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Long Reads20 Jul 26
Iran War Odds Hit 60% as Polymarket Becomes Washington's Unofficial Pulse-Taker
MENA20 Jul 26
Sticks and staying power: the Iran file on 20 July 2026
MENA20 Jul 26
Tehran keeps the door open, Washington keeps the bombs falling
MENA20 Jul 26
Gas at $4, ceasefire fraying: the Iran-US war nobody can keep off the front pages
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran claims shootdown of US cruise missile as energy infrastructure toll mounts
Asia20 Jul 26
Mediators pitch a 10-day Iran-US strike pause to revive the interim nuclear deal
Energy20 Jul 26
Mediators float a 10-day strike pause to rescue the Iran-US interim deal
Energy20 Jul 26
Mediators push 10-day Iran-US pause as interim nuclear deal teeters back from the brink
MENA20 Jul 26
Missiles off the UAE, strikes on Tabriz: a night of unverified claims along the Iran-US line
Asia20 Jul 26
Iran's three-front opening: Pakistan visit, prisoner denial, and a Yemen air corridor push
MENA20 Jul 26
Two ballistic missiles launch from Tabriz as Iran races to rebuild gas output
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran fires ballistic missiles from Tabriz toward Jordan as sirens sound across Amman
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran strikes Kuwait's Al-Sabiya power station, triggering mobile-generator pivot
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Strikes on Chabahar, Konarak and Isfahan hit Iran on the eve of a Geneva accord
Defense20 Jul 26
Satellite imagery shows fresh damage at Jordan's Muwaffaq al-Salti air base after Iranian missile strike
Culture20 Jul 26
Iran's oil calculus: Tehran signals a strategic-reserve lever against Washington
Defense20 Jul 26
Iran hits shipping off the UAE coast as CENTCOM logs a ninth consecutive night of strikes
Defense20 Jul 26
Iran fires on vessels in Strait of Hormuz as rhetoric hardens over arms shipments
Europe20 Jul 26
When a Photoshopped photo becomes the story: Iran-state media and the Messi–Yamal rivalry
Asia20 Jul 26
Tehran's second Hormuz test, and the $85 barrel that may not last
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Iran publishes satellite imagery of Muwaffaq Salti strike, putting a Jordan air base on the front page
MENA20 Jul 26
Iranian projectiles target Kuwait as US strikes on Iran enter new round
Asia20 Jul 26
Tehran's man in Islamabad: Momeni visit puts Iran-Pakistan security coordination on the table
Asia20 Jul 26
Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Tehran and Islamabad tighten interior-ministerial channel
Asia20 Jul 26
Tehran keeps the Houthi line open: what Momeni's Islamabad trip tells us about Iran's regional perimeter
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran's wartime oil sales turned the cease-fire into a working business model
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran's missile strike on Muwafaq Salti: what three attacks and a gym hit reveal about a longer war
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Iran's missile arc over Iraq: what three short clips say about a widening war
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran strikes Kuwait with missiles and drones as US–Tehran talks wobble
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran moves armor toward Kuwait as blockade clock ticks and Jordan strike details stay classified
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Iran's strike on US bases in Jordan leaves two American soldiers dead, and a quiet intelligence victory in plain sight
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran missile sirens jolt Jordanian cities hours before Geneva accord signing
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran releases post-strike imagery of Jordan airbase as Pentagon stays silent on troop toll
MENA20 Jul 26
Explosions and air-defence fire reported across Isfahan and Bushehr as Iranian state media says country came under new…
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran says it downed a third US Reaper over Islamabad-e Gharb. The count is the story.
Asia20 Jul 26
Tehran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Iran and Pakistan reset the security dial
Asia20 Jul 26
Iran's interior minister lands in Islamabad as Tehran searches for partners beyond the Gulf
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran's Hormuz blockade threat and the oil market that didn't panic
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran races to restore lost gas output as US strikes hit domestic industry harder than dissent
MENA20 Jul 26
Missiles from Iran’s Fars Province land in Bahrain: what the footage shows
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran drone kills US soldier in northern Iraq, Rubio admits breach through Jordanian air defence
MENA20 Jul 26
Tehran reaches for the ISIS frame as US strikes widen across Iranian infrastructure
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran fires ballistic missiles from Tabriz; sirens reported in Amman, blasts heard in Eilat
MENA20 Jul 26
Iran fires ballistic missiles from Lar as Gulf diplomacy frays
MENA20 Jul 26
Iranian missile and drone attack hits Ali al Salem Air Base in Kuwait: what we know
Long Reads20 Jul 26
The Insider-Selling Signal, the Starter-Home Gap, and the Memory-Chip Squeeze: Three Charts That Define the 2026…
Europe20 Jul 26
Indian students quietly reroute from US to EU as the 'American Dream' loses its shine
Asia20 Jul 26
Monsoon deaths climb past 25 in northern India as hill states take the first hit
Asia20 Jul 26
India holds the line on three fronts as July ends: cricket, coal, and capital
Asia20 Jul 26
India tells its citizens to leave Iran as US strikes enter a ninth night
Asia20 Jul 26
Stone-pelting video puts India’s hydrogen-train rollout under scrutiny
Asia20 Jul 26
Two Indian High Courts, Two Quiet Bombshells on Rights and Records
Americas20 Jul 26
Israel's longest humanitarian mission is now in Venezuela, the IDF says
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Hugging Face breach exposes a deeper fault line in the AI agent economy
Defense20 Jul 26
Vessel on fire in Strait of Hormuz as CENTCOM logs ninth straight night of strikes on Iran
Energy20 Jul 26
Airstrikes, missiles and a strait on edge: how Monday escalated around Hormuz
Markets20 Jul 26
Hormuz stays closed, Trump reaches for sanctions, and China quietly buys the dip
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Hormuz on a knife edge: Iran declares a war footing, Iraq bets on a bypass
Defense20 Jul 26
Hormuz becomes the world's most expensive chokepoint on day nine
Culture20 Jul 26
‘Hope’ storms the Korean box office, and the local survival-thriller engine keeps running
Culture20 Jul 26
When Homer Meets IMAX: A Classicist Reads Nolan's Odyssey
Americas20 Jul 26
Herzog to Madrid: a World Cup congrats, and a quieter geopolitical signal
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Hamas picks a new political chief as Iran's IRGC declares the 'resistance' is unbroken
MENA20 Jul 26
Hamas names Khalil al-Hayya to lead political bureau, succeeding Sinwar
MENA20 Jul 26
Hamas taps Khalil al-Hayya as political bureau chief, putting a Gaza negotiator at the top of a movement at war
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Hamas picks its wartime negotiator: what Khalil al-Hayya inherits from Sinwar
MENA20 Jul 26
Hamas elevates Khalil al-Hayya as new political bureau chief
MENA20 Jul 26
Gold holds steady as Polymarket traders price 31% odds of a US strike on Iran by 2027
Africa20 Jul 26
Ghana's Airport City is rewriting where West African wealth lives
Defense20 Jul 26
Iran's negotiator accuses US of arming while talking peace: a familiar signal, a thin evidence trail
Long Reads20 Jul 26
American hardware in the Gulf, Iranian rhetoric in the wire: what Ghalibaf's tweet actually tells us
Europe20 Jul 26
Germany floats Sunday shopping as growth fix; economists ask what problem it actually solves
Europe20 Jul 26
Germany's public purse is carrying the economy: state investment up 125%, private capital pulling back
Americas20 Jul 26
Gaza's joy at Spain's World Cup win and what a Hamas statement tells us about the politics of public celebration
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Strike on the British Hospital road: a single incident in Al-Mawasi, and the apparatus behind it
Crypto20 Jul 26
Galaxy bets a Texas college stadium on a maturing crypto market
Science20 Jul 26
A French-made aluminum igloo is about to spend a year frozen into the Arctic ice
Europe20 Jul 26
Frankfurt rally puts Germany's Palestine crackdown back in the spotlight
Europe20 Jul 26
Paris-Berlin nuclear pact revives Europe's defence industrial base, but growth math stays stubborn
Oceania20 Jul 26
A New Zealander wins the Open: Fox's final-hole charge returns the Claret Jug to the Pacific
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Pop royalty, plastic pitches and a scoreless final: the 2026 World Cup closing act
Americas20 Jul 26
FIFA Floats US-China World Cup Pairing, Drops Hydration Breaks After Fan Heat
MENA20 Jul 26
Explosions rock Iran's Bandar Abbas and Bandar Lengeh hours before scheduled Geneva accord
Crypto20 Jul 26
Europe's crypto register crosses 290 firms as banks muscle in
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Strikes on Erbil Return US Bases to the Front Line of Iran's Risk Calculus
Europe20 Jul 26
Bookmakers and betting markets caught flat-footed as England beat France 6-4 in World Cup third-place playoff
Asia20 Jul 26
War premiums return to the barrel: refining margins squeeze as Ukraine and the Gulf tighten the diesel market
Europe20 Jul 26
Prague's cautious overture to Beijing arrives as China's domestic car market hits a wall
Asia20 Jul 26
Cyprus posture and Taiwan language: a single day, two fronts where Ankara and Beijing test the regional floor
Crypto20 Jul 26
Crypto's regulatory map is being redrawn in one week, from Abuja to Moscow
Crypto20 Jul 26
A Quiet Policy Window Reopens for Crypto in Washington as Earnings Season Hits the Street
Americas20 Jul 26
Copacabana after the whistle: how a World Cup final ended in riot police and a bilateral rupture
Asia20 Jul 26
Cool Japan Fund heads toward the exit as the red ink deepens
Crypto20 Jul 26
Clarity on the Hill, Friction in the Market
Long Reads20 Jul 26
The agent economy comes for China's enterprise stack
Asia20 Jul 26
China's swing-buyer playbook steadies crude after Strait of Hormuz scare
Asia20 Jul 26
Beijing sharpens its line on Japan as Takaichi's premiership enters the nuclear-policy crosshairs
Asia20 Jul 26
Beijing warns Tokyo over nuclear rethink as Takaichi-era defence debate boils over
Asia20 Jul 26
A Chinese air-defence system surfaces in Bahrain, and the Gulf's arms geometry shifts again
Asia20 Jul 26
China's bunker-fuel surge and orbital compute bet: two signals of a state picking its seams
Asia20 Jul 26
China's auto market stalls, its orbit fills, and its AI labs push back
Asia20 Jul 26
China's 1,000-satellite orbital bet lands while AI row with Washington stays open
MENA20 Jul 26
Strikes on Chabahar: What's actually being reported from southeast Iran
MENA20 Jul 26
CENTCOM announces new strikes on Iran as escalation enters uncharted phase
Americas20 Jul 26
750,000 tons of Chinese steel, and the quiet case for a Canadian detour around US tariff walls
Africa20 Jul 26
Canada shuts its doors on Congo travellers as Ebola fears spread
Africa20 Jul 26
Busia Senator Pushes Senate to Read the Treasury's Books in Real Time
Europe20 Jul 26
Burnham takes the call: Zelensky and Britain's new PM agree to meet on Ukraine
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Seventh in a decade: Andy Burnham walks into No. 10 with a country that has stopped expecting
Europe20 Jul 26
Burnham's first 100 days: digital ID rollback, North Sea drilling, and a Labour Party at war with itself
Europe20 Jul 26
Andy Burnham takes Downing Street: a Greater Manchester accent on British economic policy
Long Reads20 Jul 26
A Burnham Cabinet, a Hormuz Call, and the Quiet Recalibration of the Anglo-American Special Relationship
Crypto20 Jul 26
Brent crosses $90 as US-Iran shipping disruption piles pressure on a stretched Ether market
Americas20 Jul 26
Brazil’s Amazon gold front: state forces push into Indigenous land as garimpo economy entangles politics
Europe20 Jul 26
Boris Johnson returns to the argument: only Trump can break Putin's nerve
Crypto20 Jul 26
Bitcoin's quiet Tokyo turn: Japan Inc. buys the dip ARK says is the cycle floor
Europe20 Jul 26
A racist outburst at a Berlin pro-Palestine rally, and the questions it raises about German protest politics
Europe20 Jul 26
Ben Wallace: Israel told me it would not help arm Ukraine to avoid angering Russia
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Beit Yahoun burns again as Aoun courts Trump to make Lebanon's case
MENA20 Jul 26
Explosion at Bandar-e Jask puts Iran's Gulf energy corridor back in the crosshairs
Energy20 Jul 26
Bandar Abbas answers the cameras: Tehran stages a Hormuz defence as regional talks quietly advance
Defense20 Jul 26
Satellite imagery shows damage at US-linked site in Bahrain after reported Iranian retaliatory strike
MENA20 Jul 26
Sirens and explosions reported near US bases in Bahrain as regional alert deepens
MENA20 Jul 26
Sirens sound in Bahrain and Kuwait as Iranian missile threat resurfaces hours before Geneva accord
MENA20 Jul 26
Danger sirens sound across Bahrain as regional tensions with Iran spike
Culture20 Jul 26
Avengers: Doomsday trailer lands, and the prediction market is already calling the opening weekend
Americas20 Jul 26
A $1.5 million side bet and a prime minister's pick: what Argentina's World Cup run looks like through prediction…
MENA20 Jul 26
Explosions and sirens at Aqaba: Iranian state media reports strikes on US bases in Jordan
Africa20 Jul 26
Ankara's Africa push: how Erdogan is building a second-tier empire
Tech20 Jul 26
American firms are quietly routing their AI workloads through Chinese models
Africa20 Jul 26
Amazon's Quiet End-Run Around Musk in South Africa
Europe20 Jul 26
Air France halts Saudi and UAE flights for a week, jolting Gulf-Europe aviation corridors
Africa20 Jul 26
Africa's World Cup, late and loud: a record contingent leaves with five exits and one story
Africa20 Jul 26
After AfDB, Adesina's restage: Africa's most networked financier won't sit still
Americas20 Jul 26
A war without martyrs: how Washington's dead get read as footnotes
Culture20 Jul 26
Netflix hands ‘A Different World’ sequel its first frame
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Trump's Poll, a Ceasefire Crack, and a World Cup Lens: Reading 20 July 2026
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Trump’s Sanctions Whiplash: Iran as the Newest Lever in the Russia Bill
Americas20 Jul 26
‘Front groups and fellow travelers’: how the State Department recast Cuba policy as a domestic fight
Asia20 Jul 26
Paddles and a rusting hull: another Second Thomas Shoal face-off tests the Sino-Philippine line
Asia20 Jul 26
Second Thomas Shoal, again: what a fresh Philippines-China clash says about Manila's room to manoeuvre
Asia20 Jul 26
Settler raid on Sebastia lands inside a UNESCO vote on Palestine
Asia20 Jul 26
Rohit Sharma's 138 answers the doubters, but India's World Cup 2027 picture stays unsettled
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Nine nights over Iran: what the CENTCOM campaign is actually doing
Africa20 Jul 26
A Shallow Grave in Machakos, and the Pattern Behind Kenya's Unexplained Rural Deaths
MENA20 Jul 26
Lebanese army takes over three southern villages in US-backed pilot rollout
Europe20 Jul 26
EU floats carbon levy on outbound flights as Brussels reaches for new fiscal levers
Asia20 Jul 26
China keeps heavy rare earths off the table for Japan, with export data widening the silence
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Bushehr struck: the night the US-Iran war went nuclear-adjacent
MENA20 Jul 26
Bushehr strikes: what the first hours tell us about a US escalation into Iran
Business20 Jul 26
Andy Burnham takes Downing Street as Starmer exits, vowing to scrap digital ID and drill the North Sea
Business20 Jul 26
Ten nights over Iran: what the CENTCOM strikes are actually degrading
Africa20 Jul 26
Washington's chlorine sanctions land on a Sudan that no longer listens
Europe20 Jul 26
UK Consulate Jerusalem's X account suspended after Palestinian detainee post
Americas20 Jul 26
Booed in the stadium, partnered in the boardroom: Trump's World Cup cameo and the China game FIFA is already pitching
Africa20 Jul 26
Trump's third-country deportation push opens a door China is already walking through
Europe20 Jul 26
Trump on stage, Infantino on his shoulder: how the 2026 World Cup finale turned into a White House audition for the…
Long Reads20 Jul 26
The Trophy and the Tariff: Trump, Infantino and the Politics of the Next World Cup
Americas20 Jul 26
Trump's wildfire ultimatum to Canada and a separate voter-fraud push land on the same July day, and both widen the gap…
Americas20 Jul 26
Trump floats tariffs and damages against Canada over wildfire smoke, calls Spain ties 'very good'
Crypto20 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canada tariff order lands the same week the SEC sues a $22M mining outfit: a stress test for crypto's…
Long Reads20 Jul 26
The 3.8% Warning: Why America's Temp Workforce Now Rivals the Worst of the Last Recession
Americas20 Jul 26
State Department releases report on Cuban espionage, framing Havana as a hemispheric threat
Sport20 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup Triumph Carries a Politics Nobody Asked For
Africa20 Jul 26
South Africa's HIV Burden Concentrates in Young Women as the Underlying Drivers Outlast Any Single Programme
Americas20 Jul 26
Rubio's Cuba framing revives a Cold War register, but the policy debate inside Washington is about something narrower
Science20 Jul 26
Hong Kong team turns ordinary vibrations into a chemistry set, claiming a new route to clean fuels
Arts20 Jul 26
Water in the gallery: a leak at the New Museum tests a Lower Manhattan flood plan
Culture20 Jul 26
Netflix writes a $587 million cheque for Affleck's AI studio, and Hollywood's room reads the room
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Netanyahu, the ICC warrant, and an arrest threat a New York mayor is now openly raising
Crypto20 Jul 26
Moonshot's $30bn Hong Kong IPO pitch lands as China's open-weight AI wave jolts chip stocks
Crypto20 Jul 26
Moonshot's Hong Kong listing and the new capital market arithmetic
Africa20 Jul 26
A Town Without Sleep: Inside Kanoni's Crime Surge
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Streaks of light, sirens in Amman: what the 20 July missile reports do and do not tell us
Asia20 Jul 26
Manesar engineer named, Delhi High Court orders CBSE birth-record fix, and a swelling Jantar Mantar crowd tests police…
Asia20 Jul 26
New Delhi's outsourced consular front comes back into focus after Supreme Court clears passport-tender quashing
Europe20 Jul 26
"Comply or die": Inside the ICE enforcement rhetoric Tom Homan has normalised
Long Reads20 Jul 26
The $1.65 Trillion Hidden Inside America's AI Buildout
Crypto20 Jul 26
GENIUS Act at One: Washington's Stablecoin Law Has the Statute But Still Needs the Rulebook
Americas20 Jul 26
Ford fires back at Trump over wildfire critique as trade frictions keep smouldering
Culture20 Jul 26
Chloe Fineman lands first post-SNL role as Netflix builds out Myron Bolitar
Science20 Jul 26
Hong Kong team claims a blood test can flag heart risk 15 years before symptoms
MENA20 Jul 26
US strikes hit Isfahan and Shiraz as Iran conflict enters open-air phase
MENA20 Jul 26
Strikes on Tabriz and a Kuwait airspace scramble: a night that redraws the Iran–US line
Americas20 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup Win Lands Differently in Gaza: A 90-Minute Distraction From a War Without End
Americas20 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup win lands in Tehran as a parable
Europe20 Jul 26
Spain's World Cup win became a Tehran-to-Madrid moment before the trophy was lifted
Long Reads20 Jul 26
Sirens in Bahrain: a fragile Geneva accord meets the Gulf's hardest reality
Defense20 Jul 26
Sirens at the Fifth Fleet: What Repeated Alerts in Bahrain Tell Us About a Widening Gulf
Defense20 Jul 26
Nine nights over Iran: what Tehran's own media is letting through
Europe20 Jul 26
A death in custody in Italy reopens an old argument about migrant policing
Europe20 Jul 26
Iraq Pivots Westward on Energy, EU and Gulf States Draw a Line at Hormuz
MENA20 Jul 26
Smoke over Manama: Iranian strike hits Bahrain power substation tied to US C2 hub
MENA20 Jul 26
Tehran keeps multiple tracks open as Momeni heads to Pakistan and Yemen medevac lands
MENA20 Jul 26
Houthis announce maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia, reviving a Red Sea pressure campaign
MENA20 Jul 26
Houthis declare Red Sea blockade on Saudi Arabia, opening a new energy front
Energy20 Jul 26
Houthis declare Red Sea blockade against Saudi Arabia: what ships, oil flows and regional alliances are now in play
MENA20 Jul 26
Houthis declare maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia, citing twelve-year siege
MENA20 Jul 26
Houthis declare Red Sea blockade on Saudi Arabia as war-risk insurance costs more than double
Energy20 Jul 26