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Business20 Jul 26
Tanker struck off Oman's coast as UKMTO logs another Strait of Hormuz incident
Business20 Jul 26
Vessel on fire in Strait of Hormuz as UKMTO reports incident off Oman's Kumzar coast

Sport20 Jul 26
Argentina faces Fifa inquiry after Madrid final descends into chaos
Africa20 Jul 26
Kinshasa takes its mineral war with Kigali to the UN podium

Crypto20 Jul 26
Seoul's leverage, Washington's deadline, and the two clocks now running on global crypto

Opinion20 Jul 26
The oligarchy is fine, your kids aren't: three July data points and the shape of the next decade

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Starmer bows out: a quiet handover at the door of Number 10

Sport20 Jul 26
Scheffler steps in for DeChambeau as The Open's rules row spills past Sunday
Africa20 Jul 26
São Tomé and Príncipe counts votes in a presidential race the rest of Africa is quietly watching
Africa20 Jul 26
The Long Afterlife of Political Violence: How a Nine-Country Study Is Reshaping the Debate on Youth and Memory in Africa

Asia20 Jul 26
Kyushu's semiconductor build-out draws Japan's financial giants into the chip corridor
MENA20 Jul 26
Tehran frames the World Cup as a political stage, then walks back a prisoner story
Africa20 Jul 26
ECOWAS signs off on the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline, six years after the idea was mooted

Americas20 Jul 26
Bets on a US indictment of Cuba’s president cross 50% as pressure on Havana builds

Asia20 Jul 26
CJP march on Parliament ends in lathicharge, 118 personnel hurt and 70 detained as Delhi police push protesters back

Culture20 Jul 26
Hellboy's afterlife: Mignola and Sniegoski's supernatural podcast 'Grim Death and Bill' heads to television

Culture20 Jul 26
Brunello Cucinelli Docufilm Crosses Borders Before It Reaches the U.S.

MENA20 Jul 26
Gaza media office logs 3,795 ceasefire violations since truce began

Culture20 Jul 26
Iran's southeast takes the second hit: earthquake in Kermanshah follows attacks in Sistan and Baluchistan
Arts20 Jul 26
Bolshoi brings its 250-year archive to the Seychelles

Science20 Jul 26
The feed is not neutral: how a Virginia Tech study exposes the bias baked into social media timelines

Science20 Jul 26
Seoul team shows on-chip control of light speed, but the gap to a real device is wide

Science20 Jul 26
A Cheap Antidepressant, a Long COVID Puzzle, and the Limits of a Single Trial
Science20 Jul 26
Nursing students tell researchers they trust themselves with AI, more than the tools deserve

Culture20 Jul 26
Avatar Aang, all grown up: a sequel film asks the cult to love it again
Asia20 Jul 26
ASEAN's unity test runs through Manila

Opinion20 Jul 26
Azov burns: how Ukraine is striking the Russian fuel chain

Crypto20 Jul 26
Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen 3.8 lands as open weights, redrawing the frontier-model map

Science20 Jul 26
The investing-podcast boom has a learning problem the charts cannot hide
Science20 Jul 26
A day after the headlines: tracking the road toll that follows American mass shootings
Science20 Jul 26
Red tape, thin capital: why social businesses keep stalling on impact
Science20 Jul 26
Snapdragon colour-tuning offers a rare window into how flowers bargain with their pollinators
Science20 Jul 26
Two materials science stories, one supply-chain lesson
Science20 Jul 26
Why the brain forgets the room but keeps the threat: a VR experiment sharpens the science of memory

Arts20 Jul 26
Zwirner folds the Upper East Side into Chelsea, signalling a Manhattan gallery map in motion
Science20 Jul 26
Tick pesticide resistance may extend their northern range as winters warm

Asia20 Jul 26
Cairo's monorail opens long, runs empty

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Trump slaps 50% tariff on Canadian goods, citing dairy, alcohol and auto discrimination
Americas20 Jul 26
A 5.5-magnitude quake in Peru’s Junín region leaves at least six dead and exposes a country unprepared for what comes…

Americas20 Jul 26
Earthquake in central Peru kills seven as Chupaca district sustains the worst damage

Europe20 Jul 26
Magyar floats Judit Polgár for the Hungarian presidency
Europe20 Jul 26
Hungary's Magyar moves to crown a chess grandmaster as president

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Trump's Iran warning escalates a war the White House still won't name

Africa20 Jul 26
As the Nigerian Bar Heads to a Vote, a Senior Counsel Hands the Next President a Single Mandate: Hold It Together

Investigations20 Jul 26
Trump widens Iran strikes: from capability rollback to regime test

Africa20 Jul 26
Twenty-one dead in eastern Uganda as school trip ends in crash
Africa20 Jul 26
Karamoja's food convoy rolls out as Uganda confronts a chronic vulnerability

Asia20 Jul 26
Honda bets another decade on Guangzhou, a quiet vote in China's industrial gravity well

Business20 Jul 26
Trump signs 50% tariff order on Canadian goods, citing 'discriminatory treatment' of US exports

Opinion20 Jul 26
Cholesterol pills and communal killings: India’s week exposes the limits of incremental reform

MENA20 Jul 26
Two ballistic missiles from Tabriz, headed for Jordan: what the open-source wire actually shows

Asia20 Jul 26
Infantino floats US-China World Cup pairing as FIFA positions itself as 'happiness provider'

Europe20 Jul 26
Nairobi pauses UK defence pact as troop-immunity clause trips post-colonial politics

Africa20 Jul 26
UNICEF in northwestern Nigeria: the children the security crisis keeps producing

Asia20 Jul 26
Modi's youth test: how a Delhi protest became an opposition rallying point

Asia20 Jul 26
India's infrastructure machine keeps running. Its equity tax holiday does not.
Asia20 Jul 26
India's parallel courts: a Delhi march for education meets a CJP rebuke in the same week
Asia20 Jul 26
Delhi march tests Modi's grip on a youth electorate fed up with paper leaks
Africa20 Jul 26
Accra's TikTok conviction tests Ghana's online speech appetite

Africa20 Jul 26
Puntland fracture: Puntland Armed Forces and federal-aligned units clash west of Bosaso

MENA20 Jul 26
Lockheed unveils a half-price Patriot interceptor at Farnborough, betting lower cost unlocks bigger order books

Sport20 Jul 26
Mbappé makes history, Rodri takes the crown: how the 2026 World Cup awards settled
Crypto20 Jul 26
Two years to comply: the GENIUS Act clock starts ticking on U.S. stablecoins

Sport20 Jul 26
NFL's turf fight meets a World Cup glow: player safety, stadium economics, and the grass question 2026 forced on the…

Culture20 Jul 26
When the gallery leaks: the New Museum's first flood test

Africa20 Jul 26
Senegal flips on Macky Sall, throwing its weight behind the former president in the race for the UN's top job
Africa20 Jul 26
Sall returns to Dakar, courts Faye for UN bid as Senegal's rivalrous political class watches

Opinion20 Jul 26
Chile's storm rescue isn't a climate story. It's a state-capacity story.

Opinion20 Jul 26
Italian export champions ship the goods, but the world is buying less of them

Opinion20 Jul 26
Arizona's Tucson shooting exposes America's gun debate stalemate

Investigations20 Jul 26
Trump threatens fresh strikes on Iran as IRGC claims drone kill and Tehran vows retaliation

Culture20 Jul 26
John Glacier returns with a 007-inflected single and a title that flirts with mortality

Europe20 Jul 26
Sánchez lands in Algiers as Madrid and Algiers try to bury the Western Sahara feud

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Trump says US hit Iran again overnight, citing three dead in earlier attacks

Africa20 Jul 26
Kenya's Mount Kenya by-election erupts into a warning shot for 2027

Opinion20 Jul 26
Houthi blockade call turns the Red Sea into a re-priced corridor

Sport20 Jul 26
Spain crowned 2026 World Cup champions as Fran Torres emulates Iniesta in record rout of Argentina

Opinion20 Jul 26
Tehran's Hormuz gambit hands Beijing an opening the West didn't price in
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Strikes on Chabahar and Konarak: what we know, what we don't, and why the Strait of Hormuz sits in the same room

Tech20 Jul 26
Hugging Face breach turns the world's biggest AI model repository into a cautionary tale

Investigations20 Jul 26
Ninth night of strikes: Tehran holds the Strait, Washington turns the volume up
Investigations20 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz: How Trump's threats and fresh US strikes redraw the calculus of a shipping lane that carries a fifth…
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
US opens new strike campaign against Iran, CENTCOM says

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Sirens in Manama: Bahrain sounds the alarm as Iran war scare jolts the Gulf

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
US CENTCOM wave strikes Bandar Abbas and Sirik as Iran-front escalation deepens
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Hormuz sting, Geneva handshake: how a tanker attack and a Rubio offer landed on the same morning
Opinion20 Jul 26
Tehran signals Hormuz leverage as frozen-asset dispute with Washington drags on

Sport20 Jul 26
Spain's coronation, Messi's quiet exit: what the 2026 World Cup final actually settled

Sport20 Jul 26
Spain's second World Cup lands at MetLife. The dynasty talk is already starting.

Americas20 Jul 26
A United gate agent, a viral clip, and the question of who counts as a citizen

Opinion20 Jul 26
Open weights, closed doors: what the Kimi K3 surge actually proves

Investigations20 Jul 26
Trump's midnight strikes on Iran: what four cables tell us about the escalation

Opinion20 Jul 26
White Phosphorus Allegation, Polymarket Odds, and the Iran Escalation Ladder

Sport20 Jul 26
FIFA opens disciplinary probe into Argentina–Spain brawl after World Cup final

Sport20 Jul 26
Infantino's stage, Trump's spotlight: how the 2026 World Cup trophy ceremony turned into a geopolitical tableau

Sport20 Jul 26
Spain's second World Cup arrives as a meme-fuelled cultural moment, not just a trophy lift
Sport20 Jul 26
Spain win World Cup as Ferran Torres breaks ten-man Argentina in final

Sport20 Jul 26
Bronze, breakthrough, and a cooling break: what the 2026 World Cup actually settled
Sport20 Jul 26
Halftime, not football, stole the 2026 World Cup final

Investigations20 Jul 26
Trump says US will strike Iran 'hard again tonight' as both sides trade escalatory claims
Europe20 Jul 26
Andrew and Tristan Tate appear in U.S. federal court as UK extradition fight begins
Europe20 Jul 26
Tate brothers face US federal court as UK extradition proceedings begin

Africa20 Jul 26
Nairobi's illicit-brews crackdown puts a spotlight on Kibra's deeper alcohol economy

Africa20 Jul 26
Nairobi's two-front gamble: Kenya's nuclear push and the violence it cannot contain

Asia20 Jul 26
Modi government opens monsoon parliament under a cloud of protests, leaks and a fortified capital
Asia20 Jul 26
Modi government tells parliament ASI ran 121 archaeological projects in five years

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Trump's twin declarations: Netanyahu safe on US soil, Iran warned after soldier deaths

Investigations20 Jul 26
Eight nights, then a Friday: the strike-to-signing sequence the wires have not fully reconciled

Opinion20 Jul 26
Trump's 50% Canada tariff lands, and the North American trade edifice cracks

Opinion20 Jul 26
Al-Hayya inherits a war Hamas didn't choose to inherit

Tech20 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC claims its deepest strike yet inside Kuwait, and the Pentagon has not said a word

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
A bomber at Engels, a sleepless sky over Odesa: Ukraine's July air war keeps widening
Sport20 Jul 26
Spain meet Argentina, and the Premier League starts counting the cost

Long Reads20 Jul 26
A trophy, a stage, and a president who would not leave

Opinion20 Jul 26
The Halftime Show, the Red Card, and the Soft Power Bill

Sport20 Jul 26
Trump Tries to Hand America Another World Cup, One Quote at a Time
Opinion20 Jul 26
World Cup halftime, a presidential nudge, and the soft-power auction no one is calling a soft-power auction

Science20 Jul 26
Where the machine still loses its way: AI translators stumble on UN speech nuance
Science20 Jul 26
Crowd crushes may build slowly, not snap suddenly, McGill study finds
Science20 Jul 26
The maths behind a mid-air dogfight: what dragonfly territorial fights reveal about contested airspace
Science20 Jul 26
Midges, mapped: gene-edited biting insects give researchers a new grip on livestock disease
Science20 Jul 26
Inside the headset: what immersive VR does to a story

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Missile sirens across Jordan: a five-minute alarm that tells a longer story

Tech20 Jul 26
Musk says coding is finished. The market just priced the bill.
Science20 Jul 26
Trust in science is high, but belief in conspiracy theories climbs alongside it
Science20 Jul 26
Three Skin-and-Sun Stories, One Quiet Shift in How the Lab Treats What We Cannot Yet See
Science20 Jul 26
What a holiday actually does to the brain, and why the beach isn't enough
Arts20 Jul 26
Bessmertnova at 85: what the Bolshoi's longest-serving ballerina still teaches a fractured art form

Investigations20 Jul 26
Three wires, one morning: drones over Kuwait, a millionaire boom, and a quiet FBI rebrand

MENA20 Jul 26
Air raid sirens in Jordan test the kingdom’s air defences on a tense July night

Business20 Jul 26
IRGC claims Jordanian intelligence helped target US aircraft at Aqaba
Science20 Jul 26
A lost marsupial branch, dug up in Queensland, redraws the map of Australia’s mammals

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
CENTCOM widens Iran strikes overnight: blasts reported across Bushehr, Chabahar, Isfahan
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Unidentified projectile strikes vessel off Fujairah as Gulf shipping incidents multiply

Culture20 Jul 26
A Spanish title and a Palestinian sketch: how Gaza received a World Cup final it never watched

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Hamas installs Khalil al-Hayya as political-bureau chief, consolidating Gaza-based leadership

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Tehran and Washington trade blows in an exchange neither side appears to want to lose
Investigations20 Jul 26
Nine nights over Iran: what the CENTCOM strike run actually tells us

Business20 Jul 26
Five months into the US-Iran war, oil markets are calm. The reason is Bahrain.

Sport20 Jul 26
Spain's final isn't about Lamine Yamal. It's about the system behind him.

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Trump on the podium: how the 2026 World Cup final became a presidential stage

Tech20 Jul 26
A stolen TSMC trade secret and a quieter signal in the Taiwan Strait
Crypto20 Jul 26
Tinubu's Crypto Executive Order, Lummis's Decentralisation Test, and Bitmine's Five-Percent Run

Crypto20 Jul 26
Allbridge Core pauses cross-chain bridge after $1.65M exploit

Science20 Jul 26
Who earns more, and why: two new studies test the academic gender gap

Tech20 Jul 26
AliExpress takes a record €550m hit as Brussels turns the DSA on China's cross-border bazaars

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Explosions reported across Bandar Abbas and Qeshm as a familiar Strait of Hormuz gamble restarts
Opinion20 Jul 26
Houthis turn the screws on Saudi shipping, and the world pays attention

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Houthis declare maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, citing 'blockade for blockade' equation

Culture20 Jul 26
'Point Break' Returns to Theaters for Its 35th Anniversary, and the Timing Says Something
Science20 Jul 26
A new window on protein folding inside living cells

Science20 Jul 26
Rivers are eating less methane than we hoped
Science20 Jul 26
Southern Ocean researchers close a year of pinniped assessments, and the data gap is the story

Opinion20 Jul 26
Strikes on Chabahar: the escalation nobody in Washington will own
Sport20 Jul 26
Trump booed at the medal podium as Spain lift the World Cup
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Trump ties US troop deaths in Jordan to a wider pressure campaign on Iran

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Trump tells reporters a second major strike has hit Iran, hours after leaving the World Cup final
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Tenth night of strikes: US widens Iran campaign as explosions ring the Strait of Hormuz
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Reports of US strikes on southern Iran flood Telegram in pre-dawn hours
Science20 Jul 26
The fires that came from everywhere: how the 2015 Southeast Asian burn defied a single culprit

Opinion20 Jul 26
Bandar Abbas on fire, Geneva still on the calendar: the contradiction the US-Iran deal cannot shake
Science20 Jul 26
A new epigenetic clock claims to read age without the black box

Opinion20 Jul 26
Yemen's Houthis turn the blockade equation on Saudi Arabia
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Houthis declare maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, framing it as 'blockade for blockade'
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Yemen's Houthis declare a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, escalating a twelve-year feud into the Red Sea corridor

Opinion20 Jul 26
Airstrikes on Bandar Abbas reopen the question of who decides what counts as escalation
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas: what the first hours confirm, and what they don't
Opinion20 Jul 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas: what the first hour tells us, and what it does not

Sport20 Jul 26
Bronze, booting and bad breaks: what the 2026 World Cup actually delivered
Opinion20 Jul 26
Hormuz on fire: the war that ate the oil chokepoint

Culture20 Jul 26
Regev's airport huddle, and the flight-cancellation question hanging over Ben-Gurion
Opinion20 Jul 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas: what the wire actually says
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
US strikes resume on Bandar Abbas as CENTCOM announces new round against Iran
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Yemen's Houthis declare naval embargo on Saudi Arabia, opening a second Red Sea front

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Burnham in: a Greater Manchester mayor steps into Downing Street as Britain's seventh PM in a decade
Opinion20 Jul 26
Burnham's Britain: a seventh prime minister, the same old economics

Tech20 Jul 26
China's open-source 3D model and 1,000-satellite compute stack land in the same week, and the timing is the story

Science20 Jul 26
The soy pact that wasn't: how a nine-year moratorium fell apart and what 1.4 million hectares of forest look like
Science20 Jul 26
The heat map that redraws who can afford the city
Science20 Jul 26
A railroad causeway, two oceans of microbes, and what the split tells us about a drying lake
Science20 Jul 26
The Salt Is Coming: How Sea-Level Rise Could Reshape River Microbes

Science20 Jul 26
First in situ sighting of Arctic bobtail squid puts a Greenland fjord on the cephalopod map
Science20 Jul 26
Arctic winter sea ice resumes its decline after a brief early-2020s pause
Science20 Jul 26
When 'no net loss' actually works: a study tries to pin down biodiversity offsetting

Science20 Jul 26
Burnout isn't new: 18th-century farm records show workers describing the same exhaustion
Science20 Jul 26
Early-career grants widen the citation gap between male and female scientists

Opinion20 Jul 26
Houthi blockade on Saudi shipping puts the Red Sea back in the frame

Opinion20 Jul 26
Yemen's Houthis turn the screws on Riyadh with a naval blockade
Opinion20 Jul 26
Yemen's Houthis turn the screws on Saudi Arabia with a naval embargo
Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Houthis declare naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, framing it as a counter-siege
Science20 Jul 26
How flu hijacks the cell: a Hamburg team maps the moment of takeover

Investigations20 Jul 26
Iran's Missile Gambit Into Jordan Tests a Pentagon Information Blackout

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Tehran draws a red line around Kharg as Trump threats collide with stalled nuclear talks

Geopolitics20 Jul 26
Mediators float 10-day strike freeze to revive interim Iran-US deal
Investigations20 Jul 26
Isfahan blast and a US casualty in Iraq: two data points on an Iran track that has not cooled
Science20 Jul 26
Two studies, two quiet warnings: a magnetic symbiosis and a thinning ocean
Opinion20 Jul 26
Nine nights in: the strikes on Iran no one in Washington is calling a war
Opinion20 Jul 26
Nine nights and counting: what the US-Iran escalation actually looks like from the wire
Science20 Jul 26
Oregon's coastal webcam network turns fog from folklore into forecast data
Science20 Jul 26