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Kuwait says it is intercepting Iranian drones and explosions have been heard in Bahrain, drawing two more Gulf states directly into a conflict that until now centred on Israel, Iran and US forces. US strikes continued for a ninth straight night and Brent crude broke $90.
From the Strait of Hormuz to Lockheed's expanding missile lines to Ukraine's battle-tested electricity grid, the world is converging on a single question: what does it cost when a chokepoint closes? The states that control energy corridors and arms production are quietly setting the answer.
The United States is imposing a 25% tariff on Brazilian imports at President Trump's direction, escalating its trade war to reach the world's tenth-largest economy and raising the risk of fresh commodity and supply-chain shocks.
Andy Burnham looks set to enter Downing Street within days without a contest. The new questions are about tax, energy and credibility — and they are the ones foreign capitals will be watching.
President Trump said the US will 'keep' and 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz after overnight airstrikes on Iran, turning a weekend exchange of fire into an open contest over the passage that carries a large share of the world's seaborne oil.
The EU's 21st sanctions package against Russia remains stuck days before a self-imposed deadline. Bulgaria's veto over Patriarch Kirill, French and Italian resistance to an entry ban on Russian soldiers, and a fight over cod quotas show how a single capital can reshape continent-wide policy — and why negotiators are trading substance for unanimity.
The US-Iran ceasefire framework announced on June 15 promised an end to fighting on every front, including Lebanon. A week on, Hizballah's brinkmanship, jittery Gulf capitals, a slump in Hormuz shipping traffic and dueling claims about who actually won all point toward a truce that is thinner than the headline suggests.
Ann Widdecombe, the former Tory minister who reinvented herself as a Brexit Party MEP and then a Strictly Come Dancing contestant, has died aged 78. Her career maps the fracturing and realignment of the British right over three decades.
Ali Khamenei's marathon funeral closed with his burial in Mashhad after a week of mass processions and revenge slogans against Donald Trump. France 24 reports the succession points away from clerical rule toward a nationalistic military leadership — with the war against the United States still hot.
Flying home from the NATO summit in Turkey, Donald Trump travelled on an older Air Force One on Secret Service guidance — a sign of how seriously the protective detail takes Iranian threats. Meanwhile the president admits he does not know whether full-scale war has returned, and reports of 300 Shahed drones in Cuba pull the conflict toward the Western Hemisphere.
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer behind Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, has died at 75 in a Portuguese hospital where she was treated after acute intestinal surgery, according to an announcement on her official website.