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The day joined three strands of the same story: states reaching straight into markets, products and supply lines. The US taxed a G20 economy, the EU ordered a gatekeeper to rebuild its products, and shippers began pricing in a closed Strait of Hormuz.
Trump threatens Iranian civilian targets and infrastructure as the US reinstates the Hormuz blockade and Tehran hits back at US bases; oil transit crawls, Brent is up around 10%, and Europe moves to secure arms and deterrence.
India opens a UN Security Council bid, Trump revives a Hormuz toll, Brussels prosecutors move on Agrofert, and Burnham walks into No 10 unopposed.
Donald Trump says he has reinstated a US blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will bill ships for safe passage, days after fresh strikes and an Iranian attack on a vessel in the waterway.
France turns its annual military parade into a demonstration of European backing for Kyiv, with allied aircraft and troops pledged to Ukraine's post-war security taking centre stage.
The day in 90 seconds: escalation in the Strait of Hormuz, a Bulgarian veto over Patriarch Kirill freezing EU sanctions on Russia, and coalition strain across the UK, Germany and Czechia.
Lindsey Graham's death leaves his Russia sanctions bill without an author and opens a Senate seat fight shadowed by Iran's widening strikes on US bases across the Gulf.
Barely a year after taking office, Ukraine’s prime minister is on her way out. Zelenskyy calls it an “updated political strategy”; the still-unnamed successor will reveal what that means — to Kyiv and to Brussels.
From Andalusia's deadliest wildfire in years to Typhoon Bavi hammering Taiwan alongside a new Chinese law against pro-independence speech, plus a CDU leadership scramble in Berlin, a stalled murder probe in Britain, and a DOJ subpoena of NYT reporters — the day in geopolitics in 90 seconds.
The day's thread is fragile truces under strain: US-Iran fighting resumes around Khamenei's funeral, Ukraine tightens the noose on Crimea's fuel supply, and Brussels scrambles to stop its own oil price cap jumping to $58.
The US–Iran conflict deepens after Khamenei's funeral, Germany's Tomahawk purchase firms up, the Commission sues seven member states, and Britain gets an uncontested next prime minister.
The UN health agency's latest figures put confirmed deaths at 600, with roughly one in three known cases proving fatal. What the numbers leave unsaid matters as much as what they show.