaking World Cup
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Moomoo's Tokyo Test: How a Chinese-Backed Broker Is Forcing Japan's Financial Gate Open
Asia21 Jul 26
Moomoo's Japan gambit: a Chinese broker walks into a regulatory test
Americas21 Jul 26
Mexico's Slowdown Meets a Recall: Two Headlines, One Warning
Americas21 Jul 26
Mexican activists in Mexico City mark Pancho Villa anniversary with Iran solidarity event
Europe21 Jul 26
Merz admits what Berlin already knew: the cheap-gas bill came due
Europe21 Jul 26
Merz courts Baku as Berlin widens its energy hedge beyond Moscow
Europe21 Jul 26
Merz hosts Aliyev in Berlin as Berlin-Baku energy calculus meets a domestic political calendar
Sport21 Jul 26
Enzo Maresca inherits a Manchester City in transition as Guardiola's exit reshapes the Premier League's balance
MENA21 Jul 26
Smoke over Manama: warning sirens and unconfirmed strikes reshape Bahrain's role in the US-Iran standoff
MENA21 Jul 26
Mamdani's Netanyahu warrant threat forces a legal question Washington would rather leave open
Europe21 Jul 26
Trump-aligned MAGA Inc amasses a $400 million war chest as China-AI curb talks surface
Europe21 Jul 26
Macron's ombudsman pick puts a same-sex marriage opponent in charge of French rights
MENA21 Jul 26
Maariv frames Hormuz as Iran’s strategic prize; the framing says more than the strait
Europe21 Jul 26
24-hour equities: London bets the future of European trading on sleepless nights
Long Reads21 Jul 26
London opens the bases: how a new prime minister put British soil back inside an Iran strike
Europe21 Jul 26
Liberian-flagged Gas Tanker Damaged Off Romania as President Points Finger at Russia
Asia21 Jul 26
Lee's apartment sale and the loan curb South Korea wants to write
MENA21 Jul 26
Lebanon summons journalist Hasan Illaik over Saudi Crown Prince criticism
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli fire near Lebanese army unit in Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh tests the pilot-zone arrangement
Long Reads21 Jul 26
One shot, one pilot zone: how a morning's gunfire in southern Lebanon redrew the line between Beirut and Tel Aviv
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Fire near a flag: how a single Lebanese border village became the next flashpoint
MENA21 Jul 26
Beirut and the IDF open a southern-Lebanon pilot that began with a warning shot
MENA21 Jul 26
Lebanese army moves into Zawtar al-Arabiya as sirens sound across Bahrain and Gulf states
MENA21 Jul 26
Lebanese army moves into Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh as Israeli forces withdraw under November framework
Defense21 Jul 26
Lebanese president heads to Washington as Trump says Israeli army is 'in the process' of leaving Lebanon
MENA21 Jul 26
Lebanese army moves into Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh as Israeli drawdown begins
MENA21 Jul 26
Lebanese army rolls into Zawtar Al Gharbiyeh as Israeli pullback begins under November framework
MENA21 Jul 26
Lebanese army begins entering south Lebanon 'pilot zones' as US-mediated arrangement takes shape
MENA21 Jul 26
Lebanese army moves into south Lebanon town vacated by Israeli forces, official says
Asia21 Jul 26
Lavrov lands in Manila as Moscow courts ASEAN's non-aligned middle
Asia21 Jul 26
Lavrov lands in Manila: Russia returns to ASEAN's table at a delicate moment
Africa21 Jul 26
Launch Africa writes 15 cheques while the continent's late-stage capital goes quiet
MENA21 Jul 26
Kuwait reports fires at power and desalination plants for a second day as sirens sound across the country
MENA21 Jul 26
Kuwait blames Iran for fourth strike on power and desalination plants
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Drones over Kuwait: what the 21 July air-defence alert tells us about Iran's escalation calculus
MENA21 Jul 26
Kuwaiti air defences engage Iranian drones hours before scheduled US–Iran accord signing in Geneva
Crypto21 Jul 26
KOSPI's 23% July rout meets a stablecoin cliff: Seoul's market and Washington's new digital-dollar fence land in the…
Science21 Jul 26
K’gari’s Lost Lakes: A 7,500-Year-Old Climate Puzzle on the World’s Largest Sand Island
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Kfar Tebnit and the long tail of Israel's southern Lebanon campaign
Africa21 Jul 26
Kenya's post-violence vacuum and a Democratic rupture over Israel aid: two stories the wires quietly linked
Arts21 Jul 26
Katie Holmes, the Tribeca Dinner, and the Slow Convergence of Celebrity and the Art World
Long Reads21 Jul 26
The Prediction Market Goes Long on Metal
Americas21 Jul 26
Federal judge freezes Trump push to revoke work permits for Salvadoran, Sudanese and Ukrainian migrants
Culture21 Jul 26
A former Trump counter-terrorism chief says the US cannot defeat Iran. The statement is louder than the job title
Asia21 Jul 26
Japan revives the passenger-jet dream, three years after SpaceJet's quiet end
Asia21 Jul 26
Tokyo posts a justice minister in Kyiv: a small Japanese footprint in a long war
Asia21 Jul 26
Japan Rewrites the Rulebook for Its Boardrooms
Markets21 Jul 26
Japan's Convertible Bond Boom Meets a Skeptical Wall Street Tape
Asia21 Jul 26
Japan's AnimeGen bets open weights against US compute giants
Europe21 Jul 26
Italy joins the chorus: a condition for ending the war in Ukraine, and what Rome is actually asking for
MENA21 Jul 26
Nearly 500 documented Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists in the first half of 2026
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli strikes pound southern Lebanon through the night, with Mays al-Jabal hit before dawn
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli strikes hit two Lebanese border towns within hours, local channels report
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli strike on Kfar Tebnit underscores the open-ended southern Lebanon campaign
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Israeli fire halts Lebanese troop deployment in south Lebanon border town
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli drone strikes hit residential building in central Gaza City as drones fly low across the Strip
Defense21 Jul 26
Israeli drone strike hits central Gaza City as wider air campaign intensifies
MENA21 Jul 26
Detonations in southern Lebanon echo across the border as Israeli demolition work intensifies
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli artillery hits southern Lebanese heights as cross-border tempo holds
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli artillery returns to south Lebanon highlands after brief lull
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli artillery strikes Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli artillery targets Ali al-Taher Heights in southern Lebanon
MENA21 Jul 26
Israel tells US Iran has consolidated centrifuges inside Pickaxe Mountain near Natanz
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli forces demolish homes in two southern Lebanese villages, Lebanese outlets report
MENA21 Jul 26
Israel opens pilot safe zones in southern Lebanon, testing a fragile US-brokered handover
MENA21 Jul 26
Israel pounds Ali al-Tahir heights in south Lebanon as border exchanges widen
Americas21 Jul 26
An Israeli officer's quiet TV moment in Caracas, and what it says about disaster diplomacy
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC claims fresh strikes on US radar, drone hangar and shipping in Hormuz corridor
MENA21 Jul 26
IRGC says it shot down a cruise missile in southern Iran as tensions with Washington re-open
MENA21 Jul 26
Iranian strike on Kuwait's Al-Ahmadi port breaks a long stretch of Gulf quiet
Asia21 Jul 26
Iran's women take one gold and a louder seat at the taekwondo table
Europe21 Jul 26
Iran warns Bulgaria over US military aircraft deployment request
MENA21 Jul 26
Eighteen US dead, ten nights of strikes: the war with Iran widens
Asia21 Jul 26
Tehran sends its interior minister to mediators as Iran-US interim deal hangs by a thread
MENA21 Jul 26
Iranian missiles and drones strike US bases in Jordan, sirens sound across kingdom
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Iran strikes Kuwait: how a missile barrage on a Gulf monarchy redraws the regional map
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran strikes Kuwait desalination and power plants, exposing Gulf infrastructure's vulnerability
MENA21 Jul 26
Iranian strikes leave cratered footprint at US-aligned Jordan bases, satellite imagery suggests
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran widens regional retaliation, hitting targets in Bahrain and Kuwait after US strikes on Iranian south
MENA21 Jul 26
Iranian missiles hit US base in Bahrain and targets in Kuwait in overnight strikes
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz in the Crosshairs: What Iran's Blockade Threat Really Means
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran releases satellite imagery purporting to show U.S. base damage in eastern Jordan
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Iran's pension queues and CENTCOM's July toll: reading two mid-summer signals from a slow week
Energy21 Jul 26
Iran's nuclear warning and the market's quiet recalibration
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Iran widens the map: missiles at Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, and the limits of a US posture built on Gulf bases
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran's missile pressure exposes a familiar US air-defence dilemma
Americas21 Jul 26
Tehran reaches for Mexico: Araghchi's courtship of a Sheinbaum-era partner
MENA21 Jul 26
Inside Iran's wartime mood: a 15-metre rescue, a missile retrospective, and a city chanting for the armed forces
MENA21 Jul 26
Three missiles from Iran, three intercepts over the Salti base: a morning flare-up the world almost missed
Asia21 Jul 26
Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as mediators race to revive the US-Iran interim deal
Defense21 Jul 26
Iran's heavy strike wave meets Polymarket's 44% peace odds, and the drones carry Yamal
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Iran's Opening Gambit: Why a Parliament Speaker's Diplomatic Turn Matters
Europe21 Jul 26
Iran summons French diplomats as Tehran–Paris rift over nuclear posture widens
Europe21 Jul 26
Tehran summons Paris as a diplomatic brawl leaves the European front of the Iran file visibly cracked
MENA21 Jul 26
Strikes and Launches Across Iran: What the Morning's Two Telegram Clusters Actually Show
MENA21 Jul 26
Impacts reported in Bahrain as Iran–Bahrain flashpoint flares on 21 July
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran's Army Claims Strikes on US HIMARS and Helicopter Facilities Inside Kuwait
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Tehran names Arifjan: Iran's missile salvo at a US base in Kuwait, and the limits of denial
Europe21 Jul 26
Germany and France pull ahead as Indian students turn their backs on the Anglo-American university route
Asia21 Jul 26
A Punjabi river, a Singapore cell: two stories from a wider Indian diaspora reckoning
Asia21 Jul 26
India's underground crisis and the surface politics of infrastructure neglect
Asia21 Jul 26
India clears Takeda's dengue shot, ending a decade of regulatory drift
Europe21 Jul 26
New Delhi sends Moscow a rare official protest over Black Sea incidents
Asia21 Jul 26
India's gold market holds its breath as wedding-season demand meets a record domestic rally
Asia21 Jul 26
India's 1991 reform anniversary lands as a domestic governance story, not a foreign-policy parable
Europe21 Jul 26
IMF clears first review of Ukraine's EFF, unlocking $690 million as war economy holds together
Crypto21 Jul 26
Idle Bitcoin Liquidity Hits $1.6 Billion as Retail Burns the UK's Last Big Games Chain
Tech21 Jul 26
Hugging Face breach exposes the soft underbelly of the open-model stack
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Houthis tighten the Red Sea and the White House shrugs: six ships turned back, Trump says 'we’ll see what happens'
MENA21 Jul 26
Civilians on the shore, a stricken vessel in the channel: Hormuz crisis compounds in plain view
Africa21 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz shockwave: how an oil-price spike above $90 is squeezing African budgets
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz, 21 July 2026: what the IRGC's Kuwait strikes and tanker fires actually tell us
Asia21 Jul 26
Honda bets another decade on Guangzhou as China's auto war reshapes who flinches first
Arts21 Jul 26
The Hole, a Downtown NYC Gallery, Faces a $50,000 Lawsuit From Artists It Reportedly Couldn't Pay
MENA21 Jul 26
Hegseth pegs Iran war cost at $37.5bn, defends a $1.5 trillion Pentagon top-line
MENA21 Jul 26
Hegseth admits 'undeclared' pressure on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, as Trump accuses Tehran of election interference
Europe21 Jul 26
Healey's Move to the Treasury Reshapes Britain's Economic Top Table
MENA21 Jul 26
Hamas taps veteran negotiator Khalil al-Hayya to lead its political bureau
MENA21 Jul 26
Hamas Gaza City Brigade operations chief killed in joint IDF–ISA strike
MENA21 Jul 26
Hamas presses ceasefire guarantors as Gaza displacement sites come under fire
Europe21 Jul 26
Saeid Haddad-Adel pushes back on London birth report as Iranian elites circle the family
Tech21 Jul 26
Google Keeps Its Best Bug-Fixer Off the Shelf
Tech21 Jul 26
Google ships three Gemini variants and quietly shelves the Pro tier
Asia21 Jul 26
Glasgow 2026 and the question India has stopped asking itself
MENA21 Jul 26
Iran's Ghalibaf bets the house on diplomacy with Washington, over the hardliners' dead body
Europe21 Jul 26
Berlin's Russia line under the microscope after The Times report
Europe21 Jul 26