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Business25 Aug 26
Oman and Iran announce a Hormuz corridor as Trump claims the strait is already demined
Arts25 Aug 26
‘Naza,’ the Guardian-produced Gaza film from the ‘No Other Land’ directors, lands at Venice with French distribution on…
Crypto25 Aug 26
Tokyo unveils blockchain settlement plan as dollar politics close in
MENA25 Aug 26
Israeli jets strike Kfar Ruman, Sorbbine and Qantara in southern Lebanon in evening airstrikes
MENA25 Aug 26
Israeli jets and artillery hit multiple towns across southern Lebanon as fighting intensifies
MENA25 Aug 26
Four Israeli strikes on south Lebanese towns logged in a 90-minute window on 25 August 2026
MENA25 Aug 26
Israeli strikes persist around Al-Mansouri as source trail narrows
MENA25 Aug 26
Four southern Lebanese towns struck in a four-hour window, per one Telegram channel
Asia25 Aug 26
Indonesia's commodity intermediary, three months into operations, still draws blank stares
Asia25 Aug 26
India's three contested fronts: warning labels, state canteens, and the private space door
Energy25 Aug 26
The Strait of Hormuz is not open until shipping can trust it
Energy25 Aug 26
Hormuz corridor plan and Iran's oil condition sit inside the same PressTV post
Markets25 Aug 26
Hormuz talks produce a corridor proposal, a Tehran pushback, and a 25-million-barrel satellite trail
Long Reads25 Aug 26
Hormuz opens, Tehran closes: the day the ceasefire outran the diplomats
Europe25 Aug 26
Germany's 0.3% Q2 upgrade meets an airport drone and a Russian-channel meme
Markets25 Aug 26
Oil steadies, defence rallies as Europe's traders weigh a wider sanctions net on Tehran
MENA25 Aug 26
Two bulletins, two coordinates: a Druze cleric's Israel framing and a Khiam artillery line
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Dolly Parton, country music's quiet empire-builder, dies aged 80
Crypto25 Aug 26
Stand With Crypto endorses 32 House incumbents as Strategy pauses Bitcoin purchases
Asia25 Aug 26
Beijing defends Iran trade as Clinton warns of US munitions strain
Intelligence25 Aug 26
CIA Director Ratcliffe lands at Vnukovo: a surprise Moscow visit that breaks a four-year silence
Defense25 Aug 26
Washington edits Kyiv's strike list as CIA chief lands in Moscow
Defense25 Aug 26
CIA Director lands at Vnukovo: what a rare US military flight to Moscow signals
Intelligence25 Aug 26
CIA Director Ratcliffe lands in Moscow, agenda undisclosed
Asia25 Aug 26
Beijing draws a line on Iran sanctions, warns of retaliation against US secondary
Asia25 Aug 26
Beijing tells Washington its Iran business is lawful, and it intends to keep it
Americas25 Aug 26
Ottawa hits back: Canada sets $19.9bn in counter-tariffs for September 8
Long Reads25 Aug 26
Canada hits back: the C$20 billion counter-tariff and the unravelling of a thirty-year settlement
Americas25 Aug 26
Ottawa retools, Washington accelerates
Crypto25 Aug 26
Tariff spiral meets short squeeze: Canada returns fire on US metals as Bitcoin tears through $81,000
Americas25 Aug 26
Canada hits back with dollar-for-dollar tariffs on $20bn of US goods
Markets25 Aug 26
Canada strikes back with C$27.6bn in retaliatory tariffs as the US trade fight hardens into a waiting game
Americas25 Aug 26
Canada lines up Tuesday counter-measures after Trump's 50% threat on Canadian autos and steel
Markets25 Aug 26
Ottawa hits back: Canada lines up C$20 billion in counter-tariffs and a C$7.5 billion support package
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin sprints to $81,000 as Canada trade war enters retaliation phase
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin breaks $80K while Washington sharpens Iran's financial perimeter
Culture25 Aug 26
Ali G rides again: Sacha Baron Cohen's London bad boy returns, with Amazon MGM booking a 23 October theatrical run
Tech25 Aug 26
Alabama escalates OpenAI probe with subpoena as it names Sam Altman individually
MENA25 Aug 26
Bessent says Iran pressure is biting. A prediction market says 8%.
Long Reads25 Aug 26
Trump's SpaceX stake places a presidential portfolio inside an orbital-computing story
Markets25 Aug 26
Trump floats 'Lake America' as US-Canada trade posture hardens
Markets25 Aug 26
Tariff Refunds, Used-Car Prices, and a Cable-Ship Budget: Three Asia Wires, One State-Shaped Morning
MENA25 Aug 26
Cheap drones, costly interceptors: the arithmetic Gulf air defence planners are working around
Asia25 Aug 26
Clinton remarks on US munitions and Iranian power resurface on Telegram channels
Asia25 Aug 26
Yen at a cross-roads: Japan Inc. retools hedges as debt service hits a record
Africa25 Aug 26
India and Japan signal joint Africa push for critical minerals as monsoon failure exposes South Asia's climate exposure
Asia25 Aug 26
Singapore's two-island resort plan: what one Nikkei Asia line actually tells us
Asia25 Aug 26
Delhi drowns again: a red-alert August and the IIT protest that broke the campus silence
Europe25 Aug 26
France and Saudi Arabia sign $7bn theme-park package in Paris, with Dragon Ball Z flagship
Opinion25 Aug 26
Tehran says no, Washington says no one: Three refusal points in 24 hours
Opinion25 Aug 26
Dick’s Cut Says the American Athleticwear Cycle Has Turned
Business25 Aug 26
Pakistani mediation opens a channel as Iran weighs expanded US sanctions
Opinion25 Aug 26
The southern Lebanon barrage nobody is reading right
Opinion25 Aug 26
Kfar Rumman, Markaba, Sorbeen: what an afternoon of southern Lebanese strikes tells the open-source record
Opinion25 Aug 26
The South Lebanon Frame Problem: How Casualty Counts Get Written Before the Smoke Clears
Asia25 Aug 26
Modi government pins diplomatic capital on a Xi-attended BRICS summit in Delhi
Africa25 Aug 26
Four suspects in custody over shooting of former world champion Zolani Tete
Africa25 Aug 26
Kenya's county salary crunch meets a global cost-of-living squeeze
Business25 Aug 26
Druckenmiller calls Bessent's bond-buying a 'mistake'; the break is the story,
Opinion25 Aug 26
Three capitals, one chokepoint: parsing the Hormuz bargaining geometry
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Strait of Hormuz cleared, Trump says, as US pivots to choking Iran's oil revenue
Opinion25 Aug 26
Coles posts 14% FY profit lift, and the duopoly maths underneath the slide deck
Opinion25 Aug 26
Trump's Iran taunt, Erdoğan's vow, and the post-deal pressure game
Sport25 Aug 26
Kanter Freedom's courtside ejection turns a draft claim into a WNBA eligibility
Oceania25 Aug 26
Australia's ARIA draws a line on AI music, as data-centre electricity use is projected to soar nearly 600% by 2036
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Kurdish-led SDF dissolves into Syrian military under Damascus deal
Investigations25 Aug 26
Unverified Hormuz tanker reports collide with Geneva deal countdown
Business25 Aug 26
IMF calls Iran war shock weathered; Tehran queues say otherwise
Opinion25 Aug 26
Intuit just told the market it has stopped being a growth stock. The market believed it.
Opinion25 Aug 26
An oil-tanker strike off Oman, an Iranian vow against widened US sanctions, and a ledger that will not name an attacker
Culture25 Aug 26
CIA Director's Moscow stop lands as Russia moves on a new mobilisation cycle
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Strait of Hormuz reopens as US-Iran ceasefire takes hold, satellite imagery shows oil already moving
Europe25 Aug 26
Saudi money meets French soft power: a manga park, a palace visit, and a Palestine line that splits the room
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Hormuz’s One-Ship Day Exposes the Limits of Treating a Chokepoint as a Pressure Point
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
CIA director's snap Moscow trip puts US–Russia back channel under fresh scrutiny
Business25 Aug 26
Iran signals retaliation as US widens sanctions and oil markets absorb the shock
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Trump accuses Tehran of starving its own soldiers while killing protesters 'at levels not seen before'
Opinion25 Aug 26
Dick's Worst Day on Record and the Sneaker Discount Trap
Opinion25 Aug 26
Dick's just disclosed the sneaker economy's soft patch
Business25 Aug 26
Canada's 50% Tariff Threat Turns Trade Into a Corporate Planning Problem
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Canada's dollar-for-dollar reply puts Trump's tariff calculus back in play
Opinion25 Aug 26
Chesnara's 79% capital surge is the boring annuity story London's market wanted
Opinion25 Aug 26
The reprieve that wasn't: Washington's Iran call and the strikes that keep coming on the Lebanon frontier
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Trump trades insults with Ottawa and Tehran in a single morning
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Washington launches ‘Operation Economic Outcast’ against Iran
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin Tests the $80,000 Line as ETF Inflows Hit $2.26 Billion and Thailand Opens Its ETF Door
Opinion25 Aug 26
Zoom beat the quarter and still got punished. The tape tells you what it actually wanted.
Opinion25 Aug 26
The short, strange trip: what Ratcliffe's Moscow sprint tells us about Washington's end-of-war playbook
Opinion25 Aug 26
Six items, two hours, and the slim record of a southern Lebanon morning
Opinion25 Aug 26
A C-17, A Convoy, And The Silence From Washington
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Erdogan tells Ankara critics to step back as PKK disarmament timeline enters a fragile phase
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Erdogan tells Ankara cabinet Turkey will not abandon Syria or let Israel draw red lines
Investigations25 Aug 26
Diplomats at the table, sanctions in the post: India walks two tracks on China and Iran in a single afternoon
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Rochdale retrial of six defendants opens in UK court with one accused unfit
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’; Ottawa says no
Opinion25 Aug 26
The lake, the map, and the trade war: what Trump's geography trolling actually signals
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Three moves in twelve hours: the asylum revocations, the H-1B fee, and the Iran ultimatum that did not fire
Americas25 Aug 26
Haiti gang attack on Kenscoff church kills around 40 displaced people
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin rips through $81,000 with $225m of shorts liquidated; the macro backdrop is harder to pin down
Asia25 Aug 26
Three Delhi files in one day: H1N1 review, waterlogging request, treated-water rule for builders
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin Pushes Past $80,000, Wipes $240M in Shorts as Labour Data Sits in the Background
Science25 Aug 26
From banana chromosomes to buried molecules: five August papers that read the rulebooks of biology
Business25 Aug 26
Indonesia's commodity export agency lands before it has rules, and miners are already hedging around it
Asia25 Aug 26
Xi expected in Delhi for BRICS as the bloc tests its own rhetoric
Oceania25 Aug 26
Canberra tightens working-holiday visas, with farmers warning of a labour squeeze
Science25 Aug 26
Four quiet breakthroughs this week are reshaping the basic toolkit of biology, chemistry and physics
Business25 Aug 26
Ottawa unveils retaliatory tariffs on US goods; Polymarket prices 2026 deal at 17%
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin's $80,000 comeback is not a victory lap. It is a referendum on the dollar.
Africa25 Aug 26
Kenya's Two Crises Converge: Political Violence Fears Meet an Airline on Its Knees
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin reclaims $80,000 as debasement trade and ETF flows redraw the chart
Opinion25 Aug 26
ADvTECH's R1bn H1 print meets a slipping share price
Opinion25 Aug 26
The fire at Amur's petrochemical flagship lands inside a project that was never finished
Opinion25 Aug 26
The FX alibi: how Nordic small-caps hide a softer story under currency noise
Culture25 Aug 26
A $100,000 visa, a cartoon, and the architecture of US preference
Opinion25 Aug 26
Karnataka pulls three platforms' food licences over a toxic weed, and the regulatory ground shifts
Tech25 Aug 26
Three tech pressures converging on Monday morning: a Keycloak reset bypass, Microsoft workers leaking AI-hour counts,…
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Lockerbie trial delayed again as new evidence forces a third postponement
Opinion25 Aug 26
The silence after the sirens: parsing an unconfirmed Oreshnik report
Geopolitics25 Aug 26
Washington moves to revoke up to 200,000 asylum-linked visas in single biggest such sweep on record
Markets25 Aug 26
Grayscale's Zcash ETF lands on US tape: a wrapper, a 70% monthly ZEC move, and the privacy question the SEC now has to…
Oceania25 Aug 26
A banned shark fin, a new ambassador, and the quiet contest for Pacific attention
Science25 Aug 26
Four science stories this week that quietly redraw the field
Long Reads25 Aug 26
Inside Microsoft’s AI-self-reporting pay experiment: what the leaked numbers actually show
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin's $81,000 breakout meets a market built to liquidate conviction
Asia25 Aug 26
Japan's corporate treasuries price in a long, weak yen
Crypto25 Aug 26
X Adds Crypto Trade Buttons as Canada–US Tariff Spat Reignites: A Platform Crossroads
Oceania25 Aug 26
Australia bets the grid on data centres as ASX rides a late-summer rally
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin clears $80,000 on a debasement bid, its first three-month high
Opinion25 Aug 26
China isn't stealing from the tariff bill, it's running a learning curve
Science25 Aug 26
Four studies, one week: what the new research actually says
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin reclaims $80,000 as ETF flows, dollar weakness and a $338M weekly bid line up
Opinion25 Aug 26
Australia’s earnings season is becoming a test of management credibility
Opinion25 Aug 26
Scentre's record half is a mall story, but the read underneath is bigger
Opinion25 Aug 26
Southern Lebanon, One Demolition at a Time: What Steady Artillery Tells Us
Culture25 Aug 26
The Meme Is the Message
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin reclaims $80,000 as a soft dollar and fiscal jitters put the bid back in
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin’s $80,000 return is real, but the leverage story is not over
Asia25 Aug 26
Eight deaths and a flooded underpass: the signals Delhi's institutions keep sending
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin reclaims $80,000 as short covering meets a softer-dollar backdrop
Crypto25 Aug 26
Bitcoin's three-day rally puts fiscal fear, ETF flows and a short squeeze on the same tape
MENA24 Aug 26
Tehran widens the legal perimeter, naming third-party states as potential co-belligerents
Energy24 Aug 26
Trump's 'economic D-Day' on Iran lands with Beijing in the crosshairs
MENA24 Aug 26
Two Telegram channels carry "Iran is completely collapsing" line; Houla strikes reported on the same morning
MENA24 Aug 26
Rial at two million: what Bessent's 'economic D-Day' on Iran actually does
MENA24 Aug 26
Trump administration launches 'Operation Economic Outcast' against Iran, framing it as unprecedented and warning of…
MENA24 Aug 26
Washington readies an 'economic D-Day' package as Tehran weighs a Gulf passage counter-threat
MENA24 Aug 26
Tehran's gas field announcement lands on the same day Washington readies its 'economic D-Day' against Iran
Asia24 Aug 26
China's Chang'e-7 lunar mission delayed as Beijing weighs next step in water-ice hunt
MENA24 Aug 26
Bessent widens Iran sanctions net, then warns the global economy could pay the price
MENA24 Aug 26
Bessent warns Iran of 'economic D-Day' as Treasury prepares broader secondary sanctions
Energy24 Aug 26
Bessent's economic war on Iran: a Treasury campaign whose rhetoric runs ahead of the policy text
Energy24 Aug 26
Bessent's 'economic D-Day' frame sets the US-Iran fight on a financial battlefield
Asia24 Aug 26
Bessent warns China over Iran oil, as Tehran calls Trump's pressure campaign coercive
Americas24 Aug 26
Vance Says Canada Could Not Be Defended Without US Cover, Bessent Threatens Iran Partners With Dollar Cutoff
MENA24 Aug 26
Washington readies another sanctions package as Tehran threatens to cut off its oil
Europe24 Aug 26
Ukraine’s winter bill moves from battlefield arithmetic to EU budget politics
Defense24 Aug 26
Damascus and Tel Aviv meet in Amman, with Washington in the room
Markets24 Aug 26
Shein launches Hong Kong listing at up to $27bn after New York-London-Hong
MENA24 Aug 26
Three Gaza City sites named in Telegram posts on the afternoon of 24 August: sequence, language, and what the cited…
Opinion24 Aug 26
The refining margin is the quiet tell on America's Iran war
Asia24 Aug 26
Tehran stages the message: Pezeshkian and Rezaei demand "practical steps" from Washington, with Munir in the room
MENA24 Aug 26
Tehran's oil threat meets Washington's 'economic D-Day', and traders shrug
Markets24 Aug 26
Tehran names 45 tankers as Hormuz becomes the next market stress test
Energy24 Aug 26
Tehran names 45 tankers in Hormuz as Friday US-Iran accord looms
MENA24 Aug 26
Tehran turns the Hormuz tap into a sanctions weapon
MENA24 Aug 26
Hormuz brinkmanship meets Iran's medicine crisis, and the bill lands on patients
Markets24 Aug 26
Iran's gas find lands in a sanctions week: how a 7.5 trillion cubic feet claim meets an oil-market standoff
Asia24 Aug 26
Three Indian High Courts redraw lines on state and family power in a single news cycle
Asia24 Aug 26
Three India threads, one stress test: pact review, gold's three-month high, and the capex arithmetic
Asia24 Aug 26
India's next decade hinges on whether AI, manufacturing and jobs grow together or in parallel
MENA24 Aug 26
Hormuz toll booth, Washington leverage: how the next 48 hours on Iran could redraw Gulf shipping
Energy24 Aug 26
Iran's parliament moves to charge Hormuz transit as US readies new economic measures
Europe24 Aug 26
Gerapetritis lays down a sovereign-rights doctrine, with Athens claiming authorship of EU defence-procurement rules
MENA24 Aug 26
Ghalibaf tells Munir Iran will not yield; US accused of breaching the Islamabad memorandum
MENA24 Aug 26
Ghalibaf taunts Washington from Tehran: 'Make America hungry again'
Americas24 Aug 26
Israel accused of war crimes in Gaza hospital double-tap; Colombia lifts coal export ban
Asia24 Aug 26
A gig-economy row, a record EV recall, and a Moscow-to-Beijing jab: three Chinese stories from one Monday morning
Asia24 Aug 26
Big Pharma's China Playbook, a Profitable EV Recall, and the Labor Dispute Going Viral: Three Threads in One Domestic…
Americas24 Aug 26
Carney draws a line on fertilizer while Trump raises the auto tariff threat
Crypto24 Aug 26
Bitcoin rebounds past $79,000 as Washington resets its trade war on Canada
Crypto24 Aug 26
Bitcoin's 23% weekly surge meets a $650m long washout, and a US-Canada tariff exchange on the side
Intelligence24 Aug 26
Bessent and Trump both framed the economic pressure campaign against Iran as "D-Day," Treasury named operation…
MENA24 Aug 26
Bessent's 'economic D-Day': Washington lines up the largest sanctions package yet against Tehran
MENA24 Aug 26
Trump administration opens global economic war on Iran as H-1B fee overhaul and trading disclosures crowd 24 August
Americas24 Aug 26
Doug Ford puts electricity and minerals on the table in US-Canada trade fight
Markets24 Aug 26
Bessent has two levers. The market may only feel one
Markets24 Aug 26
Bessent's 'economic D-Day' for Tehran meets a gas-field counter-pitch as the
Opinion24 Aug 26
Bessent's 'Economic Outcast': Sanctions as Strategy, or Sanctions as Theatre?
Geopolitics24 Aug 26
'Trump''s Monday stack: schools "on notice," autism "epidemic," data-centre
Business24 Aug 26
Trump sets 50% Canadian auto tariffs for 2027
Business24 Aug 26
Trump's 50% auto-tariff threat opens a second front on the Canada-US electricity grid
Long Reads24 Aug 26
Shein's Hong Kong relisting: from a $100bn mark to a $27bn target, and what the gap says about the model
Long Reads24 Aug 26
Shein's Hong Kong relisting and Alibaba's $10 billion placement expose a Chinese capital market coming of age
Long Reads24 Aug 26
Shein's $27 Billion Hong Kong Listing Is a Retreat Disguised as a Debut
Long Reads24 Aug 26
Shein returns to the public markets, this time with a Hong Kong price tag and a $1.8bn ask
Long Reads24 Aug 26
Life sentence for Hui Ka Yan leaves China's property crisis exactly where it started
Long Reads24 Aug 26
Canada becomes the test of Trump’s tariff doctrine
Opinion24 Aug 26
Canada Is Not a Tariff Annex
Markets24 Aug 26
Alibaba's $10.2bn AI placement and Shein's Hong Kong IPO land in the same week
Americas24 Aug 26