Geopolitics beyond the usual borders.
One of Spain's deadliest wildfires killed 13, and now PM Pedro Sánchez wants prevention. Meanwhile France is chasing the possibility that a fire near Paris was set on purpose. Two countries, one blistering summer, and a fire season that no longer respects national lines.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they struck US bases in multiple Middle Eastern countries in retaliation for American attacks, as Washington reported degrading Tehran's capacity to hit Hormuz shipping and Britain proscribed the IRGC.
For the second time, Sofia's objection to blacklisting Patriarch Kirill has blocked the EU's 21st sanctions package against Russia — but narrower designations targeting VK, its Max messenger app and the elite Turla hacking unit are moving anyway.
Brussels and London jointly blacklisted 33 Russia-linked cyber targets tied to FSB operations, drawing a NATO condemnation and a Russian threat of retaliation. The move lands while the EU's broader 21st package remains hostage to internal bargaining — evidenced by Bulgaria's confirmed removal of Patriarch Kirill.
Iran has extended its retaliatory strikes to Oman, widening a Gulf-wide escalation as US-Iran talks to end the war remain unresolved and the Strait of Hormuz standoff resets to square one.
A Paris summit of Ukraine's allies promised more air-defence help on Monday, but the gathering exposed a widening gap between wartime rhetoric and delivered capability, with the EU's 21st sanctions package still unagreed and NATO's Ankara summit offering warnings rather than resolution.
South Africa says it has deported more than 53,000 undocumented migrants as anti-immigration protests spread — a shift that could ripple across Southern Africa's migration corridors.
Russian strikes on Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson and Ukrainian drone attacks into Russia and occupied Zaporizhzhia killed nine people overnight. The exchange came as the US senator who spent a year fighting to pass a Russia sanctions bill died hours after finally securing a White House deal to move it — leaving its next steps unclear just as Kyiv called the legislation essential leverage.
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.
Six US soldiers died in a drone strike on Kuwait's Port Shuaiba as the United States bombed targets inside Iran and Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz again — a conflict now grounding Gulf aviation and rattling global markets.
Lindsey Graham died a day after his last visit to Kyiv, leaving his "sanctions from hell" Russia bill without its author at the moment it might pass. The tributes framing his support for Ukraine, trans-Atlantic ties and Israel double as a map of what Washington's allies just lost.
Typhoon Bavi made full landfall in China's Zhejiang province late Saturday after brushing Taiwan and southern Japan, with more than 1.7 million people evacuated. In Taipei, commentary has sharpened on Beijing's parallel use of legal and political pressure against pro-Taiwan speech during the disruption.