FIFA announced a plan to move the commercial side of all its competitions into a new company open to outside investors. Ten days later the plan was withdrawn. What sank it, and the fight over the presidency that remains.
A record 121 countries attended Hiroshima's 81st anniversary ceremony, while the world's nine nuclear powers still hold some 12,000 warheads. With New START expired and the NPT review deadlocked, why are nuclear arsenals growing again?
Japan intervened to buy yen while the Bank of Japan was still meeting, and the US Treasury reportedly followed by selling euros. What two days of coordinated action can and cannot change about the weak yen.
Yemen's Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi-bound shipping in July 2026, threatening the Red Sea route that had served as Saudi Arabia's detour around Hormuz. How two chokepoints became linked, and why shipping is shifting from efficiency to redundancy.
Iran re-closed the Strait of Hormuz, and the US declared itself the strait's 'guardian' with a 20 percent toll on all cargo. Why passage through international straits was free, and what changes once the guardian starts charging.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 as Anthropic resets Claude's usage limits. With flagship performance converging, the AI race is shifting to usage-limit design and the competition to secure compute.
At the July 2026 summit, Japan and India moved beyond investment into practical cooperation on economic security, defense, AI and energy. Not an alliance, but a working partnership built where interests overlap.
