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- New US Attacks On Roads, Bridges Reported As Iran Hits Back At Gulf States
on July 17, 2026 at 11:07 pmUS strikes on Iran widened early on July 18 from the Strait of Hormuz hotspot to multiple sites throughout central and southern Iran, including through the use of fighter jets, while Iran continued to pound US Gulf allies, as a fragile cease-fire further tattered.
- Frontex continuing mission in Greece despite serious violations of migrants' rights
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- Republicans Want to Punish Canada for “Exporting” Its Wildfire Smoke Into the US
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U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%. [...]
Gold settled 1.4% lower, down two of the past three sessions, and silver fell 2.5%, down three of the past four sessions. [...]
Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown. [...]
Gain insight on Experian, SoFi Technologies and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services. [...]
Arabica coffee prices hit a record level, as traders digested the withdrawal of President Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia. [...]
The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech stocks. [...]
U.S. natural gas futures fell after weekend updates took some of the chill out of early February weather forecasts. [...]
QXO is taking its offer directly to shareholders after being rebuffed on several occasions. [...]
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China issued the findings of its 2025 Media Freedoms Survey this week, painting an unsurprisingly bleak picture of the "new abnormal" conditions for the shrinking foreign news media presence in the country. Respondents reported frequent obstruction, surveillance, weaponization of visa [...]
Back-to-back typhoons have brought torrential rain, flooding, and other extreme weather events to parts of southern and central China, and prompted mass evacuations of people living in the paths of the storms. Last week, Typhoon Maysak left 39 people dead, killed large numbers of livestock, [...]
CDT recently published a large set of leaked internal instructions for online content management from the Chinese platform Leshi Video, or LeTV. They were issued to LeTV between March 2, 2017 and March 10, 2020 by the Cyberspace Administration of China and other network supervision [...]
The post below, the latest in a series of translated accounts by Chinese users grappling with online censorship, bemoans automated comment moderation on WeChat public accounts. The author, on her account "May’s Thoughts on the World," explains to readers that disappearing comments are not her [...]
Xi Jinping spoke in Beijing on July 1 at a ceremony to mark the 105th anniversary of the Party’s founding. While noting past achievements and coming challenges, Xi made repeated reference to 斗争 dòuzhēng or “struggle,” a resurgent theme in official rhetoric in recent years. [...]
Huaqiangbei Electronics Market, by QuantFoto (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) [...]
Online censorship, official secrecy, and public speculation kicked into high gear following last Friday’s crash of a light aircraft into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper, the 109-story CITIC Tower (also known as China Zun, due to its resemblance to an ancient Chinese ceremonial vessel). The collision, which [...]
A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of light-producing material. Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in fast, detailed 3D. Simulations suggest it could match or surpass [...]
A large laboratory study found that many commonly used sweeteners can directly change the growth of gut bacteria. Researchers identified more than 100 cases in which sweeteners behaved differently when combined with medications, caffeine, or flavorings. The combination of isosteviol and the antidepressant duloxetine was [...]
Researchers have created self-destructing living plastic that uses engineered bacteria to completely break itself down when activated. The material degrades in just six days without creating microplastics, offering a potential new solution for single-use plastic waste. [...]
A new experimental treatment may have found a way to outsmart glioblastoma’s toughest defense: the blood-brain barrier. Researchers used sugar-coated nanoparticles to ferry genetic instructions that restore a key tumor-suppressing protein directly into brain cancer cells. In mouse studies, the therapy increased median survival by [...]
A distant Sun-like star appears to have devoured one of its planets, leaving behind a surprising chemical fingerprint. Researchers found an unusually high concentration of lithium, a strong sign that planetary material was mixed into the star. Careful comparisons with dozens of similar stars confirmed [...]
A growing Cyclospora outbreak has sickened more than 400 people in four states, and investigators are still searching for the contaminated food responsible. The CDC warns the actual number of cases is likely much higher and urges anyone with symptoms to seek medical care. [...]
Scientists have identified a hidden feedback loop that may explain how Earth has regulated its climate for tens of millions of years. As sea levels rose and fell, they changed how much phosphate reached the open ocean, affecting marine life and the amount of carbon [...]
A new review highlights exciting progress in atomically thin quantum materials where light and magnetism work together in ways never before possible. In these materials, light-generated excitons can interact directly with magnetic behavior, creating opportunities to control magnetic states using light alone. Scientists believe this [...]
Explosions were heard across Iran overnight, shortly after neighbouring Gulf states began to report attacks. [...]
The US military targeted an unladen oil tanker which it said was heading for the key Iranian oil terminal on Kharg island. [...]
US President Donald Trump says he is yet to decide whether or not he will "finish off" Iran. [...]
Trump's comments aired as the two countries exchanged fire for the fourth day in a row and the US resumed blockading Iranian ports. [...]
The abrupt about-face from the US president was the latest twist in a conflict that has now lasted more than four months. [...]
Control of the waterway has become a key point of contention between the US and Iran, as a ceasefire deal falters. [...]
Relatives of Craig Foreman say his punishment is being extended for talking to the media from jail. [...]
A senior officer in the Hamas-run police force was among those killed in the strike, which Israel's military says targeted "terrorists". [...]
China wants to use the ancient deity Mazu to push unification narratives. [...]
Ukraine is using the beet-based soup to fortify national identity in the face of Russian aggression. [...]
How the United States used the World Cup as a testing ground for policing technologies. [...]
Kyiv’s language revitalization program seeks to save Ukrainians’ mother tongue through complex state law. [...]
Test yourself on the week of July 11: China introduces AI regulations, Trump briefly imposes a toll on Hormuz, and Congo’s Ebola outbreak spreads. [...]
The country’s newly opened assembly is by no means democratic, but it can still be more than a rubber stamp. [...]
Detail and care matter in peacemaking, but not to this White House. [...]
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island. [...]
[UN News] UN humanitarians working in war-torn Sudan on Friday highlighted rapidly growing needs among the more than 100,000 displaced people now sheltering in camps in the city of El Obeid. [...]
[CPJ] Government allied Wazalendo militiamen have threatened to kill or capture one reporter and to burn down another's radio station because of unfavorable coverage, as frontlines shift under diplomatic pressure for peace in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. [...]
[allAfrica] The UK government has confirmed sweeping reductions to its bilateral aid programme. Nine African countries are set to lose more than 80% of direct British assistance by 2029 as overseas development spending is cut from 0.5% to 0.3% of Gross National Income. [...]
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[Premium Times] Many Nigerians clamoured that petrol prices should return to the pre-war level. [...]
[New Light] Kapchorwa: At least 23 pupils of King David Junior School Ndejje are feared dead following a road accident in Kapchorwa District on Thursday evening, as the pupils travelled for a field trip whose exact destination remained unclear at the time of the crash. [...]
[UN News] For Tanatswa Amanda Chikaura, mental health advocacy began with a personal loss: while studying psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, she learned that a fellow student had died by suicide. [...]
[Nile Post] Officials from the Ministry of Education and Sports, Ministry of Works and Transport, and Uganda Police Force have held a crisis meeting to address the growing number of road accidents involving schools travelling for study tours. [...]