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Europe14 Jul 26
Spain through, the Hormuz question: two stories that defined 14 July 2026
Sport14 Jul 26
Spain ousts France on Bastille Day as World Cup semifinal carries a political charge
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain and France meet in Dallas with a World Cup final place on the line
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Mbappé, Yamal and the heir-apparent problem: Spain and France meet in Dallas with the World Cup final on the line
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain into the World Cup final as France's campaign ends in the semi
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain's run to the World Cup final exposes a French football reckoning
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain ends France's World Cup and books the final, with Argentina or England waiting
Americas14 Jul 26
Spain ends France's World Cup run on Bastille Day, sets up final against Argentina or England
Sport14 Jul 26
Spain meet France in Dallas with a World Cup final in touching distance
Americas14 Jul 26
Spain ends France's World Cup on Bastille Day; Iran activates air defences over Bushehr
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain Ends France's World Cup Run to Reach the Final
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain books a final on Bastille Day, and France is left to reckon with a tournament that slipped away
Economy14 Jul 26
South Korea tightens policy as it revises growth up: a divided signal from Seoul
Asia14 Jul 26
Seoul tilts the credit spigot for chip giants as BOK pivots hawkish
Asia14 Jul 26
South Korea's AI moment arrives in three uncomfortable flavours
Asia14 Jul 26
South Korea's two-track bet: AI chips lift the growth line, weather derivatives quietly build underneath
Tech14 Jul 26
South Korea's AI-chip windfall arrives into a country with no workers left
Tech14 Jul 26
South Korea's 3.0% growth bet sits on a single trade: AI chips, and the capital rules that feed them
Asia14 Jul 26
Seoul's chip-led upgrade: South Korea lifts 2026 growth to a five-year high as BOK prepares a rare rate move
Africa14 Jul 26
South Africa and Nigeria trade accusations as Pretoria's diamond pause deepens a bilateral rift
Africa14 Jul 26
South Africa's November vote takes shape under a frozen R13.5bn and a quiet row with Nigeria
Africa14 Jul 26
South Africa holds the line twice over: an extradition hearing, and a R13.5bn municipal freeze
Africa14 Jul 26
South Africa's diamond pause and its migrant paradox, two weeks apart
Asia14 Jul 26
A sodium-battery breakthrough and a 24% bet: China's two-front contest with Washington
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Smoke over Kuwait City: what the afternoon's sirens do and do not tell us
MENA14 Jul 26
Strikes on Sirik and a 31% Polymarket Line: Iran’s MOU Calculus Heading Into Late July
MENA14 Jul 26
Sirik holds: A third night of strikes tests the line between pressure and provocation
Oceania14 Jul 26
Shorten warns of 'creeping cultural dementia' as antisemitism inquiry hears testimony from Sydney shooting aftermath
Culture14 Jul 26
The Producer Who Opened Hong Kong Cinema: Shi Nansun’s Quiet Industry Legacy
Americas14 Jul 26
Seventeen deaths in ICE custody, a criminal complaint from Mexico City, and the diplomatic rupture widening between…
Africa14 Jul 26
Senegal's football reckoning: what the Thiaw sacking reveals about African federation politics
Africa14 Jul 26
Senegal fires Pape Thiaw hours after World Cup exit, exposing the political economy of African football
Sport14 Jul 26
Scottie Scheffler, missing a cut, calls the alarm
Crypto14 Jul 26
SBI and Solana Foundation bet Japan can become Asia's on-chain capital
Asia14 Jul 26
The Russia tariff lever returns, with Graham's signature and a buyer's list already drawn
Science14 Jul 26
The Roman Telescope and the Hunt for Black Holes That Eat Stars
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Strikes on Qeshm: what the silence around a US projectile attack on Iranian soil tells us about the next phase of…
MENA14 Jul 26
Explosions reported on Qeshm Island and in Ahvaz as US–Iran confrontation widens
MENA14 Jul 26
Polymarket bettors price Iran's Hormuz toll plan at 73%, and the world's oil supply is paying attention
Americas14 Jul 26
Betting Argentina's World Cup exit: how Polymarket's price is rewriting how fans read the bracket
Europe14 Jul 26
Poland to host first Coalition of the Willing drill, with British and French troops on Polish soil
Asia14 Jul 26
Singapore's PixVerse closes $439M round, vaulting past a $2B valuation in a video-AI market that no longer waits for…
Culture14 Jul 26
PinkPantheress Steps Into Film: Why the Daniels' Next Movie Matters More Than the Casting Sheet
Europe14 Jul 26
Peskov denounces Paris summit 'aggression' as European leaders weigh deeper Ukraine support
Asia14 Jul 26
Patimban's first boxes: Japan-backed terminal opens near Jakarta, testing Indonesia's port strategy
Americas14 Jul 26
Twelve states take Paramount-Warner suit to court, testing the antitrust appetite of a friendly regulator
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A $110bn Hollywood merger, twelve state attorneys-general, and the new shape of media antitrust
Culture14 Jul 26
Ellison's Quiet Lobby: A Federal Film Tax Credit and the Shape of American Production
Crypto14 Jul 26
Open-source AI gets a triple dose: GLM-5.2, Qwen 3.5 9B, and LTX-2.3 land on Hugging Face within 30 hours
MENA14 Jul 26
Oman's top diplomat uses Le Monde column to declare containment of Iran a failure
Europe14 Jul 26
Oil jumps and sterling slides as Iran flare-up reprices rate-cut bets
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Oil ticks higher as US and Iran trade strikes in the Strait of Hormuz
Crypto14 Jul 26
New York’s unclaimed-property fight pulls Bitcoin Policy Institute to the defence of self-custody
Sport14 Jul 26
Norway's World Cup exit can't mask the commercial windfall waiting for Haaland
Culture14 Jul 26
Nolan's 'Odyssey' Turns Film Stock Into a Pilgrimage
Asia14 Jul 26
Nintendo weighs OLED upgrade for Switch 2, but panel costs keep the project on hold
Europe14 Jul 26
Nice marks a decade on from the Bastille Day attack that reset French counter-terrorism
Culture14 Jul 26
Netflix's $2 million Monopoly: a streaming giant plays a board game the rest of the industry is already losing
Europe14 Jul 26
Moscow's viral road oddities: a scooter wedding salute and a taxi driver's second birthday
MENA14 Jul 26
Oil, Inflation, and a Repricing: How Middle East Tensions Are Rippling Through Asian Markets
Americas14 Jul 26
Mexico Ships 341 Tonnes of Aid to Venezuela After June 24 Quakes
Crypto14 Jul 26
Mexico files criminal complaints in US over 17 migrant deaths as Iran escalation forces Gulf consulate closures
Americas14 Jul 26
Mexico Takes Aim at Sony as Console Wars Move to the Antitrust Arena
Americas14 Jul 26
Mexico asks US prosecutors to file criminal charges over citizens killed in ICE operations
Americas14 Jul 26
Mexico presses criminal charges in US over migrant custody deaths, just as Chipotle crosses the border south
Americas14 Jul 26
Mexico moves to file criminal complaints over ICE killing of a migrant in Houston
Asia14 Jul 26
Merz heads to Tokyo: a Germany–Japan axis takes shape around China
Culture14 Jul 26
Mattel bets on ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ dolls as Netflix-toy pipeline deepens
Europe14 Jul 26
Macron's last Bastille: a parade of allies designed to remind Moscow what it is up against
MENA14 Jul 26
Lula calls Trump Strait fee 'piracy' as US-Iran standoff builds toward Thursday address
Americas14 Jul 26
Lula calls Trump's Hormuz transit fee 'piracy' as US-Iran showdown heads for prime-time address
Arts14 Jul 26
The Vanishing of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, and the 800 the World Cannot Name
MENA14 Jul 26
Lebanon hands Israel a security plan as Beirut talks edge forward on two hilltop positions
Africa14 Jul 26
Lavrov courts Chad with scholarships, tells Africa its problems are its own
Africa14 Jul 26
Lavrov's Africa tour recasts Ukraine as a continent problem, and that framing is winning
Europe14 Jul 26
Kyiv hits Russian tankers in Sea of Azov as Polish historical feud reopens
MENA14 Jul 26
Kuwait ship strike and the odds traders are pricing on Hormuz
MENA14 Jul 26
Sirens sound across Kuwait as Iranian missile strikes test Gulf air defences
Europe14 Jul 26
Kremlin calls EU sanctions on state-backed Max messenger "absurd", and points the fight well beyond one app
Asia14 Jul 26
South Korea's AI-fueled boom faces a leveraged reckoning
Asia14 Jul 26
Seoul sells off, Beijing ships out: Asia's split-screen signal
Energy14 Jul 26
Strikes on Kish Island utility: what we know, what we don't, and what's at stake
Energy14 Jul 26
Strike on Kish Island power plant tests the line between pressure and escalation
MENA14 Jul 26
Israel's defence minister asks for a pardon. A third night of US strikes on Iran lands. The week the region stopped…
Long Reads14 Jul 26
An Iraqi militia's pledge: the politics of belief inside Iran's regional shield
Arts14 Jul 26
Kashyap and Motwane Bank on the Vertical: An Indian Short-Form Channel Tests a Saturated Market
Africa14 Jul 26
Jayden Adams dies at 25: South African football loses a World Cup midfielder before his prime
Asia14 Jul 26
Tokyo doubles down: $3 billion Tower fab and a central-bank firewall on the same day
Asia14 Jul 26
Two menus, one kitchen: how Japan’s tourist pricing is feeding a Korean backlash
Asia14 Jul 26
Japan's quiet espionage alarm, and the question of who runs the room
Oceania14 Jul 26
Tokyo rebuilds a wartime-era intelligence shop, with Canberra, Berlin and Washington along for the ride
MENA14 Jul 26
Israeli strikes hit Hadatha in south Lebanon as flare-ups resume along the border corridor
Europe14 Jul 26
Israel and Lebanon reopen talks under fire: what the Shebaa shelling tells us about the real leverage
MENA14 Jul 26
Incendiary bombs reported on south Lebanon border village as cross-border fire resumes
Energy14 Jul 26
IRGC Navy broadcast on VHF Channel 16 turns Hormuz into a live warning zone
Markets14 Jul 26
IRGC claims third wave of strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait bases as Strait of Hormuz rhetoric tightens
MENA14 Jul 26
IRGC strikes on US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain hours before scheduled US-Iran accord in Geneva
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Tehran turns the tap into a weapon: IRGC threatens total oil halt as US strikes widen the Hormuz gamble
MENA14 Jul 26
IRGC Navy broadcasts Hormuz warning to commercial shipping
MENA14 Jul 26
IRGC claims second wave of strikes inside Bahrain as Strait of Hormuz warning rattles shippers
MENA14 Jul 26
IRGC strikes on US Fifth Fleet and Hormuz shipping put a Friday Geneva accord under live fire
Crypto14 Jul 26
Trump hosts Iraq's al-Zaidi at the White House, and the read-out is mostly warmth
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Four Iranian ballistic missiles hit King Faisal Air Base: what the footage shows and what comes next
Defense14 Jul 26
Tehran accuses Washington of blackmailing ICC member states to shield Israeli officials from prosecution
MENA14 Jul 26
Iran hits King Faisal Air Base in Jordan with ballistic missiles, first known strike on Jordanian territory
Defense14 Jul 26
Iran strikes Bahrain, US reimposes naval blockade as the Gulf slides into its fourth day of open war
MENA14 Jul 26
Iran strikes Bahrain and U.S. bases in the Gulf as Trump declares the war 'restarted'
MENA14 Jul 26
Iran strikes Bahrain: PAC interceptors, civilian flight diversions and a widening Gulf confrontation
Defense14 Jul 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz ultimatum lands hours after US 'aggression'
Energy14 Jul 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz gamble meets a British terror designation
Energy14 Jul 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz posture hardens: Tehran says it owes the world nothing on transit
Business14 Jul 26
Ships pick Iran's corridor as US strikes reshape the Strait of Hormuz
MENA14 Jul 26
Iran signals Hormuz stays weaponised as ceasefire unravels
Defense14 Jul 26
Tehran publishes damage imagery as US-Iran memorandum enters 'crisis phase'
MENA14 Jul 26
Tehran tears up the memorandum as US Central Command tightens the Hormuz noose
Energy14 Jul 26
Tehran says 200+ foreign ships cleared Hormuz before closure as US-Iran standoff reopens the Gulf's shipping risk
Asia14 Jul 26
Tehran moves to legislate Hormuz security as Indian diplomat is summoned over a citizen's death
MENA14 Jul 26
Tehran, Muscat and the Strait That Holds the World's Oil Lanes
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Iran's Hormuz Playbook: How Tehran Turned a Maritime Choke Point Into a Diplomatic On-Ramp
Energy14 Jul 26
Iranians urge a limited Hormuz closure as Trump touts a passage he has yet to spell out
MENA14 Jul 26
Tehran's Hormuz bet: low odds, high oil
Defense14 Jul 26
Iran strikes Isa Air Base and NSA Bahrain in major ballistic-missile barrage
Defense14 Jul 26
Iran strikes Bahrain and absorbs US airstrikes as 14 July escalation widens Gulf front
Asia14 Jul 26
Indian firms reach for Chinese models as the AI bill comes due
Asia14 Jul 26
India leans on its diaspora to defend the rupee, while AI bets and a Lord's milestone recalibrate the country's…
Asia14 Jul 26
India's midday newsfile: ordered early galaxies, an 8% passport nation, and amaranth's superfood pitch
Asia14 Jul 26
India's engineering-services exports ride a sustainability wave, while C-section rates quietly redraw maternal care
Long Reads14 Jul 26
India summons Iran’s deputy envoy as Tehran moves a Hormuz security bill through parliament
Long Reads14 Jul 26
IBM's 25% Rout, the ECB's Digital-Euro Shortlist, and the Quiet Re-Wiring of European Money
Crypto14 Jul 26
Hugging Face listing surfaces 35B-parameter MoE hybrid running on 3B active per token
Culture14 Jul 26
Sony bets on Drac again: a fifth 'Hotel Transylvania' is coming in 2027
MENA14 Jul 26
Hormuz tolls, dark shipping, and a 52% bet: the choke point the polymarket books now price in real time
MENA14 Jul 26
Hormuz becomes a toll road: Trump floats 20% transit fee as US blockade returns
Energy14 Jul 26
Three nights, one chokepoint: the US calculus behind the Hormuz strikes
MENA14 Jul 26
Two tankers, one death, and a bill in Tehran: Hormuz enters a new phase
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Strait and the Signal: Reading the Hormuz Oil Spike of July 2026
Opinion14 Jul 26
Hormuz on a Knife's Edge: Why a Single Maritime Incident Could Move Oil by Dollars
MENA14 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz erupts as IRGC strikes tankers, Bahrain base; Geneva deal hanging
MENA14 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz erupts as IRGC strikes tankers, killing one crew member hours before Geneva accord signing
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Hormuz Question: How a 20% Transit Fee Became a Negotiation Lever and Then a Handshake
MENA14 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz deal collapses mid-sentence as Iran, US trade strikes and oil jumps
Crypto14 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz, Senate floor, server farms: three crypto-policy fronts collide in a 48-hour window
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz on a Knife Edge: Trump's Naval Blockade and Iran's Maritime Counter-Play
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Strait Closes: Inside the 14 July 2026 Hormuz Blockade and What Comes Next
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Hormuz Toll: How a US Blockade and Iranian Missiles Reshaped the Oil Corridor in 36 Hours
Crypto14 Jul 26
Hormuz closed on paper, open in practice: Bitcoin's $62K test
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Hormuz as leverage: how an IRGC threat to choke Gulf energy became the Strait's loudest week in years
Arts14 Jul 26
The High Museum's $600,000 Hole, and What Cultural Nonprofits Owe Their Boards
Europe14 Jul 26
Greta Thunberg detained in Berlin protest outside Rheinmetall offices over Gaza war
Europe14 Jul 26
Greta Thunberg detained in Berlin at pro-Palestine protest, reviving a familiar German debate over speech and policing
Europe14 Jul 26
Dancefloors and donor lists: the Green Party experiments with the British fundraising playbook
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Graham succession: a Senate seat, a sister, and the line between inheritance and appointment in South Carolina
Europe14 Jul 26
Germany's conscientious-objection surge meets a June inflation print that refuses to break
Europe14 Jul 26
Germany's conscientious-objection spike lands on an economy cooling from two fronts
Europe14 Jul 26
Generation AI: How Seven American Teenagers Are Reading the World They Inherit
Arts14 Jul 26
Frieze Seoul Adds Public Programs to the Sales Floor: Coin Hunts, Climate Talks and a Film Series
Europe14 Jul 26
French Industry Crosses the Rhine for Kyiv: Bastille Day Detachment and a Cruise-Missile Licence
Europe14 Jul 26
Ukraine in the parade, Ukraine in the factory: France doubles down on Bastille Day
Europe14 Jul 26
France opens the factory door to Ukraine's arms industry
Sport14 Jul 26
France and Spain meet in the World Cup semifinal with the Mbappe-Yamal duel in plain view
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain break the French summer: $1.2 million on the exact score that did not land
Europe14 Jul 26
The fire that reached a UNESCO forest: what 1,900 scorched hectares near Paris actually means
Europe14 Jul 26
A forest older than France burns again
Americas14 Jul 26
Flávio Bolsonaro barred for 90 days from visiting his father under house arrest
Europe14 Jul 26
Farage's protection row exposes a Westminster habit: refusing security on principle, then blaming Westminster for the…
Culture14 Jul 26
Fantasia at 30: Montreal's genre festival doubles down on the weird as the streaming era reshapes discovery
Culture14 Jul 26
Refn's comeback and the politics of festival taste: Fantasia turns 30
Europe14 Jul 26
Europe's Russian LNG habit returns, in plain sight
Europe14 Jul 26
The gas Europe can't name: how the Ukraine endgame meets an energy demand no one has planned for
Europe14 Jul 26
Europe's defense industry turns east as Berlin-Moscow rhetoric hardens
Europe14 Jul 26
Bastille Day's parade of Europe's Ukraine solidarity leaves Iran unanswered
Europe14 Jul 26
Europe answers the roll-call on the Champs-Élysées
Europe14 Jul 26
European aviation regulator opens probe after Ryanair window incident; UK police hold 12 over alleged far-right plot
Tech14 Jul 26
Brussels turns the screws on teen social media: what the Commission is actually proposing
Europe14 Jul 26
Nine EU capitals press IOC on Russian Olympic readmission
Americas14 Jul 26
England priced into the World Cup picture, but the math is still stacked against them
Sport14 Jul 26
England and Argentina meet again, and the song still travels further than the ball
Sport14 Jul 26
England meet Argentina in the World Cup's first all-top-four semi-final, with a US referee in the middle
Arts14 Jul 26
Ellen Burstyn Heads to the Lido: A Golden Lion for a Six-Decade Run
Americas14 Jul 26
An American in the middle: Ismail Elfath and the referee the World Cup keeps sending back
Africa14 Jul 26
Egypt's World Cup exit hands el-Sissi a stage he did not ask for
Business14 Jul 26
ECB taps Deutsche Bank, Revolut and Stripe for digital euro pilot ahead of 2027 launch
Culture14 Jul 26
Dudamel to lead a Venezuela-US halftime at the 2026 World Cup Final, and the symbolism writes itself
MENA14 Jul 26
Dubai's east-coast bet, Iran's strait claim, and the market that thinks Hormuz reopens
Europe14 Jul 26
Prague reaches for Israeli air defence as Czech airspace debate widens
Americas14 Jul 26
Cuba Powers Down: How a National Grid Collapse Is Putting Havana's Energy Equation Back on the Table
Asia14 Jul 26
Copper hits three-week high as Iran-US flare-up revives supply fear
Americas14 Jul 26
Colombian families press Bogotá over citizens who left to fight in Ukraine
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Inside Claude Code's hidden swarm: how OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol crossed the moat
Americas14 Jul 26
Chipotle's Mexican gambit: a burrito's homecoming, twenty-six years late
Asia14 Jul 26
A Chinese passport at the Nepal border and a claimed US Navy past: what the Indian Express report actually tells us
Asia14 Jul 26
Beijing accuses Washington of torpedoing Iran talks mid-negotiation
Asia14 Jul 26
China forecasts a super El Niño that could outpace 1997-98
Asia14 Jul 26
China's property survivors hit a fresh wall of cash
Asia14 Jul 26
China's one-million-vehicle month isn't a milestone. It's a re-rating.
Europe14 Jul 26
China crosses the million-vehicle export line in a single month
Asia14 Jul 26
China crosses 1 million vehicles in a single month as Europe answers with a space-based interceptor
Asia14 Jul 26
London court fight over China mega-embassy lands on the same week Beijing sets a new export record
Asia14 Jul 26
China's humanoid robotics race goes public: Shenzhen's LimX Dynamics files for IPO as capital window narrows
Asia14 Jul 26