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Long Reads16 Jul 26
Triple bangs on Iran's southern rim: what a single night in Hormozgan and Khuzestan tells us about escalation arithmetic
Defense16 Jul 26
Iran and the Gulf: What the Bahrain Strikes Tell Us About a War That Has Moved Off the Page
MENA16 Jul 26
Iran's army claims two-phase strike on US assets in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain
Asia16 Jul 26
India's Supreme Court pushes back on a third-language load
Asia16 Jul 26
India's streaming boom meets a NATO rebrand: two different openings for New Delhi
Asia16 Jul 26
India pulls its sailors from Hormuz, exposing the gulf between its services boom and its shipping risk
Asia16 Jul 26
India tells Moscow it has no spare gasoline: Reuters
Long Reads16 Jul 26
A sailor dies in Hormuz, and India's careful middle starts to crack
Asia16 Jul 26
India's foreign-policy reset lands on the desk of a new S. Jaishankar successor
Asia16 Jul 26
Two Indian consumer stories, one quiet verdict on the rules that bind
Long Reads16 Jul 26
The patient, the photographer, the hospital: three small Indian verdicts and the NATO bid they sit inside
Defense16 Jul 26
IDF strikes south Lebanese village as ceasefire strain shows in Nabatieh district
Asia16 Jul 26
ICICI Lombard's $980 million slide hands India's insurance sector a credibility test
MENA16 Jul 26
Houthi leader frames Iran as regional anchor after Israeli strikes, accuses Beirut of submission
Crypto16 Jul 26
Houthi leader warns hostage-soldier equation will redraw blame onto Palestinians
MENA16 Jul 26
Houthi leader accuses Israel of breaching Gaza withdrawal terms, warns on Yellow Line carve-up
Science16 Jul 26
Horses Read Predators on a Silent Screen, and Tides Reach Farther Inland Than the Models Allow
Energy16 Jul 26
Nine out of eleven: shipping data shows Hormuz traffic still routing through Iranian corridor after US strikes
Crypto16 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz shipping incident follows reported US strikes on Iranian infrastructure
MENA16 Jul 26
Tehran's Red Sea play: Houthi remit widens as Hormuz standoff drags on
MENA16 Jul 26
Hormuz on the edge: a 20% chokepoint and the reserves question no one can answer cleanly
Africa16 Jul 26
Two chokepoints, one shipping lane: how Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb are being drawn into the same contest
Defense16 Jul 26
Hegseth and Katz hold call as US-Israel defence alignment tightens
Arts16 Jul 26
Hauser & Wirth Plants a Flag in Silicon Valley
Markets16 Jul 26
Athens blocks EU's 21st Russia sanctions package over LNG shipping ban
Europe16 Jul 26
Google pulls popular Russian apps from Play Store after EU sanctions package
Tech16 Jul 26
NotebookLM becomes Gemini Notebook, and Google tightens its grip on the AI desktop
MENA16 Jul 26
Goldman warns of $110 oil as Hormuz tanker attacks upend the Gulf calculus
Europe16 Jul 26
Germany hands its federal police a wider net, and lawyers go to work
Europe16 Jul 26
Germany's defence dilemma: keep buying American or build European?
Europe16 Jul 26
A German Pelicot: the case drawing Europe back to consent
MENA16 Jul 26
Four killed in Gaza as ceasefire framework frays
Arts16 Jul 26
Frederic Edwin Church, Reframed: A New Biography Reads the Hudson River School Through the Crisis of the Union
Africa16 Jul 26
France's Pegasus flirt reveals a deeper bargain with Israeli surveillance
Europe16 Jul 26
Spying claims cloud Lecornu's Rabat trip as France-Morocco ties enter a defensive phase
Africa16 Jul 26
Lecornu in Rabat: A Paris-Rabat Reset, Tested Against the Sahara File
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Fifth night, no off-ramp: US strikes on Iran enter a tempo without a public endgame
Long Reads16 Jul 26
The defence minister Kyiv says it could no longer afford
Defense16 Jul 26
Fedorov breaks ranks: Ukraine's outgoing defence minister calls for Syrskyi's removal
Europe16 Jul 26
Farage and the political theatre around the threat to him
Americas16 Jul 26
Falklands banner turns World Cup run into a diplomatic incident
MENA16 Jul 26
Explosions reported at US base in Jordan's Al-Azraq as Iran-linked channels flag Khandab strikes
Asia16 Jul 26
European heatwave bends transport, power and nuclear grids, but the political heat is moving east
Europe16 Jul 26
Europe's tech sovereignty bid collides with its own market limits
Europe16 Jul 26
Brussels forces Google's hand on Android as Microsoft's salesforce sharpens its pitch against OpenAI
Sport16 Jul 26
Four passes, no tackles: the second-half stat sheet that buried England's World Cup
Arts16 Jul 26
A Russian pianist's summer podcast lands in a year when Russian soloists are rare guests on Western stages
MENA16 Jul 26
Dubai booms, an Iranian strike report, and a Strait that wasn't closed: an evening of contradictory wires
Crypto16 Jul 26
DTCC's Tokenized-Securities Trades and Trump Media's Paid Feed Point to the Same Wall Street
Americas16 Jul 26
Justice Department declines New Mexico's request for Epstein grand-jury material
Asia16 Jul 26
Delhi's bedrock and India's chip bets: two versions of the same long game
Arts16 Jul 26
Danny Boyle's Murdoch drama 'Ink' to open Venice, and the festival's signal just shifted
Arts16 Jul 26
Boyle returns to Venice with "Ink," a Fleet Street Origin Story
Crypto16 Jul 26
The week crypto went macro: Korea hikes, Tanzania frames, SpaceX re-prices
Crypto16 Jul 26
From Karachi to Tokyo: a week when the legal scaffolding around crypto went vertical
Crypto16 Jul 26
The Clarity Act stalls, but the Trump White House isn't waiting on Capitol Hill
Crypto16 Jul 26
Crypto's Washington moment arrives split: Clarity Act stalls as Wall Street piles into Crypto.com
Culture16 Jul 26
Costa Rica's Festival of the Sea Bets on Afro-Caribbean Cinema and Female Filmmakers
Africa16 Jul 26
Congress moves to freeze Nigeria aid over anti-Christian violence, exposing a gap Trump's envoy is trying to close
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Clock change in Washington, missiles in Semnan: a single week that maps two American bets
Crypto16 Jul 26
Citadel Securities writes a $400 million cheque for Crypto.com, and the bridge to Wall Street is now load-bearing
Asia16 Jul 26
China's Xinjiang target ship and a thousand humanoid apprentices: two signals the West is choosing to misread
Europe16 Jul 26
China's two-front push: World Cup audiences without a team, and a chemicals fight Brussels cannot dodge
Asia16 Jul 26
China's small firms run out of pricing power as inventory glut deepens
Asia16 Jul 26
China's small firms can't pass on costs. That's a fiscal problem in disguise.
Asia16 Jul 26
China's growth engine sputters: what a slowing economy means for Brussels and Kyiv
Asia16 Jul 26
China's oil-and-robotics build-out turns industrial policy into a strategic weapon
Asia16 Jul 26
Zero-tariff Africa, a sentencing in Shanghai, and a crackdown on AI lovers: three threads in China's July
Asia16 Jul 26
China pulls the crude lever as Hormuz tensions redraw the oil map
Science16 Jul 26
Two Trees, a Million Avatars: What China Is Actually Trying to Govern
Asia16 Jul 26
First American LNG tanker in a year docks in China as Middle East war redraws the gas map
Asia16 Jul 26
China's open-source AI catches up where the headlines already are
MENA16 Jul 26
Fifth night, no off-ramp: CENTCOM's Iran campaign enters a sixth consecutive round
MENA16 Jul 26
CENTCOM says Iran strikes are done; prediction markets aren't buying a deal
Americas16 Jul 26
CBS report on Pentagon planning for Cuba operation lands with a charge and no confirmation
Culture16 Jul 26
Raindance Veterans Launch Casa Leo PR, Betting Latin America's Film Boom Needs a Native Press Voice
Americas16 Jul 26
Caracas stages a reconstruction tour while Iran dominates the wires
Arts16 Jul 26
A Cape Town gallery, a social media post, and the structural fault line in the African art market
Americas16 Jul 26
Canadian wildfire smoke pushes south, triggering evacuation warnings across US border states
Culture16 Jul 26
California's Film Fix Won't Be Found at the Permit Counter
Crypto16 Jul 26
Bybit's Indonesia push lands as US labor data cools and the Iran clock resets
Europe16 Jul 26
Brussels pushes Google to share Android with AI rivals as Gemini 3.5 Pro slips
Americas16 Jul 26
Brazil's shell-company sweep and JPMorgan's trillion-dollar run collide on a single Wall Street afternoon
Americas16 Jul 26
Brazil pushes back as US tariffs land, opening a new front in the Global South’s trade defense
Culture16 Jul 26
Box Office 2026: The Hits That Put People Back in Seats
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Tokyo's Two-Track Tightening: How the BOJ's Quiet Pivot Is Rewriting the Rules for Japan's AI-Era Corporates
Crypto16 Jul 26
Seoul hikes, Frankfurt tests, Seoul's neighbour taxes: Asia and Europe redraw the crypto frame
Crypto16 Jul 26
BNB burns $932M as Pentagon leans on unmanned boats to hit Iran
Asia16 Jul 26
Beijing sends a vice-minister to Washington. The signal is smaller than it looks.
Europe16 Jul 26
Begoña Gómez to face jury trial as Madrid court narrows charges against Spain's prime minister's wife
Asia16 Jul 26
Bank of Korea breaks a three-year freeze, and Seoul's chip rout does the rest
Business16 Jul 26
Bank of Korea pulls the trigger after three years, and the chip complex sells the news first
Asia16 Jul 26
Dhaka's army, Delhi's nerves: the veteran general's warning from Organiser that India is taking seriously
Defense16 Jul 26
All bridges out: US strikes sever Bandar Khamir's last road link to Bandar Abbas
Defense16 Jul 26
Bandar Abbas rocked as footage points to an Israeli hand in the Iran strikes
Oceania16 Jul 26
Canberra's Wedgetail over Jordan: what an RAAF surveillance sortie tells us about Australia's Iran calculus
Oceania16 Jul 26
Australia's daily smoking rate falls to a record low, even as illicit tobacco reshapes the market
Science16 Jul 26
Australia's dung beetles are cutting cattle methane by 85%. The finding is bigger than the beetles.
Asia16 Jul 26
ASEAN bets on humanoid robotics as Seoul tightens policy
Americas16 Jul 26
Argentina's Malvinas banner turns a World Cup semi-final into a sovereignty test for FIFA
Americas16 Jul 26
Argentina's late goal, England's long wait: a World Cup semifinal that keeps the curse talk alive
Americas16 Jul 26
Six minutes in Foxborough: Argentina's World Cup semi-final win over England reopens an old wound
MENA16 Jul 26
Araghchi denounces US strikes on Iran as breach of international law
Crypto16 Jul 26
Anthropic courts IPO investors as Seoul moves to wrap crypto into state-asset rules
Sport16 Jul 26
All-Star shutout flips the trade-deadline script for the Padres
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Two killed on Al-Tina Street: how a single strike in Khan Younis exposes the seams in Gaza casualty reporting
MENA16 Jul 26
Strikes reported around Ahvaz as Tehran points at 'American enemy'
Africa16 Jul 26
AGOA on notice: African exporters re-route as Washington turns up the heat
Africa16 Jul 26
Africa's biggest World Cup doubles as the continent's biggest sponsorship pitch
Africa16 Jul 26
Smallholder Africa takes the weather and the market at once
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Fifth night, fresh targets: Trump's expanding Iran war and the teleprompter bettors watching every word
Europe16 Jul 26
Starmer's "better state" claim lands flat as Labour bleeds in the polls
MENA16 Jul 26
Six nights over Iran: what the CENTCOM strike tempo actually says
Europe16 Jul 26
Managua cuts ties with Rome over the Moro file
Europe16 Jul 26
Managua cuts ties with Rome over an extradition request that predates the diplomats by decades
Oceania16 Jul 26
New Zealand issues tsunami warning after 5.9-magnitude quake off the South Island
MENA16 Jul 26
IRGC claims strikes on US radar at Ali Al-Salem base, urges Kuwaitis to expel American forces
Defense16 Jul 26
Iran's Ninth Phase: Missiles Over Jordan and the Architecture of Escalation
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Five nights over Iran: What the opening round of US air operations is doing, and what it isn't
Crypto16 Jul 26
Trump presses Senate on CLARITY Act, frames it as race against Beijing
Europe16 Jul 26
Burnham's inheritance: a Labour mayor who must choose between power and caution
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Two bridges down: the geography of the US strike in Bandar Abbas
Asia16 Jul 26
Apple lands China AI approval, hands the keys to Alibaba and Baidu
Americas16 Jul 26
Villarruel's Falklands jab lands as Argentina rides a World Cup high
Long Reads16 Jul 26
The buy-first-pitch-later pattern: Trump's portfolio and the visa wall going up around it
Long Reads16 Jul 26
A primetime address, two networks off-air, and a 25% tariff on Brazil: Trump's 16 July 2026 power plays
Americas16 Jul 26
Trump teases a Cuba move while his political machine hauls in $780 million
Americas16 Jul 26
Trump sets 25% Brazil tariff as court defeat reshapes US trade playbook
Climate16 Jul 26
Toronto chokes as Ontario wildfire smoke tops global air-quality rankings
Economy16 Jul 26
Seoul tightens as chips crack: Bank of Korea's first hike in three years lands on a fragile market
Europe16 Jul 26
Rubio, in 60-country forum, frames Western survival as a contest against a rising international left
Americas16 Jul 26
Ontario wildfire smoke drags a hazy July across the U.S. Northeast
Asia16 Jul 26
Bangkok Becomes Asia's Convenient Table: Nikkei Forum Tests Whether Industrial Policy Can Be Made to Sound Boring
Crypto16 Jul 26
New York freezes new hyperscale data centers as Fed's Warsh draws a no-bailout line for crypto
Culture16 Jul 26
Netflix says roughly 300 of its 2026 productions touched generative AI; Don Lemon floats a presidential run
Culture16 Jul 26
Netflix crosses 300 generative-AI productions, and quietly redraws the line on craft
Asia16 Jul 26
Five Hundred Missing at Sea: The Myanmar Boat Disaster the World Will Not Name
Arts16 Jul 26
Manhattan DA Returns Three Antiquities to Mexico, Including a Piece Once Held by the Met
MENA16 Jul 26
Kuwait in Flames, Iranian Oil Sites in Question: Reading Two Telegram Headlines on 16 July 2026
Africa16 Jul 26
Kenya's eCitizen Goes Dark for Five Hours, and the Question Nobody on the Maintenance Notice Asked
Culture16 Jul 26
The Hudson River School’s Skeptical Heir: Reading Church Through a Climate-Era Lens
Defense16 Jul 26
More than 100 House Democrats break with Biden's Israel package, voting to strip $3.3bn
Arts16 Jul 26
Gergiev headlines a closing gala as the 'Summer. Music. Museum' festival wraps in Russia
Arts16 Jul 26
A Statue Nobody Asked For: Sergio Furnani's Charlie Kirk Monument and the Meme Economy of Public Grief
Europe16 Jul 26
Brussels under pressure as Chinese chemical imports expose a wider democratic squeeze
Europe16 Jul 26
After England's exit, the Falklands banner lands in FIFA's inbox
Asia16 Jul 26
Inside the WhatsApp-Forward Economy: How Two Delhi-Haryana Rackets Reveal the New Extortion Stack
Americas16 Jul 26
Havana looks skyward while Washington and Havana test the odds of a July thaw
Crypto16 Jul 26
The Crypto Clarity Act's 24-day window meets a White House with skin in the game
Asia16 Jul 26
China tops US in global favourability, a Pew turn that reshapes the soft-power ledger
Asia16 Jul 26
China's AI moment is splitting into two markets, and the regulator just redrew the line
Americas16 Jul 26
Smoke from hundreds of Canadian fires paints eastern skies orange, putting 2026 on track to rival the worst years on…
Americas16 Jul 26
Canada's air quality ranks worst in the world as 835 wildfires burn
Crypto16 Jul 26
Bitcoin Tests $65,000 as Inflation Data Splits the Bounce
Europe16 Jul 26
Sore losers or sovereign reminder? Argentina's Falklands banner pulls London back into a 43-year dispute
Oceania16 Jul 26
Apple Maps redraws the ad map as 5.9 quake rattles New Zealand's North Island
Asia16 Jul 26
Apple clears China AI hurdle with Alibaba and Baidu tie-up, ceding ground on data and model architecture
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Ankara's Black Sea Bet: How Fidan Is Reframing Turkey's Role In The Ukraine War
Europe16 Jul 26
Trump's rights record draws fire from Human Rights Watch chief
Crypto16 Jul 26
Trump's crypto firm topped Coinbase by $140 million. A stalled bill could decide what comes next.
MENA16 Jul 26
A weapons seizure on the Syria-Iraq border, and the question of who benefits
Markets16 Jul 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas cut Iran's main port off from its road and rail hinterland
Europe16 Jul 26
Spain end Deschamps' last World Cup tilt, France exit in Texas semi
Defense16 Jul 26
Ryanair Boeing 737 accident reopens a window-and-engine question Italian investigators will not be able to ignore
Long Reads16 Jul 26
One vote, one handshake, one constituency: how a small Kenyan by-election is testing the ruling party's grip on the Rift
MENA16 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham Burned in Effigy in Gaza as US Senator's Death Reverberates Through the Region
MENA16 Jul 26
Reports of airstrikes across Fars and Hamedan provinces surface as Tehran's airspace goes quiet
Americas16 Jul 26
Iran's sitting volleyball team books a Paralympic quota in a championship week Tehran wants to talk about
Arts16 Jul 26
Kuwait radar strike report puts US Gulf posture back under the lens
Europe16 Jul 26
The IOC lets Russia back into the Olympic tent. Europe wants the IOC's wallet to follow
Asia16 Jul 26
Inpex breaks ground on a $21bn LNG plant in eastern Indonesia
Asia16 Jul 26
India pulls its seafarers out of the Strait of Hormuz
Asia16 Jul 26
New Delhi tells Indian sailors to avoid the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads16 Jul 26
Dubai's quiet afternoon, the loudest rumor of the Gulf
Energy16 Jul 26
Booms over Dubai and accusations in Tehran: a Gulf incident in three contradictory wires
Long Reads16 Jul 26
An $8% line on the future of US arms to Israel, and what the House just told us about it
Long Reads16 Jul 26
A defence minister walks out, and Ukraine's streets answer
Americas16 Jul 26
Tuchel, Messi and a semifinal that redraws Argentina's road to the trophy
Sport16 Jul 26
Tuchel, England and the morning after a World Cup semifinal that ran away from them
Crypto16 Jul 26
Truth Social's Paywalled Feed: A New Channel for Market Signal and Political Targeting
Tech16 Jul 26
Truth Social opens a paid firehose to Wall Street, with the president's portfolio riding alongside
Crypto16 Jul 26
Truth Social, the President's feed, and the trader in the middle
Long Reads16 Jul 26
The millisecond market: Trump Media sells fast-lane Truth Social feeds to the trading floor
Business16 Jul 26
Truth Social opens its firehose: a paid API and 20 stocks the president promoted
Crypto16 Jul 26
Trump's Truth Social stock calls, a Visa stablecoin push, and a Crypto Clarity Act huddle: three threads converging on…
Crypto16 Jul 26
A White House post, then a stock buy: Trump's Truth Social trades, and the disclosure gap that lets them stand
Investigations16 Jul 26
Trump Media opens the firehose: paid Truth Social feed courts Wall Street's fastest traders
Investigations16 Jul 26
Trump Media sells a faster pipe to the President's posts. The conflict of interest is the product.
Crypto16 Jul 26
Trump and Senators to Convene on Crypto Clarity Act as Conflict-of-Interest Questions Linger
Americas16 Jul 26
Six minutes in Lusail: how Argentina beat England, and why Tuchel cannot outrun the question
Europe16 Jul 26
7-Eleven's Polish bid tests how Japan reads a continent on a war footing
Crypto16 Jul 26
Senate Tells Trump, and Any Successor, That a Pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried Is Off the Table
Crypto16 Jul 26
Senate Tells Sam Bankman-Fried the Door Stays Closed
Americas16 Jul 26
Polymarket opens a market on the announcers' mouths, and the World Cup cycle rolls on
Culture16 Jul 26
Coachella's Parent Company Plots a Beachfront Encore on Santa Monica Sand
Asia16 Jul 26
New York goes nuclear to keep its AI grid from drifting to Beijing
Americas16 Jul 26
Messi, Pickford, and the small theatre of a penalty shootout
Geopolitics16 Jul 26
Messi's two assists against England put him atop the Golden Boot race
Sport16 Jul 26
Messi at 39 rewrites the ageing script and breaks England's run
Americas16 Jul 26