39초 간격으로 규모 7.2 전진과 7.5 본진이 카라카스 인근 해안 건물을 파괴, USGS 모델은 사망자 1만 명 초과 확률을 44%로 산정
Leaders & Succession
Leaders, successions, elections and who actually decides.
state of play
The defining shift is in Tehran: Ali Khamenei was killed in the February war and his son Mojtaba installed as supreme leader in a contested hereditary succession, with President Pezeshkian selling the ceasefire from inside a wrecked establishment, drawing a missile-programme red line in Islamabad June 23 while the Burgenstock road map June 22 locked in a 60-day final-deal window.
European defence hardened in two moves on June 25: the E5 Berlin summit (Merz, Macron, Meloni, Starmer, Tusk) pledged 5% GDP on defence and backed a NATO Hormuz naval mission, pointedly excluding Spain; and Macron and Meloni signed a Franco-Italian defence roadmap at Antibes covering SAMP/T production, nuclear energy cooperation and the "Bromo" satellite project. The NATO Ankara summit July 7-8 arrives with the 5% target hardened. The Starmer resignation leaves Britain on course for its seventh prime minister in a decade; Andy Burnham is the sole declared candidate, nominations open July 9.
The Board of Peace is "recalibrating" at a Cyprus resort June 24-25: $17B pledged, 1% transferred, phase two stuck on Clause 8 disarmament. The Venezuela twin earthquakes (M7.2 + M7.5, June 24; 164+ dead, USGS red-alert) opened a humanitarian crisis that tests Maduro's isolation. India's water minister Patil vowed "not a single drop" to Pakistan on June 22, prompting Defence Minister Khwaja Asif to threaten war. The autocracies absorb strain: Xi refuses broad stimulus amid deflation, Putin downplays Crimea fuel crisis as Ukraine's Orenburg strikes bite, Kim orders "exponential" enrichment. Watch the July 9 UK nominations, the Ankara summit 5% spending text, and the 60-day final-deal clock expiring August 22.
tracking
Heads of state
Trump (US)31 active쌍둥이 지진으로 베네수엘라 164명 이상 사망, 구조대 라 과이라 집결 Xi (China)6 active중국, 고용 5개년 계획 통과 및 글로벌 거버넌스 백서 발표 Putin (Russia)8 activePutin says the fuel crisis won't change the war, Ukraine's strikes say otherwise Modi (India)15 easingIndia and China deepen the LAC thaw while New Delhi protests Chinese roads in Shaksgam von der Leyen (EU)9 activeJune European Council lands the EU budget architecture and opens the Ukraine cluster Macron (France)10 active유럽 'E5', 스페인 제외하고 국방비 5%와 호르무즈 해군 작전 서약 Merz (Germany)8 active유럽 'E5', 스페인 제외하고 국방비 5%와 호르무즈 해군 작전 서약 Starmer (UK)4 active유럽 'E5', 스페인 제외하고 국방비 5%와 호르무즈 해군 작전 서약 Meloni (Italy)8 active유럽 'E5', 스페인 제외하고 국방비 5%와 호르무즈 해군 작전 서약 Sánchez (Spain)4 contested-resultSánchez survives a marathon Congress grilling, refuses to resign or call elections Tusk (Poland)6 active유럽 'E5', 스페인 제외하고 국방비 5%와 호르무즈 해군 작전 서약 Netanyahu (Israel)10 de-escalating루비오, 이스라엘-레바논 협상이 "의향 선언"에 근접했다고 밝혀, 양측은 나머지 사안 부인 Pezeshkian (Iran)6 activeIAEA와 이란, 핵 사찰관 복귀 시점 놓고 충돌 Zelensky (Ukraine)4 worseningWarsaw strips Zelensky of its highest honour; Tusk fights to contain the fallout Erdoğan (Turkey)6 activeİmamoğlu's 'political espionage' trial opens in Silivri MBS (Saudi)5 worseningNEOM halts The Line until after 2030 with a $16bn cancellation bill MBZ (UAE)5 activeMBZ pivots from war footing to Arab coordination as Hormuz reopens el-Sisi (Egypt)5 activeSisi turns Gaza diplomacy into leverage as Egypt's economy stays fragile Ramaphosa (S. Africa)3 active남아프리카 6월 30일 이민자 기한이 대륙 전역의 대규모 대피를 초래 Tinubu (Nigeria)4 worsening46 Oyo schoolchildren held five weeks as Tinubu's security emergency strains Ruto (Kenya)3 escalatingRuto signs the Finance Bill early as Gen Z marks the June 25 anniversary Lula (Brazil)9 active쌍둥이 지진으로 베네수엘라 164명 이상 사망, 구조대 라 과이라 집결 Sheinbaum (Mexico)10 worseningHarfuch says the CJNG is fracturing into regional factions after El Mencho's death Milei (Argentina)8 activeNew forensics revive the $LIBRA case; watchdogs ask a judge to summon Milei Petro (Colombia)7 contested-resultCepeda files 57,000 challenges as petrismo contests the runoff it lost by ~250,000 Prabowo (Indonesia)3 worseningPrabowo's rupiah breaks 18,000 as investors flee Indonesia's worst-performing currency Marcos (Philippines)4 escalatingClosest Scarborough naval encounter in three years as PLAN frigates shadow a Philippine warship Anwar (Malaysia)3 pending-decisionAnwar faces a July test as Johor and Negeri Sembilan call snap polls Kim (N. Korea)5 activeKim commissions the Choe Hyon, his largest warship, and declares a nuclear navy underway Sharif (Pakistan)4 easingSharif signs the 'Islamabad MoU' as guarantor of the US-Iran ceasefire Yunus (Bangladesh)1 transitionBNP sweeps Bangladesh's first post-Hasina vote; Tarique Rahman to be PM Carney (Canada)3 pending-decisionCarney names the Mackenzie Valley Highway his first 'national interest' project Albanese (Australia)4 activeAlbanese's revamped Division 296 super tax takes effect 1 July 2026
Successions & elite health
Khamenei (Iran)2 contested-resultPezeshkian sells the ceasefire at home while hardliners and parliament fight the terms King Charles III1 easingCharles's cancer treatment moves to a 'precautionary phase', but the palace won't say remission The papacy1 activeLeo XIV summons the whole College of Cardinals, a governing method takes shape Putin8 activePutin says the fuel crisis won't change the war, Ukraine's strikes say otherwise Xi6 active중국, 고용 5개년 계획 통과 및 글로벌 거버넌스 백서 발표
Election calendar
Cabinet & coup turnover
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de-escalating 루비오, 이스라엘-레바논 협상이 "의향 선언"에 근접했다고 밝혀, 양측은 나머지 사안 부인
워싱턴, 사흘간의 직접 이스라엘-레바논 회담을 미국의 낙관적 전망과 양측 관리들의 반박 속에 마무리; 나바티예 인근 드론 공격으로 2명 사망
자경단 단체들이 미등록 이민자들에게 5일 내 출국을 요구, 말라위·나이지리아·가나·짐바브웨·모잠비크가 자국민 공수 중, 외국인 혐오 공격으로 최소 2명 사망
오퍼레이션 두둘라의 최후통첩이 마지막 주에 접어들자 가족들이 외출을 두려워하고 있으며, 프리토리아는 이민자를 겨냥한 것이 아니라면서도 단속을 예고
병사의 '집에 가라' 외침이 성긴 박수를 이끌었고, '바이비 파이팅'이 더 큰 환호를 얻었다. 국방장관은 같은 연단에서 IDF 레바논 영구 주둔을 선언했다
pending-decision 그로시, IAEA가 이란 시설에 복귀할 것이나 시기는 '필수적이지 않다'
IAEA 사무총장이 6월 17일 합의가 무엇을 요구하는지를 놓고 워싱턴과 테헤란이 엇갈린 신호를 보내는 가운데 사찰 시간표의 긴장을 완화
글로벌 인프라 투자 파트너십이 예산 항목을 잃는 가운데 행정부는 살아남은 프로젝트를 반중국 광물 전략으로 재정의
전인대 상무위원회가 연간 1,200만 개 일자리를 목표로 하는 독립된 5개년 고용 계획을 승인했다. 베이징은 동시에 주권 평등과 다자주의를 기둥으로 한 47페이지의 거버넌스 선언을 공개했다
메르츠, 마크롱, 멜로니, 스타머, 투스크가 앙카라 NATO 정상회의를 앞두고 베를린에서 만나 NATO의 유럽 축을 강화하며 마드리드를 5% 목표 문제로 배제
미이란 양해각서 체결 후 첫 고위급 외교 사절단은 걸프 국가들의 숨겨진 우려를 드러냈다. 워싱턴과 테헤란의 화해가 이란 봉쇄에 기반한 지역 안보 질서를 위협할 수 있다는 것이다
Jailed over a year, Erdoğan's strongest rival faces 15-20 years on espionage charges and a separate indictment seeking up to 2,430, and tells the court the nation will decide at the ballot box
The prime minister leaves the stand calling the case a 'Stasi' operation as a verdict slips toward 2027 and an election toward autumn
An oil-price shock, a corruption scandal in the free-meals programme and an unnerving inner circle drive a crisis of confidence in Jakarta
5½ hours answering for a string of PSOE probes; the Senate demands a vote he won't give
Manufacturing utilisation near a decade low, retail growth at a three-year trough, and Beijing answers with 'anti-involution', not a consumer bailout
규모 7.2와 7.5 두 차례의 지진이 수크레주를 강타; PAGER 적색 경보, 사망자 1,000명 초과 확률 87%
The Gulf's most hawkish leader flies to Cairo to welcome the US-Iran deal and the strait's reopening, after demanding hard terms on Iran's missiles and nuclear program
Drone strikes on refineries trigger the worst fuel shortage on the Black Sea peninsula since 2014; the Kremlin and independent press describe it in opposite terms
Trump courts El-Sisi at the G7 over Gaza reconstruction and the Iran deal; at home inflation, a weak pound and lost Suez revenue still bite
Median-line crossings and joint air-sea patrols continue day after day while the opposition legislature keeps blocking Lai Ching-te's special defence bill
de-escalating US and Iran sign 14-point memorandum to end the war
Burgenstock talks June 22 conclude with a 60-day road map, Hormuz deconfliction cell and IAEA-inspectors-back agreement; Trump threatens US tolls if no final deal by August 22
The Building Canada Act's debut fast-track designation pits Arctic sovereignty against Indigenous consent
Ankara condemns the strikes as illegal, mourns Khamenei, and offers Trump support to implement a ceasefire, with two-thirds of Turks wanting Turkey to stay out
transition 독일, F126 호위함 사업 취소, 라인메탈에 해군 분야 타격
베를린, 문제 많은 180억 유로 대잠수함 함정 사업을 포기하고 TKMS의 MEKO A-200 8척으로 전환, 라인메탈 주가 급락·TKMS 급등
The flagship of Vision 2030 cuts its population target to 100,000 and faces a bigger bill to cancel contracts than to build, as Riyadh resets its megaproject
The CBE keeps rates on hold a second straight meeting and lifts its 2026 inflation forecast to 16-17% from 11%, blaming the regional conflict and an energy shock
Rolling blackouts and reservoirs near 5% collide with a sixth drought year, as Pezeshkian warns the capital could run dry and even floats evacuation
Abu Dhabi's AI campus moves from US approval to deployment, up to 35,000 GB300 systems licensed, a 1GW first cluster, and a 5GW build at the centre of MBZ's bet on Washington
Van Hollen and Jacobs say the UAE is arming the RSF in contradiction of its assurances; resolutions of disapproval target Emirati weapons sales as Abu Dhabi denies all
파리와 로마가 SAMP/T 방공 시스템, 원자력 에너지, 스타링크에 대항하는 유럽 위성 사업에서 협력 심화
A new finance law with bread VAT and phone-activation duty revives the 2024 grievance; for the first time Ruto signs before June 25, the date that has met him with protests every year
A blogger died in a Nairobi police cell in June 2025; a year on, the murder trial of six officers halts because the station's CCTV was deliberately formatted hours after his death
US envoys float a 60-day deal as UNSC Resolution 2797 anchors Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara; Algiers, patron of the Polisario, stays cold
The Ministry of SOEs is gone; oversight shifts to Danantara, the sovereign wealth fund, with a target of consolidating 1,100 state entities down to 257
pending-decision Merz demands 'all or nothing' on a 33-point pension overhaul
A commission hands Germany a capital pillar and life-expectancy retirement ages; the SPD and unions revolt
transition 진보 후보들, 뉴욕시 민주당 하원 경선 석권
랜더(NY-10), 아빌라 셰발리에(NY-13), 발데스(NY-7) 6월 24일 선거에서 승리, 도시 하원 대표단 지형 변화
France, the UK, Italy and Poland join Germany to coordinate Ukraine, Iran and burden-sharing
An extraordinary consistory on 26–27 June puts war, the synod, just-war doctrine and AI to the cardinals who will one day pick his successor
active 펜타곤, 골든 돔 첫 시험 '완전 임무 성공' 선언
헤그세스, 지향성 에너지 시스템이 프로그램 최초 실전 시험에서 드론·순항 미사일 위협 다수를 자율적으로 탐지하고 격추했다고 밝혀
Rutte met Trump June 24 ahead of the July 7-8 Ankara summit; US anger at allies who refused to join the Iran campaign; 5% GDP defence target being pushed
A 5,000-tonne destroyer for nuclear-capable missiles, built, Seoul says, with Russian help, as Kim pivots from missiles to ships and submarines
The National Electoral Council completed the official scrutiny on June 24 and delivered credentials on June 25, closing the legal challenge period before the August 7 inauguration
pending-decision Meloni weighs an early Italian election as soon as April 2027
Bloomberg reports a snap-vote calculation as ratings slide and Vannacci eclipses Salvini
pending-decision Anwar faces a July test as Johor and Negeri Sembilan call snap polls
Two states vote within 60 days; PH fields 56 candidates in Johor on July 11, a referendum on Anwar's reform record before the 2028 general election
Doval and Wang Yi note 'gradual normalisation' and an 'early harvest' sectoral track even as the MEA calls CPEC infrastructure in the China-held Shaksgam Valley 'illegal and invalid'
Four Republican defectors passed a War Powers Act resolution; it has no force of law but is the first bipartisan Senate rebuke of the Iran campaign
Lee Jae-myung's June peace gestures meet a Pyongyang that is fencing within 80m of the line and rebuffing the South's overtures
The first final corruption ruling to reach the PM's inner circle, in the pandemic 'masks' case
After winning Makerfield, Burnham is the sole declared candidate to succeed caretaker PM Starmer
Petro's bloc launches a 'juridical offensive' over the scrutiny; the CNE denies a full overseas recount
The 16th NSAs' meeting in Delhi exposes the bloc's fault lines, China draws lessons from the Iran war while Tehran demands a stand on 'state terrorism', ahead of a September Modi summit
contested-result Petro refuses to concede, alleging US and Israeli interference as his term winds down
A lame-duck leftist president, barred from re-election, demands a recount and audit after his bloc loses the runoff by under 1%
A second corruption strand circles Sánchez: kickbacks on public works and an obstruction probe
Sheikh Tahnoon chairs a Q1 review of ADIA, Mubadala, L'Imad and ADNOC as the emirate steers wartime capital and builds a 'fourth pillar' fund
pending-decision Carney nominates Manitoba's Glenn Joyal to the Supreme Court
A bilingual Prairie 'institutionalist' fills the Western seat left by Justice Martin
Gunmen seized pupils aged 2 to 16 and seven teachers in May; one teacher murdered, the rest still captive in June, amid a wider wave of mass abductions and Middle-Belt killings
Sterling and gilts move only modestly on Starmer's exit, the real question is the spending rules
Less than two years after a landslide, Keir Starmer resigns amid Reform UK's surge; Burnham is frontrunner; nominations open July 9
Argentina's captain scores 18 goals in the 2026 tournament group stage, surpassing Miroslav Klose's 16 and Ronaldo's career total, as the 48-team World Cup reshapes football's geography
New Delhi ties restoration to an end of cross-border terror as ministers vow to choke Pakistan's flows; Islamabad calls water security a casus belli
A 7-year sentence for Osama Almasri reopens the case against Meloni's ministers
active China releases first live DF-17 launch footage as Liaoning CSG returns from 40-day deployment
CGTN broadcast the first public test launch of the DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicle on June 22; the Liaoning carrier strike group concluded a 40-day South China Sea and Western Pacific campaign the same day
Modi inducts INS Dunagiri, Sanshodhak and Agray as a marker of self-reliant defence, and an answer to PLAN's Indian Ocean push
3,000+ Malawians are sheltering in a Durban field; 262 Nigerians were repatriated June 23; security forces deployed after mob attacks, with no policy resolution in sight
After dropping the contested unrealised-gains design, Labor lands an extra 15% over A$3m and 25% over A$10m, indexed
de-escalating Thailand–Cambodia ceasefire holds, barely: closed crossings, trades of blame, stalled talks
Six months after the December truce ended 20 days of fighting, the border stays shut and demarcation talks wait on landmine-clearing and a new Thai government
A Madrid judge sends Begoña Gómez to a jury trial on graft charges, deepening the corruption siege around Spain's prime minister
A Trump-aligned lawyer edges leftist Iván Cepeda by under 1%, ending the Petro era and realigning Bogotá toward Washington; post-election clashes in three cities
Qassem calls the disarmament drive a 'roadmap to annihilate' as Israel vows an open-ended stay in south Lebanon and keeps striking past the ceasefire deadline
Trump says Meloni 'begged' him for a photo; she calls it fabricated and her diplomat cancels his US trip
A WWII-memory rupture pits President Nawrocki against PM Tusk and Kyiv, with Moscow the only clear winner
Leaders agree the 2028–2034 MFF shape, roll Russia sanctions for 12 months, and start Ukraine accession talks
contested-result Merz calls the EU's next seven-year budget 'unaffordable'
After the June European Council, Berlin rejects the MFF proposal and floats Ukraine 'associate membership'
Every EU member now runs a deficit with Beijing; leaders weigh a 'menu' of trade measures
Tranche 2 of the EPBC reforms creates a national EPA as Australia takes a negotiator role at Türkiye's COP31
The ₹99,446-crore PM-VBRY pays first-time formal workers up to ₹15,000 and subsidises employers; a ₹2,400-crore first tranche reaches 15 lakh, but start-ups and micro-firms barely know it exists
RM600m+ in direct losses after a cancelled NSM delivery; Anwar, on Russian TV, contrasts Oslo's reversal with Moscow 'honouring all commitments'
Justices signaled they may preserve birthright citizenship and block the firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook
The DFP 2026 cuts growth and dashes hopes of exiting the excessive-deficit procedure early
At a 35th-anniversary summit in Kazan, ASEAN and Russia adopt four cooperation documents; the Philippines' Marcos co-chairs even as he leans on Washington
Klingbeil defends ~€196bn in fresh debt as defence spending climbs toward €180bn by 2030
Trump insists 'no $300 billion payment to Iran by the US'; Vance says Arab states and investors will fund it, and no country has confirmed a cent as Iran's own bank warns of a 12-year rebuild
A federal-police report finds the token's supply concentrated in one address; Inecip and Cipce seek Milei's indagatoria
Pakistan recasts itself from war-adjacent bystander to lead mediator; Pezeshkian's thank-you visit and Nobel chatter follow a 14-point deal reopening Hormuz and extending the truce
France hosts a summit that hardens the Russia line and claims a 'deep change' in the US approach, at the cost of consensus theatre
pending-decision Modi and Trump fast-track the India-US trade pact at the G7
First leaders' talks in 16 months order a 'commercially meaningful' deal; USTR Greer flies to Delhi as a July 24 tariff cliff looms and Congress cries appeasement
A state dinner on the G7 margins becomes the unexpected venue for an initial war-ending agreement
A third straight quarter-point cut paired with a hawkish communiqué, election-year fiscal stimulus and El Niño flagged as upside risks
Canada's PM banks 13 critical-minerals partnerships and a France intelligence pact, while caught reassuring Trump over Chinese EV imports
German troops to help fortify the Belarus and Russia borders as US engagement wavers
The DA's new leader Hill-Lewis tells the president to demote Steenhuisen and reslot its ministers, forcing a constitutional question about the GNU's power to dictate appointments
A damning annual report passes 381-107, naming Akın Gürlek over the İmamoğlu case; Ankara calls it 'hostile propaganda'
Mexico's security chief reports the Jalisco cartel splintering 'like Sinaloa did', with a stepson among the contenders facing extradition
'A deal is a deal', MEPs approve the Turnberry framework while warning it is unbalanced
Insiders blame erratic, poorly communicated policy and an opaque advisory court; a Tony Robbins session at the palace becomes the symbol of the unease
Daily killings at a 12-year low under Harfuch's strategy, but the rising missing-persons count undercuts the headline
Four years two months and ineligibility to 2038 for coercion, tried in absentia for seeking US sanctions on the court trying his father
Guterres visits Port-au-Prince as the renamed mission fields ~1,000 of 5,500 authorised troops against gangs holding ~70% of the capital
21-gun salute for Min Aung Hlaing, a 'shared future' joint statement, RMB–kyat settlement and Kyaukpyu, Beijing legitimises a ballot that barred the opposition
Évian invites Brazil, Egypt, India, Kenya and South Korea, but not Canberra, breaking a near-unbroken run since 2019
ELN talks frozen since the Catatumbo massacre; violence less deadly but more pervasive, monitors find, as the transition looms
73,001 killed, famine confirmed, $17B pledged but 1% disbursed; Hamas offered a heavy-weapons inventory on June 12 and was told no by June 16
The float climbs toward the crawling-band top while reserves hit a seven-year high, the tension at the heart of the IMF program
Al-Sharaa calls a pact a 'necessity' and says results may come 'in coming days'; he calls a strike near the presidential palace 'a declaration of war' but refrains from responding
pending-decision Merz signals German minesweepers could secure the Strait of Hormuz
With a US–Iran framework deal, Berlin readies the Bundeswehr, under three conditions
A KNCHR reparations framework verifies over 1,000 victims of 2017-2025 state violence, but bars looting and 'ordinary criminal' victims and withholds the names, drawing daily picketing
1,000+ arrests, a blocked move to federalize Illinois troops, and a fourth 'No Kings' day of protest
President's Rule was lifted in February for a BJP chief minister; by June a Kuki-Naga rupture, mass hostage-taking and fresh shootings show the conflict is mutating, not ending
INDEC prints 2.1% as the disinflation holds, though still above Milei's sub-2% goal
contested-result Pezeshkian sells the ceasefire at home while hardliners and parliament fight the terms
Iran's president defends US talks and warns of economic ruin, but a new supreme leader and an IRGC-shaped parliament constrain what he can concede
US, Greece, Cyprus and Israel launch an energy centre at Rice University; Ankara invokes 'guarantor state' powers and warns Israeli strikes now threaten Turkey
pending-decision Sheinbaum walks into the USMCA review having already tariffed China to please Washington
Mexico dodged Trump's reciprocal tariffs; now the July 1 joint review turns on whether it can keep China out of North America's supply chain
Russia's spring-summer push around Pokrovsk grinds; Putin admits the drone war is hurting the economy and vows to bolster air defences
37 presidential vetoes in ten months turn cohabitation into open warfare
Aurangzeb cuts salaried tax rates and scraps the surcharge while holding to the $7bn IMF programme's consolidation targets and a 17.6% higher revenue goal
First US strike killing a designated-terrorist leader in the hemisphere, run jointly with Delcy Rodríguez's post-Maduro government
The first leaders' summit under the 2021 Quirinal Treaty, focused on defence, space and energy
The president can't veto the budget, so he refers it, Tusk says it changes nothing
Two defence resignations on 11 June reframe the collapse as policy-driven, not just poll panic
pending-decision EU top-court adviser sides against von der Leyen in 'Pfizergate'
An Advocate General urges dismissing the Commission's appeal over the secret Pfizer vaccine texts
active Syria's Kurdish integration deal half-built: 80% of SDF land ceded, implementation still tense
After a January government offensive took most DAANES territory, a US-brokered integration agreement holds on paper while fighting flickers and Mazloum Abdi's control wobbles
Manila condemns Beijing's 3,500-hectare reserve as a sovereignty grab, mandates Philippine names for sea features, while chairing ASEAN and courting a code of conduct
An October election looming, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich demand Hezbollah's destruction while opposition brands the US-Iran deal Netanyahu's failure
A budget-reconciliation bill ends a 76-day DHS shutdown and entrenches the deportation machine to term's end
At 80, Lula runs for an unprecedented fourth term with the right's standard-bearer dogged by scandal and his father jailed
The self-styled Beijing critic extends the active yuan swap tranche for 12 months as Washington presses Buenos Aires to cut financial ties
Washington's first 'failed demonstrably' label since 1997, plus sanctions on Petro himself, collide with a Trump-endorsed successor
Separatists stormed the Belo Brigade in the North-West, killing the commander and a gendarme and seizing weapons, the deadliest assault in months, with the 92-year-old Biya re-installed and 48 dead in election protests
Manuel Adorni concedes off-the-books savings the anti-casta government had built ethics policy around; opposition pushes a censure session
Headline returns below 4% even as Q1 GDP contracts 0.6%, framing the central bank's June pause
June airstrikes on Khost, Kunar and Paktika break a brief calm; Islamabad claims 26 militants dead, Kabul and the UN count 13 civilians including 11 children
pending-decision Von der Leyen unveils the EU's 21st Russia sanctions package
First-ever hits on shadow-fleet enablers, LNG-tanker resales and a frozen oil price cap
An Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs triggers ~30 Iranian ballistic missiles at Israel, the first direct exchange since April, before both pull back 'for now'
Civil Contract takes ~50% on June 7, enough to govern but not the two-thirds for the constitutional referendum Baku and Ankara demand before signing
Months after Congress ousted Boluarte, a fragmented 35-candidate field narrows to far-right Keiko Fujimori versus the left's Roberto Sánchez
Beijing pulls Kim back into orbit after Russia's courtship, 'good neighbour, good friend, good comrade', and silence on the bomb
Saudi guest of honour, a US delegation back after a decade, and a president conceding 'risks of stagnation' while Ukrainian strikes shadow his hometown forum
The first full year on a new 2022-23 base year shows the fastest-growing major economy, even as a rare rise in unemployment and an implausibly low deflator fuel a credibility debate
After Abu Dhabi and Geneva rounds put territory on the table, June brings a 185-for-185 swap and duelling summit venues, but no leaders' meeting
Moscow leans wholly on the Trump–Anchorage framework, demands Ukraine stop its advance, and tells Kyiv to sign before any meeting
North Korea reveals a fresh uranium-enrichment hall, likely a third site, as Kim says weapons-grade output has more than doubled in five years
A diplomacy-driven bounce, with PM Lecornu matching him exactly, as the final year of the term opens
Farías Laguna's letters to Sheinbaum widen the huachicol fiscal case; his defence disputes that the full file was handed over
Reports name Sonora's Durazo and Tamaulipas's Villarreal; Sheinbaum calls it a discrediting campaign as her predecessor breaks silence
The large-investment regime tops 18 approved projects and >US$22.5bn; critics cost the fiscal giveaway at ~US$1.8bn a year
pending-decision USTR proposes forced-labor tariffs on 60 economies, Trump's post-IEEPA tariff vehicle
After the Supreme Court voided IEEPA tariffs, Section 301 becomes the new, uncapped lever against China, India, the EU and dozens more
A 30-day deadline lapses, Washington moves on a 25% levy, and Lula readies a retaliation law months before facing Flávio Bolsonaro
Operation Dudula's ultimatum and a fatal Mossel Bay attack force the president to address the nation; he calls xenophobia unacceptable, then unveils tougher migration enforcement that critics call recycled
A Seine-side monument marks France's long, incomplete reckoning, short of a formal apology
71 foreign-investment projects and a Dunkerque data-centre mega-deal as France defends its FDI lead
A 1 June proclamation cuts farm-equipment duties and rewards high US material content, building a new tariff wall
SDNY charges Sinaloa's Rocha Moya with aiding 'Los Chapitos'; Sheinbaum says Mexico may reject the detention request absent evidence
Singapore meeting streamlines the buy to second-hand boats and launches the first Pillar II undersea-drone project
pending-decision Morena's Senate pushes Mexico's judicial elections from 2027 to 2028
An 87-40 constitutional vote reworks candidate selection and lets TEPJF magistrates seek re-election, extending the bench overhaul
A new corporate category run by AI agents, human shareholders optional; Harari warns of regulatory arbitrage and impunity
Markets and FAAC allocations have surged since the subsidy was cut and the naira floated, but petrol has risen more than fourfold and households are still squeezed
An ₹18.36-crore freeze on Kerala's ex-CM revives 'weaponised agencies' charges; the Supreme Court's November opinion narrows its own April ruling that had reined in Governors
Disciplinary and criminal files over his X account and rally speeches; the Council of State orders him to stop official political messaging
The president orders international access restored after one of the longest shutdowns on record; hardline outlets say he had no authority, exposing the rift inside the system
An Istanbul court annuls the CHP's 2023 congress, unseating Özgür Özel and bringing back Kılıçdaroğlu, judicial pressure on Erdoğan's main rival party deepens
The Fund unlocks ~$1bn and praises the disinflation, but pins a reserves floor that critics say could reignite inflation in an election year
Defence, education and labour ministers gone in ten days; ~100 roadblocks, fuel and food shortages, and calls for the new president to quit
Atiku takes the ADC ticket; Obi and Kwankwaso bolt to the NDC, handing the president two rival challengers instead of one, just as the 2027 race opens
4,399 days surpasses Nehru, a record the cabinet calls a democratic milestone and the opposition calls 'dubiously invented'
Kallas has chaired no high-level meeting; Special Representative Sørensen is stalled by instability in both capitals as the EU lifts its punitive measures on Kosovo
contested-result Lula and a Bolsonaro son run dead even into Brazil's October vote
Jailed and barred, Jair Bolsonaro hands the flag to Senator Flávio; an 80-year-old Lula seeks a fourth term with the race tied
The right's 2026 candidate confirms a recording asking ex-banker Daniel Vorcaro to release money for a biopic of his father, widening Lula's lead
Sudani sidelined, Maliki vetoed under US pressure: parliament approves Ali al-Zaidi with a partial cabinet, defence and interior still vacant
The NTA scraps the 2.27-million-candidate medical entrance after a paper leak; a satirical youth movement demanding the education minister's resignation gains 22 million followers in a month
Brussels bans Brazilian meat, poultry and honey from September over growth-promoter use, weeks after Mercosur-EU took provisional effect
pending-decision Marcos vs Duterte: Sara's Senate impeachment trial opens July 6
257 House votes, $110m in flagged transfers, and a trial that runs in parallel with the elder Duterte's ICC case at The Hague
A pro-federation TRNC win and Guterres calling 2026 'a critical year' open a window; the two leaders converge on technical points but split on a '5+1' conference and new crossings
Two deputy governors dissent to hold at 6.75% as inflation returns to the band; the next decision lands 26 June
Modi's party ends Mamata's 15-year rule and wins a third Assam term, but Vijay's TVK seizes Tamil Nadu and Congress sweeps Kerala, three of four states change hands
The Hague weighs the 1899 boundary while Caracas swears in a governor of the territory it doesn't administer and Guyana arms up
Seven members add 188,000 bpd for July, but Saudi Arabia's quota sits far above what the closed Strait let it actually export
The US-Iran MoU sends Brent toward $77 and Aramco cuts its July price to Asia, even as the war banked Riyadh a routing windfall through the East-West pipeline
pending-decision Israel sets 27 October vote, Netanyahu's first ballot since 7 October and three wars
A judge fixes the date Netanyahu wanted, the latest possible; a dissolution bill that would have pulled it earlier is in play
stalemate Senate rejects Lula's Supreme Court pick, first since 1894, and he renominates the same man
The chamber blocks AGU Jorge Messias 42–34 in a historic rebuke tied to its own president; Lula sends the name back
The president pushes a mediated plea deal Netanyahu won't take, admitting wrongdoing and quitting politics, while Trump calls Herzog 'weak and pathetic'
Petro blames Iván Mordisco's EMC for a wave of bombings across Cauca and Valle del Cauca as the campaign turns violent
A fifth Joint Oversight Committee met in April; the DRC-M23 Doha framework's key provisions remain unimplemented, Qatar, Togo, the US and the AU keep the process alive as fighting continues
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to expand parliament to 850 seats and freeze delimitation on the 2011 census fails the two-thirds bar amid a united opposition and southern revolt
An 11 April landslide hands the EU a new Budapest, unblocking Ukraine aid while refusing to fast-track Kyiv's accession
Parliament restores a post scrapped in 1972; reports that Biya named son Franck VP are claimed by some outlets and denied by the government
At the G7 Trump says the dam is causing Egypt 'tremendous problems' and offers to restart US Nile mediation, six months after Ethiopia inaugurated Africa's largest hydro project
The WSJ says Mirage 2000 jets hit a Gulf island refinery, making the UAE the only third country to attack Iran, after Tehran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Emirati targets
A decade after Modi vowed to quarantine Pakistan, Islamabad signs minerals and crypto deals with Trump's circle and an 'all-weather' upgrade with Xi, and India is left protesting from the sidelines
The chief of staff raises '10 red flags' over reservist strain while Israel tallies $1.1bn+ in missile damage and 45,000 home-front claims
A $33.5bn Q1 hole, most of the year's planned shortfall in one quarter, as military outlays jumped and Hormuz throttled oil exports despite high prices
Parliament extends its own term to 2028 amid the Hezbollah–Israel escalation; Christian parties object to the open-ended delay
Iran's first hereditary succession installs a mid-ranking cleric the Guards pushed through; a third of the Assembly never signed on
Tamar/Leviathan maintenance cuts ~250 mcf/d on top of the war cutoff; Cairo fast-tracks LNG to hold a gas-dependent grid through summer
Addis has redeployed heavy weaponry and mechanised units to Afar within striking distance of Eritrea's Assab port; Abiy's Red Sea ambition and a fractured TPLF turn an old enmity into a powder keg
Army kills the CJNG founder in a US-assisted operation; narco-blockades and shootouts ripple across multiple states, and a succession war opens
Yunus's interim government hands over after a February landslide; Jamaat-e-Islami a distant second, the student NCP nearly shut out
The royalist-military-favoured party tops the 8 February poll on nationalism and stimulus; a referendum approves scrapping the 2017 constitution
A Chaves-aligned conservative wins outright with 48.5% and a single-party legislative majority, the first since 1990
Q1 GDP shrank 3.3% from the Iran war, but the ceasefire sends the currency to a 1993 peak and ratings outlooks to stable, even as Smotrich fights a record defence budget
pending-decision EU and India clinch the 'mother of all' trade deals
Two decades of stalled talks ended on geopolitics as much as commerce; the text is signed only on paper, with formal signature due by end-2026
From Algeria in July to South Sudan's long-delayed vote in December, who votes, when, and where power actually turns over
Most for drug offences and many of them foreign nationals, with the total under King Salman now past 2,000, as the kingdom courts the world on Vision 2030
Sworn in under Article 233 following the January US raid, she extends a hand to Trump while insisting Maduro is still the only president
After Washington's June compliance review found 'no viable path forward,' the state abandons its lawsuit and turns to private investors and cap-and-trade
easing Charles's cancer treatment moves to a 'precautionary phase', but the palace won't say remission
Buckingham Palace scales back the King's schedule on doctors' advice; two years on, the type and stage stay undisclosed
Soldiers arrest President Embaló as both he and the opposition claim election victory; civil society alleges a 'simulated coup,' ECOWAS suspends the country
CAPSAT, the unit that made Rajoelina in 2009, switches sides; Col. Randrianirina takes power, AU suspends the island, elections promised for 2027