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Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Punjab's political calendar converges on one week: a 1986 truce, a 2026 prime ministerial visit, and a Tricity highway…
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Tehran rallies around a martyred figure as rhetoric of vengeance crowds out the calendar
Science15 Jul 26
Two quantum results land the same week: error correction takes a step, and gravity gets a gravitational answer
Science15 Jul 26
A quiet week for quantum: room-temperature materials, self-correcting qubits, and a gravitational smoothing idea
Culture15 Jul 26
At a Madrid peace conference, Israeli and Palestinian activists share a stage the news cameras rarely visit
Culture15 Jul 26
Rooftop Films widens its 2026 summer map across New York's parks
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Russia's wartime economy strains at the seams as Washington's new sanctions threat bites
Culture15 Jul 26
Sam Neill's last interview: Gillian Armstrong on the man who ran off with her film
Tech15 Jul 26
Samsung's patent crown, a pay dispute, and the memory crunch nobody planned for
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Sana'a airport returns to service two days after Saudi strikes, Ansarullah authorities say
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Satellite imagery shows blast damage at US Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain
Sport15 Jul 26
Scheffler walks into The Open with a rare weekend behind him, and no interest in legacy
Science15 Jul 26
Two signals from the lab this week: who gets published, and what sticks to nuclear wastewater
Science15 Jul 26
The frog survives, the thermal cloak works, and the brain decided before you did
Science15 Jul 26
A weekly scaffold for Alzheimer's, a plastic that breathes, and a heat cloak: six science threads worth watching
Science15 Jul 26
Two decades of brain research, a bigger twistronics canvas, and an algal plastic: the science that moved this week
Investigations15 Jul 26
Unverified strike on Shiraz tests the fog-of-war information economy
Culture15 Jul 26
'Drive it like you stole it' one more time: Lionsgate lines up a 4K revival for Sing Street
Culture15 Jul 26
Aeschylus in three parts: Stone's Bridge Oresteia pushes the epic form past its own seams
Investigations15 Jul 26
Strikes on Iran, Missiles on Jordan: A Night the Escalation Ladder Stretched
Culture15 Jul 26
Songs of exile, songs of home: Sulayman and Shibe build a programme of returns at Wigmore Hall
Science15 Jul 26
T. rex hatchlings may have emerged from the egg ready to hunt, two new studies suggest
Science15 Jul 26
Two Tokyo materials breakthroughs nudge ammonia and nanoplastic detection out of the lab
Culture15 Jul 26
A transgender American's asylum bid collides with the Netherlands' culture war
Science15 Jul 26
T. rex leaves its signature on Wyoming fossils, and on a long-running debate about who bit whom
Opinion15 Jul 26
Trump telegraphs an Iran escalation he hasn't officially ordered
Tech15 Jul 26
Trump Floats Israeli Withdrawal From Southern Lebanon and Syria as Way to Green-Light Damascus Against Hezbollah
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Trump's "Vladimir, it's time" line lands in a war where nothing is moving
Tech15 Jul 26
Trump says Russia ready to make a deal with Ukraine soon, as Polymarket puts the odds at single digits
Science15 Jul 26
Two food studies, two uneasy messages about what we put in our mouths
Opinion15 Jul 26
Kyiv's unmanned fleets just landed inside the Black Sea's shadow corridor
Opinion15 Jul 26
Ukraine's drone arithmetic: ten million, and rising
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Night strikes, a renewed Iran blockade, and a quiet signal on Ukraine's skies
Opinion15 Jul 26
Kyiv's unmanned fleet is now chasing the shadow tanker trade into the open Black Sea
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Ukraine's special forces hit Crimean thermal plant, says operator supplied nearly half the peninsula
Tech15 Jul 26
US drone boats hit an Iranian naval base as the two sides scramble toward a Geneva accord
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Tankers, restrictions, and a quiet rupture: the US-Israel row over Ben Gurion's tarmac
Culture15 Jul 26
Wallace, Gromit and the quiet defiance of stop-motion
Science15 Jul 26
A leopard gecko, a hungry fungus, and a sugarless batch of plastic: the week in biology
Science15 Jul 26
Why top science journals keep getting richer, and what that does to the research record
Culture15 Jul 26
Two wires, two futures: an actress rewatches herself, a streamer teaches its app to listen
Europe15 Jul 26
Britain's overnight social media curfew for teenagers lands as a default, not a request
Arts15 Jul 26
The artist behind Slimer gets his own screen, decades late
Culture15 Jul 26
Pins & Aces and the pop-culture pitch: how a golf apparel upstart turned movie nostalgia into its best-selling lane
Culture15 Jul 26
Ekko Astral Pull the Plug Mid-Cycle, Stall 'The Beltway Is Burning'
Culture15 Jul 26
Dry Cleaning's deluxe turn: two new songs and the case for the b-side economy
Asia15 Jul 26
Robots in the warehouse, moratoriums in Albany: the two-front race for AI physical infrastructure
Europe15 Jul 26
eBay wins UK clearance for Depop deal as second-hand fashion consolidates
Asia15 Jul 26
Cyclosporiasis surges across more than 30 US states, with Michigan carrying the caseload
Europe15 Jul 26
Two UK inquiries land on the same day, and the state has answers for neither
Crypto15 Jul 26
India's 39 million crypto users hold $2.1bn under a 30% tax wall. JPMorgan just put the QQQ on a blockchain.
Crypto15 Jul 26
The Fed's Saturday deadline, a soft CPI print, and a peso at the floor
Crypto15 Jul 26
Bolivia opens the door to USDT as dollar scarcity deepens
Africa15 Jul 26
Besigye's stand: how a courtroom walkout became a stress test for Uganda's judiciary
Europe15 Jul 26
A vice-chancellor’s lament, and the case Britain is no longer making for the arts
Arts15 Jul 26
The Grotesque Returns, Glossier and Bloodier
Climate15 Jul 26
Ontario wildfires push south, push air-quality crisis into US east coast
Africa15 Jul 26
Mahama's green city gamble: relocates Accra's ministries but leaves the floods unsolved
Culture15 Jul 26
The ‘no-makeup makeup’ premiere and the new economics of celebrity beauty
Crypto15 Jul 26
BlackRock's crypto bet stays open even as the price tag shrinks
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Buffett vs. the casino: how the Oracle's gambling critique rewrites the 2026 market script
Asia15 Jul 26
Utah mall stabbing leaves Indian Muslim worker hospitalised, suspect charged with hate crime
Science15 Jul 26
A reporter, a sick father, and the strange rules of the quantum world
Crypto15 Jul 26
BlackRock's crypto book is shrinking faster than it's growing
Oceania15 Jul 26
New Zealand's first H5N1 case tests a biodiversity-first playbook
Science15 Jul 26
A fish-recognition puzzle and a 455-page history of the lab: two dispatches from the slow science beat
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Strikes, silence, and the diplomatic off-ramp that isn't there
Arts15 Jul 26
The Body That Outlasted the Headlines: Revisiting Ana Mendieta
Crypto15 Jul 26
Two companies, one perception risk: the concentration worry hanging over Bitcoin's next leg up
Crypto15 Jul 26
Aave pushes past Ethereum in first V4 expansion, betting on Avalanche for tokenized credit
Energy15 Jul 26
Maharashtra's power bill write-off: a Rs 48,000 crore transfer dressed as relief
Crypto15 Jul 26
BlackRock crosses $15 trillion as Japan's legal reclassification puts crypto on the same shelf as equities
Crypto15 Jul 26
Japan rewrites the rules for stablecoins, and the card networks are already on the move
Crypto15 Jul 26
Stablecoins cross the rails: Swyftx's $262B forecast, SBI's yen ledger, and the war premium attached to both
Oceania15 Jul 26
Almost 145,000 Australians to lose autism support under NDIS overhaul, leaked modelling shows
Asia15 Jul 26
Dhaka rolls out a national QR, betting interoperability can drag the cash economy into the formal one
Americas15 Jul 26
Brazil indicts 22 in shell-company scheme as JPMorgan eyes $1 trillion and IBM logs its worst day since 1968
Africa15 Jul 26
Brazzaville's quiet restructuring: how Christian Yoka is rewriting Congo's debt arithmetic
Culture15 Jul 26
How one animator tried to kill his own show over AI and ended up fielding death threats instead
Asia15 Jul 26
Bangladesh bets a single QR code can pull a cash economy into the formal record
Crypto15 Jul 26
Bitcoin's $64K Bounce Meets the Distribution Ledger
Oceania15 Jul 26
Greater gliders fly less than the brochures suggest, and that is the point
Europe15 Jul 26
Reform UK puts a price on MP safety: £100 million for round-the-clock protection
Crypto15 Jul 26
Robinhood Chain's volume spike revives the oldest fight in crypto
Crypto15 Jul 26
Robinhood Chain is minting the next leg of the Layer-2 argument
Sport15 Jul 26
ICC unveils a new T20 World Cup format. The real story is who gets squeezed out.
Europe15 Jul 26
JPMorgan crosses $919 billion as a $1 trillion bank comes into view
Crypto15 Jul 26
Robinhood Chain's memecoin boom is minting fees faster than it is minting conviction in ETH
Opinion15 Jul 26
The week the wire went sideways: five stories the consensus frame keeps misreading
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Three men, one beach hut, and the news cycle that assembled itself in twenty minutes
Europe15 Jul 26
The 10 days at Evian, and what they tell us about the next refugee crisis
Asia15 Jul 26
World Leaks claims breach of Kudankulam contractor; sensitive nuclear data allegedly published
Africa15 Jul 26
Six allies of Mali's former transitional president face Bamako court over alleged 2021 coup plot
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The Cashless Push Comes for Bangladesh, and the Dollar Watches from the Sidelines
Long Reads15 Jul 26
A pause on vehicle pursuits, a claim that crime is down: inside one day of ICE messaging
Crypto15 Jul 26
Strategy halts bitcoin buys and stockpiles $3bn in cash as STRC discount deepens
Crypto15 Jul 26
Bitcoin tops $65,000 on soft US CPI, then loses the bid as oil and Fed bets bite
Africa15 Jul 26
Axum's 'holy town' ordinance exposes fault line between Ethiopia's constitution and its oldest church
Markets15 Jul 26
A $1 gold coin for a 250-year republic: the Mint's commemorative gamble, and what it really commemorates
Africa15 Jul 26
Benin's quiet front line: a Sahel refugee crisis the world has barely noticed
Asia15 Jul 26
India's gig economy: the flexibility promise is doing a lot of work
Asia15 Jul 26
Delhi puts EVs at the centre of its air pollution fight, but the grid may not be ready
Europe15 Jul 26
San Fermín opens with a bang, and 25 in the hospital
Africa15 Jul 26
The man who cleared Tinubu now faces a tribunal of his own
Crypto15 Jul 26
Binance's pivot from exchange to super app lands as June futures volume hits $1.6 trillion
Asia15 Jul 26
Indonesia's Indika Energy bets on gold as coal earnings slide
Asia15 Jul 26
Cyberattack on Nichirei's logistics backbone forces KFC Japan to warn of store closures
Defense15 Jul 26
A $500 drone, a Mi-28, and 87 km of front: how cheap airframes are rewriting the deep-strike math
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Kenya's 2027 Map Is Already Being Redrawn, And The Polls Agree With The Streets
Asia15 Jul 26
A Bengal MLA's defection, and the math Mamata cannot ignore
Oceania15 Jul 26
Modi's Sydney stop becomes a stage for a Sikh arrest dispute playing out across the diaspora
Crypto15 Jul 26
Pi Network finds a floor above $0.075 as Solana reclaims its 50-day average
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The credit score that wasn't: how a decade-long fight over a phantom bike loan exposes India's grievance economy
Africa15 Jul 26
Gold flows, ghost flights: the new architecture of Sudan’s war economy
Europe15 Jul 26
Hailstorm Lashes Nuremberg, Leaves Injuries and Widespread Damage
Africa15 Jul 26
Blackcurrants, matatu change and cancelled flights: three quiet ways African readers are being asked to read the news
Asia15 Jul 26
China's robotics showcase lands in a week of rare-earth pressure points
Africa15 Jul 26
De Beers' two-year shutdown at Venetia puts a diamond-era town on a new clock
Culture15 Jul 26
A $50,000 film fund, and the question it dodges
Crypto15 Jul 26
Seoul's tokenized-debt pilot lands as a licensing-exam cheating case drags AI into the dock
MENA15 Jul 26
An IDF conscript, five years, and the price of a phone video
Americas15 Jul 26
Peru students pick a fight with Pronabec's scholarship logic
Africa15 Jul 26
Kenya's PrEP collapse exposes the cost of donor dependence
Oceania15 Jul 26
New Zealand confirms H5N1 on mainland, races to vaccinate its rarest birds
Crypto15 Jul 26
Open-weights models close in on frontier scale as quantization rewrites the cost curve
Africa15 Jul 26
DRC's Ebola outbreak hits 2,000 cases as WHO warns most infections come from nowhere on record
Crypto15 Jul 26
Stablecoin rails get a back-office: Velocity raises $38M to wire treasuries onchain
Asia15 Jul 26
Bengal's pitch for a connectivity-driven eastern corridor, and the fiscal ceiling behind it
Americas15 Jul 26
Freight rail grinds through Ontario as province-wide fire siege stretches into a second month
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The dollar, the euro, the petunia: notes from a week when everything moved
Africa15 Jul 26
Two warnings, one continent: the UN flags a widening terror belt as smallholder farms reel from a price collapse
Tech15 Jul 26
Abha airport shuts as Gulf aviation reroutes around cross-border fire
Tech15 Jul 26
Anthropic's apocalypse ad and the price of preaching safety
Culture15 Jul 26
Bregenz, the Floating Stage, and the Quiet Reordering of European Opera
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Crew Dragon lifts off with US and Russian crew as Washington reimposes an Iran sea blockade
Investigations15 Jul 26
Dehlran strike: three Iranian wire reports, one target, no confirmation
Sport15 Jul 26
Elfath, the top four, and the semi-final the brackets finally earned
Opinion15 Jul 26
Hormuz, hard nights, and a deal Trump says Tehran has no choice but to take
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Hormuz standoff ends with a Trump climbdown, and an Iran that refused to blink
Sport15 Jul 26
India's day at Lord's, and what England just lost
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Iran launches ballistic missiles at Jordan from Tabriz, prompting air-defence scramble
Opinion15 Jul 26
Iran opens a new front on Jordan, and the wire is already fragmenting
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Iranian missile reaches Jordanian airspace as Patriot batteries engage
Investigations15 Jul 26
Iranian missile strike on a US base in northeastern Jordan: what the wires show, and what they don't
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Iranian missile volleys reach Jordan and Kuwait as alert posture in the Gulf thins
Investigations15 Jul 26
Iran strikes US naval facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait, claims expanding Gulf campaign
Investigations15 Jul 26
Iran's Tabriz-to-Jordan corridor: what four ballistic missiles on 14 July actually proved
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Iranian drones strike Kuwait and Bahrain as US exchanges fire with Tehran
Culture15 Jul 26
'Julian' arrives in US cinemas: a Belgian love story that puts marriage on trial
Science15 Jul 26
Singapore researchers find earthquakes and old optics can both bend the region's tech future
Culture15 Jul 26
Cooking, protest and prayer: a grassroots peace gathering threads Israeli and Palestinian voices together
Opinion15 Jul 26
Strikes in the Gulf, fog of the feed: what we actually know
Culture15 Jul 26
Superblue Lands in Mumbai: Why the NMACC Partnership Matters Beyond the Blockbuster
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Trump's bridge-and-power-plant ultimatum: a diplomacy of deadlines, not a diplomacy of deals
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Trump's escalating ultimatum to Tehran: deal now or face continued strikes
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum moves from rhetoric to infrastructure targeting
Americas15 Jul 26
Armstrong fire halts rail traffic as Northern Ontario wildfire season tightens its grip
Crypto15 Jul 26
Bitmine's ETH grab and Bangladesh's QR unification: two ends of the crypto–payments frontier
Arts15 Jul 26
A London novelist hands artists a blueprint for working outside the gatekeepers
Europe15 Jul 26
Croatia's summer pitch: beaches, truffle pasta, and the new Adriatic money
Crypto15 Jul 26
Coinbase is rewriting itself with AI agents, and the rest of crypto engineering is watching
Oceania15 Jul 26
Barnaby Joyce calls Australia a 'Christian nation' at anti-abortion gala, sharpening One Nation's identity pitch
Arts15 Jul 26
Felix Art Fair Ditches the Booth Cluster, Bets on Solo Shows and a Pool
Africa15 Jul 26
Unconventional boxing in Kenya: safety debate outpaces regulatory fix
Oceania15 Jul 26
A Victorian minister breaks ranks over a hospital project, and Labor's message discipline cracks
Opinion15 Jul 26
Half a million Kenyan teenagers, one bottleneck: the C+ line in the sand
Long Reads15 Jul 26
Land, registry, and a growing list of Indian statehouse experiments
Africa15 Jul 26
Kenya's quiet drug and alcohol crisis is testing a state that prefers moral panic to clinical policy
Asia15 Jul 26
Ahmedabad files its first FIR over an illegal EWS occupation, and a quieter fight begins over who counts as the urban…
Crypto15 Jul 26
Japan's card network tests the stablecoin corridor the dollar hasn't quite built yet
Crypto15 Jul 26
Trump crypto earnings outpaced Coinbase by $140 million in a single year
Asia15 Jul 26
India's textile belt cashes in on the EU and UK trade deals, but the supply chain is not yet out of the woods
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The war behind the war: how ad-tech, bank earnings and a cooling CPI are pulling the same lever
Crypto15 Jul 26
Binance's $1.6T June: leverage did fine without you
Crypto15 Jul 26
MicroStrategy's capital plan and a $30bn ether wobble: two reads on what ends the crypto bear market
Crypto15 Jul 26
Strategy and Saylor: A dot-com survivor's second act at the top of the Bitcoin treasury table
Crypto15 Jul 26
Robinhood Chain takes off as Ethereum's loudest critics soften
Crypto15 Jul 26
Strategy just raised $467M and didn't buy a single Bitcoin. The retail crowd noticed.
Science15 Jul 26
Sauna, heat and the surprising case for hot-room therapy
Science15 Jul 26
Sugar in the dark, exhaust on the moon: two new windows on life's origin
Arts15 Jul 26
Frieze Seoul's Public Programs Bet on Conversation Over Spectacle
Africa15 Jul 26
Khartoum's death sentence for Hemeti: justice delivered or verdict in absentia?
Crypto15 Jul 26
A Microcap Sells Its Bitcoin. The Question Is Who Else Has To.
Crypto15 Jul 26
Binance bets the exchange model is finished, and payments is the next trade
Crypto15 Jul 26
Buffett's exit, and the quiet math of a $262B stablecoin bet
Crypto15 Jul 26
Washington's pivot, Binance's $8 billion rescue, and a softer CPI land on crypto's desk in the same 24 hours
Economy15 Jul 26
The cheap phone in every pocket just became a battlefield sensor
Crypto15 Jul 26
Bitcoin reclaims $65,000 on softer US CPI as traders test a wall that's broken them before
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Blasts in Bahrain: what the wire confirms, and what a single Telegram channel cannot
Europe14 Jul 26
Bahrain urges residents to shelter as air raid sirens sound across the kingdom
Asia14 Jul 26
Yuan settlement crosses 25 trillion yuan in H1 2026 as Beijing's trade architecture deepens
Asia14 Jul 26
Trilateral Talks Stall as Beijing Watches the USMCA Cracks
Asia14 Jul 26
DeepSeek weighs a second funding round as Beijing draws a line on bank discount rates
Asia14 Jul 26
A fifth volume of Xi Jinping's governance writings goes on tour in Bishkek
Defense14 Jul 26
Drone strike detonates ammunition depot in occupied Donetsk
Europe14 Jul 26
EU approves €120m defence tranche for Moldova, the largest yet
Europe14 Jul 26
Ukrainian troops on the Champs-Élysées: Bastille Day becomes a stage for the war
Energy14 Jul 26
Ukraine's navy sinks FSB patrol ship Izumrud near Novorossiysk with an uncrewed vessel
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The last week of the Iranian Republic: how a 22:17 UTC threat became a doctrinal shift
Europe14 Jul 26