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Europe12 Jul 26
Stockholm protests put Sweden back at the centre of European Gaza politics
Europe12 Jul 26
When a Spanish PM Calls the French Team African: Race, Politics and the World Cup
Asia12 Jul 26
Musk's Earth-plus valuation pitch lands as China's reusable booster catches up
MENA12 Jul 26
Explosions reported across southern Iran as Hormuz tensions escalate
Culture12 Jul 26
South Korea turns up the volume on ticket touts as new penalties near
Asia12 Jul 26
Fourteen governments line up behind Manila as Beijing's South China Sea line hardens
Asia12 Jul 26
Fourteen governments call on Beijing to abide by the 2016 South China Sea ruling, again
Asia12 Jul 26
A decade after the South China Sea ruling, Beijing leans on ASEAN dialogue to dilute the legacy
Asia12 Jul 26
Fourteen governments line up behind the 2016 South China Sea ruling, and Beijing barely flinches
Africa12 Jul 26
Border alarm at Beitbridge: South Africa's minister visits the Limpopo crossing and demands urgent action
Africa12 Jul 26
South Africa hands a UK murder suspect into cross-jurisdictional custody
Europe12 Jul 26
Pretoria’s deportation drive hits 53,000 as Xenophobia reframes South Africa’s migration debate
Europe12 Jul 26
South Africa's deportation drive tops 53,000 as the country tests the line between border control and continental…
Africa12 Jul 26
South Africa's anti-migrant wave collides with the labour math its economy actually runs on
Crypto12 Jul 26
Sony Bank crosses the Pacific with a $40 million stablecoin bet
Oceania12 Jul 26
Sneako describes ASIO surveillance before Australian entry ban, reigniting online speech debate
Arts12 Jul 26
Cape Town's SMAC Gallery Faces Artist Revolt Over Unpaid Sales and Withheld Works
MENA12 Jul 26
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the emir who put Qatar on the global stage, dies at 75
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Sheikh Hamad's last exit: how a Gulf patron's death reopens Qatar's regional file
Sport12 Jul 26
Seattle's $9.6bn sale lands, and the White House has already taken a position
Europe12 Jul 26
Sarcelles evacuation: what a weapons cache outside a Paris synagogue tells us about French antisemitism in 2026
Africa12 Jul 26
Rybar's July 12 digest and the US Senate's Russia hands
Europe12 Jul 26
Moscow's latest leak: how a Telegram post on German UAV trainers in Ukraine is being spun across Europe
Asia12 Jul 26
Russian intelligence redirects toward Tokyo: what Japan's tech perimeter is being asked to absorb
Asia12 Jul 26
Russian intelligence relocated procurement networks to Japan after 2022, NYT and Japan Times reporting finds
Asia12 Jul 26
Putin's shadow network repopulates Tokyo: how expelled Russian spies traded European expulsions for a permissive Japan
Asia12 Jul 26
Russian intelligence relocates to Tokyo's blind spots
Defense12 Jul 26
A viral mishap, a stolen car, and the optics of a Russian army under strain
Europe12 Jul 26
Russia's Volhynia archive dump is a piece of the war on history
Americas12 Jul 26
Russia sends largest humanitarian plane yet to quake-struck Venezuela as Caracas leans on Moscow
MENA12 Jul 26
Russia Pulls S-400s into the Strike Role, and Ukraine's Air Defence Math Goes From Tight to Tilted
Asia12 Jul 26
Moscow's Tokyo resurrection: how Japan became a fallback station for Russian intelligence after the European expulsions
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Russia claims 585 drones downed in a day as Kramatorsk hit by Geran strike
Americas12 Jul 26
Rubio's Caracas backchannel: how the Secretary of State became Venezuela's de facto power broker
Americas12 Jul 26
Marco Rubio's shadow cabinet in Caracas: how Washington ended up running Venezuela's economy from a WhatsApp thread
Europe12 Jul 26
Rajoy's 'no French players' remark reignites Spain-France football diplomacy row
Europe12 Jul 26
Raël's movement plants an extraterrestrial embassy in Ouagadougou, and a French Sect alarm bell rings
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Explosions in the Strait: What 15 Minutes of Sound Around Qeshm Actually Tells Us
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Qeshm Island is hit: what the first hour of US strikes on Iran actually tells us
Energy12 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz jolted by 10–15 explosions near Qeshm Island
Americas12 Jul 26
Qatar deploys a 320-patient field hospital to Venezuela's earthquake zone
MENA12 Jul 26
Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies at 74, and a Gulf mediation era is buried with him
Defense12 Jul 26
Qatar confirms missile strikes on its territory as Gulf airspace braces for further volleys
MENA12 Jul 26
Missile alerts and all-clear in Qatar within sixteen minutes: what the brief window shows
MENA12 Jul 26
Missiles over Doha: how a single night pushed Qatar into Iran's crossfire
Defense12 Jul 26
Qatar says it downed every Iranian missile. Open-source trackers say the craters tell a different story.
MENA12 Jul 26
Qatar says it intercepted an Iranian missile barrage in the early hours of 12 July
MENA12 Jul 26
Qatar's air defence intercepts Iranian missile barrage as Trump warns of "complete decimation"
MENA12 Jul 26
Qatar declares four days of mourning as Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani dies at 74
MENA12 Jul 26
Qatar halts maritime traffic as Iran widens missile strikes and Hormuz talks collapse
Long Reads12 Jul 26
The Gulf's quiet power broker: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Qatar he reshaped
MENA12 Jul 26
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the emir who remade Qatar, dies at 74
MENA12 Jul 26
Qatar's father emir is dead. The Gulf's most seasoned mediator just lost his quietest voice.
Defense12 Jul 26
Qatar comes under ballistic-missile fire as Gulf confrontation widens
Europe12 Jul 26
A $1.3 million bet against Belgium says something about how World Cup odds are now made
Europe12 Jul 26
A fringe march in Warsaw, and the line it tries to redraw on Ukraine
Europe12 Jul 26
A 15-groszy pour: how Poland's convenience economy is quietly outflanking the EU's bottled-water norm
Europe12 Jul 26
Cold water, hot politics: how a 15-grosz pour became a small symbol of Polish consumer power
Europe12 Jul 26
Thirteen-hour queues at the Polish border expose the cost of Ukraine's westward logistics pivot
Europe12 Jul 26
Warsaw sends Patriot interceptors to Kyiv, betting that air defence is now the war's pivot
Europe12 Jul 26
A fringe march and a frontline question: how loud is the anti-Ukraine chorus in Poland?
Asia12 Jul 26
Fifteen Indian tourists dead off Phu Quoc: what the speedboat capsizing reveals about Vietnam's coastal safety regime
Asia12 Jul 26
Capsize off Phu Quoc kills at least 15 Indian tourists, exposing Vietnam's crowded boat-tourism squeeze
Defense12 Jul 26
Persian Gulf Strait Authority declares Hormuz closed, blames US military movements
Oceania12 Jul 26
Patriot production for Ukraine likely to land in Germany, Russian-aligned channel reports
Americas12 Jul 26
Pastors, Pollsters, and a Pocket-Nuke Veto: Reading America’s July 2026
Europe12 Jul 26
Paris synagogue scare follows pattern of low-cost vehicle-borne probes across Europe
Europe12 Jul 26
A suspicious car, an evacuated synagogue, and the texture of French Jewish life in 2026
Asia12 Jul 26
Pakistan steps into the middle of US-Iran talks, urging restraint on both sides
Asia12 Jul 26
Pakistan and Iran reach for the phone as regional temperature climbs
Business12 Jul 26
OpenAI's chaotic week: Apple lawsuit, safety chief exit, family push
Crypto12 Jul 26
Open-source AI shifts into infrastructure mode as long-context and speculative-decoding models flood Hugging Face
MENA12 Jul 26
Oman pushes a two-lane Hormuz as Iran rejects the American ultimatum
MENA12 Jul 26
Oman's Symbolic Snub: A Low-Ranking Iranian Diplomat Carries the Note
Defense12 Jul 26
Oman's quiet protest, and the cost of hosting America's footprint
Culture12 Jul 26
A 2,800-year-old poem, Christopher Nolan's camera, and the strange endurance of Homer
Americas12 Jul 26
The New York Times frames the end of American primacy, in terms an American paper rarely uses
Europe12 Jul 26
A Norwegian walkout lands on Europe's biggest summer stage
Oceania12 Jul 26
Norway's World Cup run turns a Sydney pub into a Norwegian outpost, and a low-cost carrier into a wager
MENA12 Jul 26
Nine-year-old among those killed as Israeli fire hits central Gaza, local reporters say
Europe12 Jul 26
Neuschwanstein killer fights extradition as Germany bakes through another July heat wave
MENA12 Jul 26
Netanyahu, in mourning for Graham, says the US-Israel alliance can finance itself
MENA12 Jul 26
Netanyahu weighs US trip for Graham funeral as Tehran and Washington read the same death in opposite registers
Europe12 Jul 26
Musk-funded Moscow visit tests UK debate over foreign political spending
Africa12 Jul 26
France ends Morocco’s run, but the Atlas Lions rewrite the World Cup map
Europe12 Jul 26
Moldovan Ministry of Defence accused of doctoring a Soviet-era photo to smear Soviet veterans
Culture12 Jul 26
Disney's Moana Live-Action Bet Tests a Starved Theatrical Slate
Long Reads12 Jul 26
A shrine in Mashhad, a stage for grief, and a state looking in: Iran's mourning ceremonies as political theatre
Europe12 Jul 26
Marandi goes live: how an Iranian political-science shop became a Western podcast circuit
Africa12 Jul 26
38,000 and counting: Malawi pulls its citizens out of South Africa as anti-migrant fury turns lethal
Europe12 Jul 26
Macron turns to Dreyfus as France confronts a quieter antisemitism fight
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham's last trip: a Kyiv visit, a sudden illness, and a Republican vacuum
MENA12 Jul 26
An anchor's glee and a PM's calculation: the strange afterlife of Lindsey Graham in Iranian and Israeli media
Long Reads12 Jul 26
The senator, the satirist, and the Tehran pressure loop: how Lindsey Graham became a one-man Rorschach in Iran's…
MENA12 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham dies at 70, closing a chapter in the US-Israel alignment
MENA12 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham dies at 71, ending a foreign-policy career that defined the hawkish edge of the Trump era
MENA12 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham dies at 71, and Washington's Iran hawks lose their loudest voice
MENA12 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham's anti-Iran record comes back into focus after his death at 71
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham dies at 71, hours after a Ukraine trip the cables never expected
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Graham's last week: Ukraine, the Senate floor, and an end that redrew three files at once
MENA12 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham Is Dead. The Reactions Map Washington's Two Israels.
MENA12 Jul 26
Graham's death draws Israeli grief and Iranian taunts
MENA12 Jul 26
Graham is reported dead. Iranian state TV is celebrating. The facts are not yet public.
Asia12 Jul 26
Lindsey Graham's 500% tariff threat lands on India's ‘blood money’ framing
Asia12 Jul 26
Leehom Wang's 39 stitches put China's live-event safety regime under fresh scrutiny
MENA12 Jul 26
Lebanon’s health ministry tallies 4,322 dead since March as Israeli strikes continue
MENA12 Jul 26
Lebanon's health ministry puts March-to-July casualty toll at 4,322 dead, 12,219 wounded
Europe12 Jul 26
Le Pen’s comeback bid lands inside a French Right that has stopped waiting for permission
Europe12 Jul 26
Le Pen cleared to run: a French court redraws the 2027 map
MENA12 Jul 26
Larijani's revenge frame keeps Iran's Iraq file open
Asia12 Jul 26
Kyiv reshuffles cabinet, Beijing counsels Moscow
MENA12 Jul 26
Kuwait-launched ATACMS claims hit Iranian targets: what is actually verified
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Khuzestan under fire: what the 12 July 2026 US strike wave on Iran actually tells us
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Two explosions, one province: the widening fog around Khuzestan
MENA12 Jul 26
Strikes on Khuzestan: what a five-minute Telegram burst tells us about the tempo of the US campaign against Iran
Energy12 Jul 26
Strikes on Khuzestan: what four late-night Telegram feeds say, and what they don't
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Strikes on Khuzestan: What the Wire Shows, What It Doesn't
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Khuzestan overnight: what the provincial record actually shows
MENA12 Jul 26
Khamenei funeral rites become a public stage for Trump's enemies
Asia12 Jul 26
An 18-month-old's death in a Kerala hospital, and the anaesthesia gap rural India has stopped being able to ignore
Africa12 Jul 26
Kenya hands over Afghan fugitive to the United States after court fight ends
Crypto12 Jul 26
JPMorgan tells clients the biggest risk to Bitcoin isn't Strategy, it's the private blockchains Wall Street is building
Africa12 Jul 26
Jayden Adams, the World Cup midfielder who came home to finish the season, dies at 25
Africa12 Jul 26
Jayden Adams dies at 25 after World Cup appearance, leaving South African football to reckon with another sudden loss
Long Reads12 Jul 26
A morning strike at Jask, and a reprimand in the Strait: Iran and the United States on a hair-trigger morning
MENA12 Jul 26
Explosions reported at Jask and Sirik as US-Iran confrontation enters a new, kinetic phase
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Strikes on the Strait: What the Jask, Chabahar and Qeshm Blasts Tell Us About the Next Iran Escalation
Asia12 Jul 26
Japan's universities are getting a portfolio. Toyota's crossholdings are getting smaller.
Asia12 Jul 26
Japan's universities get a stock portfolio, and Toyota cashes out at the same time
Asia12 Jul 26
Japan's universities get a stock-market lifeline, and Toyota keeps cashing out crossholdings
Crypto12 Jul 26
Tokyo's Pension Pivot Lands in Private Markets as Egypt's Bill and Tether's Spread Tell a Connected Story
Crypto12 Jul 26
Japan's local-investment push meets a mango ban: what the next Asia pivot really looks like
Asia12 Jul 26
Japan Inc unwinds: Toyota's share sell-off, a university investment reset, and Hayabusa2's planetary defence bid
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Japan Inc. Quietly Rewires: Toyota's Cross-Shareholding Sell-Off Meets Tokyo's University Investment Overhaul
Europe12 Jul 26
Italian investigators expose a Russian intelligence cell scouting Ukraine-bound air defences
Culture12 Jul 26
Marco Bellocchio and Sally Wainwright Take Top Honors at an Italian Festival That Could Not Quite Hide the Industry…
MENA12 Jul 26
Israeli strikes hit Gaza City workshops as IDF frames targets as weapons-production sites
MENA12 Jul 26
Israeli strikes reported on Al-Sanaa neighbourhood in western Gaza City
MENA12 Jul 26
Israeli forces raid Al-Sabra as Gaza City reports mount under aid-funnel constraints
MENA12 Jul 26
Israeli forces fire illumination flares over eastern Khan Yunis in late-evening barrage
MENA12 Jul 26
Israeli drone strike hits Gaza City metal workshop as casualty reports filter in
MENA12 Jul 26
Israeli drone strike hits eastern Lebanon's Bekaa, first reported attack since the ceasefire
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Inside the 12 July bombardment of southern Lebanon: what the footage shows, what the wires left out
MENA12 Jul 26
Israeli Drone Strike Hits Bekaa as Lebanon–Israel Coordination Talks Hit a Wall
Energy12 Jul 26
IRGC says it struck US drone base in Jordan, opening a new front with Washington
Energy12 Jul 26
IRGC says Strait of Hormuz is shut, again, until US strikes end
Defense12 Jul 26
IRGC missile strike on cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz triggers US counterstrikes on Iranian targets
Energy12 Jul 26
Tehran's Hormuz squeeze: IRGC declares no foreign vessel passes without surveillance
MENA12 Jul 26
IRGC closes the Strait of Hormuz and fires on a commercial vessel
Defense12 Jul 26
IRGC Navy declares Strait of Hormuz closed; CENTCOM reports third US strike wave
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Two missiles, two stories: what 12 July 2026 actually revealed about Iran, the IRGC, and the Gulf information war
MENA12 Jul 26
An Iraqi teenager, an Iranian ayatollah, and a publicity ritual in Baghdad
MENA12 Jul 26
Iraq's new premier heads to Washington with an oil and gas shopping list
Energy12 Jul 26
Iraq's new prime minister lands in Washington with oil and gas on the table
Defense12 Jul 26
Iraq's 'Islamic Resistance' issues pre-conditions on foreign economic deals
Americas12 Jul 26
Iran's 160-Ton Aid Flight to Venezuela Signals a Quiet Diplomatic Survival Play
Crypto12 Jul 26
Oil jumps, strikes resume, ceasefire unwinds: the Iran–US arc that hit crypto's macro nerve
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran hosts UN Lebanon coordinator in Tehran, frames talks around sovereignty
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran plotted to kill Trump in Türkiye, Western intelligence services say
Asia12 Jul 26
Iran tops the field at China-hosted math olympiad, the fourth edition of a competition Tehran has now won three times
MENA12 Jul 26
Satellite imagery points to direct hits on US-allied Gulf air bases, attributed to Iran
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran strikes Qatar and Oman as wider missile wave rattles Gulf
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Tehran tests the Sultanate: How one night of Iranian strikes on Omani soil redraws the Gulf's neutrality calculus
Markets12 Jul 26
Iran strikes US assets in Kuwait as explosions rock Bandar Abbas: the Gulf on a hair trigger
MENA12 Jul 26
Iranian strikes hit Bahrain and Qatar as Gulf flashpoint widens
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Strikes on Iran's Energy Spine: What Asaluyeh, Bushehr, Ardabil and Mahshahr Tell Us About a Widening Air Campaign
Defense12 Jul 26
Iran strikes US missile unit on Kuwaiti soil, Iranian state media claims
Defense12 Jul 26
A destroyed battery, a 45% market, and a threat to flatten Iran: reading the 48 hours between a strike and a deadline
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Iran's reach lands in Doha: a night of bangs, briefings, and unanswered questions
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran claims control of the Strait of Hormuz as US strikes intensify
MENA12 Jul 26
Trump says Iran agreed to a deal, then attacked a ship. Tehran says the Strait of Hormuz is its most powerful card.
Energy12 Jul 26
Iran's security commission claims the Strait of Hormuz 'with strength' as oil markets wait
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Tehran stages a quiet deterrent at the Strait of Hormuz, and a sanctioned financier resurfaces in Washington’s…
Crypto12 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz closed, US fires from Kuwait: a crypto market's first real test of the Iran shock
MENA12 Jul 26
Tehran tightens its grip on the Strait of Hormuz as US-Iran standoff deepens
Defense12 Jul 26
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, US strikes again: the day the oil chokepoint went hot
MENA12 Jul 26
Hormuz shut, oil markets on watch: Iran's IRGC declares the strait closed 'until further notice'
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz shut, US bases hit, Iran publishes strike imagery: a day the Gulf war escalated
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Iranian state TV and the death of Lindsey Graham: how a 70-minute Telegram cycle weaponised a rumour
MENA12 Jul 26
Iranian state media hails Lindsey Graham's death as regime's enemies fall silent
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran's reformist faction faces a narrowing window as US talks probability ticks up
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran fires missiles at Qatar, then sends its foreign minister to offer condolences
Americas12 Jul 26
Iran's Physics Olympiad Team Takes Five Medals in Colombia, Quietly Outperforming Peers
Energy12 Jul 26
Iran's Strait Authority shutters Hormuz transit, blames 'illegal' US movements
Energy12 Jul 26
Tehran claims the Strait of Hormuz by force, and the oil market has to listen
Energy12 Jul 26
Iran's parliament claims the Strait of Hormuz, and the oil market has to take it seriously
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Muscat as the new back channel: Iran and Oman coordinate on Hormuz as a wider Gulf settlement takes shape
MENA12 Jul 26
Three Iranian ballistic missiles hit Kuwait's Shuwaikh port, jolting a Gulf still absorbing the shock of June
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Iran's missile salvo at Muwaffaq Salti: what the early hours tell us, and what they don't
MENA12 Jul 26
Reports of an attack on a US base in Kuwait surface alongside Iranian warnings to Gulf states
MENA12 Jul 26
Two Iranian provinces report explosions as US-Iran confrontation escalates
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran's July test launches land on a market still pricing détente
Tech12 Jul 26
Iran opens a second front: IRGC strikes widen to Jordan and the Strait of Hormuz
Defense12 Jul 26
Iran signals Hormuz is a red line as funeral politics harden the rhetoric
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran's Hormuz gambit: two projectiles, one closed chokepoint
Asia12 Jul 26
Iran strikes widen across the Gulf as Tehran says Hormuz will close
Long Reads12 Jul 26
Tehran's last diplomatic line: how Iran tried to widen the blast radius of blame
Africa12 Jul 26
Iran's foreign minister lands in Muscat as Oman widens its role as Gulf back-channel
MENA12 Jul 26
Iran fires ballistic barrage at US positions in the Gulf
Defense12 Jul 26