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Asia14 Jul 26
China's export machine crossed a million vehicles in a month. The argument is over what that number actually proves.
Asia14 Jul 26
Beijing detains US seismologist who tracked North Korea's nuclear tests
Asia14 Jul 26
Chinese detention of US seismologist studying North Korean tests puts scientific diplomacy in play
MENA14 Jul 26
CENTCOM widens the Iran frame: strikes, then a 20-ship blockade
MENA14 Jul 26
CENTCOM massing 20 warships, hundreds of aircraft as Iran backs out of Islamabad deal
Defense14 Jul 26
CENTCOM reimposes Strait of Hormuz blockade as Iran exploit report reveals targeting edge
Culture14 Jul 26
Carey Mulligan boards Focus Features' Bell Jar as Billie Eilish's screen debut
Americas14 Jul 26
Canada's election bet sits at 4 percent: why traders aren't pricing another trip to the polls
Opinion14 Jul 26
California's antitrust lawsuit puts a $110bn media merger in the dock
Africa14 Jul 26
Burkina Faso severs ties with France as the Sahel rewires its alliances
Europe14 Jul 26
Inside the Bundestag speech accusing Berlin of 'sagging below the Mariana Trench' on Nord Stream
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Buffett pulls the cord on Gates: the end of a $40bn philanthropic alliance
Americas14 Jul 26
Brazil's top court suspends Flávio Bolsonaro's prison visits to his father for 90 days
Asia14 Jul 26
BMW's Neue Klasse arrives in a China that has already lapped it
Crypto14 Jul 26
Bitcoin's Conviction Trade Meets the CPI Print: Why 14 July Matters
Crypto14 Jul 26
Bitcoin prints $65,000, IBM loses a quarter of its value, and a transatlantic crypto pact lands the same New York…
Europe14 Jul 26
Anti-war activists in Berlin target Rheinmetall office over Merz government's arms exports
Europe14 Jul 26
Bastille Day as theatre: Macron's last parade aims a 'strategic signal' at a Europe rearming in pieces
Asia14 Jul 26
Bank of Korea breaks three-year freeze as won's fragility and US tariff overhang force a turn
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Drone over Bandar Abbas: a single Iranian morning, three wires, one unverified shootdown
MENA14 Jul 26
Explosions reported over Bahrain as Iranian cross-strait retaliation widens
Europe14 Jul 26
Bahrain air raid sirens and Iranian attack reports put Gulf air defence back on the front page
Oceania14 Jul 26
Australia's eSafety office flags 'significant gaps' in Apple, Meta, Google response to child sexual abuse material
Asia14 Jul 26
AstraZeneca turns to a Chinese biotech for a lung-cancer drug, and the deal tells you where the pipeline is heading
Culture14 Jul 26
Hawkins, bound in linen: Assouline turns Stranger Things into a $195 shelf object
Americas14 Jul 26
Argentina and Spain meet in the Women's Euro final, with a Polish observer watching
Americas14 Jul 26
Argentina–England Semi Reshapes World Cup Narratives as Polymarket, FBI Brief, and Referee Coin-Toss Collide
Opinion14 Jul 26
Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI is really about who owns the next platform
Tech14 Jul 26
Apple's silicon squeeze and an OpenAI defector: two stories, one fight over who owns the talent pipeline
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Strikes on Ahvaz: what the Iranian sources say, and what they leave out
MENA14 Jul 26
Explosions reported across Ahvaz and Qeshm Island as US strikes on Iran enter a new phase
Africa14 Jul 26
Africa's World Cup moment arrives before its teams do
Africa14 Jul 26
Who Funds Africa's Energy Transition When Western Capital Prefers Stability to Resources
Culture14 Jul 26
AFI's Directing Workshop for Women Reopens Its Doors, and the Pipeline Question Returns
Europe14 Jul 26
Zelensky's Strasbourg moment, and the bottle-cap story Brussels wishes would go away
Europe14 Jul 26
Britain's state threats bill puts Iran's IRGC in the crosshairs
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump threatens Iran's bridges and power plants if talks stall
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump orders third consecutive night of strikes on Iran as port blockade returns and oil jumps
Energy14 Jul 26
Trumps energy ultimatum and a 4 p.m. blockade set the clock on Iran
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Twenty-four hours, twenty percent: Trump's Hormuz toll and the unwritten rules of the global shipping lane
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump's Hormuz toll: 20% levy and a blockade threat remap oil chokepoint politics
Crypto14 Jul 26
Trump's 20% Hormuz Toll Meets a Closed Strait and a Rejected Invoice
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump tells Gulf monarchies the protection bill is coming
Europe14 Jul 26
Trump scraps planned Hormuz transit levy, swaps it for Gulf trade and investment deals
Europe14 Jul 26
Beirut and Tel Aviv talk in Rome, but the framework talks show how little has moved
Europe14 Jul 26
Tehran's two-uniform choreography: Army and IRGC stage unity as UK blacklists Guards
Europe14 Jul 26
Brussels moves to throttle children's social media use, slowly
MENA14 Jul 26
CENTCOM announces naval blockade of Iranian ports as strikes resume
Europe14 Jul 26
Bessent's ‘rules-based order’ runs into the reciprocity question
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Bahrain sirens, IRGC strike, Geneva accord: the seven minutes that broke the Iran–US script
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Strikes on Manama: what an evening of air-defence activity over Bahrain signals about the next phase of the Iran–Gulf…
Culture14 Jul 26
zayALLCAPS Turns the Group Chat Into a Studio on 'My Uncle Told Me Some Real Ass Shit on the Phone Yesterday'
Asia14 Jul 26
Xi's governance anthology goes to Bishkek as SCO courts Central Asia
Economy14 Jul 26
Cheap gas, hostile networks: a snapshot of America's Iran war at the 14 July 2026 mark
Europe14 Jul 26
$81 billion in tariff refunds already underway as Supreme Court ruling reshapes US trade posture
Europe14 Jul 26
Britain Puts £251m Behind Jewish-Community Policing as Antisemitic Incidents Climb
MENA14 Jul 26
Turkish warships put into Latakia for the first time since Syria's war ended
Americas14 Jul 26
Trump opens Utah monuments, floats Cuba drone warning, courts AI power pledge in a single news cycle
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Trump, the prediction markets, and the strange economy of presidential risk
Defense14 Jul 26
Trump reframes Middle East oil posture as military-led, swaps reimbursement fee for trade framework
Markets14 Jul 26
Trump tells Iraqi PM US troops are leaving; Baghdad says coalition out within three months
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump tells Iraq the US 'no longer needs' its troops there, then turns the knife on Bush and Cheney
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump turns the screws on Iran's grid as blockade, aid bill and ground-war talk collide in a single 24-hour window
Crypto14 Jul 26
Trump Floats 20% Toll at Hormuz and the Shipping Floor Pushes Back
Crypto14 Jul 26
The Trump family's crypto embrace meets a $722 million DOJ reversal, in the same week
Americas14 Jul 26
Trump cuts the cheque: $5.6m to E. Jean Carroll, and a tariff bill he didn't see coming
Americas14 Jul 26
Trump revives the Canada annexation talk, and Ottawa's silence is doing the talking
Europe14 Jul 26
Tanker Struck Off Oman's Kalhat Coast Adds to Gulf Shipping Risks
Sport14 Jul 26
A division rival buys the Seahawks, and the NFL's ownership map quietly redraws
Sport14 Jul 26
Schwarber leads the Home Run Derby money as Phillies slugger tries to convert regular-season form into a Monday-night…
Asia14 Jul 26
Riyadh reaches for two resets at once: a drone pipeline from Taipei and a quiet exit for detained migrants
Asia14 Jul 26
Riyadh's $47.2 million drone order from Taiwan signals a new industrial customer for Taipei
Crypto14 Jul 26
Robinhood Hands the Trading Keys to a Software Agent, and the Customer Still Holds the Wallet
Oceania14 Jul 26
Twenty-five years on, Northern Territory police reopen the Peter Falconio file
Crypto14 Jul 26
Perpetuals.com Walks Away From Trump-Linked Takeover as Crypto's Political Economy Splinters
Asia14 Jul 26
Nvidia's H200 chips land in China: a quiet escalation in the semiconductor contest
Europe14 Jul 26
Norway's autumn of Haaland: 100,000 on the Karl Johans gate, a taxidermy raccoon in Texas, and a surname crossing into…
Americas14 Jul 26
New Mexico AG escalates clash with Trump administration over ICE detention conditions
Markets14 Jul 26
Markets Brace for a Week of Uncomfortable Signals, From IBM's Plunge to ASICS's Turkish Sprint
Americas14 Jul 26
London names a Tube stop for Bellingham, and the branding game around England's World Cup run shifts into a different…
Culture14 Jul 26
A 1970s Frontier Returns to the Top of the Charts
MENA14 Jul 26
Israel widens Red Cross access ban on Palestinian captives, brushing aside High Court ruling
Asia14 Jul 26
Fairfax, Emirates NBD circle back: revised bids land for India's IDBI Bank stake sale
Asia14 Jul 26
Two fronts, one supply chain: helium and the South China Sea redraw Asia's risk map
Sport14 Jul 26
France and Spain arrive in Dallas with the World Cup's sharpest forward lines
Sport14 Jul 26
France and Spain meet in Arlington with a World Cup final four place on the line
Crypto14 Jul 26
Trump's Crypto Holdings Test the Ethics Spine of the Clarity Act
Asia14 Jul 26
China's satellite-linked drones and a quiet bill-discount floor: two signals from a single day
Culture14 Jul 26
Blue Beetle flies again: Xolo Maridueña books his seat in Gunn's 'Man of Tomorrow'
Crypto14 Jul 26
Bitcoin's Mid-July Hangover and the Macro Tape Nobody Trusts
Crypto14 Jul 26
Bitcoin tests $62,600 as Trump turns Hormuz into a toll road
MENA14 Jul 26
Banks caught between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh as Gulf capital rivals its own principal
MENA14 Jul 26
Sana'a march backs Yemen's missile retaliation as Saudi frontier stays on edge
Asia14 Jul 26
US Treasury hits 50+ targets in Shamkhani shipping network, squeezing Iran's oil-export lifelines
MENA14 Jul 26
Strikes, drones and a revived blockade: the US-Iran slide into open war
Defense14 Jul 26
US naval blockade of Iranian ports goes live as Army warns of retaliation
Crypto14 Jul 26
Tankers burning, ports moving: the 48 hours that reset the Gulf energy corridor
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Spain ends France's tournament in Dallas and walks into a final that no one saw coming
Americas14 Jul 26
Spain’s long road to Arlington ends France’s run, sets up an open World Cup final
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain edges France in Euro 2024 rematch as US Navy prepares to reopen Iranian coastline blockade
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain strike first in Munich as Euro 2025 semi-final with France goes to the break at 1-0
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain ends France's run as Oyarzabal and a teenage substitute deliver a Euro 2025 final worth the wait
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Spain's route past France, and the artillery plant that never fired
Africa14 Jul 26
Ruto's reelection is becoming a construction site
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The $1.2 million score: how a single Polymarket bet on France–Spain turned into a 22-minute cautionary tale
Europe14 Jul 26
A Spanish ex-MEP's talk with Khamenei's office, and what European leftists hear when Tehran calls
MENA14 Jul 26
Muscat and Manama redraw the Gulf's threat map in a single afternoon
MENA14 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham's last week: Iran fixation, Senate sanctions push, and the man who never quite ran the foreign policy he…
MENA14 Jul 26
IRIAF jets over Tehran as unverified reports surface of strikes on Saudi Arabia
Energy14 Jul 26
IRGC Navy warns shipping off Hormuz as Strait confrontation enters open-radio phase
Africa14 Jul 26
How a Tehran-aligned framing of the US-Israel strike went viral, and what it tells us about information warfare in 2026
MENA14 Jul 26
Tehran's resistance fringe floats a Red Sea oil-line counter-strike
MENA14 Jul 26
Tehran races to harden ports as US strikes land and the nuclear clock ticks
MENA14 Jul 26
Houthis warn airlines out of Saudi airspace, conditioning the order on Sanaa airport blockade
Europe14 Jul 26
Britain's Hillsborough law clears its final Commons hurdle after a 37-year wait
Europe14 Jul 26
Mbappé and the midfield test: France arrive in Munich full-strength for Spain semifinal
Intelligence14 Jul 26
Manama's life sentences land inside a wider Gulf sectarian crack-down
Intelligence14 Jul 26
All hands off the Al Bahyah: Oman evacuates 18 crew as UKMTO puts the Gulf on SEVERE
Europe14 Jul 26
Nine models, one trophy: AI picks its 2026 World Cup champion as France and Spain collide
Business14 Jul 26
Iran pulls back from the Islamabad MOU and redraws a line in the Gulf
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Card trick, card trick: how a referee's call and a prediction market set off America's loudest football argument of the…
Crypto14 Jul 26
Trump's crypto bill hits a Senate arithmetic problem
Americas14 Jul 26
Spain End France's World Cup Hopes in Dallas to Set Up Anglo-Argentine Final
Asia14 Jul 26
South Korea's defence boom meets a market sell-off: how the same country became 2026's best performer and its newest…
Asia14 Jul 26
Power of Siberia-2 stalls as Beijing plays the long gas game
Americas14 Jul 26
Polymarket's World Cup 'red notice' tickles a colonial nerve
Sport14 Jul 26
O'Reilly, England and the Messi Problem: A World Cup Semifinal Built for One Frame
Sport14 Jul 26
A tee-time dilemma: could England's run push The Open out of its Sunday slot?
Asia14 Jul 26
Strikes on Mykolaiv ports haven't dislodged shipping. The fix isn't a bomb, it's paperwork
Sport14 Jul 26
Messi at 38, walking less, scoring more: Scaloni's quiet rebuild of a legacy
Sport14 Jul 26
Messi meets England: Atlanta stages the contest Argentina's captain has been building toward for two decades
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A Senate seat, a sister, and the soft corruption of dynastic succession
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A Senate seat, a funeral, and a family name: the unusual passing of Lindsey Graham
Sport14 Jul 26
Haaland's World Cup Was a Loss on the Pitch and a Win for Everyone Watching Him
Americas14 Jul 26
England and Argentina priced for survival as a creaking World Cup tilts toward the semis
Sport14 Jul 26
Atlanta braces for an England-Argentina semi-final that carries every grievance of the past two decades
Sport14 Jul 26
England and Argentina meet in Atlanta with a semi-final on the line and a security perimeter around it
Sport14 Jul 26
Air miles, kit clashes, and a World Cup built for transit
Geopolitics14 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham's sister sworn in to his former Senate seat
Americas14 Jul 26
A delegation walks in: what the Cuba visit signals for the Florida strait
Americas14 Jul 26
Argentina meet England in Atlanta with the World Cup's soft power on the line
Americas14 Jul 26
Argentina-England semifinal pricing surges as Falklands chant revives a 1982 wound
Americas14 Jul 26
Argentina's football federation emailed journalists to deny a 2-1 loss to Egypt. The story is bigger than one match.
Americas14 Jul 26
Florida judge orders release of migrant accused of hijacking Miami-bound flight
Americas14 Jul 26
Spain ends France's run to book a Women's World Cup final date with Argentina or England
Europe14 Jul 26
Norway's new export isn't oil. It's Erling Haaland.
Americas14 Jul 26
Federal jury in Miami awards $314m to three Americans tortured under Maduro
MENA14 Jul 26
Katz's 'good feeling' lands in the middle of a fragile Gaza truce
Science14 Jul 26
Hubble's crimson portrait of LH 95 reframes a long-standing assumption about low-metallicity star formation
Crypto14 Jul 26
Banks smell blood in the stablecoin yield fight as CLARITY Act heads to markup
Europe14 Jul 26
Britain asks teenagers to clock off: the midnight social media curfew, explained
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Three nights over Iran: what the prediction markets are pricing in
Asia14 Jul 26
Jakarta jails the founder of Gojek, and Southeast Asia's tech sector recalibrates
Europe14 Jul 26
Budapest moves against its own president, and against the legacy Orbán left in the building
Europe14 Jul 26
Budapest moves against Sulyok: Hungary’s parliament opens door to ousting Orbán-era president
Europe14 Jul 26
Gibraltar's passport stamp disappears: the deal Britain and the EU signed in Luxembourg
Europe14 Jul 26
Britain's next prime minister wants to talk about MPs' security
Asia14 Jul 26
Bloomberg's Singapore Defeat Reshapes the Map for Financial Journalism in Asia
Crypto14 Jul 26
Federal Reserve's Saturday Deadline Tests Crypto's New Washington Politics
Americas14 Jul 26
Havana Slams Washington's New Sanctions List as Economic Siege Deepens
Energy14 Jul 26
Cuba's grid collapses again, and the bets on its president are tightening with it
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Sargan and the Izumrud: how a single unmanned boat reopened the Black Sea's contest
Asia14 Jul 26
Yen's slide drags Tokyo exporters into a new warning season
MENA14 Jul 26
A circulating video of a Yemeni missile strike on a Saudi airport is unverified
Crypto14 Jul 26
Warsh's no-bailout line lands as $100m of crypto shorts get crushed and IBM gives back a quarter of its value
Culture14 Jul 26
Tubi rehires from Netflix as Fox's ad-tier streamer tightens its Hollywood muscle
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Baghdad on Pennsylvania Avenue: What Trump's Iraqi bet actually trades away
Crypto14 Jul 26
Trump sells the family crypto while warning Beijing wants it: the contradictions at the centre of a White House…
Africa14 Jul 26
Trump blocks US citizens in DRC from boarding commercial flights as Ebola workers strike
Arts14 Jul 26
Sotheby's $4.4 Billion First Half Is an Auction Story in Name Only
Europe14 Jul 26
Reform UK's election-language clause draws fire from Scotland's minority-language communities
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A quiet Monday that broke four markets at once
Europe14 Jul 26
Haaland's homecoming: Norway turns out 100,000-strong for a squad that lost
Americas14 Jul 26
Forty-five freed from ELN captivity in Chocó as Colombia's military operations deepen
Crypto14 Jul 26
Inflation cools, the protocol fractures, the corporate buyer blinks: a single Monday in Bitcoin
Americas14 Jul 26
Caracas returns to the sanctions fight, and the bill is no longer just Venezuela's
Europe14 Jul 26
Venezuela leans on its Washington envoy as the calendar runs out on a vote
Africa14 Jul 26
Ruto's pre-2027 playbook: devolution by press release
Asia14 Jul 26
Qatar’s Father Emir passes: a Gulf patriarch who reshaped Doha’s place in the world
Africa14 Jul 26
Kenya's East African bet: EAC remains the country's biggest export market, and the manufactured-goods pipeline shows why
Europe14 Jul 26
Pogacar turns Bastille Day into a coronation, stretches Tour lead past three minutes
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Patience and revenge: Khamenei's twin-track theology after a martyrdom
Europe14 Jul 26
Brussels floats post-summer push for an EU-wide digital identity, and a children's social-media clampdown
Europe14 Jul 26
Britain's legal pullback, Labour's moral test
Europe14 Jul 26
Twelve arrests in UK over alleged far-right plot against Islamic gathering expose Britain's domestic extremism fault…
Europe14 Jul 26
Britain's alcohol-free beer boom runs into a regulatory speed bump
Arts14 Jul 26
A $130 Million T. Rex Sale Reopens the Question of Who Owns Deep Time
Culture14 Jul 26
The Museum Was Always Part of the Work
Europe14 Jul 26
Beirut tables a security plan as IDF keeps up shelling along the southern border
Africa14 Jul 26
AU Corruption Speech Gets the Sceptical Reception It Earned
Tech14 Jul 26
Anthropic's new advert lands, and a SpaceX compute rumour follows it
Europe14 Jul 26
Billé's burning wells: a Niger Delta town asks why its gas keeps flaring
Africa14 Jul 26
Kenya's hired muscle: rights groups warn 'goon' squads are reshaping political contest
Europe14 Jul 26
Zelensky lands in Paris as a 30-hectare wildfire lights up the forest of Fontainebleau
Europe14 Jul 26
Widdecombe killing, the AI accomplice question, and a Polish flag hanging from a window: three stories that meet at the…
Crypto14 Jul 26
$288 million in seized bitcoin lands on Coinbase Prime, and the question Trump hoped would stay quiet
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain wildfire kills 13 foreign nationals as heatwave stretches emergency services
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain beats France on Bastille Day, and the symbolism writes itself
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain 2, France 0: How a 22-Minute Blitz Rewrote the European Summer
Long Reads14 Jul 26