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MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran's Hormuz pressure play lands on the eve of an 11-hour deal
Africa13 Jul 26
Sudan army's Turkish drone downs Chinese-made UAV traced to UAE supply line to RSF
Europe13 Jul 26
Subway grime, double standards: what a viral New York clip reveals about how the West frames other countries' public…
MENA13 Jul 26
Strikes land across southern Iran: what the first reports actually say
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Strikes on Khuzestan: what the early reporting actually says
Energy13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz becomes the fault line as US and Iran trade strikes across the Gulf
Energy13 Jul 26
The Strait on a Short Fuse: Hormuz Becomes the Billable Item
MENA13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz under fire: how a 36-hour US-Iran exchange redrew the Gulf's shipping map
Europe13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz under pressure as UK moves to harden Jewish-community policing
Defense13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz in a 48-hour vise as Trump claims a guardianship and Iran says the corridor is shut
Energy13 Jul 26
Trump moves to seize the Strait of Hormuz and the oil markets believe him
Defense13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz traffic thins as US and Iran trade contradictory signals on the waterway's status
Energy13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz traffic collapses as Trump floats a US "guardian" role
Long Reads13 Jul 26
The Strait of Hormuz, According to Two Parliaments
Markets13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz becomes the front line of an oil shock
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz under fire: what the July 12 CENTCOM strikes change, and what they don't
MENA13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz explodes: Iran strikes commercial vessel as US-Iran firefight enters its second hour
Long Reads13 Jul 26
The Strait That Wouldn't Stay Open
Long Reads13 Jul 26
The Strait in Three Statements: How a Hormuz Showdown Became a Test of Maritime Sovereignty
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz blockade meets an Iranian retaliation that the wires had not charted
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Forty-Eight Hours on the Strait: How Hormuz Became the World's Most Expensive Duel of Whispers
Americas13 Jul 26
Twelve states sue to block Paramount's $110bn grab for Warner Bros. Discovery
Tech13 Jul 26
Twelve states move to block the $110bn Paramount–Warner tie-up
Europe13 Jul 26
Starmer's reported weekend pivot: a World Cup trip, then the exit door
Europe13 Jul 26
Mbappé, Yamal, Dembélé and the geopolitics of a World Cup semifinal
Opinion13 Jul 26
South Korea's verdict and SK Hynix's debut: two tests for a country under pressure
Asia13 Jul 26
A decade after the South China Sea ruling, Beijing's playbook has hardened
Defense13 Jul 26
A decade after The Hague, the South China Sea has new defenders, and louder ones
Africa13 Jul 26
South Africa's minister flags border security at the Limpopo crossing after visit to Zimbabwe frontier
Africa13 Jul 26
Pretoria pulls the lever: R13.5bn freeze on 69 municipalities tests South Africa's fiscal federalism
Science13 Jul 26
South Africa's food economy is running out of climate buffer, and the study says adaptation money is the bottleneck
Africa13 Jul 26
A South African arrest, three UK deaths, and a slow extradition fight that is already underway
Africa13 Jul 26
Pretoria's diamond pause and Lagos's compensation bill: two tests of South Africa's economic weight
Africa13 Jul 26
South Africa's deportation drive hits 53,000 as Beitbridge crossing turns into a pressure valve
Africa13 Jul 26
Johannesburg arrest hands South African policing a quiet win in cross-border hunt
Africa13 Jul 26
South Africa's anti-migrant turn and the economy it might break
Europe13 Jul 26
Sony's disc-free PlayStation future draws fire from UK retailers
Markets13 Jul 26
SK Hynix's Nasdaq stumble meets a Seoul courtroom: a 12% slide and a two-year sentence, on the same Monday
MENA13 Jul 26
Six loud blasts in Konarak and Chabahar: what the Iranian south looks like on a Monday in July
Europe13 Jul 26
Sinner makes it five as Wimbledon’s Centre Court hands the Italian a second straight title
Europe13 Jul 26
Sikorski: Russia holds the second-strongest army in Ukraine, and Poland has spent five centuries keeping watch
Asia13 Jul 26
Shell exits Sprng Energy as India's renewables consolidation enters a new phase
Africa13 Jul 26
Senegal sacks Pape Thiaw hours after World Cup exit, exposing the calculus behind African football's coaching churn
Crypto13 Jul 26
SBI and Solana Foundation team up to build Japan's first on-chain financial market
MENA13 Jul 26
Saudi strikes on Sanaa airport end a quiet stretch and bring a Houthi-Iran flight in over the ruins
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Saudi jets struck Sanaa airport to block an Iranian flight, ending the de-escalation phase
MENA13 Jul 26
Houthi-held Sana'a airfield struck after Iranian Mahan Air plane lands at Hodeidah
MENA13 Jul 26
Saudi airstrikes on Sanaa airport aim to block Iranian Mahan Air landing in Hodeidah
Defense13 Jul 26
Saudi jets strike Sanaa airport to turn back an Iranian Mahan Air flight, escalating Yemen's airspace contest
MENA13 Jul 26
Saudi airstrike on Sanaa airport tries, and fails, to block an Iranian Mahan Air landing
Europe13 Jul 26
A sanction-busting precedent in plain sight: how a NATO neighbour became Moscow's quiet logistics broker
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Airstrikes on Sana'a and an Iranian Jet over Hodeidah: Reading a Flash Escalation Between Riyadh and the Houthis
Culture13 Jul 26
San José Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Central America's Young Directors
Americas13 Jul 26
Sam Neill, the actor who carried Jurassic Park into a generation's living rooms, dies at 78
Americas13 Jul 26
Russia says it intercepted a large-scale Ukrainian drone strike on military airfields. Kyiv has not commented.
Americas13 Jul 26
Russian FSB claims it intercepted long-range Ukrainian FPV drone strike on two Far East airfields
Americas13 Jul 26
Rubio as Caracas's shadow governor: what the New York Times reporting actually shows
Crypto13 Jul 26
Robinhood's AI Trading Agents Are Not the Disruption They Are Selling
Africa13 Jul 26
A century late, France honours Black South African WWI dead, and Ramaphosa presses for a fuller record
Europe13 Jul 26
Lisbon and Rabat move to lay a subsea cable under a wary Atlantic
MENA13 Jul 26
Betting the Strait: What Prediction Markets Say About Hormuz, Iran, and the US Blockade Question
Europe13 Jul 26
Paris summit tests whether Western aid can outrun Russian summer pressure on Kyiv
Europe13 Jul 26
Paris talks test whether Europe's Ukraine coalition has the stomach for a long war
Opinion13 Jul 26
Twelve states just told Paramount the merger is too big to wave through
Culture13 Jul 26
Paramount Calls States' Antitrust Suit a 'Shield' for Netflix and Big Tech
Crypto13 Jul 26
Open-source AI quietly hits a context wall, and the GPU class on the other side
MENA13 Jul 26
Oman strike on US radar in Bahrain and Khuzestan air attack widen the Gulf front
MENA13 Jul 26
Oman summons Iranian ambassador after drone strikes reach its territory
Crypto13 Jul 26
Oil jumps 4.5% on US-Iran flare-up while Robinhood crosses a new line on retail crypto
Asia13 Jul 26
Oil jumps 4% and gold slides as US and Iran trade strikes, with Seoul's Kospi shedding close to 10%
Markets13 Jul 26
Oil jumps 5% as Strait of Hormuz traffic hits two-month low
Oceania13 Jul 26
Auckland man killed in Ukraine: what the NZ Herald report actually says, and what the 'Azov' label obscures
Crypto13 Jul 26
New York's five-year rule and the question of who owns a HODLed Bitcoin
Long Reads13 Jul 26
A hundred thousand in the rain: what Norway's World Cup homecoming actually says
Europe13 Jul 26
Norway returns to Oslo after Women's World Cup exit, as prediction markets brush off the refereeing row
Culture13 Jul 26
New York Comedy Festival Returns, With a Lineup That Reads Like the City's Itself
Culture13 Jul 26
The Ingalls Come Back: How Netflix's 'Little House' Revival Quietly Rewrote Itself Around Ma
Asia13 Jul 26
A claimed ex-US sailor, a Chinese passport, and the Nepal border puzzle
Europe13 Jul 26
Musk-funded trip to Moscow turns a UK fringe figure into a transatlantic talking point
Defense13 Jul 26
An MQ-1 went down in the Strait of Hormuz. The type of drone matters more than the loss.
Europe13 Jul 26
A Moscow taxi driver walks away from a Warsaw highway pipe spill, and the internet crowns him the luckiest man in Russia
Americas13 Jul 26
Mexico's antitrust challenge to Sony's post-2028 disc-less PlayStation puts physical-media lock-in back on the policy…
Americas13 Jul 26
Mexico files criminal complaint over ICE killing in Houston as cross-border diplomatic row deepens
Americas13 Jul 26
Nine dead in Mexican highway crash, four of them Americans
Americas13 Jul 26
Mexico turns up the pressure on Washington over migrant deaths
Americas13 Jul 26
Mexico files criminal complaints against the United States over 17 deaths in ICE custody
Europe13 Jul 26
Macron hands Ukraine a Rafale-sized answer to a question Kyiv has been asking for two years
Europe13 Jul 26
Paris pledges Rafales: Macron's 2028–2029 timetable for Ukraine's air force
Europe13 Jul 26
Macron's Qatar condolence and the unwritten rules of Gulf condolence diplomacy
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Macron takes Ukraine's highest honour as Europe moves to build a shared missile shield
Defense13 Jul 26
Commander of Ukraine's 155th Luchanov Brigade detained in Kyiv region
MENA13 Jul 26
Beirut–Tel Aviv pact meets an Iranian counter-narrative: what the Strait, the army, and the timing reveal
MENA13 Jul 26
Lebanon's health ministry logs 4,324 killed since March 2 as ceasefire strain deepens
Africa13 Jul 26
Lavrov returns to Africa with a 2027 summit on the horizon
Americas13 Jul 26
Kyiv's long-arm strikes on Russian airfields expose a frontier in the drone war
Culture13 Jul 26
A Bulgarian Heist Film Surfaces at Karlovy Vary, and the Festival Quietly Remakes Itself
MENA13 Jul 26
Explosions reported at US bases in Kuwait as Iran-aligned outlets trade claims
Europe13 Jul 26
Leaflets in Krakow targeting Ukrainian residents raise alarm in Poland's refugee corridor
Culture13 Jul 26
Mattel's Huntr/x Singing Dolls Land, and the K-Pop Fandom-to-Toy Aisle Pipeline Gets a Harder Edge
Asia13 Jul 26
Retail leverage and an AI wobble puncture South Korea's record run
Science13 Jul 26
Seoul moves to double optical reception as data-center bandwidth crunch deepens
Europe13 Jul 26
A life sentence in Koblenz: the trial that put the Islamic State's trade in Yazidi women on a German record
Energy13 Jul 26
Explosions reported at Khuzestan oil-and-gas airport as US-Iran strikes widen across energy corridor
Business13 Jul 26
Explosions rock Khorramshahr port as US-Iran strikes widen across Khuzestan
Arts13 Jul 26
Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane launch a YouTube shorts channel with Ravi Muppa's 'Incognito' at the centre
Asia13 Jul 26
Japan's universities, and the Toyota crossholdings unwind
Crypto13 Jul 26
Japan's SBI opens yen stablecoin lending at 3%, betting Tokyo's 'invest locally' push will meet appetite there first
Asia13 Jul 26
Tokyo names the problem: Russia has turned Japan into a 'den of spies'
Crypto13 Jul 26
Japan's 'invest locally' turn points a slow-moving pension gusher at bitcoin and gold
Oceania13 Jul 26
Tokyo rebuilds a foreign intelligence service, eight decades late
Oceania13 Jul 26
Japan prepares first centralised intelligence agency since 1945, with US, Australia and Germany in the loop
Asia13 Jul 26
Japan moves to rebuild a wartime-era intelligence architecture, eight decades on
Markets13 Jul 26
Japan's Capital Has Stopped Believing in Children
Americas13 Jul 26
Israeli Civil Defense Delegation Lands in Caracas as Caracas-Beijing Axis Reaches the Building Inspectorate
MENA13 Jul 26
Isfahan strike and a wobbly MoU: how thin the US–Iran thread has worn by mid-July
Energy13 Jul 26
Iran strikes US-linked bases in Jordan and Kuwait as Hormuz naval standoff widens
Energy13 Jul 26
IRGC Navy Orders Vessels Out of Strait of Hormuz as Tanker Traffic Branches Around the World's Most Sensitive Choke…
Defense13 Jul 26
IRGC Navy broadcast orders vessels out of Strait of Hormuz on VHF Channel 16
Energy13 Jul 26
IRGC claims Hormuz ship seizures and strikes on Jordan base in overnight statements
MENA13 Jul 26
Iranian ballistic missiles hit Bahrain in overnight barrage, Telegram channels show
Defense13 Jul 26
Iranian drones strike US positions in Kuwait as regional escalation widens
MENA13 Jul 26
Beyond Hormuz: what an Iran war would actually decide
Asia13 Jul 26
Iran's foreign minister frames a posture of "war and diplomacy" as the art of choosing the right tool
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran puts US-Iran memorandum in the 'crisis phase,' warns of abandonment
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran signals collapse of US-Iran memorandum, raises Hormuz temperature
MENA13 Jul 26
Iran strikes US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain as Gulf flashpoint widens
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Iran strikes a base in Jordan: what the IRGC is claiming, and what isn't yet on the record
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Iran strikes Jordan and Bahrain in retaliation for US attacks, claiming a drone-command hit
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran warns Washington off the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz warning puts 21 million barrels a day back in the crosshairs
Defense13 Jul 26
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz to most traffic as US Navy trades fire in the waterway
Energy13 Jul 26
Tehran puts a price tag on the Strait of Hormuz, and Washington is being told to read it
MENA13 Jul 26
Iran opens a second front as US strikes widen: what the weekend escalation actually says
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Sea Drones in the Strait, Sanction Relief in Brussels: Two Tracks of the Iran File
Energy13 Jul 26
Tehran tells Washington: the Strait of Hormuz is not yours to guard
MENA13 Jul 26
Iran rejects US Hormuz escort plan and blocks IAEA access, raising the cost of any nuclear deal
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Tehran's 'blank check' warning: how Iran's Persian Gulf strikes redraw the line on escalation with Washington
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Iran opens a new front: missiles and drones strike Bahrain as Gulf airspace lights up
Energy13 Jul 26
Iran warns regional states: cooperating with Washington on Hormuz is a war act
MENA13 Jul 26
Iran fires two waves of ballistic missiles at Jordan in overnight barrage
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran tells IAEA to wait as it accuses Washington of 'mutilating' the Islamabad deal
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran blocks IAEA access, lashes Graham: a 24-hour snapshot of Iran's two-front posture
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Two warnings over Hormuz: Iran says the strait stays its business, Trump says he will seize it
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran's Hormuz play turns Trump's leverage into a hostage market
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Tehran's leverage play: Hormuz threats, a martyred leader, and the Iran deal that may not survive the summer
Europe13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz returns to the front line as Iran's precondition reshapes the diplomacy track
Energy13 Jul 26
Tehran draws two red lines: Hormuz stays closed to coercion, nuclear sites stay closed to inspectors
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran puts the Strait of Hormuz and the IAEA on the table as the US-Iran memorandum enters what it calls a 'crisis…
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Tehran's two-front taunt: how the Iranian Foreign Ministry framed one senator's death and one alleged plot in a single…
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran rebuffs IAEA access and floats Hormuz pressure, as Trump's MOU hangs in the balance
Asia13 Jul 26
Iran war claims US stockpile is bleeding: what Tehran wants you to read into it
MENA13 Jul 26
Iran's army claims two strikes in a single day: a drone downed in Bandar Abbas, a Bahrain warehouse hit
MENA13 Jul 26
Tehran escalates its warning to Gulf neighbours: cooperate with Washington and we treat it as war
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Six dispatches, one country: reading the Indian Express newsroom on 13 July 2026
Asia13 Jul 26
India's wellness gold rush meets a regulatory wall, and its trade negotiators talk past the noise
Asia13 Jul 26
India's parking problem isn't space. It's price.
Asia13 Jul 26
India's nuclear jigsaw: the SHANTI Bill, SMRs and Australian uranium converge
Asia13 Jul 26
Five Indian stories the wire buried: from a Navy frigate’s last voyage to exam-paper leaks and an AI judge
Asia13 Jul 26
India's environment ranking is dire, but its generic-medicine playbook still travels
Asia13 Jul 26
India's AI bill quietly has a Chinese accent
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Hugging Face builds the long tail: a fine-tuned Lightricks model and an open music transcriber land on the same July…
Culture13 Jul 26
Sony extends Hotel Transylvania into its second decade, betting animation IP can outlast streaming churn
MENA13 Jul 26
Prediction markets put Hormuz transit fees back on the table
Defense13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz traffic thins as US-Iran strikes resume and oil jumps 4%
Africa13 Jul 26
Hormuz traffic thins as US-Iran flare-up pushes tankers to the margins
Energy13 Jul 26
Hormuz thins out as US and Iran exchange strikes, putting the next round of talks on a knife-edge
MENA13 Jul 26
Hormuz traffic thins to a multi-week low as US-Iran strikes re-open and the Geneva deal teeters
MENA13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz traffic drops to multi-week low as US-Iran strikes reopen the shipping question
MENA13 Jul 26
Hormuz traffic halves in a weekend as Tehran readies toll regime
Energy13 Jul 26
Hormuz toll and Tehran's counter-blocade: a 24-hour shipping fight Washington didn't choose
Defense13 Jul 26
Tankers thin in the Strait of Hormuz as Washington and Tehran trade competing declarations
MENA13 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz turns into a live pressure point as US and Iran trade strikes
Defense13 Jul 26
Hormuz in flames: how a 20% cargo levy and a collapsing negotiation put the Strait back on a war footing
Crypto13 Jul 26
Six ships and a strait: how a Hormuz standoff is reshaping the crypto bill's runway
Defense13 Jul 26
Hormuz opens, then closes, then opens again: 48 hours that put a fifth of the world's oil on a knife-edge
Defense13 Jul 26
Hormuz under the gun: how a 48-hour shutdown became a US-Iran test of maritime nerve
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Hormuz by tweet: a one-sentence blockade, and the answer Tehran gave within an hour
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Hormuz reopened, then shut: how a 24-hour blockade flip reset the US-Iran war math
Asia13 Jul 26
An American nuclear upstart floats an India listing. The hard part is what comes after.
Energy13 Jul 26
Hodeidah landing and Bab al-Mandab threat put a Yemen chokepoint back in play
Europe13 Jul 26
Berlin's man in Moscow summoned as Kyiv's drones hit Russian refineries
Markets13 Jul 26
A billion-dollar Gaza fund lands the same minute a Saudi airport goes dark
Europe13 Jul 26
Moscow says it seized 24 FPV drones aimed at Amur and Chelyabinsk airfields; Kyiv-linked channels stay silent
Europe13 Jul 26
France bets on Ukrainian industry as Rafale order reshapes Europe's defence map
Americas13 Jul 26
France's heatwave-driven property reshuffle tests how a mature market prices climate risk
Long Reads13 Jul 26
Fog of War on the Karun: What Khuzestan Says It Knows
Culture13 Jul 26
Flanagan's long road to Carrie: what Amazon's first-look really tells us
Sport13 Jul 26
Four at the top, four at the door: how FIFA's rankings predicted the World Cup semifinals
Europe13 Jul 26
European Troika presses Iran and United States to revive ceasefire and talks
Europe13 Jul 26
Europe's LNG math still runs through Sabetta
Europe13 Jul 26
Europe bought a record first half of Russian LNG. The phase-out is still on the books.
Europe13 Jul 26
Europe's record Russian LNG imports expose the gap between Brussels' rhetoric and its gas math
Europe13 Jul 26
Three European flashpoints in one news cycle: Parmesan, unmanned landings, and a terror arrest sweep
Asia13 Jul 26
Europe's energy system hits its limits: a wind-light June, French reactor wobbles, and a Hormuz shock the grid was not…
Europe13 Jul 26
Brussels prepares to tighten the screws on Ukraine’s draft-age diaspora
Crypto13 Jul 26
Basel's bite, Europe's SME squeeze, and the stablecoin pitch to fill the gap
Europe13 Jul 26
EU ministers set to weigh settlement-trade curbs as Ro Khanna alleges settler detention in West Bank
Europe13 Jul 26
EU foreign ministers open door to fresh sanctions on Israeli settlement trade
Europe13 Jul 26
Dutch manure glut becomes a money problem: how EU nitrogen rules collided with fertiliser markets
Markets13 Jul 26