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Service to Kazakh city may start next year. For now, UAE's national airline sees Uzbek capital as the better option.

China-Central Asia Monitor: July 31 – August 6.

Ukraine halted tanker strikes near Russia's Novorossiysk port after a July 31 Vance-Zelenskyy call, the Financial Times reported, as Washington moved to shield Chevron and Exxon's Kazakh oil interests.

Ukraine hit Novorossiysk's grain terminal, a Wildberries warehouse and an Orenburg refinery overnight; Russia answered with a North Korean-missile strike on Zaporizhzhia that killed six and wounded dozens.

Africa’s pipeline is expanding rapidly at a time when officially measured Chinese investment across the wider BRI is declining.

Tech

Anthropic is in acquisition talks for Israeli artificial intelligence startup Decart AI at a valuation of approximately $6bn, joining a heated race against SpaceX, Nvidia, and Amazon.

Sony Group will invest JPY465bn in the venture, while Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest contract semiconductor maker, will invest JPY282bn.

A day after, the politician's office launched a new account.

Russia's e-commerce turnover reached RUB7.2 trillion ($90.8bn) in the first half of 2026, up 18.7% year on year, Vedomosti reported on August 11, citing the Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT).

Bureau 1440, a Russian aerospace company, is developing a low-Earth-orbit broadband network called Rassvet as a domestic alternative to Starlink, the US-built system Russian forces themselves used, informally, earlier in the war...

Opinion

Attempt to steer economy toward sustainable growth running into increasingly difficult terrain with economic policy facing sharp trade-off between fighting stubborn inflation and fixing external imbalances.

America's retreat from research funding and openness to skilled immigration has handed Europe an unexpected strategic advantage. If Brussels can remove visa barriers and back scientists, it has a rare chance to narrow the innovation gap.

Capital Economics says Thailand's Anutin Charnvirakul government is squandering a rare post-election reform mandate, leaning instead on a poorly targeted 175bn baht subsidy scheme, centralised power and rising industrial protectionism.

West knows of these concerns, says Hakan Fidan.

Iran and the UAE are quietly rebuilding trade ties that are helping both sides outlast the war, argues analyst Esfandyar Batmanghelidj.

Data

US military munitions stockpiles have shrunk sharply since the war with Iran began, with the five-month-old conflict now the main driver of depletion even for weapon systems the US had previously donated heavily to Ukraine.

The rebound comes even as expectations of a swift end to the fighting remain low.

Latvia is facing a demographic "triple squeeze" that will leave it with roughly 1.5mn people by 2050, a fifth fewer than today, as old-age dependency rises and pension incomes shrink relative to wages.

A new poll finds corruption now outranks missile strikes as Ukrainians' top concern, while most still oppose Mykhailo Fedorov's dismissal as defence minister.

Trade in goods between Russia and China rose 26.3% year-on-year to $159.2bn in January-July 2026, the Russian Trade Mission in China said on August 7, citing Chinese customs data, Vedomosti reported.

Features

Ukraine's foreign reserves jumped back above $51bn in June after more than $15bn in delayed Western financing finally landed, ending four months of steady decline.

Eleven months. One letter to Perúpetro. Zero wells drilled. Chevron's Peru bet folded before it ever got its boots wet.

Wide margin between de facto policy rate of 40% and 60% interest paid by SMEs for loans is under fire. At the same time, lenders face a shrinking cake.

Underground gas storage facilities across the European Union are 57.9% full - the lowest level ever recorded for early August since comparable data began around 2009-11 - leaving Europe with a badly depleted buffer heading into winter, RBC...

G7-linked tankers carried a one-year-high 36.2% share of Russia's crude exports in July, driven by Greek operators, even as Athens pushes back against EU sanctions rules and the shadow fleet faces tightening scrutiny.

Blogs

At the ancient Egyptian obelisk outside the Blue Mosque, looking along what was once the Hippodrome of Constantinople, I found myself thinking about a tent.

Ukraine's power generation capacity has fallen from 60GW before the war to 12GW today, and a renewed Russian bombing campaign this winter could push the shortfall toward 10GW, even as European gas storage sits near a 15-year low.

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.

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The planet has just endured its joint-hottest month in 176 years of record-keeping, as searing July heat handed North America, Africa and Asia their warmest month ever.

The Caspian Sea has fallen to its lowest level in about 200 years and is still declining, a Tehran official said, blaming higher temperatures, evaporation, weaker inflows and lower rainfall for a drop of up to 20 centimetres a year.

Meridian Energy has secured the final major resource consent needed to repower its 172-MW Te Rere Hau Wind Farm in Manawatū, New Zealand.

AboitizPower Corporation, one of the Philippines’ leading energy companies, has signed a landmark memorandum of understanding with state-owned South Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power to explore nuclear energy deployment.

Chinese container line Sea Legend has launched a weekly Arctic shipping service between China and the UK, branded the "Ice Silk Road," as shippers increasingly look to bypass Red Sea chokepoints threatened by Houthi attacks.

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