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Geopolitics24 Jul 26
Iran stacks Bishkek bilaterals with Beijing, Islamabad and Bishkek
Opinion24 Jul 26
Araghchi's Cholpon-Ata Day: Three Bilaterals, One SCO Venue
Business24 Jul 26
Yen at 164, Brent above $100: a Middle East escalation writes three different prices
Tech24 Jul 26
Iran rebuilds, prediction markets price a long ceasefire, and Tehran sharpens the rhetoric
Tech24 Jul 26
Alphabet's €890m EU fine lands on the same week its share price drops 13%
Opinion24 Jul 26
Iran's pitch to Shanghai: sovereignty as the SCO's organising principle
Opinion24 Jul 26
Tehran's Erbil strike, told twice: blast footage and a pre-written frame
Opinion24 Jul 26
Tehran's rebuff and the diplomatic channel that just won't close
Geopolitics24 Jul 26
Iran rejects US ceasefire as CENTCOM logs a 13th consecutive night of strikes
Geopolitics24 Jul 26
SCO foreign ministers gather in Cholpon-Ata as Araqchi pushes sovereignty framing
Geopolitics24 Jul 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas: what the Iranian record shows, and what it does not
Opinion24 Jul 26
Thirteen rounds on: how Iranian state media framed the latest CENTCOM announcement in real time
Opinion24 Jul 26
Three filings, one posture: reading the 24 July wire as a single story
Long Reads24 Jul 26
Oil in the crosshairs, mortgage math, and a $1.9 trillion balance sheet
Defense24 Jul 26
US reports 13th consecutive night of strikes on Iran; Polymarket prices a ceasefire by month-end at 17%
Crypto24 Jul 26
Kazakhstan bets on hash power to fund a sovereign crypto reserve, and the BIS is watching
Africa22 Jul 26
'Inside Ruto''s long game: Kindiki, tribal politics, and Kenya''s post-2030
Europe23 Jul 26
Sweden reclassifies mining as a national security interest, hours after Beijing sets a 50% renewables target
MENA23 Jul 26
Britain puts forces on alert as Tehran declares 'eye for an eye' doctrine after US strike near Iraq border
Business23 Jul 26
Trump rebuilds the tariff wall, hitting 60 countries at 10–12.5%
MENA23 Jul 26
Iraq's prime minister lands in Tehran, with Iranian outlets framing a strategic turn
MENA23 Jul 26
Baghdad courts Tehran, Britain hardens its posture, and the prediction market still prices a ceasefire at 16%
Energy23 Jul 26
Iran-linked hackers hit US water and energy systems, US warns, as Kuwait fire claims ricochet through Persian Gulf…
Arts23 Jul 26
Venice 2026 lineup lands light on Hollywood, heavy on international directors, per Variety preview
Americas23 Jul 26
US prosecutors drop New York Times subpoenas over Trump plane reporting
Asia23 Jul 26
South Korea's chip-led 0.6% print lands as Beijing tells Manila the ties are at a crossroads
Asia23 Jul 26
India eases export e-commerce rules in a calibrated win for Amazon, on a day when Italian unions also closed a chapter
Crypto23 Jul 26
Goldman Sachs backs 'not perfect' CLARITY Act as BitMEX sets a 23 September closure date
Crypto23 Jul 26
Clarity Act slips past its summer window, but the Senate still plans a vote
Asia23 Jul 26
China steps into the Brazil tariff fight, and Trump's AI rhetoric follows
Crypto23 Jul 26
Goldman Sachs CEO backs CLARITY Act as ethics clause and 15-day clock collide
Europe23 Jul 26
France's National Assembly backs under-15 social media ban, per CTV
MENA23 Jul 26
Gaza under bombardment: what the late-evening Telegram traffic actually shows
Business23 Jul 26
Trump's Gulf billing edict: Iran-funds offset for shipping damage, and the market now repricing Hormuz
Geopolitics23 Jul 26
Trump rolls 10% universal tariff into a 12.5% forced-labour schedule on 60 countries
Opinion23 Jul 26
Polymarket has a Trump problem, and it isn't the 6% on term limits
Business23 Jul 26
Markets put a 17% ceiling on a U.S.–Iran ceasefire as both sides harden their lines
Geopolitics23 Jul 26
Qeshm strike claim and Bubiyan blasts put the Strait of Hormuz back on the crisis clock
Opinion23 Jul 26
The Strait Is Shut, the Senate Is Not: Reading the Iran Crisis as It Actually Unfolds
Opinion23 Jul 26
The wire from Gaza is still moving, and the international system is still choosing not to hear it
Investigations23 Jul 26
Trump tells Axios and N12 a 'massive' Iran strike is closer than a decision: what is actually on the record
Opinion23 Jul 26
Congress Voted 214-208 to Halt Further Action on Iran. Sixteen Minutes Later, Trump Vowed to Escalate.
Opinion23 Jul 26
House moves first, Senate pushes back: the day Congress voted on Iran twice
Geopolitics23 Jul 26
Trump tells Axios he is weighing a 'massive' Iran strike, 'bigger than ever
Geopolitics23 Jul 26
"Iran pays" and the thirteenth night: a war that funds itself in someone else's money
Tech23 Jul 26
Anthropic ships on three fronts as a leak and a prediction market both price Opus 5
Tech23 Jul 26
Anthropic ships a recording feature and a voice upgrade; Polymarket prices an 82% chance of a Claude Opus launch by 24…
Geopolitics23 Jul 26
Trump's Iran framing hardens from deadline to diagnosis
Business23 Jul 26
Trump replaces expiring 10% tariff with country-by-country rates on 60 partners
Geopolitics23 Jul 26
Iran refuses the off-ramp: Tehran rejects talks, vows retaliation as Trump widens the front to the Houthis
Opinion23 Jul 26
The contradiction is the doctrine: reading the 23 July Trump-Iran file
Culture23 Jul 26
Pulp's new film asks the question a comeback usually avoids
Business23 Jul 26
Singapore's GIC widens its AI bet as Washington tightens the screws on state-led capital
Opinion23 Jul 26
Theatre of the absurd: Tehran stages rage, Jerusalem markets longevity, Polymarket reads the room
Opinion23 Jul 26
Intel's 59% data-center surge and the soft-landing bet: a one-day market euphoria that papers over three live questions
Opinion23 Jul 26
The Venezuela Premium: What Trump's Tuesday Comments Tell Us About the New Oil Politics
Opinion23 Jul 26
Six posts, one afternoon: the small arithmetic of 23 July in southern Lebanon
Sport23 Jul 26
Arsenal's Saliba problem and the centre-back market that just opened
Opinion23 Jul 26
The strike is real. The framing is also doing work.
Opinion23 Jul 26
Tariffs, ceasefires, and a 6% prediction: three signals crowding one news cycle
Culture23 Jul 26
Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' Trailer Puts Austin Abrams Alone in the Frame
Crypto23 Jul 26
Crypto's week in three stories: CLARITY ethics fight, Terra's shadow, and Astana's mining pivot
Crypto23 Jul 26
CLARITY ethics language lands, and the regulator question gets sharper
Opinion23 Jul 26
The prediction market is now your morning brief, and that should worry you
Africa23 Jul 26
GeoPoll data paints a low-margin, football-heavy betting market across six African countries
Crypto23 Jul 26
Kazakhstan routes mining output into a state reserve as Thune eyes a Clarity Act floor vote
Crypto23 Jul 26
Peirce redraws the wrapper line: crypto vaults may sit inside securities law
MENA21 Jul 26
Kuwait reports fires at power and desalination plants for a second day as sirens sound across the country
Europe21 Jul 26
Szijjarto's BYD move hands Beijing a foothold in Budapest's foreign-policy machinery
Business21 Jul 26
Houthi Red Sea blockade turns back Saudi crude as war-risk insurance more than doubles
Asia21 Jul 26
Beijing turns up the heat on three fronts at once: Manila, Taipei, and the silicon stack
Asia21 Jul 26
Beijing's three-front pressure test: how a 1-gigawatt domestic AI build reshapes the maritime chessboard
Asia21 Jul 26
Beijing's industrial stack is closing ranks: rare earths, chips, EVs and the new shape of friction
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's first move: a VAT cut on electricity, and a question the cabinet hasn't answered
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's first hundred hours: a VAT cut, a cost-of-living bet, and a divided Kingdom to govern
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham reshuffle hands Streeting the MoD and Healey the Treasury
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's first test: a £3bn headquarters and a banker's warning shot
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham names Healey to the Treasury as the cost-of-living test arrives early
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's first hundred: a new prime minister, the same fiscal cage
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's first speech: a 10-year plan and a public that isn't buying it
MENA21 Jul 26
US names Erbil soldier; Tehran points to pattern
MENA21 Jul 26
Tehran's framing of a Bolton speech: 'freedom' as code for regime collapse
MENA21 Jul 26
Air strike on Mount Izmar rattles Iraq's Kurdish north
MENA21 Jul 26
Tehran signals no talks before a US 'failure', as Bagheri Kani turns up the rhetorical temperature
MENA21 Jul 26
Explosions reported in Sulaymaniyah as Iraq's Kurdish north wakes to a rattled morning
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham's "Breathing Space" Agenda Faces a Skeptical Westminster on Day One
Asia21 Jul 26
Saboteur detained at Tyumen defence plant as Russian war economy faces internal strain
Asia21 Jul 26
Pakistan courts Tehran, but the war drums keep beating
Arts21 Jul 26
Nikiforchin's 16-concert marathon: how a Russian piano festival sold 40,000 tickets
Asia21 Jul 26
Pakistan-mediated talks open as Tehran weighs response to U.S. base strike
MENA21 Jul 26
Houthi blockade pushes Red Sea war-risk premiums past 2024 peak
Asia21 Jul 26
BJP–Opposition standoff over Delhi police powers turns into a Parliament sit-in
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Burnham's first 36 hours: a VAT cut, a 'ten-year' pledge, and a Labour party he still has to convince
Europe21 Jul 26
Burnham slashes VAT on electricity in first big move, putting pressure on Labour
Markets21 Jul 26
Six vessels diverted off Yemen as Ansarallah tightens port ban on Saudi shipping
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Sana'a reopens the file: Yemen's blockade warning puts Riyadh back in a corner it thought it had walked out of
MENA21 Jul 26
Yemen's naval pressure forces six-ship reroute in Red Sea as Ansarullah presses Riyadh
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Forty-four percent: what a prediction market says about the room where a US-Iran deal might happen
MENA21 Jul 26
A tenth night of US strikes on Iran, and a video Tehran did not have to fake
MENA21 Jul 26
The limbo that holds: Washington and Tehran caught between deal and detonation
Asia21 Jul 26
US blockade of Iranian shipping puts Russia and China on notice
MENA21 Jul 26
Mediators float a 10-day US–Iran ceasefire as Tehran admits a third of its gas capacity is gone
Asia21 Jul 26
Washington reaches for the sanctions lever as US-Chinese AI models converge
Europe21 Jul 26
Trump's Bridge Strikes and the "Poverty-Stricken" Jibe: Two Fronts, One Pattern
Europe21 Jul 26
Trump and Israel weigh next move on Iran as ceasefire strain surfaces
MENA21 Jul 26
Trump opens a second front on Iran's nuclear programme, hardens line on talks
MENA21 Jul 26
Trump says he has 'no interest' in Iran talks, as mediators race a closing window
MENA21 Jul 26
Trump keeps the door cracked on Iran talks while telegraphing escalation
Long Reads21 Jul 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum: the week the threat became infrastructure
Africa21 Jul 26
Sifuna's 47-county test: how Kenya's opposition is auditioning a presidential bid without naming one
MENA21 Jul 26
Schumer demands end to Trump-era war with Iran as Senate pressure mounts
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