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Europe can’t stop tide of cocaine
Financial Times: As authorities have stepped up interceptions at major ports, traffickers have kept ahead through sophisticated drop-offs…
July 26, 2026
Defence giants provide record backing for military start-ups
Financial Times: As drones and autonomous systems transform the battlefield, traditional defence companies start to act more like…
July 26, 2026
China pours funding into green energy deals as Iran war hits oil demand
Financial Times: “What distinguishes this wave [of the BRI] from the previous one is that investment decisions are…
July 26, 2026
‘Divide and conquer’: China exploits EU divisions over trade
Financial Times: As the EU battles China’s growing trade surplus, Beijing is resorting to what analysts say is…
July 26, 2026
Debt more beautiful than you think
Bloomberg: From sovereign bonds to modern banking, debt is one of humanity’s most elegant and misunderstood creations…
July 26, 2026
Nvidia in talks with OpenAI to guarantee $250 billion financing for data center
Wall Street Journal: The power for the project is controlled by the U.S. government and funded separately by…
July 26, 2026
How Russia uses sexual violence to wage war
Wall Street Journal: Before he left for the front line in 2022, Serhii Boychuk told his wife that…
July 26, 2026
Iran says it will halt strikes as long as US bombing pause holds. Trump wants to give U.S.-Iran talks ‘some space’ as he weighs escalation, aide says. Oman holds Hormuz transit talks—AND MORE
Reuters: Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States does the same, a senior…
July 26, 2026
Sweden launching its own MI6
The Economist: The new agency is the brainchild of Carl Bildt, a former prime minister, who published a…
July 26, 2026
Sell company for $400 million? He’s giving it away instead.
New York Times: Now, Mr. Smith, who is 83, has made one last big move: He renounced a…
July 25, 2026
Japan startled by Prime Minister’s grueling sleep schedule
New York Times: Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night,…
July 25, 2026
Silicon Valley splits over closing borders to Chinese A.I.
New York Times: On one side are leading A.I. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, which claim that some…
July 25, 2026
Brazil denies visas to U.S. officials who aimed to impugn electoral system
Washington Post: The U.S. delegation had planned to visit the Brazilian capital and cast doubt on the integrity…
July 25, 2026
Trump’s insult-laden speech to press dinner draws mostly stunned silence
Washington Post: President Donald Trump attacked a slew of journalists and some of his favorite political foils at…
July 25, 2026
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
Financial Times: But I didn’t want to talk about Claude. I wanted to talk about the user, about…
July 25, 2026
Maha Inc: Companies tied to Kennedy’s movement poised to benefit
Financial Times: One likely beneficiary is Enhanced Group, a telehealth company whose investors include Donald Trump Jr. It…
July 25, 2026
Kim Jong Un upgrading his spy network
Wall Street Journal: In a rare mention of the country’s spy program earlier this month, he presided over…
July 25, 2026
Trump holds off on major escalation against Iran as advisers raise concerns. Iran’s best missile getting more dangerous—AND MORE
New York Times: President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American…
July 25, 2026
Islamic bookshops allowed to bring ‘skilled’ migrant workers to Britain
Telegraph: Islamic bookshops selling anti-Semitic texts have been granted the right to bring “skilled” migrants to Britain, The…
July 25, 2026
EU waters down Russia sanctions over fears China could seize key LNG assets
SCMP: Bloc concludes banning Greek companies from transporting Russian gas to third countries may hand strategic shipping advantages…
July 24, 2026