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Iran fired missiles again and seized three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, while the US and Saudi Arabia struck Iran-backed fighters in Iraq, pushing oil prices up 7% and prompting Britain to build a naval coalition to protect shipping.
This week Washington hosts high-stakes meetings linking two wars: Trump meets Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, while the Pentagon extends Ukraine aid planning to 2029 and the Senate considers sanctions on buyers of Russian and Iranian oil.
On his first day hosting a foreign leader, Britain's new prime minister Andy Burnham welcomed Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, keeping UK support for Kyiv unchanged and hinting at closer ties with the European Union.
The United States stopped its nightly bombing of Iran, most likely because it is running short of the missiles it uses to shoot down attacks, not because of any peace deal.
The day's thread runs through every story: threats are being issued and ignored. A US interdiction inside the Strait of Hormuz, a second Romanian drone shoot-down, and a new EU strategy paper on China all point the same way — deterrence is failing in several theatres at once.
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.
The day in geopolitics: a Russia sanctions package cleared by concession, a €890m Google fine, a rate hold hostage to oil, and a settlement-sanctions deadlock — plus Trump's price for a Saudi nuclear deal.
The United States crossed a line it had long held, granting Saudi Arabia domestic uranium enrichment and signing a civilian nuclear pact — a shift Israel and analysts warn could reset Middle East security.
The day in four stories: mediators float a 10-day Gulf ceasefire, Washington slaps a 50% tariff on $20bn of Canadian goods, the Commission splits over the Digital Fairness Act, and one analysis reads it all as a contest over chokepoints.
A one-glance recap of Nunissum's 20 July coverage: a regional Gulf war spreading to Kuwait and Bahrain with Brent past $90, a heavy overnight exchange of long-range strikes between Russia and Ukraine, and our week-in-view on why security is being repriced as a scarce, purchasable good.
The day divided along two lines of Western-Middle East friction: escalation between Washington and Tehran spilling beyond military targets, and Europe's first legal move against trade with Israeli settlements.
Overnight US strikes hit Iranian bridges, an airport and a railway; Kuwait reports damage to a power and water plant; and our week-in-review argues security, not markets, now sets the terms.