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Long Reads21 Jul 26
Trump's pitch for Infantino at the UN reads less like diplomacy than like a host change
Europe21 Jul 26
Starmer exits Downing Street: a premiership undone by immigration and a Labour Party that stopped believing
Sport21 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup triumph and the morning after
Americas21 Jul 26
World Cup brawl overshadows Spain’s return: FIFA opens probe after Madrid celebrates ‘La Roja’
Europe21 Jul 26
Shein's London IPO hits a European wall, and the cooling trade behind it
Americas21 Jul 26
A 'like' from Riyadh: Ronaldo's Instagram tap revives Argentina–FIFA row on the eve of a $1bn Saudi broadcast deal
MENA21 Jul 26
Anti-war protesters interrupt Hegseth's Senate testimony as US-Iran temperature climbs
Defense21 Jul 26
Hegseth pegs Iran war at US$37.5 billion as Pentagon asks Congress for more
MENA21 Jul 26
Fire and Fragile Calm: A Day of Casualties in Gaza Tests the Post-War Order
Sport21 Jul 26
FIFA opens disciplinary probe into Argentina-Spain final brawl, with Paredes red card and a Falklands banner now in…
Europe21 Jul 26
Argentina's post-final brawl draws FIFA inquiry as the 2026 World Cup books cross $9 billion
Europe21 Jul 26
FIFA's $9 billion World Cup haul lands in New Jersey courtrooms and Madrid
MENA21 Jul 26
Drones over al-Samer: another night of strikes inside Gaza City
Crypto21 Jul 26
Six figures, one weekend: how a Drake bet, an IRS claim, and a $66,000 Bitcoin print collided on World Cup night
Crypto21 Jul 26
Burnham reaches Downing Street: what a Web3-friendly No. 10 actually changes
Tech21 Jul 26
Apple turns to Klarna to put hardware on subscription
Americas21 Jul 26
UK Consulate in Jerusalem account suspended on X after Palestinian detainee post
MENA21 Jul 26
A tenth night of strikes on Iran, and the information war over what they hit
Europe21 Jul 26
A Russian cannon south of Plymouth, and a VAT cut in Westminster: Britain's two-fisted week
Europe21 Jul 26
LPG tanker explodes off Romania, all 17 crew evacuated as wartime Black Sea fuel corridor takes another hit
Africa21 Jul 26
Kenya's parliament moves on haemophilia and a land audit in the same week
Europe21 Jul 26
Gas carrier attacked off Romania tests Black Sea grain corridor
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Zelensky's general: Drapatyi takes command of Ukraine's army at a moment the war is changing shape
Science21 Jul 26
One theory, two puzzles: a Texas team ties Little Red Dots to the birth of globular clusters
Americas21 Jul 26
Cuba lands two silvers in Shanghai, defying the brain-drain narrative
MENA21 Jul 26
Israeli aviation lobby fights to keep airlines flying through Iranian threats
Europe21 Jul 26
Bologna's streets, a Moroccan-born entrepreneur's death, and the limits of Italian policing
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Trump's tariff week: Lebanon flights, a tariff cliff, and a Tate extradition appeal collide
Europe21 Jul 26
Trump tariff escalation and Tate extradition request land on the same day, exposing the transactional side of US…
Americas21 Jul 26
Trump reopens the Beirut corridor and presses an expansionist line from Caracas to the Arctic
Arts21 Jul 26
A Bronze Jefferson Lands in the Rose Garden: Trump's Quiet Remake of the White House Grounds
Tech21 Jul 26
The AI rulebook is missing, and the Trump administration still won't say where the page is
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Red Sea on a hair trigger: Trump's warning to the Houthis and the shipping lane nobody can insure
Africa21 Jul 26
Lagos to Lagos-by-way-of-Washington: Nigeria's 2027 opposition goes abroad
MENA21 Jul 26
Houthis announce Red Sea blockade of Saudi ports, Trump says the US will 'take care of it'
Sport21 Jul 26
Detroit's Skubal question: buy, sell, or bluff
Americas21 Jul 26
Three weeks after Venezuela's earthquakes, Caracas owns the reconstruction narrative
Africa21 Jul 26
Ruto's TSC nomination for Sossion hands the teacher lobby its most seasoned operator back
Africa21 Jul 26
Kirinyaga MP Njeri Maina's Mount Kenya broadside rattles Kenya's coalition arithmetic
Investigations21 Jul 26
Gates Foundation clears internal review of Epstein ties, but the questions it chose not to ask travel further
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup Win Hands Trump a Humiliating Loss on His Own Stage
Defense21 Jul 26
Zelensky fires his top general and bets the war on a younger, tech-first command
Sport21 Jul 26
Rashford at the crossroads: United eye Somerville as Old Trafford reset gathers pace
Long Reads21 Jul 26
When the inference check arrives before the regulation: how AI sentiment, zero-knowledge identity and the cost of…
Africa21 Jul 26
UK Export Finance's £10bn Africa push runs straight into the bankability question
Europe21 Jul 26
Manchester weighs in: what the city wants from its former mayor, now Britain's prime minister
Asia21 Jul 26
Lathicharged in Lutyens' Delhi: what a student protest says about Modi's education compact
Africa21 Jul 26
Britain's aid cheque is dead. Lagos ports are the new pitch.
Europe21 Jul 26
Andrew Tate faces UK charges of rape and sex trafficking, and an 11% chance of ever standing trial in Britain
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's fourth fire wave in a week tests Madrid's emergency response
Africa21 Jul 26
Kenya's school-fire crisis returns, with parents counting the dead and the same questions
Africa21 Jul 26
Kenya's nuclear push and its counterfeit pharmacy: two tests of state capacity
Arts21 Jul 26
Christine Borland, the Scottish artist who turned forensic science into form, dies at 60
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's first move: a VAT cut on electricity and a signal about who he wants to be
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham’s first 24 hours: a VAT cut, a 10-year promise, and a fractured Britain
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham at No. 10: a progressive mandate meets a bond market that isn't waiting
Opinion21 Jul 26
Burnham's first hundred hours and the case for not getting excited
Asia21 Jul 26
Wangchuk hospitalised as India's court weighs his detention; in parallel, New Delhi weighs the rupee itself
Asia21 Jul 26
Wangchuk hospitalised as Delhi weighs plastic banknotes: a quiet week that says a lot about India's two parallel crises
Asia21 Jul 26
Punjab farmers seal the border to Delhi over an India-US trade pact, and ask what was signed in their name
Oceania21 Jul 26
New Zealand inflation climbs to 4.1%, putting the Reserve Bank back on the spot
Oceania21 Jul 26
New Zealand inflation climbs to 4.1%, putting the Reserve Bank's pause under fresh scrutiny
Asia21 Jul 26
Student march on India's Parliament turns violent as education-reform protests escalate
Asia21 Jul 26
Monsoon pounds north India while Punjab farmers march on Delhi over US trade pact
Asia21 Jul 26
India and Moldova take up UNSC reform and counter-terror cooperation in Chisinau talks
Asia21 Jul 26
India's 'cockroach' protesters dig in after Delhi clashes as education ministry crisis enters second day
Long Reads21 Jul 26
India’s AI hackathon, a Maruti price hike, and a plastic-currency proposal: three signals from a country rewriting its…
Europe21 Jul 26
Trump's UK broadside lands in a transatlantic week already straining over tariffs, migration, and Guantánamo
Europe21 Jul 26
Trump on Lebanon: a tweet-shaped opening, a country-shaped problem
Long Reads21 Jul 26
The $9 Billion World Cup: What FIFA's Haul Says About the Future of the Global Sports Economy
Africa21 Jul 26
Kitui tops TSC teacher deployments as a three-year hiring push reshapes Kenya's classroom map
Africa21 Jul 26
Kenya moves to recover Sh790m Kisumu prison land the EACC says was looted
Europe21 Jul 26
Healey lands at the Treasury: a defence veteran takes over Britain's finances
Americas21 Jul 26
A FIFA president, a goal, and the optics problem that won't go away
Europe21 Jul 26
Emi Martinez's Spain defeat puts the Argentina job back under the microscope
Asia21 Jul 26
Another ceasefire push tests Egypt's mediation as mutual strikes grind on
Europe21 Jul 26
Andy Burnham takes 10 Downing Street as UK prime minister after palace appointment
Americas21 Jul 26
Brazil's Pix goes global, and Washington is not pleased
Opinion21 Jul 26
Three courts, one signal: India's judicial summer is being written in real time
Sport21 Jul 26
Spain's second World Cup arrives in extra time, with Torres the hero and Trump on the stage
Culture21 Jul 26
Snoop Dogg gets the biopic treatment. Universal is betting the man outgrew his most polarizing years
Arts21 Jul 26
A Mountain West Residency Reopens Its Doors, and the Question of Who Gets to Disappear
Europe21 Jul 26
A death in custody, and the long arc of Italy's migration politics
Asia21 Jul 26
Delhi High Court moves Sonam Wangchuk from Safdarjung to Medanta as Ladakh row turns medical
Americas21 Jul 26
The Casualty Ledger and the Politics of Not Counting
Culture21 Jul 26
Wayans horror, rebooted: how 'Scary Movie' ended up back on screen in 2026
Europe21 Jul 26
Italy's immigrant workforce under fresh scrutiny after Rome pickpocket clash
Markets21 Jul 26
Goldman flags a hedge-fund retreat from US tech and a $120 oil ceiling in the same week
Culture21 Jul 26
Country music's quiet handover: Andy Schuon takes the ACM's top job
Europe21 Jul 26
UK's datacentre buildout runs into a water problem the Treasury didn't budget for
Long Reads21 Jul 26
The Houthis just put a price on Saudi crude. The bill lands in London and Singapore.
Arts21 Jul 26
Behind the Art Institute of Chicago's outsourcing push
Crypto21 Jul 26
Tether Gold cleared as a spot commodity in Abu Dhabi's free zone
Crypto21 Jul 26
Five Days of Inflows and a Range Breakout: Bitcoin's Quiet Bid Above $66,000
Africa21 Jul 26
Yemen's Ansarullah announce Red Sea blockade of Saudi ports, jolting regional shipping corridors
Opinion21 Jul 26
Trump's Lebanon pivot and the Iran arithmetic
Americas21 Jul 26
Eduardo Bolsonaro's Green Card and the Long Shadow of the Bolsonaro Family's US Ties
Oceania21 Jul 26
Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon return: Australia load the Ashes artillery for Bangladesh Test
Sport21 Jul 26
The 2026 World Cup final was a spectacle. What it actually meant for football is the harder question.
Oceania21 Jul 26
KPMG Australia names internal successor as data-misuse scandal drags into the second quarter
Europe21 Jul 26
AliExpress hit with record €550m EU fine as Brussels tightens grip on platform liability
Africa21 Jul 26
Saudi oil pivots around Africa as Red Sea shipping costs climb
Asia21 Jul 26
Rubio lands in Manila as Washington pivots the Indo-Pacific pitch toward students, not soldiers
Europe21 Jul 26
Ed Miliband takes the Foreign Office, and the historical grammar he arrives with
Africa21 Jul 26
Africa now the world's hunger capital, and the AI dividend it is being sold may not reach the table
Culture21 Jul 26
Hong Kong's shrinking shelves: mainland muscle, local indie squeeze
Europe21 Jul 26
Britain hands an Indian-origin MP the AI portfolio. The brief is bigger than the bench.
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain takes the throne as FIFA's post-World Cup rankings reopen Argentina's disciplinary file
Oceania21 Jul 26
Domestic violence review in Central Australia finds no clear link to child-protection failures in five-year-old's death
Americas21 Jul 26
Rubio's Cuba blast: Cold-war rhetoric or 2026 vote arithmetic?
Asia21 Jul 26
Pakistan-Kuwait defence talks put the Gulf's quiet security architecture back on the table
Africa21 Jul 26
Faye's endorsement hands Sall a Senegalese bridge into the UN race
Long Reads21 Jul 26
FIFA's $15 billion World Cup: what the record take means for the world's most-watched event
MENA21 Jul 26
Tower 22 strike: satellite imagery shows destruction of US troop housing at Jordan-Syria border base
Asia21 Jul 26
Tens of thousands march on Parliament as Delhi police clear agitators
Oceania21 Jul 26
Canberra rewrites the AI power rule: data centres must give back what they take
Europe21 Jul 26
Another UK outsourcer heads private: Mitie's £3.1bn sale to OCS and the slow drain of the London mid-cap
Culture21 Jul 26
John Glacier returns to the club on "Bond Girl," the first single from her album "Lack of Joy is Death"
Business21 Jul 26
Trump hits Canadian wine, hockey sticks and cement with 50% tariffs, sparing energy and fish
Business21 Jul 26
Iran summons Kuwait over hosting 'enemies of Iran' as diplomatic rift widens
Europe21 Jul 26
France pulls the plug on under-15s as the Fed pivots hawkish: two stories that say the same thing
Crypto21 Jul 26
Telegram's Gram wallet lands inside a geopolitical week
Long Reads21 Jul 26
The waiting room as a verdict: Italian healthcare's regional split, the AI anxiety underneath it
Opinion21 Jul 26
A Manchester Invitation, and the Question It Opens
Americas21 Jul 26
FDA points at Taylor Farms lettuce in Cyclospora outbreak, but tracing the exact source is proving hard
Arts21 Jul 26
Disney Store Returns to D23 With F1 Jackets and a Peter Pan Push
Asia21 Jul 26
Inside the 'Cockroach' march on India's parliament
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's summer scorcher: what 30,000 scorched hectares tell us about a fire season that started early and isn't slowing
MENA21 Jul 26
Houthis turn the screws on Saudi shipping lanes
MENA21 Jul 26
Houthis declare maritime embargo on Saudi ports as Red Sea war-risk insurance more than doubles
Europe21 Jul 26
Paris moves to bar under-15s from social media as the EU watches
Sport21 Jul 26
Spain's new dynasty has the hardest part still ahead
Sport21 Jul 26
Spain's dynasty is here: Yamal at 19 delivers a World Cup, and Argentina loses Messi to the end
Asia21 Jul 26
Taiwan's first homegrown SAR satellite is in orbit. The harder part is what comes next
Europe21 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup blueprint: why La Roja out-thought the field
Europe21 Jul 26
The trophy is in Spain's hands. The $9 billion is in FIFA's.
Asia21 Jul 26
Sonam Wangchuk's fast enters its second week as Ladakh climate campaigner stays under Delhi hospital care
Asia21 Jul 26
Gujarat's dropout surge lands the state in the education ministry's 'red zone' as Delhi moves on Lal Dora titles and a…
Europe21 Jul 26
France moves to ban social media for under-15s, an EU first with global test cases in view
Europe21 Jul 26
Paris draws a line at 15: France moves to block social networks for minors
Asia21 Jul 26
Delhi seals its border and detains farmer leaders on the eve of a trade-deal protest
Asia21 Jul 26
A Lodhi Colony fire and a Ramlila Maidan refusal: two Delhi stories, one political fault line
Asia21 Jul 26
Hunger strike, barricades, and a party called Cockroach: what New Delhi's protest theatre reveals about opposition…
Asia21 Jul 26
A hunger strike, a name written to provoke, and the question of who gets the microphone in New Delhi
Sport21 Jul 26
Argentina's night of shame: what the BBC montage didn't show
Sport21 Jul 26
Spain lift the 2026 World Cup: how La Roja outlasted a misfiring Argentina
Sport21 Jul 26
Spain's second title crowns a tournament built on Uefa's open wound
Asia21 Jul 26
Inside the NDA's Delhi huddle: hard lines on NEET, softer signals on the INDIA bloc
Americas21 Jul 26
Petro floats indefinite strike threat as Colombia's first-round runoff math hardens
Arts21 Jul 26
Forty thousand tickets and one Russian pianist: how Denis Matsuev's summer festival became a soft-power statement
Europe21 Jul 26
Trump tells Houthis the US is 'ready to respond' as Red Sea blockade threat rattles shipping
Oceania21 Jul 26
Australia's social media age ban is now the template other governments are reaching for
Africa21 Jul 26
Wave's West African mobile-money squeeze tests Orange's grip on the CFA franc zone
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Hamedan in the crosshairs: the missile warning that put a 44% peace deal on the clock
Sport21 Jul 26
England's summer of grind asks Borthwick the one question his back line cannot duck
Business21 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canada Tariff Lands on a Supply Chain Already Diverting
Americas21 Jul 26
Earthquake shelters multiply in Venezuela's El Junquito as authorities scramble to absorb displaced families
Sport21 Jul 26
England's ODI rebuild finds its first real signature: a 2-1 series win over No. 1 India
Business21 Jul 26
Hegseth's Hormuz warning puts Tehran's grip on the strait back in the frame
Sport21 Jul 26
Trump floats Infantino for UN secretary-general, testing the line between sport diplomacy and global governance
Africa21 Jul 26
Kinshasa takes its minerals fight with Kigali to the UN
Crypto21 Jul 26
Bitcoin reclaims $66,000 as London Stock Exchange opens the doors to round-the-clock trading
Crypto21 Jul 26
London Stock Exchange's 24/7 bet is a vote of no confidence in its own hours
Opinion21 Jul 26
Gaza's water collapse is the story the wires keep filing past
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement lands. The IPO is the real headline.
Sport21 Jul 26
Chelsea circle John Stones as Premier League centre-back market tilts toward free agents
Americas21 Jul 26
Tropical Storm Bertha crawls toward the Gulf coast, putting Florida to Louisiana on flood watch
Opinion21 Jul 26
OpenAI’s quiet IPO math, and what a market that can’t price AI tells us about the next 18 months
Africa21 Jul 26
A bribe request, an undercover boss, and the optics problem at the heart of Nigeria's anti-corruption fight
Americas21 Jul 26
Mexico's 2026 growth forecast falls to 1.1% as trade fears bleed into the data
Africa21 Jul 26
Kenya's Deputy President bets on a 'First World by 2063' line, and the unity chorus he keeps repeating
Africa21 Jul 26
Kenya's cancer-killing bacteria: how a Nairobi lab is rewriting the rules of tumour therapy
Opinion21 Jul 26
Kalshi's metals-perps bid and the quiet privatisation of America's price-discovery
Europe21 Jul 26
Germany's federal crime report flags a sharp rise in child sex offences
Europe21 Jul 26
Europe's heat-fuelled insomnia is becoming a policy problem
Asia21 Jul 26
China's pig towers and the paradox of an economy that floods the world
Africa21 Jul 26
Football betting pulls in the majority of adults across six African markets, GeoPoll finds
Africa21 Jul 26
Africa CDC presses Washington to lift Uganda travel curbs as Ebola outbreak ebbs
Americas21 Jul 26
Havana calls Rubio's Cuba report a 'neo-McCarthyite' instrument, sharpening a 65-year rift
Business21 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canada Tariff: How a Trade War Started by Slogan Ended in a Currency Crossfire
Opinion21 Jul 26
The $9 Billion Tournament and the Tax Bill Nobody Argued About
Africa21 Jul 26
Africa's bet: why the 25-34 cohort is gambling the continent's mobile-money surplus
Sport21 Jul 26
India's chess depth shows: Pranesh M adds his name to a growing list of Gukesh conquerors
Science21 Jul 26
The science believers who hold scientific conspiracy theories
Crypto21 Jul 26
Polymarket puts CLARITY Act odds above 50% as Durov pitches a billion-user Gram wallet
Science21 Jul 26
California's decade-long rethink on English learners reaches the high school transcript
Science21 Jul 26
The investing podcast boom, tested against the tape
Science21 Jul 26
Memorable, not moving: study finds image stickiness outranks emotion in digital ads
Science21 Jul 26
The return-to-office argument has a personality problem
Asia21 Jul 26
Maharashtra farmer leaders detained in Delhi as protest year opens with a familiar choreography
Geopolitics21 Jul 26
Tehran dares the Strait of Hormuz as Trump searches for a plan
Culture21 Jul 26
Spain lands in Madrid: a World Cup, a million supporters, and a coach who keeps his nerve
Crypto21 Jul 26
London's 24-hour bet, Strategy's pause, and an SEC fraud case land on the same morning
Africa21 Jul 26
Six Ivory Coast opposition officials walk free after nine months in pretrial detention
Crypto21 Jul 26
Galaxy Digital Puts $5 Million Toward Hardening Bitcoin Against Quantum Computing
Europe21 Jul 26
Hungary's prosecutors walk into Fidesz's servers
Tech21 Jul 26
Google's Cyber model finds bugs faster than its engineers can, and it isn't telling anyone how
Long Reads21 Jul 26
India's Twin Stress Tests: A Student March on Parliament and a Currency Made of Plastic
Opinion21 Jul 26
Trump answers questions about Iran by answering questions about himself
Africa21 Jul 26