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MENA14 Jul 26
Trump rolls out the carpet for Iraq's new prime minister, with Iran-backed militias on the agenda
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump widens the threat: US strikes on Iran to escalate "until I say it's enough"
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump opens the throttle on Iran, refuses to ground the option
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Trump's power-plant ultimatum: Tehran has days, not weeks, to make a deal
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Pickaxe, power plants, and a memorandum: parsing Trump's Iran escalation in real time
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A toll booth on the world's busiest oil chokepoint: what Trump's Hormuz play actually changes
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump pulls Hormuz toll, signals Iraq drawdown, takes Gulf money in a single Tuesday
Asia14 Jul 26
Trump Floats Charging Beijing for Hormuz Cover as China Cracks One Million Vehicles a Month
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump notifies Congress that US hostilities against Iran resumed on July 7
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Tehran's mosque remembers a martyr, and the official script stays intact
MENA14 Jul 26
Tehran Draws a Line: No Negotiations on Demand
Tech14 Jul 26
Saudi drone shot down over al-Bayda as Yemen's air defence claims a quiet scalp
Americas14 Jul 26
Russia's aid flight to Caracas lands against a backdrop of US sanctions and contested disaster tallies
Opinion14 Jul 26
The Telegram channel driving Russia's glide-bomb narrative
Asia14 Jul 26
Russian strike hits Odesa Region oil depot as drone campaign grinds on
Asia14 Jul 26
Xinjiang to Beijing: the fall of Ma Xingrui and what the third Politburo purge in four years tells us about Xi's China
Markets14 Jul 26
Lavrov calls Ukraine's Sea of Azov strikes 'pure terrorism' as rhetoric hardens
Africa14 Jul 26
Kenya's Ebola drill squads train for Congo's worst-case outbreak
Intelligence14 Jul 26
Tehran's third wave: what the IRGC footage actually shows
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Iran strikes Bahrain and Kuwait: what the salvoes tell us about the widening Gulf war
Defense14 Jul 26
Iran strikes US positions at Jordan's Al-Azraq base in seventh phase of Operation Sa'egheh
Defense14 Jul 26
Iran's SS7 playbook: how Tehran turned mobile-network flaws into a targeting layer for US troops
Markets14 Jul 26
Tehran floats a tanker blockade. The oil market is already pricing the worst.
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Iran's pitch for a regional security order lands in an unlikely place: Muscat
MENA14 Jul 26
Tehran keeps tankers loading as Geneva signing looms and Trump crows about 'Stone Ages'
Europe14 Jul 26
Tehran's editors take aim at Berlin: Iranian paper's 'retaliation' threat against Merz tests Germany's Iran posture
MENA14 Jul 26
Iran says it struck US positions across the Gulf as explosions rock Kuwait
MENA14 Jul 26
Tehran shifts from shadow to salvo: IRGC strikes on US assets in Jordan mark a louder phase of the regional war
MENA14 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC warns of regional oil blockade as retaliation against US bases widens
MENA14 Jul 26
Iran hits Bahrain with missile and drone barrage; sirens sound over Manama
MENA14 Jul 26
Iran's Gulf strikes land on Kuwait and Bahrain in a widening shadow war
Defense14 Jul 26
Iran's wartime cellular footprint and Trump's 'bully' frame expose the limits of US signalling in the Gulf
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Sana'a sets an ultimatum in the sky: Houthi aviation warning lands inside Saudi airspace calculus
Intelligence14 Jul 26
Yemen's Houthis claim ballistic missile and drone strikes on Abha airport after Saudi raids on Sanaa
MENA14 Jul 26
Houthis hit Abha airport, declare end of Yemen de-escalation as Qatar backs Riyadh
Asia14 Jul 26
Hainan Puts a Date on China's Most Aggressive EV Deadline Yet
Asia14 Jul 26
Graham's tariff bill puts Beijing and Delhi in the same crosshairs over Russian crude
Europe14 Jul 26
Germany's conscientious-objection surge lands in a country running hotter, spending more, and doubting its own…
Europe14 Jul 26
A woodwork teacher, a regional ballot, and the German classroom culture war
Europe14 Jul 26
Germany bets €659m on chips and rebuilds a flood-prone valley: two tests of the same industrial bet
Europe14 Jul 26
EU rebuffs Trump's ICC campaign as Tehran calls it 'blackmail'
Europe14 Jul 26
EU's 19th Russia sanctions package stalls as Hungary and Slovakia block the floor
Europe14 Jul 26
Croatia tops the Adriatic wishlist, and a Polish summer settles in: how a travel thread redrew a summer
Asia14 Jul 26
China clears one million vehicles in a single month, redrawing the global export map
Asia14 Jul 26
China tells UN the US is pushing the Middle East to a dangerous precipice
Asia14 Jul 26
Beijing courts Russia's next generation while Brussels shrugs at a Belgian designer with a Kremlin passport
Asia14 Jul 26
China's June export jump and a Pacific reassurance, in the same 24 hours
Asia14 Jul 26
China's June export surge puts the AI-chip trade at the centre of a domestic-demand bind
Asia14 Jul 26
China's June export surge rewrites the tariff playbook
Asia14 Jul 26
China's export engine runs on foreign chips and cars, raising the question Beijing would rather not answer
Asia14 Jul 26
China’s export engine finds a second wind in AI hardware as Middle East strikes lift Brent past $85
Asia14 Jul 26
European heatwave reshapes China's cooling exports: a structural shift, not a one-off
Asia14 Jul 26
Beijing holds the floor on bill rates. ASML prepares to defend its order book.
MENA14 Jul 26
US force of 20+ warships backs fresh blockade of Iran as Centcom alleges week of tanker attacks
MENA14 Jul 26
CENTCOM masses a 20-ship armada as Iran walks away from the Islamabad memorandum
Crypto14 Jul 26
CBDC ban locked in, MicroStrategy debt plan returns, and Eric Trump keeps shilling: a week that reframed Washington's…
Europe14 Jul 26
Burnham consolidates Labour: 349 MPs and a Westminster coronation
Arts14 Jul 26
Bristol Museum's biggest art heist in modern memory has a colonial backstory
Crypto14 Jul 26
Bitcoin steadies near $62,600 as Hormuz brinkmanship forces traders back into the dollar's shadow
Asia14 Jul 26
Beijing pressures Europe on two fronts: maritime law and the price of money
Crypto14 Jul 26
Bahrain sounds air raid sirens as Tehran points missiles at Manama
Asia14 Jul 26
ASML heads into a quarterly update with China overhang and capacity questions unresolved
Defense14 Jul 26
Yemen's Ansarallah warns airlines off Saudi airspace, escalates airport siege standoff
Culture14 Jul 26
FX's 'The Shards' trailer bets on Bret Easton Ellis nostalgia, and on Ryan Murphy's appetite for excess
Culture14 Jul 26
Linnea Berthelsen crosses the Atlantic: from Hawkins to the Bush Theatre
Africa14 Jul 26
Zimbabweans stream home across Beitbridge as anti-immigrant pressure builds in South Africa
Europe14 Jul 26
Zelenskyy's Brussels water-bottle moment, and what Europe's small rules reveal about big integrations
Culture14 Jul 26
Zaslav Cashes Out Again as State Lawyers Sue to Block the Paramount Deal
Asia14 Jul 26
Yen's slide reorders the carry trade as Tokyo walks a narrow line
Sport14 Jul 26
Three styles, one semi-final: how France, Argentina and England reached the World Cup last four
Asia14 Jul 26
Western tourists eye China's cool country: how Harbin, Qingdao and the southwest bet on a heat-dodge summer
MENA14 Jul 26
Washington puts cyber on a wartime footing, and Baghdad lands a White House visit
Arts14 Jul 26
Walter Hill to Receive Fantastic Fest Lifetime Achievement Award, Anchor an Alamo Drafthouse Retrospective
MENA14 Jul 26
Wall Street's second-quarter windfall has a missile-warning siren underneath it
Sport14 Jul 26
Jordan Walker walks down a Phillies crowd and lifts the Home Run Derby crown for St. Louis
MENA14 Jul 26
Walker denies Schwarber in Philadelphia, becomes first Cardinal to win the Home Run Derby
Asia14 Jul 26
Wolfsburg's reckoning: VW's 100,000-job cut plan lands in an auto industry already rewired by China
Asia14 Jul 26
Volkswagen's reckoning and the European car industry's China-shaped problem
Americas14 Jul 26
Rodriguez's Washington pick signals Caracas is bargaining from a different ledger
Americas14 Jul 26
After the Quake, Venezuela Returns to the Sanctions Argument
Crypto14 Jul 26
Tokenised dollars cross the Atlantic: Washington and London move to align stablecoin rails
MENA14 Jul 26
US strikes hit Iranian ports at Sirik and Bandar Abbas in southern Iran
MENA14 Jul 26
US strikes hit Iran's southern coast, with Sirik and Bandar Abbas in the crosshairs
Defense14 Jul 26
US strikes on three Iranian port cities: what the wires say, and what Tehran denies
Crypto14 Jul 26
US strikes Iranian military sites as sirens sound across Bahrain
MENA14 Jul 26
US carries out strikes inside Iran, ABC News reports, citing senior American official
Defense14 Jul 26
US naval blockade of Iran goes live at 4 PM ET as CENTCOM opens new strike wave
MENA14 Jul 26
Inflation eases to 3.5% as a fragile US-Iran truce pulls oil off the boil, for now
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A third night of strikes: the US–Iran escalation nobody called an escalation
Crypto14 Jul 26
Oil jumps 3% as US strikes on Iran reopen the energy-risk premium, and Pakistan's crypto fight adds a quieter fault line
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Tanker strikes, a blockade, and a narrow strait: how the US-Iran fight over Hormuz reignited in hours
MENA14 Jul 26
US relaunches naval blockade of Iranian ports as new strikes land across the country
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's 'Stone Ages' boast meets a Friday signing in Geneva: what the US-Iran accord actually changes
MENA14 Jul 26
US footage of drone strike on Iranian naval base lands as Tehran's proxies hit Bahrain
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Blockade and bombs: the US re-tightens the noose on Iran in a single day
Europe14 Jul 26
US Navy blockade against Iran goes live as Spain takes 2-0 lead over France: a 90-minute reading of the day
MENA14 Jul 26
Oil Markets Face a Dual Blockade as the US-Iran War Drags On
MENA14 Jul 26
US naval blockade of Iran reshapes Gulf shipping calculus as oil jumps and diplomacy teeters
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A blockade takes shape: Iran’s signals, Washington’s escalation, and the narrow corridor to diplomacy
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Blockade, blame, and the breaking of a six-week ceasefire: the U.S.–Iran crisis of July 2026
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Blockade, airstrikes, oil: Trump’s third-night campaign against Iran and the order it portends
Crypto14 Jul 26
Bitcoin tips toward the geopolitical wire as U.S.-Iran flare-up bends risk assets
MENA14 Jul 26
US-Iran exchange widens as Bahrain becomes a launch pad
Americas14 Jul 26
Washington tilts at the ICC and finds an old fault line in the rules-based order
Opinion14 Jul 26
The 36-Month Run-Up: What America's Housing Market Says About Who Owns Tomorrow
MENA14 Jul 26
US Central Command completes new wave of strikes on Iran; Iran shells Bahrain and Kuwait
Europe14 Jul 26
US bill floats 100% tariff ceiling on biggest buyers of Russian hydrocarbons
Europe14 Jul 26
Ukraine's unmanned landing and Italy's cheese-backed loan: a week when old assets did new work
Business14 Jul 26
Kyiv turns the Sea of Azov into a kill box, and Moscow reaches for the word 'terrorism'
Markets14 Jul 26
Ukraine turns the screws on Russian oil and shipping, and Moscow starts to reroute
Defense14 Jul 26
Britain dusts off the war book: London plans its biggest home-defence exercise in decades
Africa14 Jul 26
A UK murder suspect, an unlicensed firearm, and the Johannesburg paper trail South African police followed
Europe14 Jul 26
Six Months in a London Hotel, Then a Letter: The Quiet Disappearing of UK Asylum Accommodation
Culture14 Jul 26
From TikTok sketch to Paramount theatrical: Tyler Falbo's 'Boys for Life' tests a creator-to-studio pipeline
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Twelve states take aim at the Paramount-Warner deal, and Hollywood's consolidation era is suddenly on trial
Africa14 Jul 26
Johannesburg court appearance puts UK-South Africa extradition on the clock
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's Thursday address lands with Iran deal on a knife-edge and Hormuz in the frame
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A Thursday Address, an Iranian Blockade, and a Settlement Courtroom: Three Threads of a Single White House Week
Intelligence14 Jul 26
Trump's Thursday Address Promises Declassified Intelligence on Foreign Interference
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Trump's Thursday Address: Declassification, the 2020 File, and the Political Theatre of Disclosure
Crypto14 Jul 26
Trump Tolls the Strait: How a 20% Shipping Levy Became Washington's Gulf Play
Crypto14 Jul 26
Trump floats a 20% toll on the Strait of Hormuz. Crypto's Clarity Act gets a Senate shove from the same desk.
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's 20% Strait of Hormuz levy and the word 'ceasefire' doing heavy lifting
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump opens Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, reimposes blockade on Iranian vessels
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A 20% toll on Hormuz, abandoned in 24 hours: what Trump's reversal reveals about US coercion capacity
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump pulls Hormuz toll a day after floating it, leaving shipping route in policy limbo
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The $5.6m that finally moved: Trump pays Carroll, three years late
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump tells Netanyahu to begin pulling Israeli forces out of Syria and parts of southern Lebanon
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump courts an Iraqi PM of his own choosing in Washington
Markets14 Jul 26
Trump tells Iraqi PM American forces will leave and US oil majors will move in
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump courts Iraq's new prime minister, with oil and militias on the table
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump meets Iraq's new prime minister, calling him 'young and handsome' as Baghdad recalibrates between Washington and…
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump floats Iraq drawdown, cites weakened Iran as reason
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Satire, tolls, and a closing Strait: Washington's Iran war hits its discursive limits
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump notifies Congress of new war against Iran, reviving naval blockade
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump raises the price of the next US-Iran round: energy strikes, Gulf money, and a quiet withdrawal
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump notifies Congress that US hostilities against Iran have resumed, opening a fresh 60-day window for military action
Defense14 Jul 26
Trump widens Iran target list to power plants and bridges, Tehran pulls out of bilateral commitments
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump threatens Iran's power grid and bridges in deadline ultimatum
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The word "never" and the wager it conceals: parsing Trump's latest Iran formula
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Twenty-four hours in July: how a Hormuz toll, a withdrawal, and a war of words redrew Trump's Iran playbook
MENA14 Jul 26
War restarted, ceasefire not: Trump reopens the Strait of Hormuz file
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Tehran's Strait Calculus: Trump's Blockade, Pezeshkian's Defiance, and the Corridor That Could Break
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's naval blockade of Iran and the dollar coin cameo: two policy moves, one message
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump's 24-hour Hormuz toll U-turn: what the wire is reporting, and what the numbers actually mean
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump's Hormuz toll lasts less than a day: what the reversal tells us
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's Hormuz toll gambit: how a 20% levy became a Gulf investment play in 24 hours
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The $30 million question: Trump's Hormuz toll and the limits of sea-lane coercion
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A toll that never was: Trump's 24-hour flip on Hormuz and the limits of unilateral economic warfare
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's 20% Hormuz toll: a toll booth on the world's oil chokepoint
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump's 20% Hormuz toll meets a market already rerouting around him
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's 20% Hormuz levy and the shape of a 'ceasefire' that never quite closed
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump floats Hormuz opening to all shipping except Iran as Friday Geneva signing nears
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's Hormuz gambit: tolls, threats and a UN rebuff
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's Hormuz fee threat meets Iran's flat refusal
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump's Hormuz gambit: naval blockade, dropped toll, and a power-plant threat
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Trump's Hormuz blockade and the new arithmetic of dollar protection
Energy14 Jul 26
Trump's 20% Hormuz toll and a 73% market bet on an Iranian counter-levy: the chokepoint turns into a cash register
Long Reads14 Jul 26
A 20% toll on the world's oil artery: Trump's Hormuz gamble and the corridor it just cracked open
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Trump drops the Hormuz toll: what just happened, and what it tells us about Gulf leverage
MENA14 Jul 26
Trump notifies Congress of new Iran campaign, Fed's Warsh heads to Hill on same day
Markets14 Jul 26
Trump backs Russia sanctions bill late Graham shepherded, reopening tariffs lever on Moscow's energy buyers
Markets14 Jul 26
Trump backs Graham's Russia sanctions bill, putting China and India in the crosshairs
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The drumbeat that wasn't: how a single Israeli intelligence warning re-opened America's threat picture on Trump
Africa14 Jul 26
Togo's quiet trench: how Lomé is building a counter-Sahel jihadist strategy with Turkish help
Culture14 Jul 26
A third Odyssey lands this month, and this one wasn't made by humans
MENA14 Jul 26
A third day of US-Iran exchanges widens the geography of the fight
Culture14 Jul 26
Locarno-bound 'The Chilean' turns a miner's escape into a referendum on exilic cinema
Economy14 Jul 26
The tariff-refund gusher, the quiet CPI print, and a new leak-hunting unit: three data points that explain July's…
Oceania14 Jul 26
Sydney landlord pulls plug on LGBTQ+ pop-up in deconsecrated church after Christian protest
Oceania14 Jul 26
A 16-year silence: Sydney childcare worker charged with 329 offences against 136 children
MENA14 Jul 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas: what the wire so far says, and what it does not
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Strikes on Ahvaz: What the First Hours of a US-Iran Air War Look Like
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz on edge: a renewed US-Iran fight, and the price of a chokepoint
Energy14 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz under new strain as UK breaks with US on toll plan, tanker strikes spread
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Strait That Refused to Stay Open: How a 21-Mile Chokepoint Became a Fiscal, Military, and Diplomatic Front Line
Crypto14 Jul 26
Twenty percent and a closed lane: the Strait of Hormuz goes from chokepoint to toll road
Asia14 Jul 26
Tankers burning, tariffs threatened: the day the Strait of Hormuz became the world's tariff line
MENA14 Jul 26
The Strait that doesn't blink: Hormuz enters a new phase of calibrated risk
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Strait at Gunpoint: How a 21-Mile Choke Point Became the World's Most Expensive Trap
Long Reads14 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz on the edge: how an 11-hour deal collapsed into a US blockade and Bushehr strikes
Long Reads14 Jul 26
The Strait of Hormuz toll booth: how a 20% US shipping fee ran into a hard legal wall in three days
Tech14 Jul 26
Twelve states take Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery fight to court as $110bn deal teeters
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain into the World Cup final as Polymarket pushes it past 57%; US strikes on southern Iran hours earlier sharpen the…
Europe14 Jul 26
Spain into the World Cup final after 2-0 win over France sets up showdown with Argentina or England
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