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Saudi Arabia and 13 other countries founded a new alliance on July 30, 2026 to protect Red Sea shipping routes after Yemen's Houthi fighters declared a naval blockade and hit several oil tankers.
Poland says a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into its airspace overnight and crashed, leaving a 10-metre crater, and scrambled fighter jets in response.
A suspected Russian missile crashed inside Poland, a NATO member, leaving a 10-metre crater near a village during a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Lviv.
Four separate studies published this month found China pulling ahead of the United States in several areas at once: global opinion polls now favor China over the US in most countries, China's trade surplus keeps growing, its biotech industry is running drug trials faster and cheaper, and its military has added disinformation and fake videos to its war plans for Taiwan (a self-governing island China claims).
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since US and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February set off new Middle East fighting.
Deterrence has always been a belief, not a weapon. This week, in Tehran, Kyiv, Tokyo and along the Korean border, that belief started to fail in the same place at once.
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.
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.