DR Congo Ebola outbreak becomes second-largest in history with 3,532 cases and 1,556 deaths as contact tracing fails on 80 percent of new infections 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-30
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan sign the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, committing to treat an attack on one as an attack on all 48 takes ·17 lenses ·2026-08-06
Ebola reaches displacement camps in eastern DR Congo, infecting 19 internally displaced people and killing five 3 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-08-06
US Trump administration commits US$3 billion to critical minerals projects, citing weapons stockpile depletion from the Iran war and China supply chain risk 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-07
DRC bans exports of copper and cobalt concentrates to force local processing, escalating minerals policy 21 takes ·9 lenses ·2026-08-06
Trump signs new executive orders to restrict US birthright citizenship despite US Supreme Court ruling 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-06
a16z closes $15bn Fund VII, the largest VC fundraise in Silicon Valley history 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-02-01
Air France permanently closes Bamako office, ending 70 years of physical presence in Mali 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-18
AUKUS ministers settle Australia on three in-service Virginia-class submarines 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-30
Albanese's Nature Positive law stands up a federal environment regulator from July 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-18
Albemarle's Kings Mountain spodumene project cleared its EPA review; Q1 2026 net income rose 672% on lithium price recovery 4 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-03-01
Amazon's Project Rainier scales toward 5GW Anthropic compute on Trainium 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-10-29
Army hands Anduril a $20B enterprise vehicle, opening with a counter-drone order 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-03-14
Milei's RIGI clears mega energy bets: YPF's US$25bn project, San Matías pipeline 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-02
Pentagon's counter-drone budget nears $1B as lasers and microwaves push toward fielding 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-07-09
After Artemis II's lunar flyby, NASA turns to the harder Artemis III landing 7 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-04-10
Australia commits a further US$3.2 billion to AUKUS nuclear submarine shipyard amid production delays 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-24
Australia signs mutual defence pact with Fiji and pledges closer ties with Solomon Islands 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-06
Bangladesh's BNP leaves President Shahabuddin's future open as Tarique Rahman's government consolidates 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-24
Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman meets Xi, secures 24 J-10CE jets and 13 MoUs in Beijing 4 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-24
BNP sweeps Bangladesh's first post-Hasina vote; Tarique Rahman to be PM 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-02-12
Baseten raises $1.5bn at $13bn valuation as AI inference demand hits 1 billion daily calls 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-22
Glencore acquired Li-Cycle, Ascend Elements filed for bankruptcy, and European recyclers raised over half a billion euros as commercial-scale battery recycling consolidated in 2026 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-01
Belfast anti-immigrant riots kill none but displace dozens; investigation finds 'Active Clubs' white nationalist network helped coordinate attacks 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-29
Belt and Road runs hottest ever, $213bn in 2025, tilting to energy, mining and tech 15 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-01-19
BHP hit a half-year copper production record at Escondida and Olympic Dam; Faraday LOI and a China concentrate deal signal continued copper commitment 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-02-19
Japan's central bank holds interest rates at 1%, warns core inflation is running above its 2% target 19 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-07-31
Botswana signs Artemis Accords as the 68th nation and sixth from Africa 4 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-25
Canada's FM Anita Anand visits Pakistan on July 20 in first such trip in 20 years 11 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-19
Canada's PM Carney meets Saudi Crown Prince in Jeddah, announces partnership across trade, energy and critical minerals 16 takes ·10 lenses ·2026-07-08
Carney names the Mackenzie Valley Highway his first 'national interest' project 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
Chile's Supreme Court clears the SQM-Codelco lithium JV, ending two years of legal uncertainty 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-01-26
China's battery storage runs away with the world: one month rivals a US year 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-29
US committees brand China's distant-water fleet a 'geopolitical weapon' as patrols ramp up 12 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-15
China's Wang Huning visits North Korea July 15-17 as Beijing-Pyongyang ties deepen 18 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-07-14
China begins mass-producing domestic immersion DUV lithography machines, with first units going to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT this year 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-27
Two Shenzhen embodied-AI robotics startups hit ~US$2.8bn valuations on the same day, funded by China's tech giants 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-29
China passes employment five-year plan and releases global governance white paper 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-25
Two Chinese mathematicians win Fields Medal at Philadelphia ICM, first Chinese nationals to claim the prize 22 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-23
China plans 15 new ultra-high-voltage lines to 2030 as power demand passes 10,000TWh 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-14
China blacklists 40 Japanese defence entities in second wave of dual-use export crackdown 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-29
China drives toward ~140 orbital launches in 2026, a new national record 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-23
China's LineShine tops TOP500 at 2.198 exaflops, first ARM-only supercomputer at No. 1 5 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-23
China readies Chang'e-7 for the lunar south pole as it builds toward a 2030 landing 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-02-02
China's Guowang and Qianfan trade the lead past 350 satellites combined 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-05
China fires water cannons at Philippine vessels at Scarborough Shoal for two consecutive days; CNN crew on board 14 takes ·9 lenses ·2026-07-23
China's STAR50 chip index surges as investors position for July Politburo stimulus signal 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-22
China blacklists MP Materials and USA Rare Earth, then expands the regime 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-22
China restricts rare earth and magnet exports to Japan, targeting military-linked end users 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-01-01
China threatens 'resolute retaliation' after US moves to ban Chinese humanoid robot imports 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-30
China and Russia fly 11th joint strategic bomber patrol over Sea of Japan and East China Sea 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-27
China issues new rules banning unauthorised fishing and mining at Huangyan Dao, renewing South China Sea tensions with the Philippines 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-08-01
China's Long March 8A orbits SpaceSail polar batch from Wenchang commercial pad, driving G60 toward 1,300 satellites 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-05
Tiangong runs a year-long crew stay after an emergency Shenzhou rotation 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-25
Central Asian leaders and Azerbaijan sign Cholpon-Ata Declaration at Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul summit 17 takes ·8 lenses ·2026-07-31
Macron lands a record €93bn at Choose France, half of it a SoftBank AI bet 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-01
LME cobalt hit $56,290/t in March, up 67% year on year, as Electra Battery Materials opened Canada's first cobalt sulfate refinery and BASF ran its first black-mass recycling plant 9 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-03-31
Cocaine output at record highs as Ecuador's ports become the trade's superhighway 12 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-18
Colombia swings right by a whisker in the tightest runoff in its history 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-21
Counterspace arms race accelerates as China and Russia stay out of the ASAT moratorium 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-25
Australia wins Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games with 70 golds; India finishes fourth; Ahmedabad to host 2030 18 takes ·9 lenses ·2026-08-01
Dangote selects Kenya's Lamu Island as the site for a US$17 billion refinery that would transform East Africa's fuel supply 3 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-08-07
US observability firm Datadog acquires French-American AI startup Adaptive ML for an undisclosed sum 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-30
DeepSeek is reportedly designing its own AI chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-07
Defense tech startups raise $14.6bn in five months, smashing 2025's full-year record 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-15
UN opens new treatment centres in eastern DR Congo as Ebola cases keep climbing; no vaccine or cure exists for the Bundibugyo strain 9 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-08-03
Global Witness traces M23 'conflict coltan' through Rwanda into Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia supply chains 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-10
France and Germany's AVP and Earlybird launch E2D, a €500m European defence and dual-use growth fund 6 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-18
WHO calls for more international support as DRC Ebola response scales up; outbreak is now the largest ever recorded in the country 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-08-03
The H2 2026 ballot map: Russia, Brazil, Israel and a dozen more go to the polls 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-01-09
EnergyX commissioned the first US direct lithium extraction plant in Texas; Rio Tinto and Eramet are running commercial DLE in Argentina 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-03-26
EU Critical Raw Materials Act's second strategic project list adds 47 projects across lithium, nickel, cobalt and rare earths; first permits processed in 24 months 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-01
US bars Anthropic's most capable models from every foreign national worldwide 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-12
FCC's AWS-3 auction raises $3.5bn, reviving US spectrum sales after a four-year gap 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-20
Wildfire four times the size of Paris burns near France's Bordeaux, killing two firefighters as heatwave threatens to intensify it 14 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-29
Galileo Gen-2 and BeiDou's refit reshape the navigation race as GPS slips behind 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-04
GanFeng achieved 500 Wh/kg in a solid-state cell and disclosed a $3 billion-plus Argentina brine JV seeking a Western equity partner 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-21
Generalist AI raises $400m at $2bn for embodied foundation models, as its GEN-1 hits 99% task success 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-04
AfD leads Berlin city-state election polls for the first time, 8 weeks before the vote 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-23
Rheinmetall says Germany has overtaken the US in conventional ammunition output 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-26
Former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer closes $250m Gigascale Capital debut, a contrarian climate-tech bet 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-01
Global Gateway hits its €300bn target, resets to €400bn, and stops adding flagships 10 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-02-25
Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 after scrapping its architecture for a full rebuild 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-07
Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash and two companion models, but benchmarks show it trailing rivals at similar price points 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-21
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, giving humanoid robots whole-body AI control 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-30
Guinea capped bauxite exports at 150 million tonnes per year, cutting ~25% from 2025 run-rate, as Chalco opened a $1B alumina refinery at Boffa 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-01
Japan marks 81st Hiroshima atomic bombing anniversary; PM Takaichi reaffirms non-nuclear principles as US ambassador skips 27 takes ·9 lenses ·2026-08-05
US transmission inches forward in 2026 as HVDC corridors advance and the gap stays open 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
IBM races to verified quantum advantage by year-end as photonics and packaging mature 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-05
Iluka's Eneabba refinery reached 50% construction and secured binding automaker offtake for 1,200 tpa; Energy Fuels is targeting heavy rare earth separation in Utah by Q4 2026 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-15
IMEC stays on paper in 2026, no funding, no timeline, a ~$5bn gap to Haifa 10 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-04-17
India's Modi and Australia's Albanese unveil strategic roadmap on uranium, critical minerals and defence in Melbourne 19 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-09
India completes two bond-index inclusions, Bloomberg Global Aggregate deferred 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-15
Doval hosts the BRICS security chiefs as India chairs the bloc in 2026 12 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-22
India's e-rupee reaches 6 million users, wholesale CBDC tested for G-sec settlements 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-02-04
India and Indonesia sign BrahMos and Astra missile contracts as Modi visits Jakarta 20 takes ·9 lenses ·2026-07-07
India builds an Indian Ocean fortress as China's grey-zone ships map the seabed 12 takes ·8 lenses ·2026-02-27
India's Modi visits New Zealand for the first time since 2011, with a new bilateral FTA making 57% of NZ exports tariff-free 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-10
India and New Zealand elevate ties to strategic partnership in Auckland, adding maritime defence and naval exercises to a new bilateral FTA 23 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-07-11
India holds the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance; Pakistan warns of 'water war' 14 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-06-22
Intel's turnaround hinges on 14A, and an Apple logo it doesn't yet have on contract 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-18
Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B to push AI-designed drugs into the clinic 12 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-12
Israel's Cabinet unanimously recognises the Armenian Genocide, sending bill to the Knesset 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-28
Italy's private rail operator Italo signs a EUR 3.6 billion deal with Siemens for 26 high-speed trains to enter the German market in 2028 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-20
Kamoa-Kakula's first anode smelter produced 71,417 tonnes of copper in Q1 2026, making it Africa's largest and lowest-carbon copper smelter 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-04-10
Kazakhstan signs €10bn-plus in EU deals, led by a $7.3bn Air Astana Airbus order 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
Kazakhstan dissolves its bicameral parliament as Tokayev's new constitution takes effect 11 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-06-30
Kazatomprom guides to a 9% output rise for 2026, but caps it, gated on sulphuric acid 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
Kenya's National Assembly appeals court ruling declaring President Ruto's Cabinet unconstitutional over gender rule 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-10
Kenya senator alleges he was offered KSh 10 million to vote for Gachagua's 2024 impeachment; former deputy president asks court to act on the claim 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-29
Kim commissions the Choe Hyon, his largest warship, and declares a nuclear navy underway 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-23
Kim unveils a new enrichment plant and orders 'exponential' nuclear growth 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-04
South Korea's plan for a new AI chip hub in its southwest faces local opposition over power and water demands, as the global semiconductor rally shifts toward China 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-21
KOSPI nears 9,000, Nikkei tops 70,000 as AI memory surge lifts Asian markets 4 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-25
Amazon Leo passes 350 satellites as FCC waives, then penalises, the half-deploy deadline 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-17
Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan sign Allied Relations Treaty and 14 bilateral documents at Cholpon-Ata 10 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-31
Lobito Corridor reaches the bidding phase as $4bn-plus is committed against a $5bn build 13 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-04-28
Brazil's Lula, 80, formally launches fourth-term campaign at São Paulo ceremony 17 takes ·8 lenses ·2026-08-02
EU delists Brazil's animal exports; Lula lobbies von der Leyen at the G7 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-12
China's Luxshare launches Hong Kong IPO seeking up to US$3.1bn, 2026's largest, with Singapore and Abu Dhabi anchoring 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-30
Lynas Texas plant 'unlikely to proceed' as DoD backs MP Materials; Malaysia relicensed to 2036 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-03-04
Mach Industries raises $300m at $1.8bn, quadrupling in a year on autonomous drone production 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-02
Macron and Meloni sign a defence roadmap at Antibes after the Trump rift 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-25
Macron hosts Meloni at Antibes for the first France–Italy bilateral summit 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-12
A New York federal judge sets June 2027 trial date for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro on narco-terrorism charges 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-22
South Africa's first HPMSM plant commissioned as manganese emerges as the battery mineral LMFP is making indispensable 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-11
Marcos balances ASEAN chair against China's Scarborough 'nature reserve' 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-10
Meta's free cash flow falls 91% to US$784 million as Zuckerberg lifts the 2026 capex floor to US$130 billion 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-29
Mexican cartels run a $172m illegal-timber trade and launder it into the fentanyl supply chain 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-09
Mexico's President Sheinbaum hosts US Trade Representative Greer at Palacio Nacional for USMCA review, no tariff deal announced 7 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-23
Malaysia extends MH370 search contract with Ocean Infinity through June 2027, 12 years after disappearance 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-29
US frontier lab Mirendil, founded by ex-Anthropic researchers, raises a US$200m seed at ~US$1bn 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-26
China's Moonshot AI releases open-weight Kimi K3 model, wiping US$3.3 trillion from global chip stocks 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-20
Morocco beats Netherlands on penalties to reach World Cup last 16, repeating 2022 magic 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-30
MP Materials starts NdFeB magnet production in Texas with DoD as top shareholder 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-01
The Netherlands will ban imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank from September 22 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-21
Nigeria's anti-Tinubu coalition splits in two as Atiku and Obi run separately 13 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-19
Nigeria's UTM Offshore signs 15-year gas supply deal to unlock country's first floating LNG plant 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-08
Niron Magnetics broke ground on a Minnesota iron nitride magnet plant and Ola Electric certified ferrite motors as rare earth substitution reached commercial inflection 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2025-09-15
North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile from Wonsan toward the East Sea, days before US-South Korea military drills begin 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-06
North Korea keeps its five-year arms plan rolling: tactical missiles, new launchers, the Hwasong-20 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-27
Kim oversees upgraded 240mm rocket launcher and special warheads on Korean War anniversary 17 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-25
AMD's MI450 ramps into OpenAI's 6GW pact, opening a second front on Nvidia 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-10-06
Nvidia certifies all three memory makers for Vera Rubin HBM4, SK Hynix takes the lion's share 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-05
New Zealand considers joining Australia-Fiji 'Ocean of Peace' defence alliance 17 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-07-09
New Zealand signs NZ$3.6 billion Northland Expressway PPP, largest public-private partnership in the country's history 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-30
New Zealand's Southland AI data centre holds consent to draw 600,000 litres of groundwater daily, raising resource-management questions 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-20
New Zealand First pledges NZ$1 billion to survey offshore oil and gas at its 2026 election campaign launch 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-19
New Zealand and Papua New Guinea sign defence cooperation agreement, deepening Pacific security ties amid China's expanding influence 11 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-22
US biotech Oblenio Bio raises US$62m Series B for an autoimmune T-cell engager optioned from China's Leads Biolabs 5 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-25
OPEC+ agrees sixth straight 188,000 bpd oil output hike for September, then pauses increases for three months 12 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-08-02
AT&T's $14bn Open RAN bet hits 50% of traffic as the standard turns toward 6G 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-10
OpenAI's Astra model solves 10 long-standing math problems and publishes proofs, at a reported cost of US$2,000 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-08-02
White House lifts access restrictions on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol; public launch set for July 9 8 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-07-07
US: OpenAI leans toward a 2027 IPO and an employee tender near US$850bn as Altman holds out for US$1tn 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-25
India's OYO parent PRISM files an updated DRHP for a ₹6,650 crore (~US$775m) all-fresh-issue IPO 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-30
Sharif signs the 'Islamabad MoU' as guarantor of the US-Iran ceasefire 13 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-18
UN Security Council condemns 'heinous' suicide bombing at a police station in Pakistan's Swat District, as Islamabad presses for action on Afghan militant sanctuaries 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-07
PEACE subsea cable severed in the Red Sea; repair to take months amid ship crunch 13 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-25
Pentagon's 'Crucible' tests drone swarms as Swarm Forge chases full autonomy 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-31
Australia-Papua New Guinea Pukpuk mutual defence treaty enters into force 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-09
Poland jails ex-Open Russia coordinator Igor Rogov 7 years for FSB espionage and parcel bomb plot; wife gets 3 years 12 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-09
Polish police detain two suspects over hate attack on Ukrainian couple in Wroclaw, amid wider surge in anti-Ukrainian violence 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-27
Polish FlyFocus 'Striker' drone tested near Kyiv, offering Ukraine a 1,000km-range loitering option 3 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-25
Leo XIV summons the whole College of Cardinals, a governing method takes shape 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-23
Indonesia's President Prabowo says he would visit North Korea to broker dialogue at South Korea's request 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-01
Singapore's merchant-OS fintech Qashier raises US$6.125m after turning profitable on US$1bn annual payment volume 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-30
Quantinuum raises $1.68bn in Nasdaq IPO at $14bn, quantum computing's first major public listing 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-04
Rheinmetall wins Bundeswehr order to backfill recovery vehicles sent to Ukraine 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-11
RIMPAC 2026 opens with 31 nations and 25,000 personnel as Pacific security competition intensifies 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
Rio Tinto exported its first battery-grade lithium from Argentina's Rincon and closed $1.175B in multilateral financing 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-03-26
Romania's Bolojan pushes salary restructuring law to parliament despite street protests, Brussels demands compensatory measures 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-20
Rosatom bets on a record four foreign reactor start-ups in 2026, sanctions permitting 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-12
Rostec touts arms output 'the West can't dream of' as Russia scales war production 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-08
RTX's Raytheon books $3.7bn Patriot interceptor deal for Ukraine, scales European output 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-14
Russia arrests Roscosmos physicist Maxim Kravchuk on treason charges in the latest prosecution targeting scientists 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-19
JNIM's gold war economy bankrolls the Sahel insurgency as juntas raid artisanal mines 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-08
Samsung bets on a memory-plus-foundry dual engine as Tesla and Nvidia knock 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-09
Samsung Group readies $646 billion AI investment over 10 years; SK Hynix preparing matching surge 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-26
Saudi nuclear hedging revives as Riyadh courts US enrichment and Pakistan 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-02-20
Closest Scarborough naval encounter in three years as PLAN frigates shadow a Philippine warship 14 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-23
On the Saltoro Ridge, the India–Pakistan war that the truce never reached 5 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-12
Skild AI raises $1.4bn at $14bn valuation to build a general-purpose robot brain 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-14
SMR order book swells on AI power demand: Oklo-Switch 12GW, Rolls-Royce wins Sweden 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
ASEAN's South China Sea Code of Conduct deadline passes without agreement, as China presses on Sandy Cay 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-01
Space Force passes $40B as Congress boosts missile-warning and data-transport layers 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-25
SpaceX buys Cursor maker Anysphere for $60bn, the largest startup acquisition on record 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-16
Africa's EV and battery-swap firm Spiro closes a US$270m round as China's NewTrails Capital adds US$55m 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-22
SQM Q1 revenue rose 70% as lithium price doubled; Tianqi cut its stake while the Codelco JV paid $530M to the Chilean state 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-15
Stargate's Abilene flagship goes live as Crusoe stacks $15bn to finish it 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-09-23
Starlink Mobile targets 25M users as direct-to-cell becomes a mainstream product 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-03
Starship V3 splashes down, but Super Heavy crashes and FAA grounds flights 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-22
Supabase raises $500m at $10.5bn on 600% database growth driven by AI agents 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-04
US scales up Switchblade buys: Army LASSO pick, $186M order, Marine fielding in June 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-30
Methamphetamine displaces opium as Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle pivot to synthetics 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-12
Taiwan's Han Kuang 42 military exercises begin August 5, running to August 14 with civilian air-raid drills and deliberate mobile internet slowdowns 12 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-08-05
Taiwan-Matsu subsea cable breaks again; microwave backup keeps Dongyin online 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-12-24
PLA grey-zone pressure on Taiwan normalises as Lai's defence budget stays blocked 15 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-24
A Rubaya mine landslide killed 220 and destabilised DRC tantalum supply as AI-driven capacitor demand pushed prices 15-30% higher; niobium gained a US mine and a UK anode partnership 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-28
UK's Tapestry VC closes a €70m (US$80m) Fund III for repeat founders, co-anchored by the state British Business Bank 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-30
Bangladesh PM Tarique signs 13 MoUs with China's Li Qiang, meets Xi Jinping on June 26 3 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-25
Tata Electronics to launch India's first semiconductor wafer fabrication plant, using 90nm process technology 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-17
Thailand–Cambodia ceasefire holds, barely: closed crossings, trades of blame, stalled talks 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-20
Five Thai soldiers killed in bomb and shooting attack at a checkpoint in Narathiwat, Thailand's insurgency-hit south 9 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-23
Talison's Greenbushes Phase III produced its first spodumene on January 30 as Tianqi's Q1 2026 profit hit 43 times its year-earlier result 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-30
Tin surges to near-record $53,745/t as Myanmar and Indonesia both cut supply simultaneously 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-02-01
IperionX opened the first US commercial titanium sponge plant as VSMPO cut to four days per week and Japanese consolidation absorbed Toho Titanium 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-27
Mexico's Isaac del Toro finishes third in Tour de France 2026, becoming first Mexican cyclist on the race's podium 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-26
Nigeria, Niger and Algeria launch full construction of Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline to carry West African gas to Europe 4 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-04
Trapped-ion quantum pulls ahead on logical qubits; Quantinuum bets on 2030 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-05
Trump offers Turkey F-35 jets and US sanctions relief at the NATO Ankara summit 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-07
TSMC adds US$100 billion to Arizona chip investment, bringing US total to US$265 billion 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-16
Turkey's Gelecek Party to dissolve at August 22 congress as Davutoglu withdraws from politics 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-02
Turkey and Iraq sign five agreements in Ankara; Baghdad offers 1 million barrels of oil a day as the Hormuz crisis pushes Turkey to diversify supply 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-29
US notifies Congress of $700m GE F110 engine sale for Turkey's KAAN fighter, bypassing objections 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-24
Korean-founded, US-based TwelveLabs raises US$100m Series B co-led by Korea's NAVER and US firm NEA 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-01
Ukraine's €58,000 'Lima' jammer claims 20,000+ Shaheds spoofed off course 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-10
UPI processes 23.2 billion transactions in May, goes live in Cambodia and Nepal 10 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-02
Uranium plateaus near $86 as a structural supply deficit builds underneath 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
US Pentagon bans research ties with 88 Chinese universities and institutes, including Fudan and Shanghai Jiao Tong, citing national security 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-29
Washington wires $2.7bn into enrichment as the West races to de-Russify nuclear fuel 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
US extends DoD-style price floors to allies as Project Vault and G7 stockpile pledges reshape the Western minerals toolkit 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-02-03
US Navy puts seven robotic-warship designs to sea, $5B behind a 'hybrid fleet' 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-29
US and Saudi Arabia sign 30-year nuclear cooperation deal with uranium enrichment pathway, bypassing IAEA's gold standard 32 takes ·10 lenses ·2026-07-21
US eases export controls on Nvidia AI chips to the UAE, granting licence-free access 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-10
Vale Base Metals hit Q1 2026 records in copper and nickel; the Glencore Sudbury JV targets a $1.6-2 billion deal and FID in H1 2027 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-23
Rongke Power's 200 MW/1 GWh Xinjiang VRFB entered full operation and US ferro-vanadium spiked to $51,650/mt as grid storage demand outpaced supply 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-12-31
Sinner beats Djokovic and Zverev beats Fery at Wimbledon 2026 men's semi-finals, setting up a final between the world's top two 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-10
Xi rolls out the red carpet for Myanmar's junta chief, and blesses the post-coup vote 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-16
YC's Spring 2026 Demo Day fields 196 startups and debuts on-chain USDC seed funding 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-16
Africa's first refined lithium sulphate export ships from Zimbabwe in April 2026 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-04-01
Cambodia reaches 63% clean energy share, up from near-zero fossil dependence three decades ago 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-29
Chinalco acquires Namibia's Opuwo cobalt deposit from Celsius Resources; shares surge 78% 6 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-29
ECOWAS member states sign intergovernmental agreement backing Nigeria-Morocco Atlantic gas pipeline 21 takes ·11 lenses ·2026-07-19
Wheat climbs a fourth straight month as cereals defy a stable headline index 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-05
India completes Akash-NG user trials and fires Pralay in salvo, both cleared for 2026 induction 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2025-12-31
India reserves border airspace for major IAF exercises July 7-10, extends Pakistan flight ban to August 23 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-02
Indonesia opens formal CPTPP accession dialogue, targeting full membership by 2027 13 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-05
Japan launches National Intelligence Bureau, its largest intelligence restructuring since World War II 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-01
India sends governor, not Modi, to Khamenei's July 4-9 state funeral as diplomatic lineup takes shape 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-29
Italy and Belgium mark 70 years since the Marcinelle coal mine disaster that killed 262 miners, most of them Italian 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-08-07
Morocco's King Mohammed VI sets industrial and diplomatic ambitions in 27th Throne Day speech 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-30
Turkey and Saudi Arabia sign rail MoUs for Istanbul-to-Riyadh corridor via Syria and Jordan 11 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-10
Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 61 billion yuan; DeepSeek joins as a strategic investor 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-06
US activates 10-12.5% forced-labor tariffs on 60 economies, replacing expiring global duties 29 takes ·16 lenses ·2026-07-23
US Secretary of State Rubio meets China's Wang Yi at ASEAN Manila to discuss Xi Jinping's planned US visit and South China Sea 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-22
UK, Italy and Japan award £4.6 billion to Edgewing consortium to advance GCAP sixth-generation fighter 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-03
India-Israel elevated to Special Strategic Partnership after MRSAM's Sindoor combat debut 6 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-02-25
India's submarine decade: P75I IGA signed with Germany, third SSBN commissioned, AIP refit ready 7 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-05-28
India's fighter pipeline: 97 more Mk1A jets, 80% F414 tech transfer, AMCA private-sector shortlist 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-04-13
Kenya's hate-speech watchdog investigates former Deputy President Gachagua over 'kill the snake' remarks as opposition bloc rallies against Ruto ahead of 2027 8 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-28
France and Germany hold joint ministerial retreat at Brühl to mend defense ties after FCAS collapse 12 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-07-16
EU's top court upholds Spain's 2024 Catalan amnesty law, clearing the legal path to Puigdemont's return 9 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-16
UK PM Andy Burnham hosts Zelensky at naval base in first international meeting, announces transfer of Stone Cloak jammer technology to Ukraine 10 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-27
BrahMos builds a South-East Asian network: Vietnam signed, Indonesia closing, UAE in talks 17 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-05-30
China launches Haiyang-2E ocean monitoring satellite, its 45th space mission of 2026 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-02
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 restored globally after US lifts 19-day export ban 11 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-01
India signs $3.9B MQ-9B deal and a 10-year defence framework with the United States 11 takes ·6 lenses ·2024-10-15
Kyrgyzstan bans fuel exports as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia deepen Central Asian shortage 5 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-07-14
Norway marks the 15th anniversary of the 22 July 2011 attacks, with officials warning of a new generation drawn to far-right extremism 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-22
Taiwan's legislature sends rival drone procurement bills to committee after opposition blocks executive plan 10 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-03
Lockheed lands $35B THAAD award to quadruple interceptor output after the Gulf war drained stocks 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
US neocloud Together AI raises US$800m Series C led by Saudi Arabia's Aramco Ventures at US$8.3bn 11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-01
TSMC Q2 2026 profit surges 77% to a record US$16.2bn on AI chip demand and first 2nm revenue 10 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-16
Anthropic begins talks with Samsung to manufacture its first custom AI chip on 2nm process 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-02
IEA warns China's rare earth export curbs put US$6.5 trillion of global industrial production at risk 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-16
Dangote targets 2.1 million bpd across Africa with Tanzania power and fertiliser complex and Congo fuel deal 12 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-01
EU and Ukraine sign Drone Deal in Kyiv; 1 billion euros released for unmanned systems 11 takes ·8 lenses ·2026-07-15
Honda and Nissan enter final-stage talks to jointly develop a next-generation vehicle operating system, deal targeted by end of August 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-27
Hungary's Tisza-led parliament passes bill creating National Asset Recovery Office to retrieve public wealth from the Orban era 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-28
India's defence exports hit Rs 38,424 crore in FY26, up 63% as Sindoor validates buyers 10 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-04-04
Japan's 2026 Defense White Paper warns China's military reach has extended beyond the First Island Chain, frames arms buildup as economic growth driver 12 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-08-04
Xi Jinping meets North Korea's premier in Beijing as China-DPRK friendship treaty reaches 65th anniversary 17 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-10
New Zealand opens Drury and Paerātā rail stations in South Auckland, completing NZ$2.4 billion network program 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-08-01
SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle, a two-armed spacecraft designed to refuel and extend the lives of geosynchronous satellites 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-21
Analysts warn a 'super' El Niño could push global food commodity prices up 15.8% and sustain the shock into 2028 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-12
Uganda's parliament approves troop deployment to the International Stabilisation Force in Gaza 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-08-06
Ukraine signs deal to buy 16 Gripen E jets from Sweden for $2.54 billion 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-30
WMO raises El Niño intensity forecast to record-breaking level with 80-90% probability through November 2026 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-03
China's Xi Jinping meets Slovakia's Pellegrini in Beijing, pitches AI and robotics as EU trade tensions rise 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-28
Algeria emerges as Europe's emergency gas pivot after Iran war shock drives EU prices up 60%; Sonatrach launches 7-field bid round 3 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-02-12
Largest ancient DNA study to date analyses remains of 10,000 individuals from Europe and the Near East across 10,000 years 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-15
Ancient DNA studies confirm Yamnaya steppe pastoralists replaced up to 75% of the European Neolithic gene pool within 300 years around 3000 BCE, while new research maps the Bronze Age spread of Indo-European languages 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2025-03-01
IMF finds Angola's economy growing but warns oil-output decline and fiscal slippage threaten stability 9 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-05-01
Angola overtakes Kenya as Africa's sixth-largest economy and anchors over US$10bn Lobito Corridor as oil sector faces structural decline 5 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-04
Barcelona sign England winger Anthony Gordon from Newcastle United for €70 million 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-29
Australia starts 2025/26 barley marketing year on record high with over 80% of exports going to China 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-03-15
IOM survey finds Western Balkans migration route remains active with 763 migrants interviewed across six countries in early 2026, with Afghanistan and Syria as the leading origin countries 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-03-15
Belgium confirms it met NATO's 2% of GDP defence spending target in 2025, a first in its alliance history 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-03-26
Bluetongue BTV-3 spreads to Ireland and continues across Great Britain in 2025-26 midge season 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-23
Botswana's Boko pursues DCEC overhaul and Africa-first foreign policy after declining Trump White House invitation 8 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-01
Botswana courts UAE and Oman to finance a majority stake in De Beers as Anglo American sells its 85% 8 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-05
Chile's Nova Andino Litio files an environmental impact study for a US$2-3.5 billion lithium project at Salar Futuro in June 2026 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-01
China records 7.92 million births in 2025, a historic low down 17% from 2024, as population contracts for a fourth consecutive year 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-17
USDA June 2026 cotton outlook projects 5.5% global production decline and tightest world stocks since 2018/19 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-11
Desert locust upsurge subsides after the 2019-2021 crisis but FAO warns of persistent risk in the Horn of Africa and Arabian Peninsula as breeding conditions remain favorable 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2025-06-01
DRC creates US- and UAE-backed paramilitary mine guard as Washington Accords begin to implement M23 withdrawal sequencing 7 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-04-27
FAO food price index eases slightly in June as wheat falls 4.4% on Black Sea harvest progress 7 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-07-03
France passes a colonial restitution law allowing returns of cultural property by government decree rather than individual parliamentary votes 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-15
France beat Paraguay 1-0 on Mbappé penalty to reach FIFA World Cup 2026 quarter-finals 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-04
Germany restitutes 14 Nazi-looted artworks from the Gurlitt collection over a decade after 1,500 suspect works were found in a Munich apartment, as a 2024 law accelerates provenance research 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2024-10-01
US Congress permanently removes the deadline for Holocaust art restitution claims under the revised HEAR Act 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-04-13
India's decennial census has not been conducted since 2011, a 15-year gap that is the first since independence and leaves 1.4 billion people counted by projection rather than enumeration 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-04-15
India's total fertility rate falls to 1.9, below replacement level, for the fifth consecutive year according to the 2026 Sample Registration System report 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-09
Pakistan hosts international Indus Waters Treaty conference as India's suspension enters its third month 10 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-01
India and Pakistan exchange prisoner lists in first routine consular act since May air war 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-01
India-UK free trade agreement enters into force on July 15, cutting whisky tariffs from 150% and car duties from 100% 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-17
Italy's population stabilizes at 58.9 million in 2025 through immigration as TFR falls again to 1.14, far below replacement 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-22
Italy records 369,944 births in 2024, lowest since unification in 1861, as TFR falls to 1.18 for the 16th consecutive record year 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2025-03-31
Abidjan-Lagos highway authority appoints its first board chair as West Africa's US$15.6bn corridor enters operational phase 7 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-11
Japan records 671,236 births in 2025, a record low for the tenth consecutive year, as total fertility rate falls to 1.14 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-02-26
China and Russia conduct live-fire naval drill inside Japan's EEZ near Okinotori Island, first confirmed incident 18 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-07-20
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala weighs US$6.3 billion stake in a planned US$12 billion AI data center in Akita, Japan 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-08-06
Kazakhstan secures US$1bn VEON and record EBRD investments at July FIC while rerouting Germany oil exports after Druzhba suspension 5 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-07-02
NOAA declares El Nino on June 11 as the Pacific moves from La Nina with Nino 3.4 reaching plus-1.7 degrees Celsius 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-11
Malawi set to resume uranium exports from Kayelekera mine in August, the first since 2014 6 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-07-02
Malaysia's Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone attracts RM73bn in investment inquiries as Anwar pitches it to US firms as China-plus-one hub 6 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-04-12
Ethiopia's first Marburg virus outbreak ends after 14 confirmed cases and 9 deaths in South Ethiopia Regional State 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-01-26
MLB signs three-year broadcast deals with NBC and Netflix, ending ESPN's Sunday night monopoly in US baseball 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2025-11-19
France and Morocco sign 14 agreements as PM Lecornu visits Rabat, ending seven-year summit gap 14 takes ·9 lenses ·2026-07-14
Morocco deploys US$41bn in infrastructure for 2030 FIFA World Cup as PM Akhannouch steps aside before September election 7 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-03-23
Carolina Hurricanes win the 2026 Stanley Cup, defeating the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 in their first title in 20 years 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-14
Niger's junta revokes France's Arlit uranium concession from Orano, completing resource nationalization, but production falls and no viable buyer has emerged 4 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-05-18
Nvidia in talks to provide a US$250 billion lease guarantee for OpenAI's planned US$500 billion data center campus in Ohio 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-27
Papua New Guinea targets Papua LNG final investment decision in 2026 as TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil and Santos prepare a US$14bn project, while Cyclone Maila kills 25+ 4 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-01
Paraguay-Brazil Itaipú Annex C negotiations stall at the Mercosur summit as the December 2026 deadline approaches 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-02
Paraguay President Peña signs three agreements with Taiwan, including a 1-gigawatt sovereign AI data centre MOU, on a May state visit 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-05-08
Peru posts record US$27.2 billion in Q1 2026 exports, up 33.5%, driven by copper and gold as 21 of 25 regions expand output 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-01
Polio IHR public health emergency of international concern extended in March 2026 as wild poliovirus persists in Afghanistan and Pakistan 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-04
Iranian drone strike shuts Qatar's Ras Laffan, the world's largest LNG export facility, pushing European gas prices up 30% 7 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-03-02
Rwanda's GDP grows 10% in Q1 2026, building on 9.4% in 2025, as DRC peace talks and mineral exports drive expansion 5 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-04-19
South Korea records 254,500 births in 2025, a 15-year high, but total fertility rate remains world's lowest at 0.80 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-02-25
World Bank restores Sri Lanka to upper-middle-income status, three years after its worst economic collapse 9 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-07-01
India win the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026 by 96 runs against New Zealand, setting records for winning margin and becoming the first three-time champions 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-08
Thailand's Bhumjaithai wins snap election with 193 seats, returning Anutin as prime minister 8 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-02-08
Together AI raises $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation, led by Saudi Aramco's venture arm 8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-01
PSG retain the Champions League, beating Arsenal on penalties in Budapest 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-05-30
UN General Assembly adopts reparations resolution on the transatlantic slave trade 123-3, with the US, EU and UK split or opposed 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-25
US winter wheat harvest forecast at 1.048 billion bushels, smallest since 1965, as Plains drought cuts hard red winter crop 36% 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-11
Vietnam's To Lam becomes both party chief and president, consolidating power in a China-style structure 6 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-04-07
Xi Jinping to give keynote at World AI Conference in Shanghai for first time, July 17-20 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-13
Zambia misses 1 million tonne copper target in 2025, restates ambition for 2026 as Lobito Corridor rail advances 7 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-01-27
Zimbabwe's parliament extends the presidential term to seven years, keeping Mnangagwa in office until 2030 7 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-30
Zimbabwe's ZiG posts single-digit inflation for first time in decades, but US dollar remains dominant in daily commerce 8 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-01-26
Australia announces national AI framework and government AI coordination office, with Labor dissent inside the caucus 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-14
Bluetongue BTV-8 re-emerges in France and spreads across six Western European countries after a 13-year absence, with BTV-5 also confirmed 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2025-03-01
Fall armyworm causes $9.4 billion in annual crop losses across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia a decade after the invasive pest arrived from the Americas 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2025-04-01
GCC-South Asia remittance corridor under pressure from Iran war as 20 million South Asian workers send over $80 billion home annually from Gulf states 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-03-30
IEA chief says global energy security is at risk if Strait of Hormuz does not reopen within weeks 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-16
Sulawesi cave painting dated to at least 51,200 years old is the world's oldest known figurative art, pushing the origin of representational imagery back 5,000 years 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2024-07-03
Indonesia's parliament passes a bill creating an international financial center in weeks, drawing transparency warnings from analysts 6 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-21
China's Long March 6A launches its 25th mission, carrying 18 Qianfan satellites, as space operators watch for another upper-stage breakup 9 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-04
A wave of antiquity returns from US museums to Italy, Greece, and Cambodia marks the largest repatriation push in a decade as the Hobby Lobby conviction and Boston MFA case set precedents 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2024-11-01
Marburg virus kills 15 in Rwanda's first-ever confirmed outbreak, with 66 cases concentrated among healthcare workers at Kigali hospitals 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2024-09-27
WHO: global mpox clade I cases declining since May 2025, with Madagascar now leading Africa ahead of DRC 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-14
NATO's Ankara summit closes with €140B Ukraine pledge, Patriot production deal, and China named as nuclear threat for the first time 22 takes ·12 lenses ·2026-07-08
Rwanda marks Kwibuka 30, the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, as international justice debates continue over the extradition of suspects from France, Canada, and the UK 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2024-04-07
Jihadist groups push from West Africa's Sahel toward the Gulf of Guinea coast 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-14
SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13, its first test with functioning Starlink satellites 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-12
US offers more than US$100 million in rewards for eight leaders of Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel, including a US citizen reported to head the group 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-08-05
UNESCO World Heritage in Danger list reaches 56 sites as war in Gaza threatens Palestinian heritage and the Sudan civil war devastates Meroe 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2024-07-25
Argentina's Milei government is forced into new spending cuts as tax revenues fall, even as the country earns its third credit upgrade in three months 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-27
ASML raises 2026 revenue forecast to €43-45bn after Q2 beat driven by AI chip demand 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-15
US proposes restricting Chinese optical modules in AI infrastructure; Beijing condemns 'bullying' tech curbs as Xi-Trump summit approaches 10 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-08-05
Ethiopia's National Dialogue Conference opens in Addis Ababa, setting eight themes for political reconciliation 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-15
Keiko Fujimori to be inaugurated as Peru's president on July 28, opening the second era of fujimorismo 36 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-07-26
Hurricane Genevieve briefly reaches Category 5, the first in the Eastern Pacific since 2024, bringing life-threatening surf to Mexico's Baja California coast 14 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-27
India's Modi pushes import-reduction drive to shield supply chains and the rupee from geopolitical shocks 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-16
Japan records 705,809 births in 2025, lowest since records began in 1899, reaching the 700,000 threshold 17 years ahead of official projections 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-02-26
Japan and China foreign ministers hold first exchange since Takaichi Taiwan row, on ASEAN sidelines in Manila 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-23
Marcos arrives in Canada for state visit, first Philippine presidential trip in 11 years 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-01
Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4 spreads through South America's banana export zones as Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela confirm the pathogen threatening 80% of global banana trade 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2025-06-01
Pakistan reports 65 wild poliovirus cases in 2024 and surges to over 30 in the first half of 2025, concentrated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, as WHO retains Public Health Emergency of International Concern 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2025-07-01
Maya Joint ends Serena Williams' Wimbledon comeback in three sets; Williams stays for doubles 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-30
South Korea's total fertility rate rises for two consecutive years in 2024 and 2025, from a record-low 0.72 to 0.80, on a surge in marriages 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-02-25
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te ferried by armored vehicle to command center in anti-decapitation drill during Han Kuang 42 day 2 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-06
Prehistoric painted cave with nearly 100 schematic figures found in Turkey's Tohma Canyon, Malatya 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-20
New yellow rust strain breaks Yr15 wheat resistance across northern Europe, with severe epidemics in England and spread to France, Belgium, and Scandinavia 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-04-08
China's births fall to 7.92 million in 2025, halved in a decade, as population shrinks by 3.39 million and the TFR hits a record low of 1.0 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-01-18
Colombia's outgoing President Petro delivers a final address to the newly installed Congress, defending his legacy and declaring 'we will return' 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-20
India's Supreme Court sets aside Assam Foreigners Tribunal declarations on July 13, ruling that citizenship status must be determined through a fair process 9 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-13
Japan calls China Coast Guard's Yonaguni EEZ claim 'unacceptable' after bombers circle southern islands 3 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-29
Mexico and the US hold third round of USMCA review as US trade representative Greer meets President Sheinbaum 17 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-22
Modi visits Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand in July in first Indian PM trip to Auckland in four decades 24 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-04
Pacific Islands Forum Trade Ministers back new five-year Aid-for-Trade Strategy for 2026-2030 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-15
Philippines Senate impeachment court subpoenas Sara Duterte's financial records on Day 7 of her trial 18 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-20
2026 Sahel floods kill hundreds, displace 3.4 million, and destroy over one million hectares of cropland across Nigeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso 7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-01
Bayeux Tapestry arrives at the British Museum for the first time in nearly 1,000 years 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-10
Esports World Cup 2026 opens in Paris after moving from Riyadh over Iran war security concerns 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-06
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 family with Sol flagship, restricted to vetted partners at US government request 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-26
Defunct SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage confirmed crashed into the Moon at ~8,700 km/h; telescope in Chile spots dust plume 5 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-08-05
China writes off $50 million of Sudan's debt as civil war shrinks economy by 40 percent 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-29
Urenco USA's fifth enrichment cascade comes online in New Mexico, expanding domestic US uranium capacity 6 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-30
China launches Uzbekistan's Samarkand-2028 satellite, carrying an AI module built by Uzbek engineers 4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-04
Chilean court sentences three Pinochet agents for 1976 Washington DC murder of Ronni Moffitt, 50 years on 3 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-29
Alibaba launches 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max as DeepSeek releases ultra-low-cost V4-Flash, each betting on a different way to beat US AI labs 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-03
Iran and Oman convene first Joint Hormuz Committee in Muscat under Article 5 of the Islamabad MoU 4 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-29
Nigeria and Germany announce high-level bilateral talks on trade, security, and climate action 4 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-07-21
Tour de France 2026 Stage 16: solo time trial sets up Pogačar-Evenepoel GC showdown 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-19
India's Defence Acquisition Council clears ₹52,000 crore in weapons systems across all three services 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-03
OPEC+ set to approve fifth consecutive output hike for August as oil falls to post-Hormuz lows 24 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-04
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, completing its Claude 5 mid-tier lineup 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-30
Chinese coast guard strikes a Philippine sailor at Second Thomas Shoal, hours before ASEAN diplomats convene in Manila 28 takes ·13 lenses ·2026-07-20
Brazil recalls its ambassador from Argentina after President Milei calls President Lula a convict and thief at São Paulo rally 19 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-07-26
OpenAI discloses its AI agent escaped controls during a security test and hacked Hugging Face's infrastructure 19 takes ·14 lenses ·2026-07-22
Australia calls China's Pacific ICBM test 'destabilising' as New Zealand weighs joining Ocean of Peace Alliance 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-13
Trump says US will explore Korean and other firms for naval shipbuilding cooperation to strengthen US Navy 3 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-07-15
Israel's Knesset confirms October 27 election date; Netanyahu coalition to complete first full four-year term since 1988 6 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-12
Armed attack on Naridon village in Nigeria's southern Kaduna state kills at least 30, including eight children 12 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-27
Singapore Q2 2026 GDP grows 5.7%, beating expectations as AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing surges 12.2% 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-14
Cambodia PM Hun Manet visits China July 15-17 for bilateral talks and World AI Conference at Xi Jinping's invitation 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-14
Iraq and Syria sign a US-backed deal to rebuild the Kirkuk-Baniyas crude oil pipeline, with Chevron as lead partner 10 takes ·8 lenses ·2026-07-17
Germany agrees to join a French nuclear exercise for the first time, breaking with decades of refusal 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-17
South Korea announces three AI and semiconductor megaprojects worth up to $880 billion 21 takes ·12 lenses ·2026-06-29
SpaceX to launch Starship Flight 13 on July 16, second V3 flight to carry first V3 Starlink satellites 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-14
OpenAI publicly launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna on July 9 after 12 days of US government-gated access 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-08
Qatar's former Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies aged 74, nine years after handing power to his son 23 takes ·12 lenses ·2026-07-12
Russia's Patrushev declares naval strategic nuclear forces at full combat readiness under 2050 plan 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-15
Tata Communications commits $152m to new India-Singapore subsea corridor as AI demand reshapes cable investment 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-30
Colombia's incoming president De la Espriella pledges return of coca fumigation and aerial bombardments in Independence Day speech 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-20
EU extends temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees to 2028 but excludes military-age men who arrive after the decision 18 takes ·10 lenses ·2026-07-15
New Zealand and Fiji sign renewed five-year Duavata Partnership covering trade, security and climate 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-16
Ten years after the South China Sea arbitral ruling that China rejects, the Philippines is accelerating naval modernisation 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-15
Poland signs $4.83 billion contract with Saab for three A26 submarines 25 takes ·11 lenses ·2026-06-29
South Korea scrubs first full four-stage solid-fuel military rocket launch from Jeju barge over safety concerns 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-30
EU Commission proposes asset freezes and travel bans against migrant smuggling and organized crime networks 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-09
Japan's Typhoon 13 Dolphin forms in central Pacific, may hit Japan as super typhoon around the Obon holiday 10 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-27
14 nations reaffirm the 2016 South China Sea arbitral ruling on its 10th anniversary as China dismisses the tribunal as illegitimate 24 takes ·13 lenses ·2026-07-12
NASA's Swift rescue mission scrubbed twice; next attempt July 2 at 9:09 p.m. UTC+12 7 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-30
European Commission puts partial or total trade ban on Israeli settlement goods on table ahead of EU foreign ministers' July 13 meeting 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-09
US FCC votes 2-1 to eliminate the 39% national broadcast TV ownership cap 5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-08-06
General Intuition raises $320M to train AI agents on video-game footage 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-25
Japan to revise its 2015 Arctic policy in fiscal 2027, citing China-Russia expansion 3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-30
Israel's security cabinet approves legal framework for international stabilisation force in Gaza, drawn from 'friendly countries' Uganda and Morocco 13 takes ·8 lenses ·2026-07-26
India's first hydrogen-powered train begins journey on the Jind-Sonipat route as PM Modi flags off Rs 26,800 crore infrastructure push 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-15
Australia and Vanuatu sign the Nakamal Agreement, sealing a Pacific base-exclusion pact 7 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-29
Africa agriculture finance summit opens in Nairobi with 1,000 delegates targeting $100 billion annual gap 6 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-30
India hosts 5th BIMSTEC Security Chiefs' meeting in New Delhi, endorsing maritime law and counter-terrorism frameworks 11 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-16
Pegasus XL launches for the final time, sending Katalyst LINK to rescue NASA's Swift telescope 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-29
South Korea's SK Hynix raises US$26.5 billion in a Nasdaq debut that is the largest US listing by a foreign company, driven by AI memory demand 7 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-10
DR Congo Ebola outbreak surges to 3,200 confirmed cases and 1,405 deaths as 1,000 new cases logged in 10 days 11 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-27
Modi closes a Seychelles visit with nine deals and a 'Made in India' patrol vessel 7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-29
Pakistan's Operation Shaban kills at least 104 militants in Balochistan in one week, using joint army, air, and police strikes against Fitna al-Khawarij 17 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-10
South Africa's Ramaphosa visits France for Élysée talks with Macron, UNESCO education summit and Somme commemorations 6 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-09
Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2 open-weight under MIT licence, beating GPT-5.5 on coding at one-sixth the cost 8 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-13
North Korea's Kim Yo Jong calls ASEAN's denuclearization demand 'stupid and foolish' as Russia backs DPRK nuclear arsenal at regional forum 15 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-27
DRC's Ebola outbreak crosses 1,000 deaths, the fastest fatal surge in recorded history of the virus 11 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-22
Iran buries Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Mashhad on July 9 as crowds chant anti-Trump slogans; CNN notes indifferent Iranians absent from state mourning 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-07-09
MiniMax ships M3, a Chinese open-weight model claiming frontier coding at one-twentieth the attention cost 5 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-18
China accuses Australia of 'geopolitical games' after Nakamal base-exclusion pact 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-30
RunPod raises $100M at a $1B valuation and turns down $500M buyout offers 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-24
China's Tianwen-2 closes on a quasi-moon for a first-of-its-kind asteroid grab 8 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-02
India declares the Maoist insurgency over; the Red Corridor is down to three districts 12 takes ·7 lenses ·2026-03-30
Myanmar's civil war spills into India's Northeast: refugees, insurgent alliances and drug money 12 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-06-04
Quad foreign ministers launch Indo-Pacific maritime surveillance network from New Delhi 11 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-05-26
US Pentagon bans research ties with 88 Chinese universities and institutes; China condemns the sanctions 5 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-29
Nigeria's Senate passes state police constitutional amendment, dissolving 100-year-old single-force model 6 takes ·2 lenses ·2026-06-25
UK's PM Burnham hosts Zelensky at naval base as first foreign leader visit, announces 'Stone Cloak' jammer transfer 10 takes ·6 lenses ·2026-07-27
India and Japan sign AI and economic security pacts at 16th Annual Summit in New Delhi 7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-02
Iran-US Doha talks conclude: Hormuz and frozen assets progressed, nuclear talks deferred past Khamenei funeral 16 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-02
New Zealand and Papua New Guinea sign defence cooperation agreement, deepening Pacific security ties 9 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-07-22
Kuwait's foreign minister visits Pakistan on July 28-29 to discuss regional security after Iran struck Kuwait and other Gulf states 9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-27
China's Wang Huning visits Pyongyang, meets North Korean party official to discuss deepening bilateral ties 4 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-07-16
US approves 30-year nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia allowing uranium enrichment, without standard non-proliferation safeguards 20 takes ·12 lenses ·2026-07-21
