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Crypto16 Jul 26
Strategy pauses the Bitcoin buys and builds a $3 billion cash wall
Crypto16 Jul 26
SpaceX slips, oil spikes, and the dollar blinks: a 48-hour read on the new crypto tape
Crypto16 Jul 26
Bolivia's Dollar Squeeze Hands Tether an Opening
MENA15 Jul 26
Kuwait sirens suggest fallout from a regional corridor under acute stress
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Kuwait on alert: what five overnight dispatches actually tell us
Asia15 Jul 26
Beijing's Pacific missile test: a signal wrapped in a test
Europe15 Jul 26
Burnham’s pick: Mahmood seen heading for the Treasury
MENA15 Jul 26
Tehran's chief negotiator frames the US talks as an existential fight, even while sitting at the table
MENA15 Jul 26
Qalibaf's dual-track doctrine: Tehran pairs war footing with talks as US pressure builds
MENA15 Jul 26
Tehran freezes the negotiating track and reaches for the military one
MENA15 Jul 26
Tehran calls for national unity after reported strikes on US bases in Kuwait
Business15 Jul 26
Ukraine's new long-range cruise drone changes the math on Odesa, just as the US quietly pulls tankers out of Qatar
Europe15 Jul 26
Thames Water's £20bn question lands on Andy Burnham's desk
MENA15 Jul 26
Drone intercepted over Erbil as Iraqi Kurdistan records another strike attempt
Arts15 Jul 26
Six Hundred Objects, One Missing Curator: The Bristol Museum Theft and the Question of Institutional Custody
Defense15 Jul 26
Zelensky puts a clock on Ukrainian Patriot output as Trump claims a Russia deal is near
MENA15 Jul 26
Who runs Iran now, and what a 17% peace-market is really pricing
Crypto15 Jul 26
US freezes $131M in Iran-linked crypto as Middle East tensions bleed into digital assets
MENA15 Jul 26
US daytime strikes hit Iran as Tehran threatens regional energy blockade
Europe15 Jul 26
Night strikes on Ukraine and a US naval blockade of Iran: the 15 July 2026 overnight wire
MENA15 Jul 26
Ukraine takes the first two sets in Tehran as Volleyball Nations League match deepens Iran’s sports‑diplomacy bind
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Trump, Tehran and the gold coin: what an afternoon of fragments reveals about the next US-Iran move
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump and Tehran trade contradictory signals as 'no-plans-for-talks' meets 'they want to make a deal'
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump threatens open-ended strikes on Iran's energy grid as Tehran signals it wants to talk
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump escalates pressure on Iran as Tehran pulls back from US memorandum
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump says Iran 'wants to make a deal' even as he scales back regime-change talk
MENA15 Jul 26
Blockade live, threats queued: Trump pushes Iran toward a week of escalation
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Pressure and an open line: Washington's split-second messaging on Iran
Asia15 Jul 26
Trump's data-centre pitch lands in New York, with Beijing circling the same power grid
Crypto15 Jul 26
Trump's crypto playbook stalls in the Senate as a Trump-linked takeover collapses
Crypto15 Jul 26
Treasury freezes $131M in Iran-linked crypto as sanctions doctrine catches up to on-chain evasion
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Tehran's billboard war: what a 'We kill Trump' mural says about Iran's coercive diplomacy
Sport15 Jul 26
Sunderland land Meunier on a free, betting Europa football can attract a 34-year-old World Cup veteran
MENA15 Jul 26
Strikes on Shiraz put Iran's defence-industrial base back in the crosshairs
Europe15 Jul 26
Spain end France's run to reach the World Cup final, one win from a historic double
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Sirens, missiles, and a widening Gulf: what we know about the strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait
Asia15 Jul 26
Russian synchronized swimming triumph in Tokyo frames the Olympic question no Western wire wants to ask
Long Reads15 Jul 26
A Night of Strikes on the Black Sea: Odessa and Chernomorsk Hit as Russia Intensifies Pressure on Ukraine’s Port…
Asia15 Jul 26
Russia's floating crude pile-up signals the cost of a shrinking buyer's market
Asia15 Jul 26
Russia's central bank just stopped telling you where the ruble is going
MENA15 Jul 26
Prediction markets shrug as CENTCOM strikes and IRGC threatens Gulf oil
Asia15 Jul 26
Pew map shows Xi outpacing Trump in global favourability, with neighbours tilting Beijing's way
Asia15 Jul 26
New York's data-center standoff meets a 4.3% China quarter, and the AI race has a new fault line
MENA15 Jul 26
US senators block NDAA debate over Israel-integration clause as Iran MOU exit odds climb
Europe15 Jul 26
Merz reaches past the cordon sanitaire as US tariffs bite the German economy
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Kyiv under fire: the routine of Russian ballistic strikes and the longer arithmetic of the war
MENA15 Jul 26
Explosions shake Kuwait and Bahrain as Iran missile strikes spill across the Gulf
Crypto15 Jul 26
Tokyo rewrites the rules for crypto. Washington is still arguing.
Long Reads15 Jul 26
A soldier's phone, an Iranian handler, and the small leak that exposes a much larger contest
Defense15 Jul 26
IRGC claims strike on US logistics hub in Kuwait, escalates shadow war on Gulf hosting
MENA15 Jul 26
IRGC spokesman names US regional infrastructure as primary target as rhetoric points to two-phase escalation
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Satellite images and a single contractor: what the IRGC's Kuwait strike narrative tells us about Tehran's information…
Energy15 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC claims a drone strike on a U.S.-linked logistics warehouse in Kuwait
Intelligence15 Jul 26
IRGC claims strikes on US assets in Jordan and Kuwait, addresses Gulf publics in Arabic-language video messages
MENA15 Jul 26
Tehran's oil ultimatum lands while Washington debates strikes: the next 72 hours in the Gulf
Culture15 Jul 26
Tehran summons UK envoy as IRGC terror designation lands
Culture15 Jul 26
Tehran summons Britain's envoy over IRGC proscription
MENA15 Jul 26
Sirens Across the Gulf: How an Iranian Strike Reached Bahrain and Kuwait on 15 July 2026
Defense15 Jul 26
Iran hits US base in Kuwait: what the Iranian readout actually claims
MENA15 Jul 26
Tehran's parliament lights a fuse the Gulf cannot afford
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Iranian Missiles Hit US Naval Base in Bahrain as Drone Swarms Probe Gulf Defences
Culture15 Jul 26
Iran moves to inscribe Khamenei's funeral on national heritage list, urging unity
MENA15 Jul 26
Tehran walks out on the Islamabad deal as US warships mass off the Gulf
Defense15 Jul 26
Tehran's phone-tracing hack lands as Trump opens the blockade gunwale
MENA15 Jul 26
Strikes and counter-strikes: Iran and CENTCOM trade fire across Kuwait, Jordan and the Gulf
MENA15 Jul 26
Sirens over Manama: Iran's missile and drone barrage tests the US naval shield on the Gulf's smallest host
MENA15 Jul 26
Sirens in Manama, blasts across the Gulf: an Iran–Bahrain flashpoint, still half-lit
MENA15 Jul 26
Iran's army backs the Guards as London moves to proscribe them
MENA15 Jul 26
Hormuz on the edge: Tehran digs in as Trump floats bridge strikes
Arts15 Jul 26
Gergiev returns to the Russian festival circuit, and the Western cultural boycott frays at the edge
MENA15 Jul 26
Gaza health ministry reports 1,123 killed since ceasefire began, as cumulative toll crosses 73,000
MENA15 Jul 26
Explosions rock Erbil as Iranian strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan resume
Europe15 Jul 26
EU bets on Ukrainian drones, vowing €11 billion in fresh military aid
Europe15 Jul 26
EU's €6bn Ukraine drone deal exposes the limits of its China posture
Europe15 Jul 26
EU opens €300 million funding line for Ukrainian defence industry
Asia15 Jul 26
China's biggest chip IPO yet tests Beijing's patience for a self-reliant memory stack
Crypto15 Jul 26
Washington races the recess clock on the Crypto Clarity Act
Asia15 Jul 26
China's second-quarter slowdown lands at 4.3%, and the global growth math changes with it
Asia15 Jul 26
China posts 4.3% Q2 growth as Washington juggles fraud raids and an AI infrastructure fight
Asia15 Jul 26
China's 4.3% print and the cost of repairing the inside of the house
Asia15 Jul 26
China's second quarter lands at 4.3% growth, and the airlines bleed through the noise
Asia15 Jul 26
China's 4.3% print looks stable. The composition tells a different story.
Asia15 Jul 26
China’s 4.3% print hands Beijing a slow-growth problem it cannot export away
Asia15 Jul 26
China's 4.3% Q2 print is fine. The composition is the problem.
Asia15 Jul 26
China's housing slump finds a floor it can't stand on
Americas15 Jul 26
China posts 4.3% first-half growth as Thames Water warns of an £18.5bn debt pile
Markets15 Jul 26
China's growth print misses target as Iran shock rattles the oil calculus
Asia15 Jul 26
China's 4.3% print and the data-center chill: two readings of the same race
Asia15 Jul 26
Beijing tells Washington: lift the Cuba blockade, now
Asia15 Jul 26
China's carriers count the cost of a Middle East war, and a wider bill is coming due
Crypto15 Jul 26
Base App founder Jesse Pollak steps aside, admits creator-coin bet fell flat
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Sirens, then silence: a 12-minute shock in Bahrain and what it tells us about the Gulf's air-defence question
Americas15 Jul 26
CENTCOM Daylight Strikes on Iran Mark Sharpening Tempo as Argentina's VP Turns a Semi-Final into Sovereignty Theater
Asia15 Jul 26
Apple clears Beijing for AI launch, pairing with Alibaba and Baidu under regulator's eye
MENA15 Jul 26
Al-Nujaba's three-line ultimatum: kick out American electricity contractors or face 'the Islamic resistance'
Culture15 Jul 26
Rutgers's Zimmerli Museum Lands a 70-Work Gift, and a Quiet Argument About Who Pays for American Art
Europe15 Jul 26
Zelenskyy presses Balkans ties as Kyiv looks south for diplomatic ballast
Asia15 Jul 26
Zelensky's Paris entrance and the optics of a Europe still divided on Ukraine
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Two negotiating tables, one anxious summer: Zelensky's Europe, Qalibaf's Tehran
Energy15 Jul 26
A drone, a Camry, and the engineers of Europe's largest nuclear plant
Long Reads15 Jul 26
White phosphorus in southern Lebanon: a long pattern, a thin paper trail
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The week the White House almost went to war with Iran, and then didn't
Crypto15 Jul 26
White House pushes Crypto Clarity Act as 'Trump Coin' video surfaces on official account
MENA15 Jul 26
Washington opens a rhetorical trapdoor over Iran, and Vance is leaning on it
Europe15 Jul 26
Vučić declines to sign anti-Russian declaration at Ukraine–Southeast Europe summit in Athens
Asia15 Jul 26
Von der Leyen lands in Kyiv, walks off with a Ukrainian state honour
Defense15 Jul 26
Von der Leyen lands in Kyiv with new initiatives, collects Ukraine's Order of Europe
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Vance on Rogan: a vice president tries to triangulate Iran, the Epstein record, and the Israel lobby, all in three hours
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Vance on the Rogan couch: AI communism, UFOs, and a confession on Epstein
MENA15 Jul 26
Vance draws the line on Iran: no ground troops, but the pressure stays
Defense15 Jul 26
Vance draws a line under Iran: no American ground troops, plenty of friction with Israel
Energy15 Jul 26
Vance on Iran: 'No ground forces,' and what that restraint costs
MENA15 Jul 26
Vance on Iran: no to "bomb and bomb and bomb," yes to containing 94 million desperate people
MENA15 Jul 26
Vance on the Joe Rogan Experience: a US vice president rules out 150,000 troops on Iran and a broader ground war
Science15 Jul 26
US widens UAE's access to advanced AI chips after joint operations against Iran
Long Reads15 Jul 26
A $1 Gold Coin and $132bn in Foreign Demand: The Dollar's Self-Portrait
MENA15 Jul 26
US strikes on Sirik as energy markets and peace odds recalibrate in real time
MENA15 Jul 26
US strikes hit Iran's Hormuz coastline as Strait shipping corridor becomes the target
MENA15 Jul 26
US strikes Iranian port traffic control as Chabahar is hit for the second time
MENA15 Jul 26
U.S. airstrikes hit Bandar Abbas and Rask as Iran confrontation escalates
MENA15 Jul 26
US strikes land near Ahvaz children's cancer hospital as Tehran and Washington trade blame
Science15 Jul 26
US strike on Iranian barracks at Bampur leaves seven dead, state media say
Defense15 Jul 26
US Navy strike on Iran's Hengam Island lands as the Gulf's information war starts before the smoke clears
Asia15 Jul 26
A Chinese passport, religious texts, and an AI device: the items seized from a US national at the India-Nepal border
MENA15 Jul 26
US missiles hit near Ahvaz children's cancer hospital, Iranian outlets report
Defense15 Jul 26
Pentagon's $30 billion Iran-war estimate under scrutiny as internal US figures point to $80–100 billion real cost
MENA15 Jul 26
Strikes, threats and a phone call: the 48 hours that put the US and Iran back on a collision course
MENA15 Jul 26
Washington Drains the Strategic Reserve as the Iran File Widens Past Missiles
Energy15 Jul 26
U.S. escalates pressure on Iran as Tehran quits the Islamabad memorandum
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The 31 Percent Question: Polymarket, the MOU, and the Day the US-Iran Deterrence Wobble Came for Everyone
Crypto15 Jul 26
$288 million in seized crypto lands at Coinbase Prime, and Trump's no-sell pledge is back under the microscope
Asia15 Jul 26
US Coast Guard fast cutters redeploy from Gulf to Singapore and Manila
Intelligence15 Jul 26
U.S. wraps 90-minute CENTCOM strike package against Iran, hitting Greater Tunb outside the Strait of Hormuz
Americas15 Jul 26
Washington weighs air strikes on Cuba, CBS reports
Europe15 Jul 26
Paris moves to plug Ukraine's sky over a $4bn loan Kyiv is still negotiating
Europe15 Jul 26
UK summons Iranian diplomat as Europe reckons with a long Iranian shadow
MENA15 Jul 26
UAE draws a Hormuz red line, then collects on AI chips
MENA15 Jul 26
Two leaders meet as strikes on Iran enter a fourth consecutive day
Asia15 Jul 26
Truth Social by way of Tehran: how a Chatham House warning about Trump's digital diplomacy is being read in Iran
Energy15 Jul 26
Trump threatens Iran's bridges and power plants as US strikes hit southwestern civilian sites
Asia15 Jul 26
Trump pulls the lever on New York's data-centre freeze, telling Albany the AI race won't wait
Asia15 Jul 26
Trump pressures New York to lift data-center moratorium as China posts 4.3% GDP print
Energy15 Jul 26
Trump Threatens Deeper Strikes on Kharg Island as Hormuz Clashes Echo Across the Gulf
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump pushes Israeli pullback from southern Lebanon as IDF detonations continue in border zone
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump floats Israeli pullback from south Lebanon and Syria, names al-Sharaa as Hezbollah's new opponent
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump tells Iraq’s new PM the goal is disarming Iran-backed militias; Tehran says the war is the blunder
MENA15 Jul 26
Washington presses Iraq on Iran-backed militias while courts redraw the map for Venezuelans at home
Crypto15 Jul 26
Trump’s ‘Iranian Blockade’ Rebranding and the Strait of Hormuz Fee: Maritime Risk, Crypto Corridors, and the Question…
Arts15 Jul 26
A Trophy on the Mall: How an Anonymous Collective Turned the Iran War Into a Participatory Punchline
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum: power plants, bridges, and a blockade that starts at 4 PM
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump's Iran threats harden as Polymarket bets on a deal
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump promises fresh strikes on Iran; Tehran warns of new shipping chokepoints
Energy15 Jul 26
Trump puts Iranian power plants and bridges in his crosshairs, if diplomacy fails by next week
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump pushes a 'massive' Iran offensive while Tehran signals it has no plans to negotiate
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Trump weighs widening US military footprint in Iran as WSJ reports Kharg Island in scope
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Trump's Iran Diplomacy by Telegraph: Strike First, Talk Later, or Vice Versa
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump claims Iran 'called and wants a deal' as SCMP floats a Vietnam frame
Culture15 Jul 26
Tehran reads the call: Trump's deal talk meets an Iranian audience that has heard this before
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Trump’s Iran Whiplash: Deal Talk, Defeat Talk, and a Spy Nominee Who Says Press Subpoenas Are Counter-Intelligence
MENA15 Jul 26
Tehran and Washington in a 36-hour war of words: Trump's deadline threat meets Iran's flat refusal
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The week Trump put Iran's bridges and power plants on notice
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Trump's boxing-day framing on Iran meets an economic cost warning from inside Washington
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Blockade, brink, and the Strait: parsing Trump's Iran escalation
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump pulls Hormuz toll within 24 hours, signals Iraq drawdown and courts Gulf capital
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump walks back Hormuz toll within 24 hours, courts Gulf capital and Baghdad
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
A dollar coin with Trump's face: the Treasury's 250th-anniversary mint and what it signals about the politicisation of…
MENA15 Jul 26
Trump notifies Congress of resumed Iran operations, opening a second 60-day strike window
Americas15 Jul 26
Trump's Canada talk drifts back into the open, on his own terms
Markets15 Jul 26
Treasury's gold Trump coin lands at the same moment the President floats Iran strikes
Economy15 Jul 26
Treasury moves on Shamkhani's shipping network as Strait of Hormuz tensions resurface
Crypto15 Jul 26
US freezes $130m in crypto tied to Iran's central bank as Beijing flags drag and BTC holds $65,000
Defense15 Jul 26
Greta Thunberg detained in Berlin at Rheinmetall protest, activists target German arms supply chain
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Three Indian Wire Items, One Tuesday: Founder Bias, Teen Screens, and an MBBS Bump
Crypto15 Jul 26
Tether, Reform UK and the new politics of crypto patronage
MENA15 Jul 26
Tehran frees a detained American as Trump claims a diplomatic win
Asia15 Jul 26
Taiwan's TPP crosses the strait as Taiwan mangoes land in Europe: a quiet week for cross-strait economic statecraft
Asia15 Jul 26
Taiwan's sovereign AI: how a domestic language model became a national-security project
Defense15 Jul 26
Missile Launches From Tabriz Put Iran, U.S., and Jordan Inside the Same Hour
Defense15 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz in a stranglehold: 6,000 sailors stuck as US strikes on Iran intensify
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The Strait of Hormuz as leverage: how a 20% toll collapsed in 48 hours and what replaced it
Defense15 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz goes dark: Iran closes the chokepoint as US widens its bombing campaign
Arts15 Jul 26
Storm King and Delfina name July residency cohorts, with a sharper eye on land and language
Africa15 Jul 26
Standard Bank's $29m deal with Helios Towers signals a quieter African infrastructure story
Culture15 Jul 26
Spotify's AI assistant lands in the middle of India's streaming wars
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Spain's Quiet Dominance Ends France's Three-Final Dream
Europe15 Jul 26
Spain ends France's reign to reach a World Cup final, with a double now in sight
Americas15 Jul 26
Spain end France's World Cup dream and reset the map of European football
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Inside the July 15 bombardment: how southern Lebanon's border villages became a one-week laboratory for Israeli…
Crypto15 Jul 26
Seoul pulls crypto into the state balance sheet
Asia15 Jul 26
South Korea's AI moment is arriving faster than its regulators
Africa15 Jul 26
South African court opens extradition window for UK triple-murder suspect
Africa15 Jul 26
Pretoria's money tap, Lagos's invoice: South Africa's November vote collides with a diplomatic bill
Africa15 Jul 26
The cat who wouldn't sing: how a South African plea deal collapse is reshaping the police corruption inquiry
Africa15 Jul 26
South Africa's anti-corruption drive wobbles as plea deal collapses and an anti-migrant organiser is shot
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Strikes on Hormuz: How Sirik and Qanarak Reopened the Iran Question
Asia15 Jul 26
Singapore court hits Bloomberg with $356,000 defamation ruling as India pours another $19.7bn into chips
Oceania15 Jul 26
Shorten warns of 'creeping cultural dementia' as immigration debate hardens in Australia
Crypto15 Jul 26
Seoul puts crypto on the state balance sheet
Africa15 Jul 26
Dakar's grip on the touchline: how a World Cup exit became a state security file
Culture15 Jul 26