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International News Bulletin — August 21, 2026
Politics Turkiye seeks Interpol red notices for Netanyahu over Gaza – Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said on Friday that arrest warrants issued on 14 July for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and one other suspect form part of a case against 35 people on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and torture. He said the interior […]
International News Bulletin — August 20, 2026
Politics Taiwan approves a record defence budget of NT$1.12 trillion for 2027 – The cabinet in Taipei approved a 2027 defence budget of NT$1.12 trillion, about 35 billion dollars, on Thursday, the first time the island’s military spending has crossed the NT$1 trillion threshold. The South China Morning Post reported the figure is NT$173 billion, […]
International News Bulletin — August 19, 2026
Politics NATO says it will defend allies after report of Iranian plans – The Financial Times reported that Iran had weighed attacks on United States military installations across Europe, prompting a NATO official to say the alliance “is prepared to address any threat and will always do what is necessary to defend all Allies”. Bulgaria’s […]
International News Bulletin — August 18, 2026
Politics Iran shifts to a fully offensive posture as Trump rules out talks – A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran will move to a “fully offensive” military footing after efforts to turn the expired 60-day memorandum with Washington into a permanent settlement stalled. President Donald Trump wrote on Tuesday that “there are no […]
International News Bulletin — August 17, 2026
Politics Trump demands Iran’s surrender as the truce memorandum expires – The memorandum of understanding that halted United States and Israeli strikes on Iran in mid-June lapsed on Monday, with neither side seeking a renewal and each accusing the other of having breached it. Trump told Fox News that Tehran should “put up the white […]
International News Bulletin — August 16, 2026
Politics Kushner meets Hamas leader in Egypt before talks with Netanyahu – US envoy Jared Kushner and Board of Peace director Nickolay Mladenov held more than two hours of talks with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya at El Alamein on Sunday, with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators present. No outcome was announced by either side. Kushner […]
Weekly AI Review — August 16, 2026
🚀 Model & Product Releases Google prices Gemini 3.7 Flash at half its predecessor – Google released the coding and agent model on August 13 with a one-million-token input window, a 64,000-token output limit and multimodal input. Introductory API pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output through the end of […]
Scientific Breakthroughs of the Week — August 15, 2026
🧬 Life Sciences & Medicine Blood immune cells enter the human brain from middle age – Immune cells born in the bone marrow cross into the human brain during ordinary ageing and adopt the identity of microglia, the brain’s resident immune population. The team traced their origin by matching somatic mutations shared between paired blood […]
Weekly Financial News — August 14, 2026
🌍 Dominant theme of the week The week of 10 to 14 August 2026 was governed by two softer-than-expected US inflation prints, in a regime where the feared risk is still a rate increase. The July consumer price index, released on Wednesday 12 August, came in at 0.1% on the month and 3.4% on the […]
International News Bulletin — August 14, 2026
Politics US threatens an indefinite naval blockade as Iran keeps Hormuz shut – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the United States Navy can maintain the blockade of Iranian ports “indefinitely, because we’ll rotate ships in and out”, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax that Washington was preparing “a combination of economic […]