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France has summoned Iran's charge d'affaires after two embassy staff in Tehran were detained and one assaulted, while Tehran lodged its own protest over the diplomats' conduct, hardening a stand-off between the two capitals.

Oman has introduced a regulatory framework allowing renewable energy producers to sell electricity directly to eligible consumers, marking a major shift away from the country's long-standing single-buyer model.

Saudi Arabia has launched a one-year multiple-entry Umrah visa allowing pilgrims up to 90 cumulative days in the kingdom, part of a Vision 2030 push to ease pilgrimage travel and lift visitor numbers.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's central bank has launched the country's first domestic instant payment system, enabling round-the-clock transfers within seconds in the biggest infrastructure upgrade in 25 years.

OpenAI is setting up a business development operation in Israel, hiring a senior AWS executive to court local startups, as it races Anthropic and Google for enterprise AI spending.

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OpenAI is setting up a business development operation in Israel, hiring a senior AWS executive to court local startups, as it races Anthropic and Google for enterprise AI spending.

A cyberattack has taken Romania's ANCPI land registry offline since July 14, freezing property transactions nationwide just as a reduced VAT rate nears expiry, with the attacker claiming to have wiped the database.

The price demanded of the consumer in Turkey for an Apple iPhone 17 Pro is higher than anywhere else in the world, according to Deutsche Bank Research Institute’s Mapping the World’s Prices 2026 report.

Analysis of 6,947 publications suggests street protests shifted blame for defence minister’s dismissal towards army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, activist group PoshukaAi found in a study.

Ban on tweets seventh obtained by authorities on national security and public order grounds.

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OSW analysts say PM Péter Magyar's sweeping constitutional changes aimed at restoring the rule of law relied "on tools similar to those for which Fidesz was criticised for years".

Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure are reshaping fuel markets without significantly reducing Moscow's oil export revenues, analyst argues.

From prison cell, launches blistering attack on collapse of judiciary that will silence political dissent ahead of all elections.

The rising costs of the Ukraine war have forced the Russian government to increase spending, causing the federal budget deficit to expand further. High spending growth is making it hard for the CBR to cut rates and revive the economy.

Iran’s central bank is squeezing liquidity to defend the rial, meeting under a fifth of banks’ funding demand as inflation hits 57.7% and money supply growth tops 53% after the war with the US and Israel.

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Russia’s international reserves edged up to $722.4bn in the week ending 10 July, according to the Central Bank of Russia, extending a recovery after a sharp fall in late June.

Russia's central bank has warned that the recent surge in inflation is spreading beyond a temporary fuel price shock, while economists have sharply raised their forecasts for inflation and interest rates, complicating Kremlin hopes for rate cuts,

Israel's annual inflation rate fell to 1.6% in the 12 months to June, its lowest in five years, down from 1.9% in May. Monthly CPI came in flat against forecasts of a 0.1%-0.2% decline, leaving inflation inside the Bank of Israel's 1%-3% target band

Accelerating inflation pushed real wages down by 6.9% y/y in May, the sharpest annual decline in purchasing power in the past decade.

Azerbaijan exported oil, gas and related products worth a combined $10.8bn in the first half of 2026, according to State Customs Committee data.

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Central European economies are emerging as unexpected beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom, with Poland and Hungary seeing growth in exports linked to AI infrastructure.

Russia’s deepening fuel crisis is spreading beyond filling-station queues into freight, agriculture, retail and public services, threatening to deliver a fresh inflationary shock as the country enters its peak harvest season.

A US sanctions bill originally promoted by the late Senator Lindsey Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal has moved close to passage after being stalled in Congress for more than a year.

After narrowly escaping assassins, president unknowingly boarded a plane co-piloted by a member of the anti-government Gulenists, recounts Berat Albayrak.

A widening series of arrests surrounding the notorious businessmen Arkady and Boris Rotenberg has raised questions over whether two of President Vladimir Putin’s oldest and most influential allies are headed for a fall from grace.

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What is in store for Ukraine? There are two starkly different possibilities. It can become Finland — a country that lost a war, lost a tenth of its territory, swallowed neutrality, and then got rich. Or it can become Afghanistan.

Ukraine just got a new Prime Minister, Serhii Koretskyi, an oil and gas man that cut his teeth as an oil trader in the private sector before going to run Ukraine’s two biggest energy companies: Ukrnafta and Naftogaz.

Tehran's cafés and traffic jams are back weeks into renewed war, but residents interviewed say inflation and the cost of rebuilding now dominate conversation, with little appetite for another round of fighting.

The European Union's renewed drive to expand eastwards could face its biggest political obstacle yet if French far-right leader Marine Le Pen wins the 2027 presidential election.

Ukraine is likely to get a new Prime Minister today and a much more pragmatic government as a result of the surprise reshuffle that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy triggered by asking the current Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko to quit.

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Energy Dome, a Milan-based energy-storage developer, plans to build a battery in County Offaly that uses carbon dioxide rather than lithium to store power.

A Colombian company has developed one of the world's few commercially viable natural blue food colourings, extracted from the jagua fruit found in the country's tropical forests.

Hungary’s government has launched a major wind power expansion programme aimed at increasing installed wind capacity more than tenfold by 2030.

Poland has assembled a 10-country coalition to press Brussels to slow the tightening of the bloc’s emissions trading system and reconsider a carbon market for buildings and road transport.

Cambodia approved more than $1bn worth of renewable energy projects in the first half of 2026, strengthening its clean energy capacity and supporting broader investment growth.

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