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Cuba’s national electrical grid collapsed for the third time in 2026 on Monday, July 7, plunging the island of 11 million people into total darkness as temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius across the island. The collapse — the third island-wide blackout of the year and the most severe so far — is the product of […]

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The 36th NATO heads of state summit concluded in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday with a landmark package of commitments: €70 billion in military assistance to Ukraine for 2026, a pledge to maintain equivalent or higher support in 2027, a reaffirmation of Article 5 collective defence by all 32 member states including the United States, and […]

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Two improvised explosive devices detonated near the Four Seasons Hotel in central Damascus on Tuesday morning as French President Emmanuel Macron was en route to meet Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the People’s Palace — wounding 18 people, including four police officers, and casting a shadow over the most significant European diplomatic engagement with Syria […]

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China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy conducted its first publicly acknowledged strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile test into the Pacific Ocean on July 6, 2026 — firing from a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine in the Bohai Sea to a designated impact area west of the Solomon Islands. The dummy-warhead test, which China described as “routine annual training,” […]

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Hamas formally dissolved the Emergency Committee that has governed the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades on Monday, July 6, 2026, announcing that it was transferring administrative authority to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza — a US-backed, UN-supervised technocratic body established under the ceasefire framework brokered by the Trump administration in October 2025. The announcement was described as a “positive step” by Hamas and welcomed cautiously […]

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Six months have passed since US and Israeli forces struck Iran on February 28, 2026, triggering a conflict that closed the Strait of Hormuz, disrupted global energy supplies, reshuffled trade routes and compelled NATO members to accelerate defence spending at historic speed. Assessing the full economic cost of that conflict is inherently complex — it […]

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Measles — a vaccine-preventable disease that the Pan American Health Organisation declared eliminated from the Americas in 2016 — has recorded 20,521 confirmed cases across 16 countries in the first five months of 2026, according to the latest PAHO epidemiological review. The figure surpasses the full-year total of 15,152 cases recorded across the region in […]

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President Donald Trump arrived in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday for the 36th NATO heads of state summit — the first visit by a US president to Turkey in 17 years — as Russian missiles and drones killed at least 22 civilians in Kyiv overnight in an attack timed to arrive on the eve of the […]

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Super Typhoon Bavi, one of the most powerful tropical cyclones to directly strike land in the western Pacific in recorded history, made landfall on the tiny US island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands early Monday morning local time, battering the island and surrounding US territories with sustained winds of 180 mph and gusts […]

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Russia unleashed waves of missiles and drones at Ukraine early Monday, killing at least 22 people in attacks that exposed with brutal clarity the widening gap in Ukraine’s air defence capabilities at the most consequential moment of the year — the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where Ukraine’s allies were gathering to […]

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