The day's coverage in 90 seconds: Washington ties an EU fine to tariffs, China hits back over Russia sanctions, oil breaks $100 as the Gulf war widens, and Brussels opens fresh regulatory fronts.
One report says a Romanian jet downed a suspected Russian drone. Before the escalation talk: what is confirmed, and what isn't.
The technology contest is moving from locks to rules — AI standards, data and industrial inputs — and Kenya, Mexico and the wider global South are where it is being decided.
The EU has listed several Iranian judges and a leading cyber-group figure over the persecution of dissidents and religious minorities. Here is how the listing works and what it binds.
Ten EU governments have warned that the Commission's 'cash-for-reforms' blueprint for the Union's next seven-year budget could penalise regions and hold up payments. Here is who must sign off, and how a disbursement actually gets blocked.
The European Commission says TikTok's handling of minors' accounts may breach the Digital Services Act — a preliminary charge that opens a right of reply and, potentially, fines of up to 6% of global turnover.
Beijing hit 14 EU entities with export controls and called it payback for Europe's newest Russia sanctions — opening a second, major-power front in the sanctions war, though the details that decide whether it bites remain undisclosed.
Washington's new tariff wall has moved the story from complaint to counter-move, with Canada threatening its 'full range' of retaliation and allies from Brussels to Canberra contesting the reasoning itself.
The floated 10-day ceasefire has not held: US strikes reach a 13th night, Trump threatens a 'bigger' offensive, and oil above $100 turns a regional war into a worldwide price shock.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says the €890 million DMA fine on Google could unravel the Turnberry trade deal and bring American tariffs — but the penalty is a legal decision only an EU court can undo, leaving the Commission little room to bargain.
Trump's new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries replace levies expiring Friday, recast as a crackdown on forced-labour imports after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier measures.
EU member states are restoring a temporary, voluntary measure that lets platforms keep scanning private messages for child sexual abuse material — a bloc-wide privacy trade-off renewed as a stopgap.