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Africa15 Jul 26
Kenya's 'Goon' Recruitment: How Hired Gangs Become Political Currency

Africa15 Jul 26
Kenyan court closes the door on Rastafarian cannabis appeal, and leaves a wider policy debate hanging
Crypto15 Jul 26
Warsh tells crypto no bailout, then promises inflation 'will be a thing of the past'

Europe15 Jul 26
Surat's first UK-bound diamond parcels clear under a tariff-free deal that rewires India–Britain trade

Culture15 Jul 26
Netflix bets on Las Vegas with 'The Roman,' a casino drama built for the streaming wars

Americas15 Jul 26
As Havana sinks, Miami sets the terms: the choreographed blame game over Cuba's collapse

Europe15 Jul 26
Third US medevac flight out of Saudi Arabia in five days signals a quiet, deepening role on the Gulf

Americas15 Jul 26
Cuba contingency planning surfaces in Washington, but no operation in sight

Europe15 Jul 26
Spain into the World Cup final: a controlled 2-0 that says more about the European champions than the scoreline

Americas15 Jul 26
Spain end France's title defense with a controlled 2-0 semifinal win in Arlington

Africa15 Jul 26
Queiroz's Ghana audition: a 50-year-old coach, a fractured federation, and the World Cup cycle that won't wait

Americas15 Jul 26
New Mexico AG says Southern District refused unredacted Epstein files, escalating multi-jurisdiction fight

Defense15 Jul 26
IDF says it killed a captor from the October 7 kidnappings; the announcement rode two Telegram channels in an hour

Americas15 Jul 26
Colombia moves to reopen Israel embassy in Jerusalem after ambassador-level reset

Crypto15 Jul 26
Bitcoin Tags $65.5K as Soft PPI Hands the Fed a Second Surprise

Business15 Jul 26
Iran strikes hit Kuwait and Bahrain as US ramps a seven-hour retaliatory wave
Business15 Jul 26
US opens fourth round of strikes on Iran as shipping-pressure campaign widens

Asia15 Jul 26
Hanoi Courts Outside Capital as $1.5tn Build-Out Reshapes Southeast Asia's Risk Map

Opinion15 Jul 26
Stripe's $53.4bn swipe at PayPal is a payments stack being built in one motion
Opinion15 Jul 26
Stripe's $53bn PayPal play is a payments-stack land grab, not a merger
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Stripe and Advent make a $53bn play for PayPal

Arts15 Jul 26
Connecticut's Quiet Decade, On View at Last

Africa15 Jul 26
Kenya's High Court upholds cannabis ban, but tells Nairobi the status quo is no longer tenable

Asia15 Jul 26
New Delhi puts the chips on the table: $19.8 billion bet to break China’s electronics grip

Europe15 Jul 26
France's parliament clears assisted dying bill, ending a decade of legislative drift
Asia15 Jul 26
Thinking Machines opens Inkling, betting enterprises will pay to leave the frontier labs behind

Culture15 Jul 26
'Little House' rides again: why a 1970s prairie drama is Netflix's latest unlikely escape hatch

Asia15 Jul 26
China's oil imports collapse and home prices keep falling: the second-quarter picture the wire doesn't soften
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Buffett walks away: what the Gates Foundation cutoff really signals

Asia15 Jul 26
Tata holds the crown, Adani joins the top ten: what India's brand league table signals about a sanctions-bill squeeze

Business15 Jul 26
CENTCOM says fourth strike wave hit Iranian targets on Greater Tunb in under 90 minutes

Sport15 Jul 26
Sixers get a first look at rookie Labaron Philon Jr. in Las Vegas
Sport15 Jul 26
Las Vegas becomes the offseason crossroads as agents eye a path back from the NBA to college
Sport15 Jul 26
Javon Small's Summer League Statement Resets Memphis's Backcourt Math

Asia15 Jul 26
Anduril's Palmer Luckey on Iran: a steep missile curve and a fraught computer-vision debate

Culture15 Jul 26
Iran's mourning week for Khamenei: a managed public square, a regional signal

Americas15 Jul 26
Washington Weighs Cuba Options as Diplomatic Track Stalls at 17 Percent

Africa15 Jul 26
Sall's UN bid gets a Guinea-Bissau shadow: what Embaló is actually buying in New York

Business15 Jul 26
Trump floats Gulf investment swap, Hormuz fee waiver, and renewed threat to Iran's grid in a single news cycle

Tech15 Jul 26
Iran strikes US naval infrastructure in Bahrain as regional escalation enters a new phase

Culture15 Jul 26
Tehran Book Garden offers a window onto Iran's culture of reading, and its contest with the West

Americas15 Jul 26
Caracas Turns a University Into a Labour Camp. The Quake Report Says Why.
Americas15 Jul 26
Spain ends France's run, sets up a World Cup final few saw coming
Europe15 Jul 26
Spain and Argentina book places in a 2026 World Cup final that no model saw coming
Africa15 Jul 26
Senegal's World Cup exit exposes a federation at war with itself
Europe15 Jul 26
France's World Cup ends in the semis. Now comes the Deschamps question.
Crypto15 Jul 26
Three Desks, One Day: How Crypto Policy Got Pulled Into the Geopolitics of Everything
Oceania15 Jul 26
Canberra's visa-fee hike spares English-language colleges, leaving Indian applicants caught between cost and continuity

Europe15 Jul 26
Twelve foreign nationals among 13 killed as Spanish wildfires rage

Americas15 Jul 26
Haiti's gang blockade chokes aid as foreign security force limps into Port-au-Prince

Culture15 Jul 26
Hollywood Goes to the Élysée: Macron Confers the Legion of Honor on Lucas, Foster, Weaver, and Meledandri

Business15 Jul 26
Trump Abandons Strait of Hormuz Levy as Polymarket Bets on Year-End Reopening
Business15 Jul 26
Strikes on Iran return to daytime: what the 15 July CENTCOM wave says about the escalation curve
Crypto15 Jul 26
The Quiet Question Behind the Tokenisation Boom: Who Actually Gets Paid Back?

Europe15 Jul 26
Croatia writes to FIFA after referee calls end World Cup run

MENA15 Jul 26
Explosions reported across Manama; Bahrain's US-linked installations draw heaviest fire on record

Oceania15 Jul 26
Canberra puts guardrails on the data-centre boom
Americas15 Jul 26
Toronto under wildfire smoke as Canadian air quality hits worst-on-record territory
Europe15 Jul 26
Mumbai’s Taj faces a Rs 22 crore bill for the security perimeter it never wanted

Crypto15 Jul 26
Morgan Stanley revives spot Ether and Solana ETF filings as cooler CPI hands risk assets a tailwind

Sport15 Jul 26
England's 28-year wait ends at the line where Batty's miss still echoes
Sport15 Jul 26
England meet Argentina in Atlanta with a semi-final's weight and a rivalry's memory

Sport15 Jul 26
Bellingham, the Bronze Generation and the Question England Has Not Solved Since 1966

Asia15 Jul 26
Hanoi's $1.5 trillion ask, and why it lands in a year of scarce dollars

Defense15 Jul 26
US strikes empty tanker bound for Iranian ports as coastal bombardment widens
Defense15 Jul 26
Iranian ballistic missiles reach Jordanian airspace, at least one impacts overnight

Defense15 Jul 26
Hegseth orders annual testosterone screening for US troops over 30

Sport15 Jul 26
Argentina meet England in a World Cup semi-final, and the Mac Allister file shows why the lineups matter

Sport15 Jul 26
Football, sovereignty and the ghost of the Falklands

Asia15 Jul 26
A hunger strike in Leh, a petition in Delhi, and a question about state authority over the body
Asia15 Jul 26
Old Delhi, new pressures: how a 17th-century name is being lost to the housing market
Asia15 Jul 26
Gasoline queues turn unruly as Delhi's lawyers walk out over jurisdiction fight
Asia15 Jul 26
New Delhi turns the fuel taps and writes a chip cheque in the same week

Americas15 Jul 26
England and Argentina Arrive in the Semifinals Carrying a Century of Score-Settling
Asia15 Jul 26
Delhi court convicts four in Tahir Hussain case; city flags unsafe school buildings

Europe15 Jul 26
Argentina ends England's World Cup run to set up a final against Spain
Americas15 Jul 26
Argentina stuns England in stoppage time, takes 2-1 lead in friendly at the 86th minute

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Two late goals in Atlanta send Argentina past England and into a World Cup final with Spain

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
England and Argentina meet in a semifinal that the schedule already tilted

Sport15 Jul 26
Argentina stun England in stoppage time to set up World Cup final with Spain
Sport15 Jul 26
Argentina reach World Cup final after late two-goal burst sinks England

Sport15 Jul 26
Argentina to face Spain in a World Cup final Polymarket already priced in
Sport15 Jul 26
England's biggest night in 60 years: Three Lions meet Argentina for a place in the World Cup final

Africa15 Jul 26
Ankara and Cairo draw the same moral line at the dock

Africa15 Jul 26
Ebola's return to eastern Congo: WHO launches first antiviral trial as the source of most new cases remains unknown
Africa15 Jul 26
DRC's Ebola responders say they'll strike for wages while the outbreak outpaces them

Asia15 Jul 26
Clavicular to Pyongyang? Polymarket's 2% Says No, and That's the Story

Opinion15 Jul 26
China's slow-growth quarter has an electric-taxi escape hatch

Long Reads15 Jul 26
The Quiet Repositioning: Eight Fragments From a Single News Day

Africa15 Jul 26
Ouagadougou pulls the plug on Paris as the Sahel rewrite gathers speed

Oceania15 Jul 26
Canberra's new Office of AI is a coordination bet, not a regulatory one

Oceania15 Jul 26
Canberra draws the line: Australia bets on prescriptive AI standards

Crypto15 Jul 26
Britain rewrites the crypto tax line; Hyundai puts USDT on a corporate balance sheet

Business15 Jul 26
US widens daylight strikes on Iran, hits island in Strait of Hormuz

Investigations15 Jul 26
Albanese's AI plan asks Australia to govern platforms that govern themselves

Business15 Jul 26
Amazon moves warehouses into China as Beijing reports its slowest quarter since 2023

Culture15 Jul 26
Bells, bits, and balance sheets: a Chinese lord, a $71B AI unicorn, and the soft-power ledger

Africa15 Jul 26
West Africa's coastal cities are still paying to mop up disasters the money could have prevented

Africa15 Jul 26
Pretoria's money tap and the Matlala collapse converge on November's vote
Business15 Jul 26
Strait Chokepoint, Chip Access, and a Defaulting Borrower Class: Three Threads of One War
Business15 Jul 26
Jordan downs three Iranian missiles as US strike kills troops and a cargo ship sinks in Hormuz
Arts15 Jul 26
Sotheby's $4.4 Billion Half: The Auction House That No Longer Wants to Be One

Arts15 Jul 26
James Cohan Gallery Rebrands as Norr Cohan as David Norr Takes Sole Ownership

Opinion15 Jul 26
Summer League's new underclass is already auditioning for the wrong league
Europe15 Jul 26
A 5% bet on the Falklands says more about Polymarket than the South Atlantic

Americas15 Jul 26
Mexico turns up the pressure over migrant deaths in US custody
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Kenya's school fires and the limits of yet another inquiry
Africa15 Jul 26
Donor retreat hits Kenya's HIV prevention wall
Africa15 Jul 26
Kenya's cannabis question returns to the public square, after the court says it cannot decide
Opinion15 Jul 26
IBM's 25% plunge, Taco Bell's cyclospora scramble, and the strange shape of a July news day

Americas15 Jul 26
Cuba's grid goes dark again: what a country-wide SEN collapse tells us about an eight-year electricity crisis
Americas15 Jul 26
Cuba pulls the grid back from the brink, again
Americas15 Jul 26
Cuba's grid comes back, but the country is still running on a power plant the size of a small city
Americas15 Jul 26
Cuba's grid collapses again as bets build on a leadership exit

MENA15 Jul 26
"Al-Maghazi struck again: the steady tempo of central Gaza

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Orange sky over Quebec and Ontario: Canada’s 2026 wildfire season hits a new atmospheric register

Culture15 Jul 26
Locarno puts its 2026 jury in the hands of a Belgian genre-bender

Oceania15 Jul 26
Liberal Party's quota rethink tests whether a fit-for-purpose machine can survive its own renovation
Americas15 Jul 26
A 15-metre crater and a sewage tunnel: what the São Paulo sinkhole reveals about Brazil's infrastructure pipeline

Europe15 Jul 26
Kuldeep Yadav, India’s forgotten match-winner, and the arithmetic of a free-trade deal that asks for patience

Sport15 Jul 26
Javon Small's 26-point Summer League closer puts Memphis on notice, and NCAA age rules are about to scramble the…

Europe15 Jul 26
Spain's inflation lands at 3.6% as Madrid braces for a hotter ECB summer

Culture15 Jul 26
Jess Williamson Heads South with A Mile South of Heaven

Culture15 Jul 26
An Israeli lawmaker walked into a Jerusalem school. What he said there is now the story

Sport15 Jul 26
Scheffler enters the Open as the favourite, but the smart money is on Europe

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Four Modi stories, one wire: how a single Telegram feed framed India's prime minister on a July morning

Europe15 Jul 26
Thames Water's shareholders are running out of road

Asia15 Jul 26
When the bar stops work: inside Delhi's Rs 10 crore fight, a Kerala cyber-fraud warning, and a Rs 4 lakh insurance win

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Bengaluru's 30-day ultimatum and the quiet governance shift in India's cities
Opinion15 Jul 26
India's consumer courts are turning into a national lottery, and the house always wins
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
A 1,200-word ledger from a single Indian Express bundle: founder friction, UK teen screens, and the fight for a paan
Europe15 Jul 26
Spain–Gibraltar frontier falls: how a thirty-year argument over a fence ended in 24 hours

Culture15 Jul 26
Jake Xerxes Fussell Is Still Digging

Asia15 Jul 26
India's $19.7 billion chip-and-smartphone bet tests Modi's industrial playbook

Americas15 Jul 26
Havana flips the switch on 132,728 homes, but the grid's deeper fault lines stay dark

Asia15 Jul 26
Delhi's SIR Backlog Meets Varanasi's Highway Push: Two Sides of India's 2026 Rollout

Tech15 Jul 26
While Caracas Struggles to Count Its Dead, Citizens Wire the Response with AI

Culture15 Jul 26
Costa Rica's film crews stop chasing tax breaks and start chasing producers

Culture15 Jul 26
Moscow's human-rights envoy calls Iran a model of resistance to the West

Americas15 Jul 26
Havana's grid goes dark: Cuba's capital loses power as the capital's electrical service collapses to single digits

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Spain beat France 2-0 in Dallas to reach the 2026 World Cup final
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Spain end France's run and book the first ticket to the 2026 World Cup final

Tech15 Jul 26
OpenAI's hardware pivot: speaker today, agentic phone tomorrow

Americas15 Jul 26
England–Argentina World Cup semi-final lands inside a broader contest for the soul of football diplomacy
Americas15 Jul 26
England meet Argentina with the history books shelved and the football left to talk
Sport15 Jul 26
Two late goals, one familiar script: Argentina stun England to set up Spain final

Opinion15 Jul 26
The Drought Is the Story: France, the Heat, and a Mediterranean Climate That Stops Negotiating

Culture15 Jul 26
Andy Serkis and the long shadow of Tolkien's casting problem

Business15 Jul 26
A fourth round: CENTCOM opens daylight strikes on Iran
Business15 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens second wave on Iran as shipping becomes the target

Opinion15 Jul 26
Seoul's balance sheet is about to learn what 1.2 million leveraged accounts already taught it

Business15 Jul 26
US strike hits mineral water plant in Iran's Ilam province, local governor says
Oceania15 Jul 26
Wellington signals closer Australia–Fiji defence ties, nudging the Pacific's security map
Asia15 Jul 26
Inside the courtroom pushback: how India's top court is being asked to police its own narratives

Tech15 Jul 26
Google Images turns 25 and reinvents itself as a feed

Arts15 Jul 26
Keltie Ferris Treats the Canvas Like a Body: Inside the Woodstock Studio Experiments Reshaping His Painting

Crypto15 Jul 26
Bitcoin's $80,000 Bet Tests Whether the 2026 Cycle Has Already Decided

Business15 Jul 26
Heating oil, missile strikes, and a 31% bet: the Iran file gets messier by the hour

Africa15 Jul 26
DRC's Ebola response strains as health workers walk out in Bunia

Culture15 Jul 26
A decade after 'Train to Busan', Korea's zombie film still leads a global genre

Culture15 Jul 26
Bet the Farm, Then Shoot the Western: Nathan Grubbs and the Economics of 'Cowboy'

Sport15 Jul 26
ICC resets the men's ODI World Cup with a 'super series' round for the bottom three
Arts15 Jul 26
Enid Marx and the forgotten London of moquette and moil

Asia15 Jul 26
Delhi's crumbling classrooms: one in ten government school buildings flagged unsafe
Asia15 Jul 26
Ahmedabad's noise pilot and the slow grind of Indian urban governance

Culture15 Jul 26
Cannes competition, Comic-Con floor: Na Hong-jin's 'Hope' lands in San Diego

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Oil traders sound the alarm as Hormuz closure drains reserves
Investigations15 Jul 26
US strikes targets on Iran's Hengam Island in a widening Persian Gulf confrontation

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Two Su-34s and a Su-57 over the Black Sea: what the 15 July air track actually shows
MENA15 Jul 26
Strikes on Nuseirat compound the arithmetic of a war without end

Sport15 Jul 26
Stokes returns to cricket as England take early lead over Argentina

Americas15 Jul 26
Caracas Puts a Number on the Quake: 200 Homes, an Official Ledger, and a Question of Who Counts

Americas15 Jul 26
England edges Argentina in semifinal thriller as Pickford repels Mac Allister header

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Iran's Shahed drones hit Kuwait as Trump vows strikes will run until a deal

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Mbappé versus Yamal settles into the shape of the World Cup's new order
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
U.S. ATACMS launch from Kuwait toward Iran reported in unverified footage, as Tehran denounces 'complicit' Gulf regimes

Business15 Jul 26
CENTCOM concludes seven-hour strike wave against Iran, fourth round since morning

Sport15 Jul 26
Henderson and Quansah to miss England's World Cup semi-final against Argentina

Sport15 Jul 26
Spain books its World Cup final place as France exits, and a 64-team tournament now sits on FIFA's desk

Opinion15 Jul 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum: 'they'll continue until I say it's enough'

Africa15 Jul 26
Kenya's two-sided crisis: a militarising state and a shadow army that keeps it stable

Asia15 Jul 26
Bangladesh rolls out a single QR to drag a cash economy into the digital age

Culture15 Jul 26
Koreeda's live-action 'Look Back' gets a second teaser. The harder question is who gets to read it.

Sport15 Jul 26
Spain and Argentina to meet in a World Cup final that history already weighs

Sport15 Jul 26
Spain end France's three-final run and hand Zidane the dugout

Americas15 Jul 26
A country buried twice: Venezuela's quake toll hits 4,829 as Maduro's grip tightens
Americas15 Jul 26
Venezuela's government opens formal talks with the opposition, a first since Maduro's removal
Americas15 Jul 26
Polymarket puts Venezuela's election odds at 24%, the market is more skeptical than Caracas

Americas15 Jul 26
Eighty-eight containers and a quiet Caribbean alignment with Caracas

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
FPV drone downs Russian Mi-28 over Belgorod, Ukraine's unmanned brigades claim another aerial kill

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Qalibaf tells Iranians to hold the line: 'America seeks to hit Iran whenever it can'

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Shiraz strike and Tehran's riposte: the day the US-Iran war stopped being a rumour

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Spain book first final since 2010 as England-Argentina reshapes the bracket

Sport15 Jul 26
Spain ends France's three-final run and books a place in the 2026 World Cup final

Sport15 Jul 26
Arsenal and Barcelona circle Alvarez as the summer's quiet striker sweep widens

Business15 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens a second blockade of Iran and runs a fresh strike wave on 15 July

Tech15 Jul 26
Iranian drones test Gulf air defences as sirens sound across Bahrain and Kuwait
Tech15 Jul 26
Iran strikes hit Al Udeid equipment warehouse; satellite footage widens the picture

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
A deputy minister quits, a town in Lebanon is detonated, Trump calls withdrawal 'a good thing': one day inside Israel's…
Business15 Jul 26