This past week, the oil market spiked as expected in response to Washington’s Saturday strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. The Fordow facility—Tehran's state-of-the-art nuclear installation—was the primary target, hit by B-2 bombers that successfully dropped GBU-57A bunker-buster armaments. The other two facilities were targeted
Kenya’s annual Saba Saba demonstrations—named for the original July 7th, 1990 march that forced the return of multiparty politics—turned deadly again this year. By nightfall on July 7th the national police service confirmed eleven deaths and 567 arrests after security units moved to stop marches in 17
Introduction: A New Legislative Push Through an expedited process, the House of Representatives has just passed a bill aimed at making the purchase of U.S. farmland by foreign buyers more difficult than under current law. The proposed legislation is intended to address the international threat posed by Beijing, which
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that moves the end date for reciprocal-tariff negotiations from July 9th to August 1st and directs a fresh batch of notice letters to countries still without agreements. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the documents would leave Washington on July 7th, giving
Roman Starovoit, 53, was dismissed as Russia’s minister of transport at 9:00 a.m. on July 7th under a presidential decree that cited no reason. Roughly eight hours later, police in Odintsovo—an upscale suburb west of Moscow—found him inside a parked Mercedes with a single gunshot
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 4, 2025, that his most recent phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump was "probably the best conversation we have had during this whole time, the most productive." This diplomatic breakthrough couldn't have come at a better time;
This past Thursday, the United States and Colombia took major diplomatic measures against each other by both recalling their top envoys from the other country. The sequential actions are a major shock to a bilateral relationship that has a history of cooperation and success. Now, with intra-American diplomacy taking a
Naim Qassem, the new head of Hezbollah, gave a speech in Beirut in which he defiantly rejected appeals from all across the world for his group to disarm. He claimed that the organization will keep its weapons until Israel leaves southern Lebanon totally and maintains the truce that went into
The White House has confirmed that President Donald Trump signed “take-it-or-leave-it” tariff letters to a first group of 12 trading partners after talks stalled ahead of the self-imposed July 9 deadline. Copies are scheduled to leave Washington on Monday, July 7; additional batches will follow until every country still lacking
The White House has authorized Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Oslo as early as next week, aiming to restart nuclear negotiations suspended after the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran’s enrichment sites in June. No firm date is on the books, and
President Donald Trump signed the 887-page One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4, 2025, completing a tax-and-spending package that had cleared the Senate 51-50 on July 1 and the House 217-214 on July 3. The statute makes permanent the individual and corporate rate cuts enacted in 2017,
Turkish police arrested cartoonist Dogan Pehlevan on June 30th after the satirical weekly LeMan printed a drawing widely interpreted as depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Prosecutors applied Article 216 of the penal code, which criminalizes “openly insulting religious values,” and issued warrants for several editors and layout designers linked to the
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