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Iran's IRGC says it struck and stopped two oil tankers attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz under US air escort, with four others turning back. The claim could not be independently verified, and the US military has given a competing account.

A methane gas explosion at a coal mine on the outskirts of Quetta in Pakistan's Balochistan province killed at least 26 miners on July 30, while rescue teams continued efforts to locate workers still trapped underground.

Latest police raids come as CHP loses its standing as country's main opposition party to New Party, a party launched by its former leader.

The shutdown of Paks nuclear power plant due to record-low Danube water levels would remove electricity output equal to 40% of consumption.

Bolivian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of former president Evo Morales over deadly road blockades that paralysed the country for 53 days and cost the economy more than $3bn, as he denies orchestrating the unrest.

Tech

Israeli fintech company Nayax has launched its cashless payment services in North Macedonia, expanding its Balkan footprint.

Anthropic says three Claude AI models gained unauthorised access to three companies' systems during cyber tests, after a config error gave the models internet access. The disclosure follows a similar rogue-agent episode revealed by OpenAI.

A group of prominent Estonian entrepreneurs is investing almost €200mn to expand the country's largest data centre, aiming to position the facility as a regional hub.

Freedom Holding Corp says it is gaining access to tech from leading Chinese businesses while building infrastructure to adapt and scale it across Central Asia.

Remotely operated taxis have been operating in Tallinn for nearly a year, with fewer than 10 vehicles currently in service.

Opinion

Macro-Advisory Limited has issued its annual mid-year compilation of the best business, political and general interest books published in 1H26, covering the twelve states in the Eurasia region plus Iran and Afghanistan.

Ukraine's Western allies are preparing a final push to pressure Vladimir Putin before a winter expected to be gruelling for Kyiv, even as Ukraine's own long-range strikes campaign does real damage. But Putin is not budging.

The European Union needs a coalition of key member states to overcome political divisions and prepare the bloc for its next enlargement wave, according to an ECFR paper.

Russia’s war on Ukraine is entering a new phase in which the odds of escalation are rising even without any single dramatic turning point, says Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.

Is Volodymyr Zelenskiy more focused on his own political survival than on winning the war? That is the question The Spectator's Owen Matthews asked after the Ukrainian president's reshuffled his government.

Data

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) raised its key policy rate to 15.5% from 15% on July 30, ending a hold that had lasted since March and reversing the rate-cutting cycle it opened at the start of the year, the central bank said.

Most of the world’s fastest-growing megacities will soon be in Africa. Many cities across East Asia and Latin America have grown quickly over the last few decades.

The Taiex has now fallen more than 6,192 points in July, and is on course for its largest monthly points decline on record.

Japanese authorities are believed to have last intervened in the foreign exchange market between April and May, selling US dollars and buying yen.

Exports decline 9%, imports move up 21%.

Features

Bishkek’s priorities to include climate, Afghan reintegration into world order.

Long-awaited gas interconnector with Greece will open the way for a more diversified energy system and the gradual expansion of the domestic gas distribution network.

A Ukrainian drone strike hit a Wildberries logistics warehouse in Ryazan overnight on July 28-29, forcing the company to evacuate the site and halt deliveries.

Keiko Fujimori was sworn in promising discipline and seven objectives. Her speech never mentioned the 50 dead from 2022-23 protests, said nothing on mining, and recycled a military security model that has failed under three presidents since 2023.

The Afghan Taliban's growing investment in drone technology is a direct response to their lack of a conventional air force, and Pakistan's defence establishment.

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Dubious rise to the top is questioned. Watchdog says remarks “incompatible with foreign policy vision”.

Tourist visas denied based on highly subjective assessments of financial means and intentions to use “return” section of plane ticket.

The stochastic war continues to escalate into a brutal tit-for-tat missile war with both sides continuously rolling out new and improved weapons that could eventually lead to a direct clash between Nato and Russia.

The tit-for-tat missile war escalated at the weekend after Ukraine hit the largest distribution centre belonging to Wildberries, the “Amazon of Russia.” The Kremlin hit back the next day with a massive drone and missile barrage.

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.

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"The Pyrocene is here," climate researcher Peter Dynes wrote on X on July 28, as wildfires near Bordeaux began generating huge pyrocumulus clouds intense enough to create their own weather.

Tauron’s 190MW Miejska Górka wind farm in western Poland will generate enough electricity to supply nearly 200,000 households.

Southern Europe’s wildfire season used to typically run from July to September, but now data shows that it is getting longer and more intense.

EU sanctions on Russia have backfired, leaving Spain's best Russian-built Kamov Ka-32 firefighting helicopters grounded as severe wildfires burn across southern Europe, reported Berliner Zeitung.

Eight lose lives in this year’s carnage. Six die in car swept from road.

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