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Gulf foreign ministers used a July 28 consultation to focus on practical understandings, de-escalation and the safe flow of ships through Hormuz.
Jul 29, 2026
American strikes on Revolutionary Guard sites drew missile and drone retaliation aimed at American assets in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. Iranian officials report at least eleven dead, including five at a wedding in the south.
Sep 2, 2026
Merz, Frederiksen, Costa and Kallas went to Rovaniemi to talk icebreakers, satellites and the Northern Sea Route. Then a drone struck a Kyiv to Warsaw locomotive minutes after Boris Johnson's train had passed. Berlin called it a calculated escalation.
Sep 15, 2026
Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy while Ukrainian strikes on refineries and industrial sites in Krasnodar killed six, as Trump urged Zelensky to settle with Putin.
Sep 27, 2026
Iran's foreign minister offered to have the strait open within a week if Washington lifted its naval blockade, released frozen funds and ended oil sanctions, but Trump said the proposal mirrored a deal Tehran had already broken.
Sep 27, 2026
Loops, specifications, tool permissions, traces and evaluation are becoming the competitive layer as coding models grow more capable and more available.
Jul 28, 2026
Tehran says Washington accepted only some of its seven conditions, mediators in Qatar and Pakistan are still in play, and the drone strike off Sohar shows how little the talks have changed at sea.
Oct 13, 2026
Overnight into Thursday Kyiv endured three waves of missiles while Russia reported a huge Ukrainian drone wave, a day after Putin accepted three-way talks in principle with the US envoy.
Oct 23, 2026
Debris from an intercepted drone killed two foreign workers at Aramco's Shaybah field on Wednesday, hours before a fatal strike on Dammam's airport and a State Department departure order.
Oct 22, 2026
Video showed a mob pushing one man to the ground and chasing him before police intervened, in an overnight riot that also saw a Border Police officer hurt by a thrown bottle near the Old City during the Sukkot holiday crowds.
Sep 29, 2026
The group named Ras Tanura, Abqaiq and two airports, while Saudi forces reported only interceptions, one minor injury and, on Friday, a drone destroyed over the Makkah region.
Oct 30, 2026
Zelensky put Russia's week at roughly 1,600 guided bombs, nearly 2,300 drones and 48 missiles, as strikes killed four in Dnipropetrovsk region and he pressed Europe to release Patriot interceptors.
Oct 25, 2026
The rights group says Houthi forces encircled Yemen's third-largest city this month, and cites UN figures on empty flour stocks, a failing health system and halved water production.
Oct 29, 2026
Cairo's lawmakers backed a two-thirds mandate to defend the kingdom, no troops have gone yet, and the Houthis have warned Egypt that joining the fight would be a grave danger.
Oct 28, 2026
Allies will add maritime patrol aircraft, radar and counter-drone teams after ships were hit off Romania and Bulgaria, though nobody in the alliance has named Russia as the attacker.
Oct 21, 2026
A Singapore-flagged container ship and a bulk carrier have gone down within a day of each other, and two senior Iranian officials told Reuters that Tehran is using new tactics against vessels.
Oct 15, 2026
New usage research finds workers using AI for tasks once associated with other professions, especially where specialist help is scarce.
Jul 31, 2026
The two met for about 40 minutes on Tuesday during UN General Assembly week. Trump said 'I think we're going to make a deal'. Zelenskyy proposed a ceasefire limited to energy infrastructure and repeated his call for a three-way meeting with Putin present.
Sep 24, 2026
CENTCOM named the five crude carriers it disabled after two missile attacks on one of its warships. Iran answered at Al-Azraq, where Jordan says it intercepted eighteen of twenty missiles, and claimed strikes on ten ships. Brent closed at 101 dollars.
Sep 10, 2026
Smoke rose from a fuel depot by King Khalid airport and the coalition said nobody was hurt. Bisha, Taif, Farasan and Yanbu were targeted the same morning. Trump says he would meet Pezeshkian in New York; Iran says it knows of a planned attack.
Sep 22, 2026
Growing wealth inequality is reshaping consumer behavior. Experiences over goods, values over discounts, and AI shopping tools mark 2026's divide.
May 20, 2025
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
With the East-West pipeline still shut, no Saudi crude has left the Red Sea since 11 September and Europe's late-September cargoes are being cancelled. The coalition called the Mecca drone a red line. An American drone killed the crews of two IRGC boats.
Sep 17, 2026
