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Energy17 Jul 26
Eight ships a day: how a US naval blockade throttled the Strait of Hormuz
MENA17 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz traffic collapses to a crawl as IRGC strike rattles shipping
Business17 Jul 26
Three ships: the Strait of Hormuz narrows to a corridor the world cannot replace
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz on fire: a 48-hour escalation that could redraw the oil map
Europe17 Jul 26
London doubles down on Kyiv: Starmer funds 16 Gripen jets to rebuild Ukraine's fighter fleet
Sport17 Jul 26
The week MLB bettors lost the plot: a SportsLine Thursday-Friday tell
Europe17 Jul 26
Spain's prime minister walks into Trump's World Cup final, and the photograph writes the headline
Americas17 Jul 26
Spain's title defence rests on two ankles: Yamal and Porro train apart before the World Cup final
Sport17 Jul 26
Spain and Argentina meet in a World Cup final that has already reshaped the week
Africa17 Jul 26
South Sudan's unpaved lifeline: why a single road closure can stall a country
Crypto17 Jul 26
South Korea pulls crypto into the state balance sheet, and a self-custody debate blows up alongside it
Americas17 Jul 26
Soft retail sales meet a long World Cup: two data points, one story about American consumers
MENA17 Jul 26
Smotrich breaks from Israeli political script on Gaza tactics and the ICC
Asia17 Jul 26
India's first private orbital rocket aims for space on Saturday, and Hyderabad is counting down
Culture17 Jul 26
Sitges looks south: a Spanish genre festival plants a flag in Latin America
Africa17 Jul 26
Senegal's government muzzles its football federation in the wake of World Cup exit
Crypto17 Jul 26
SBI Group assembles Asia's first cross-border digital-asset empire, anchored by Ondo and Coinhako
Long Reads17 Jul 26
One bomber down: how Kyiv's long arm reached Engels
MENA17 Jul 26
Sirens in Al-Kharj: A Saudi City Under Iranian Missile Fire
Asia17 Jul 26
A Russian heckler in Tokyo: what a single rally reveals about the friction inside Japanese civil society over Ukraine
Asia17 Jul 26
Moscow and Beijing push back on Trump's election-meddling claim, and the line of fire widens
Americas17 Jul 26
Rubio widens visa net, names Iran and Cuba as Antifa backers
Europe17 Jul 26
Ribena owner bets £200,000 on tougher blackcurrants as British harvests buckle under climate whiplash
MENA17 Jul 26
Tehran raises the temperature: Rezaei tells Washington to 'wait for Iran's missiles and drones'
Americas17 Jul 26
Republicans turn wildfire smoke into a tariff lever against Ottawa
Energy17 Jul 26
Refuelling planes, pardon talk, and a strike plan: Trump's Iran calculus meets Israeli domestic friction
Asia17 Jul 26
RBI flags West Asia and monsoon as India economy's twin fault lines
Culture17 Jul 26
Daniel Radcliffe narrates Kyle Gordon's third album, an unlikely pairing that says something about comedy's…
Long Reads17 Jul 26
The prediction market for the American presidency: what Polymarket's 6 July 2026 board actually prices
Asia17 Jul 26
Polymarket puts China’s AI top-model shot at 9%, and the betting crowd has a point
Business17 Jul 26
Poland charges Ukrainian teenager with 47 sabotage acts for Russia as Kyiv strikes deep at Engels
Europe17 Jul 26
Warsaw's patience runs out: Poland charges Ukrainian with 47 Russian-directed sabotage acts
Asia17 Jul 26
Manila's coastal forts: deterrence, or a target list for Beijing?
Asia17 Jul 26
Manila calls for probe as Chinese state-media video revives race row
Crypto17 Jul 26
PayPal Calls $53 Billion Stripe-Advent Bid Too Low, Setting Up a Long, Ugly Summer for Fintech M&A
Long Reads17 Jul 26
PayPal's $53 Billion Reckoning: A Dormant Giant Awakens as Stripe, Advent Chase Its Crown
Europe17 Jul 26
Paris region death toll more than doubles during June heatwave, French authorities report
Asia17 Jul 26
Palestinians and the long reach of Global South solidarity
Crypto17 Jul 26
Pakistan's quiet pivot toward the Gulf: defense pact with Kuwait, a Saudi red line for Iran
Europe17 Jul 26
Claire's red gown and a Highlander's jacket: why the Outlander auction matters beyond the costume case
Asia17 Jul 26
Washington's new charge d'affaires lands in Kyiv as Oudkirk takes the post
Americas17 Jul 26
Ontario's fire belt: a province-sized burn tests Canadian emergency management
MENA17 Jul 26
Tankers hit off Oman as Strait of Hormuz corridor reopens to projectiles
Culture17 Jul 26
Olivia Dean's L.A. arena debut hints at a longer climb than her Grammy suggests
MENA17 Jul 26
Oil clears $88 as US–Iran re-escalation rewrites the energy premium
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Oil tops $88 as IRGC vessel warning puts Hormuz on a wartime footing
Intelligence17 Jul 26
Nuseirat strike and Khan Younis demolition mark a single day's toll in central and southern Gaza
Long Reads17 Jul 26
A funeral under fire: the Nuseirat strike and the war of words over Gaza's ceasefire
Long Reads17 Jul 26
A funeral in Nuseirat: how a Gaza strike re-opened the ceasefire question
Culture17 Jul 26
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opens with a $17.6M preview, but the road to Homer took a year
Sport17 Jul 26
The mid-July reordering: NFL's top-10 churn and MLB's deadline clock
Arts17 Jul 26
Netflix Buys Danny Boyle's Murdoch Biopic 'Ink' for U.S. and Latin America
Culture17 Jul 26
A missionary, a Pacific island, and the camera: how 'Mussau' is rewriting who gets to tell Pacific stories
Arts17 Jul 26
Murmurs Gallery, a Springboard for Emerging Artists in Los Angeles, Closes After Seven Years
Americas17 Jul 26
A Senator, a Hazy Skyline, and a Bill to Sanction Canada
Europe17 Jul 26
Monaco bombing fallout puts Kyiv's overseas operations back under the microscope
Europe17 Jul 26
Mogherini Urges Trump to Drop 'React-Without-Thinking' Posture on Iran Talks
Europe17 Jul 26
MH17, twelve years on: the satellite evidence an American firm says the Dutch inquiry never used
Long Reads17 Jul 26
A 7.4 Quake, a Blocked Pipeline, and a Sliding Chip Sector: Three Threads on One July Morning
Americas17 Jul 26
Magnitude 7.3 quake off Mexico's Pacific coast triggers evacuations from Chiapas to El Salvador
Investigations17 Jul 26
Magnitude 7.4 quake strikes off southern Mexico as Pacific tsunami advisories go live
Opinion17 Jul 26
Meta's $10 billion compute lease to Anthropic reads less like a partnership than a surrender
Energy17 Jul 26
Meta eyes up to $10 billion compute lease to Anthropic as capacity crunch reshapes AI dealmaking
Europe17 Jul 26
Merz says 15% US tariff fell short of Berlin's hopes, exposing the cost of the deal
MENA17 Jul 26
Mearsheimer: The United States has lost this war with Iran
Arts17 Jul 26
Mark Hamill's Lightsaber Breaks the Prop Market Wide Open
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Malaysia draws a line: deportation order for Israeli passport holders rewrites the travel rules of an asymmetric war
Europe17 Jul 26
Magyar opens inquiry into Szijjártó over Russia recordings
Defense17 Jul 26
A US drone called LUCAS washes up near Iran: what the Strait of Hormuz footage actually shows
MENA17 Jul 26
Lavrov tells Washington to hand the Iran file to Witkoff and Kushner, and stop bothering Moscow about Ukraine
Markets17 Jul 26
Lavrov's Strait of Hormuz appeal puts a corridor at the centre of the dollar's next stress test
Asia17 Jul 26
Kuwait turns east as Gulf air defenses engage Iranian and Iraqi drones
MENA17 Jul 26
Kuwait says Iranian strike hit power and desalination plant, escalating Gulf confrontation
MENA17 Jul 26
Satellite imagery shows damage at Jordan's King Faisal Airbase, with Iran-linked channels leading the framing
MENA17 Jul 26
Khan Yunis hit again: another overnight detonation cycle east of the city
Intelligence17 Jul 26
Bombing restarts in eastern Khan Younis as reports surface of a child hit by fire further north
Asia17 Jul 26
Japan bets on surgical robots, imperial law, and the slow train, at three different speeds
Asia17 Jul 26
Japan moves to criminalise flag desecration as the culture-war map redraws itself
Asia17 Jul 26
Flag-desecration ban, box-office comeback, and a new body-camera rule: three signs that the U.S. and Japan are pulling…
Asia17 Jul 26
Japan moves to criminalise flag desecration as wildfires redraw Ontario's emergency budget
Crypto17 Jul 26
Tokyo opens the gates: Japan's crypto reclassification meets its first big onshore test
Crypto17 Jul 26
Japan redraws the crypto map, and the taxman blinks
Crypto17 Jul 26
Tokyo quietly redraws the rules for crypto capital, and a Bitcoin-buying corporate treasury waits in the wings
Europe17 Jul 26
Israel holds positions in southern Lebanon as Beirut says the withdrawal clock is already ticking
Intelligence17 Jul 26
Israeli ground sweep into southern Lebanese towns marks a new phase of the ceasefire's erosion
Energy17 Jul 26
IRGC Navy fires on Thai-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim reports
Intelligence17 Jul 26
IRGC says Hormuz is closed to oil traffic after two tanker explosions south of the strait
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC claims strikes on US base at al-Tanf and a Kurdish site in Sulaymaniyah within an hour
Defense17 Jul 26
Iranian strikes on US positions in Jordan mark a new flashpoint in the regional shadow war
MENA17 Jul 26
Iranian ballistic missiles strike inside Jordan as regional air defence falters
Crypto17 Jul 26
Bandar Abbas strikes, Vance broadside, and the Kurdish flashpoint: a single day rewrites the Iran war's perimeter
Defense17 Jul 26
Iran fires ballistic missiles from Tabriz and Khorramabad in late-night launch sequence
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Strikes on Sulaymaniyah: Why Iran hit a PUK Peshmerga depot, and what that says about its Kurdish file
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran strikes Kurdish separatist positions in Sulaymaniyah as secondary blasts burn for 45 minutes
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran strikes Kurdistan as Erbil and Sulaymaniyeh come under fire
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran strikes a fifth US naval base in Bahrain, per Iranian state media
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran strikes Erbil again as C-RAM lights up Salahaddin
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran strikes Erbil: a test of Kurdistan's autonomy, and of Iraq's leverage
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran strikes Erbil airport and air base as Iraqi Kurdistan absorbs another round of drones
Arts17 Jul 26
Iran strikes a US radar site in Kuwait: what we know, and what we don't
MENA17 Jul 26
Sirens in Bahrain and Jordan put Iran's regional posture back under the wire
MENA17 Jul 26
Rial at the floor, Kuwait on rationing: Iran's economy and Gulf spillover converge
Long Reads17 Jul 26
The last two-way street: Iran signals escalation as the war-and-talks era closes
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran's Red Sea play: Tehran leans on Houthis as Gulf shipping absorbs another shock
Defense17 Jul 26
Iran strikes a US Patriot battery near Erbil, and the Gulf balance shifts an inch
MENA17 Jul 26
Five vessels, five nights: the blockade tightens around Iran
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Iran claims 168 killed in Minab school strike; Washington calls footage synthetic
Defense17 Jul 26
Iran strikes Kurdish opposition bases in Sulaymaniyah as US naval blockade enters sixth day
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Iran's missile salvo into Jordan leaves U.S. troops wounded, opens a corridor Tehran didn't have a week ago
Americas17 Jul 26
Two strikes in one week: Iran hits US bases in Jordan as Venezuela's quake toll climbs past 5,000
MENA17 Jul 26
Strikes reported on Iranian coastal cities as Tehran-aligned outlets and US-allied channels trade versions
MENA17 Jul 26
Iran claims Indian Ocean strike on US vessel, denies UKMTO incident link
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Iran fires ballistic missiles from the northwest, with footage pinned to Tabriz
Long Reads17 Jul 26
A day of small Indian verdicts that add up to a verdict on the system
Asia17 Jul 26
India's growth narrative splits along the variable you pick
Crypto17 Jul 26
India keeps its 30% crypto tax wall while JPMorgan turns an ETF into a token
Asia17 Jul 26
A 3.5-tonne cannon vanishes in broad daylight: India's heritage under new pressure
Culture17 Jul 26
Iko Uwais heads to ‘Jakarta’: Alcon bets on a multi-generational Indonesian crime saga
Europe17 Jul 26
Budapest blocks Kyiv again: Orbán vetoes fresh EU accession tranche
Science17 Jul 26
Two Studies, One Quiet Lesson in How Animals and Rivers Read Risk
Energy17 Jul 26
Eight ships and a question: Hormuz traffic slips to a three-week low
Energy17 Jul 26
An intercepted drone, a viral video, and the question Tehran is asking about Hormuz
Energy17 Jul 26
Hormuz closed: what a 21-mile strait means for global energy when missiles start flying
Culture17 Jul 26
Homer's women: what the male critical class missed in Nolan's Odyssey
Europe17 Jul 26
A century of the Grand Mosque of Paris: a French institution built on colonial ledger
Europe17 Jul 26
A Surrogacy Scandal Tests Germany's Coalition Center
Europe17 Jul 26
Germany counts 5,100 heat deaths through June. The methodology matters more than the number.
MENA17 Jul 26
Two killed in Nuseirat strike, child wounded in Khan Yunis as Gaza casualty ledger lengthens
Defense17 Jul 26
Strike at Gaza City junction leaves one critically injured, hospital confirms
Long Reads17 Jul 26
One hour, four strikes: the daily arithmetic of Gaza's central corridor
Africa17 Jul 26
Paris and Rabat sign 14 cooperation agreements as Lecornu visits Morocco
Europe17 Jul 26
France and Germany fly their first joint nuclear drill over Bavaria
Europe17 Jul 26
France and Germany reach for a deeper defence pact, even as their weapons programmes pull apart
Europe17 Jul 26
France pulls the plug on Polymarket as the prediction-market boom meets European gambling law
Sport17 Jul 26
Smoke on the pitch: FIFA heads to Washington as 2026 final air-quality fears collide with new championship-ring reveal
Asia17 Jul 26
Federal Bank flags 1.5–2% net-worth hit as RBI rules rewrite Indian lending math
Europe17 Jul 26
Farage and the £5m question: Reform's money, and the pile-on he says it invited
Science17 Jul 26
Europe's June heat killed at least 12,000. The wetlands that could blunt the next one are vanishing faster than they're…
Asia17 Jul 26
Europe's anti-missile project with Ukraine reads as insurance against a wobbly American umbrella
Europe17 Jul 26
EU's first sanctions tied to Russia's July Kyiv strikes name five drone-component firms
Defense17 Jul 26
EU imposes first sanctions package tied specifically to strikes on Kyiv, hitting five ABS Electro firms
Europe17 Jul 26
Brussels pulls the lever on Android, putting Google's AI defaults in the crosshairs
Tech17 Jul 26
Brussels orders Google to share Android and Search with AI rivals, and Google's first move is to call it a privacy…
Europe17 Jul 26
EU lectures, Beijing shrugs: how a Chinese riposte rewrote the week on Xinjiang, EVs and global governance
Europe17 Jul 26
Brussels turns to bank consolidation as a defence against Wall Street's gravity
Europe17 Jul 26
Brussels tilts at Wall Street: the EU's plan to build banks that can compete
Culture17 Jul 26
The Emmys Just Trimmed Their Own Mirror: Five Categories Cut From the NBC Telecast
Energy17 Jul 26
Drone Down, Strait Open: Reading the Hormuz Signal
Europe17 Jul 26
Athens sounds the alarm on Turkish espionage, one colonel at a time
Americas17 Jul 26
Smoke from Canadian wildfires pushes Washington into a Code Purple haze
Arts17 Jul 26
Danny Boyle's 'Ink' Sells to Netflix Ahead of Venice Bow, Reshaping the Awards Acquisition Map
Africa17 Jul 26
Dangote's third dollar pivot and a Pretoria repatriation: two tests of African agency this July
Sport17 Jul 26
Caitlin Clark, the WNBA, and the politics of officiating
Crypto17 Jul 26
Citadel's $400M Crypto.com Bet Is Wall Street's Quietest Vote of Confidence Yet
Americas17 Jul 26
Declassified CIA files on Caracas revive questions about Washington's Venezuela evidence base
Asia17 Jul 26
China demands US lift journalist curbs as Taiwan-replica drills reset the threat clock
Asia17 Jul 26
China draws level with the US on AI, says Axios. The contest moves from benchmark to build-out.
Asia17 Jul 26
Beijing signals retaliation as Trump opens second front: the China vote-fraud file
Defense17 Jul 26
Seventh night of CENTCOM strikes: the naval blockade tightens around Iran's last oil customers
Defense17 Jul 26
Seven nights over Iran: what CENTCOM's sustained bombing run signals
Defense17 Jul 26
Seven nights in: CENTCOM extends Iran strike campaign into a second week
MENA17 Jul 26
Carlson's White House critique lands with both barrels, but the real audience is the war party
MENA17 Jul 26
Carlson's break with the Israel lobby, on tape
Culture17 Jul 26
Armenia gets the Cannes treatment: Critics' Week turns its Next Step lens on a country at a crossroads
Crypto17 Jul 26
Bypassing Hormuz and a PPI miss: the macro signals crypto traders absorbed this week
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Strikes on Bushehr and Sirik: a late-July escalation the wires had not yet caught up to
Geopolitics17 Jul 26
Burnham in, Starmer out: Labour's Manchester deal remakes the British centre of gravity
Europe17 Jul 26
Brussels takes aim at Google's Android grip as Gemini 3.5 stalls
Energy17 Jul 26
Brent Jumps to $88 as Iran Escalation Reverberates Through Oil Markets
Americas17 Jul 26
Brazil's rural credit package buys time, not leverage, in its tariff stand-off with Washington
Americas17 Jul 26
Brazil bets on cheap credit to hold the rural front against Trump tariffs
Americas17 Jul 26
Brazil's finance minister draws a line: reciprocity without retaliation
Crypto17 Jul 26
Bitcoin slides under $63,000 as a global chip selloff and a fresh US strike on Iran drag risk assets lower
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Bint Jbeil under pressure: an Israeli detonation sequence and a checkpoint approach that didn't quite resolve
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Bint Jbeil flattened: Israeli demolitions rip through south Lebanon's last major border town
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Israel's last tree in Bint Jbeil: how a south Lebanon border town became a demolition test case
MENA17 Jul 26
Bint Jbeil flattened: Israel widens demolition campaign in south Lebanon
Asia17 Jul 26
Beijing's three-message week: AI equity, Taiwan muscle memory, and a denial on US elections
MENA17 Jul 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas and the prospect of a US ground operation inside Iran
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Bandar Abbas night: what Iran denied, what its own TV reported, and what the silence leaves open
Defense17 Jul 26
Bandar Abbas attack claim lands with no impact confirmed: what Hormozgan Province's overnight reports actually say
Oceania17 Jul 26
Australia's Beetaloo shale play eyes September first gas, with Japan in its sights
Markets17 Jul 26
Fewer Names, Bigger Checks: Asian Issuers Quietly Reshape the US IPO Market
Americas17 Jul 26
Argentina leads the World Cup field on the pitch and at the bookmaker
Americas17 Jul 26
Argentina and Spain march on, but the injury ledger clouds the World Cup final
Geopolitics17 Jul 26
Apple reclaims the crown from Nvidia, and the optics of the AI boom shift
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Apple is back on top. The antitrust threat on its door explains why that matters.
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Apple's $4.88 trillion day and the Chinese model that pulled the rug
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Apple's $4.88 trillion moment, and the price of a cheaper Chinese model
Asia17 Jul 26
Anthropic's path to a $1.5 trillion valuation just got harder, and a Chinese model is the reason
Science17 Jul 26
Soy pact collapse locks in 1.4 million hectares of Amazon loss by 2036
Africa17 Jul 26
Amazon's South African workaround has lessons for Musk, and for regulators
Africa17 Jul 26
Late goals and the largest African contingent yet: what the 2026 World Cup actually proved
Long Reads17 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz, version 2026: what Tehran says the cameras caught
MENA17 Jul 26
Israel's military chief tells Pentagon occupation in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza will persist; Moscow calls it a fait…
Europe17 Jul 26
Brussels hits the brakes on carbon: the EU's emissions-trading slowdown, decoded
Europe17 Jul 26
Brussels redraws the carbon market as the easy cuts run out
MENA17 Jul 26
CENTCOM says it destroyed an IRGC surveillance tower at Chabahar. The strike lands in a port India helped build.
Science17 Jul 26
A windshield polymer and a freight truck: two quiet tests of America's industrial frontier
Culture17 Jul 26