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Trump's 50% Canada Tariff Lands on a Supply Chain Already Diverting
21 Jul
Iran widens the Gulf strike map as IRGC claims US targets in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan
21 Jul
Iran summons Kuwait over hosting 'enemies of Iran' as diplomatic rift widens
21 Jul
India's plastic banknote plan lands on the same week Delhi burns
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Business21 Jul
Trump hits Canadian wine, hockey sticks and cement with 50% tariffs, sparing energy and fish
A new 50% US tariff on selected Canadian goods took effect late on 20 July 2026, hitting wine, hockey sticks and cement while leaving energy and fish…
Business21 Jul
Trump's 50% Canada Tariff: How a Trade War Started by Slogan Ended in a Currency Crossfire
A 50% US tariff on Canadian goods landed on 20 July 2026. Ontario's premier answered in kind. The retaliation is now a question of who can hold the…
Business21 Jul
Polymarket is pricing a world in flux: rate hikes, Israel-Lebanon talks, and the geometry of a 'yellow line'
On 21 July 2026, two freshly listed markets on Polymarket put odds on a Fed rate hike and an Israel-Lebanon diplomatic meeting, while Electronic…
Business21 Jul
IRGC claims 24th-wave strikes across Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait as oil tankers hit
Tehran-aligned channels report coordinated strikes on US assets and commercial shipping in three Gulf states, with no independent confirmation from…
Business21 Jul
India's next decade of growth will be measured in electrons, not just rupees
A new estimate says data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as all of India does today. The grid, the currency and the…
Business21 Jul
Houthi Red Sea blockade turns back Saudi crude as war-risk insurance more than doubles
Two Saudi crude tankers bound for China and India reversed course in the Red Sea on 21 July 2026 as Houthi threats intensified, and Reuters reported…
Business21 Jul
Hegseth tells Senate the US can reach what is buried under Pickaxe Mountain, and asks for $1.5 trillion to…
Before the Senate Appropriations Committee on 21 July 2026, War Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to detail what the US can do to Iran's Pickaxe…
Business21 Jul
Hegseth's Hormuz warning puts Tehran's grip on the strait back in the frame
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warned that any Iranian targeting of commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz would be met with force, sharpening…
Business21 Jul
Hegseth asks Congress for $1.5 trillion, calls Pentagon underfunding "the greatest threat" to the US
At a hearing on 21 July 2026, the War Secretary asked lawmakers for a $1.5 trillion topline and framed underfunding as the single gravest danger the…
Business21 Jul
Geneva accord, Gaza strikes, and a press under pressure: the Middle East's split-screen week
A US-Iran peace accord is due to be signed in Geneva on Friday while Israeli strikes on central Gaza continue and a tally of nearly 500 Israeli…
Business21 Jul
Gaza strikes, US-Iran accord on Friday, and a press corps under pressure
Israeli strikes on central Gaza killed at least two people on the same day US and Iranian envoys confirmed a Geneva signing, while The Cradle reports…
Business21 Jul
Gates Foundation review clears institution of Epstein payments, leaves the contact question open
An external review for the Gates Foundation found contact with Jeffrey Epstein but no evidence of payments or criminal participation, leaving the…
Business21 Jul
European gas hits four-month high as war jitters revive winter-supply fears
Benchmark European gas futures touched their highest level in four months on 21 July 2026, after reports that US-Iran hostilities are raising the…
Business21 Jul
Gas markets price a winter the West hoped it had bought its way out of
European benchmark gas hit a four-year high on 20 July 2026 as the Strait of Hormuz attacks and a tenth night of US strikes on Iran revived the…
Business21 Jul
Critical minerals and the price of decoupling
A new report ties Indonesia to the top of a list of countries where Chinese critical-mineral supply chains are linked to alleged abuses, while export…
Business21 Jul
China's rare-earth chokehold tightens as Washington reaches for sanctions and chips
Outside China, prices for electric-vehicle and industrial rare earths are climbing sharply as Beijing tightens export licensing, and the United…
Business20 Jul
Yemen's Ansar Allah issues shipping ban against Saudi Arabia, raising stakes of full-scale war
Ansar Allah has warned ships bound for Saudi Arabia to turn back via VHF radio and threatened a full-scale war if the Saudi siege of Yemen is not…
Business20 Jul
Vessel fire off Kamzar revives concern over shipping safety in the Strait of Hormuz corridor
A reported fire on a vessel northwest of Kamzar on the Omani coast, flagged by UKMTO late on 19 July 2026, lands inside one of the world's most…
Business20 Jul
Vessel on fire in Strait of Hormuz as UKMTO reports incident off Oman's Kumzar coast
A vessel is burning in the Strait of Hormuz roughly 8 nautical miles off Kumzar, Oman, after UKMTO reported a marine incident at 23:59 UTC on 19 July…
Business20 Jul
Washington slaps 50% tariff on Canadian imports as trade war reopens
A 50% levy on Canadian cars, alcohol and dairy takes shape in Washington, with a 30-day runway and an unmistakable signal about what comes next.
Business20 Jul
Trump signs 50% tariff order on Canadian goods, citing 'discriminatory treatment' of US exports
The White House on 20 July 2026 ordered a 50% tariff on a wide range of Canadian imports, citing what it called Ottawa's 'discriminatory treatment'…
Business20 Jul
Trump's 50% Canada tariff lands. The retaliation math starts now.
A 50% duty on Canadian goods took effect on 20 July 2026, citing discriminatory treatment of US cars, alcohol and dairy. Ottawa's response, and what…
Business20 Jul
Ten nights over Iran: what the CENTCOM strikes are actually degrading
U.S. Central Command has run ten consecutive nights of strikes against Iranian military targets. The framing has shifted from nuclear sites to the…
Business20 Jul
Tanker struck off Oman's coast as UKMTO logs another Strait of Hormuz incident
A tanker reported being hit by an unidentified projectile northeast of Oman's port of Limah, the second such incident in the corridor this month and…
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- A general calls it by name: settler violence enters Israel's own security vocabulary20 Jul
- Russia pounds Odesa port and oil depot in daylight strike campaign20 Jul
- Five months into the US-Iran war, oil markets are calm. The reason is Bahrain.20 Jul
- Maritime fire off Oman draws missile-attack claims as UKMTO logs incident20 Jul
- IRGC claims Jordanian intelligence helped target US aircraft at Aqaba20 Jul
- The hidden ledger under the AI boom: how five US tech giants have moved $1.65tn…20 Jul
- Drone strike halts loadings at Russia's Black Sea oil terminal, exposing a corridor under…20 Jul
- Strikes on Bushehr put the world's most-watched nuclear plant in the line of fire20 Jul
- Burnham's North Sea pivot puts Labour's climate math under new pressure20 Jul
- Andy Burnham takes Downing Street as Starmer exits, vowing to scrap digital ID and drill…20 Jul
- Burnham takes Downing Street with cost-of-living pledge and a North Sea gamble20 Jul
- Andy Burnham enters Downing Street as Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade20 Jul
- Twenty-one incidents in five provinces: what a single day of West Bank data tells us…19 Jul
- US opens second wave of strikes on Iran, citing Hormuz threat and Jordan attack19 Jul
- US Army fires ATACMS and PrSM from Kuwait toward Iran, Telegram channels say19 Jul
- A $120bn swing, a $440,600 ceiling, and an FTX payout: three prints that put a shape on…19 Jul
- Washington presses the throttle on Iran as Gulf states get a one-week ultimatum19 Jul
- Stavropol fuel sites and Black Sea tankers: Kyiv stretches Russia's war-economy on four…19 Jul
- Stavropol in Flames: Ukraine's Long-Range Campaign Reshapes Russia's Fuel Map19 Jul
- A Crypto Casino's Tagline Is Now Embedded in War Coverage of Iran19 Jul
- Eight nights of strikes, billions in oil: the Iran file keeps widening19 Jul
- Iran strikes Aqaba: debris lands near King Hussein Airport as Israeli interceptors engage19 Jul
- Hormuz blockade meets a swing importer: how Beijing is cushioning the oil shock19 Jul
- Inside the 'ceasefire' that's still killing Palestinians in Gaza19 Jul
- Explosions Reported at Two Iranian Ports in Khuzestan: What Is Confirmed and What Isn't19 Jul
- Lebanon's Aoun heads to Washington with a Hezbollah-disarmament pitch, as Miller floats a…19 Jul
- Zelensky says Ukraine struck two Russian logistics hubs in Moscow and Tambov oblasts18 Jul
- A Wildberries warehouse burns near Moscow. The signal is bigger than the strike18 Jul
- US strikes hit Iran's Hormozgan coast as two American service members die in Jordan18 Jul
- US launches new round of strikes on Iran as Hormuz standoff deepens18 Jul
- U.S. strikes hit Bandar Abbas approach tunnels for a second night, putting Hormozgan's…18 Jul
- A village under cars: settler attacks near Hebron point to a quieter phase of the West…18 Jul
- US opens a new round on Iran as Hormuz threat and a Jordan base attack collide18 Jul
- Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s largest online retailer inside its own logistics network18 Jul
- Ukrainian drones hit two Wildberries hubs near Moscow, lighting up 10 percent of the…18 Jul
- Ukraine's drone forces hit 13 Russian shadow-fleet vessels in the Black and Azov seas18 Jul