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International News Bulletin — August 5, 2026
Politics Iran and Oman agree a Hormuz route as Trump renews threats – Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Wednesday that an agreement had been reached with Oman on a proposed route through the Strait of Hormuz, with a joint statement from Tehran and Muscat in final drafting, Bloomberg reported. Under the emerging […]
International News Bulletin — August 4, 2026
Politics Trump sets a Hormuz deadline as Qatar cites progress – US President Donald Trump pressed Iran on Tuesday to conclude an arrangement with Oman on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as that day or face air strikes, telling reporters he wanted “to give them every last chance before decapitation”, Bloomberg reported. […]
International News Bulletin — August 3, 2026
Politics Trump calls Iran duplicitous after Tehran denies talks – US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iranian leaders were “unbelievably duplicitous”, accusing them of asking for negotiations and then denying that any were under way. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said no talks with Washington were taking place and none were scheduled, […]
International News Bulletin — August 2, 2026
Politics Trump cancels planned strike on Iran, citing deal outline – US President Donald Trump said late Saturday on Truth Social that he had called off a planned attack on Iran, saying the “perimeters of a deal” had been agreed and conditioning the cancellation on a rapid conclusion. He said an agreement would bring the […]
Scientific Breakthroughs of the Week — August 2, 2026
🧬 Life Sciences & Medicine Genome scan points to two previously unknown human ancestors – Two archaic populations unrepresented by any sequenced fossil contributed DNA to living people: one that mixed with modern humans in Africa before 50,000 years ago, and a super-archaic lineage in people from Oceania that split off more than 1.8 million […]
Weekly AI Review — August 2, 2026
🚀 Model & Product Releases Moonshot releases Kimi K3 weights, the largest open model yet – Moonshot AI published full checkpoints for Kimi K3 on July 27, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 104 billion active parameters and a one-million-token context window. The download runs to roughly 1.56 TB across 96 shards on Hugging Face, released […]
Weekly Financial News — August 1, 2026
🌍 Dominant theme of the week The trading week of 27 to 31 July 2026 was governed by three forces. The first was the deflation of the war premium in oil: after the de-escalation signal from Tehran, Brent returned to around 88 dollars a barrel, against more than 100 dollars on 23 July. The second […]
International News Bulletin — July 31, 2026
Politics Trump announces Gaza disarmament roadmap, but Hamas sets conditions – President Trump said the “Board of Peace” reached what he called a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza, with Israel gradually withdrawing its forces. Israel has not publicly confirmed it accepts the plan, and Hamas […]
Weekly Financial News — July 26, 2026
🌍 Dominant theme of the week The week of July 20–26, 2026 was driven by a single storyline: the deepening conflict between the United States and Iran and its impact on oil. The memorandum of understanding signed between Washington and Tehran in late June — which had brought crude back to pre-crisis levels — has […]
International News Bulletin — July 26, 2026
Politics Kremlin rejects Kazakh proposal to freeze the Russia-Ukraine war – The Kremlin said Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s proposal to “freeze” the conflict is “impossible” given Kyiv’s position. Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine accused each other of overnight attacks that killed at least 17 people and injured dozens on both sides. Zelenskyy warns Russia seeks 30,000 […]