Editions

A Houthi strike sets a Saudi tanker ablaze off Yanbu, extending the group’s Red Sea blockade into its sixth week.

Sinaloa’s governor requests a second leave within days of returning, as Sheinbaum publicly distances herself from his cartel-indictment fallout.

US-Canada trade talks collapse as 50% tariffs take effect on roughly $28 billion in Canadian goods.

Panama Canal will cut daily transit slots from September 3 as a deepening El Niño drought drains Gatun Lake, with further cuts possible.

Trump says the US and Canada have a tariff “deal,” but unresolved dairy and steel terms leave Mexico racing to match still-unclear final terms.

UAE severs all trade and financial ties with Iran after accusing Tehran of firing ballistic missiles into its waters, rupturing Dubai's role as Tehran's top trading partner.

The US-Iran truce deadline lapsed Monday with no deal; Hormuz traffic stays near-collapsed as Trump threatens to bomb Oman.

Strait of Hormuz traffic collapses toward zero as Asian refiners now also shun Aramco's Red Sea loading option.

Iran's Hormuz war escalates as a fourth vessel is struck and Washington preps sweeping new sanctions.

Poland confirms a joint US-Polish operation foiled Moscow's plot to assassinate an American citizen in Warsaw.

Poland says it foiled a Russian-directed plot to assassinate a dual US-Ukrainian citizen — the first known such attempt against an American on NATO soil.

Saudi crude tankers are running AIS-dark to evade Houthi targeting as the Hormuz standoff hardens further, with no reopening in sight.

Colombia's earthquake toll has risen to at least 181 dead and 195 missing, with Bogotá formally asking the UN to help lead the disaster response.

Colombia's earthquake death toll has risen to at least 132, with a national emergency declared and curfews in Cali and Pereira.

Iran's foreign minister rules out resuming U.S. talks as CENTCOM redirects a record 55 ships enforcing its Hormuz blockade.

A car bomb hits southwest Colombia a day after de la Espriella's inauguration, with the army blaming FARC dissidents.

Spain imposes reciprocal border checks on Italy, escalating the Ceuta-crisis Schengen standoff into a monthlong mutual suspension.

China confirms two of its own coast guard officers died in a collision while chasing a Philippine vessel near Scarborough Shoal — the first Chinese fatalities acknowledged in a South China Sea confrontation in decades, disclosed only now, a year later.

A bomb-rigged drone at a German cargo hub and a foiled assassination plot against a Ukraine-arming drone maker surface the same day, both blamed on Russia.

A suspected Houthi strike sank an Indian vessel off Yemen even as Iran and Oman claim progress on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

A bulker's crew member goes missing in the fourth Hormuz-area attack in five days as Saudi Arabia forms a maritime defense coalition.

Iran-aligned Houthi forces strike a second Qatari LNG carrier as Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb both stay severely disrupted.

Trump pauses the planned U.S.-Israel strike on Iran's energy sites, conditioning relief on a rapid Hormuz reopening and a nuclear deal.

The U.S. and possibly Israel are preparing to strike Iran's energy infrastructure as soon as this weekend.

The U.S. struck Iran directly overnight as Iran retaliated against Kuwait and Jordan, widening the war beyond the Gulf.

Houthis are weighing a toll scheme for Red Sea shipping with Iranian advisers, mirroring Tehran's Hormuz playbook, as their Saudi tanker blockade continues.

U.S. and Saudi strikes killed at least 20 Iran-backed militia fighters across seven Iraqi provinces overnight; Iraq's PM is now investigating and traveling to Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia intercepted Iraq-launched drones near Riyadh as Yemen's foreign minister warned Houthis want to copy Iran's Hormuz blockade in the Red Sea.

Berlin police killed the Pride-parade van-and-machete attacker, a previously convicted ISIS sympathizer, after a 24-hour manhunt.

Houthis struck Saudi Aramco's Jazan and Yanbu facilities in retaliation for Riyadh's Hodeidah strike; the U.S. held off hitting Iran for a second night.

Saudi Arabia struck Houthi-held Hodeidah — its first shots since a 2022 truce — after a Houthi missile set an Aramco refinery ablaze in Jazan.

Trump says he's “close” to ordering a “massive attack” on Iran as the Bab el-Mandeb blockade turns live and oil tops $100 a barrel.

Houthi forces struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea — the first attack since declaring a blockade — widening the Iran war’s chokepoint risk beyond Hormuz.

Iran’s war with Washington widened to direct strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait as Houthi blockade threats sent Saudi crude tankers into Red Sea U-turns.

Iran's IRGC struck a third Hormuz-area tanker in roughly 36 hours as the Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia.

The US-Iran war entered a ninth straight night of American strikes, with Iran hitting Kuwait's power plant for a second day running.

Iran struck a U.S. base in Jordan for the first time in the war, killing two American troops and prompting new U.S. retaliatory strikes.

Iran acknowledged for the first time that U.S. strikes hit its power grid, meeting Tehran's own threshold for ordering a Houthi closure of Bab el-Mandeb.

The U.S. struck Iranian bridges and a rail hub for a sixth straight night, and Iran retaliated against Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar, wounding a child in Doha.

The U.S. Navy disabled a tanker breaching its Hormuz blockade, and Iran now threatens the Red Sea as a second chokepoint.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard strikes Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan as the Gulf war widens past shipping.

Iran struck two UAE-flagged tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing a crew member, as its war with the U.S. widens further.

New U.S. strikes on Iran brought Tehran's first confirmed domestic casualties overnight, as Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz declared closed.

Iran fired missiles and drones at the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain after U.S. forces struck about 140 sites; Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed.

Iran's foreign minister met Oman on Hormuz shipping as a U.S. delegation also arrived, after Tehran privately admitted the tanker strikes were a mistake.

Iran struck Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar as Trump declared the U.S.-Iran ceasefire "over"; Hormuz shipping has again ground to a near-halt.

Iran struck Qatar for the first time as CENTCOM hit roughly 90 more Iranian targets overnight; Hormuz-transiting tanker traffic is down about 95%.

The Strait of Hormuz crisis turned into direct U.S.-Iran combat after Iran struck a third tanker on the ceasefire's Omani bypass route.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired missiles at two commercial tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz overnight — including a Qatari LNG carrier set ablaze — specifically targeting vessels using the "Omani route" shippers adopted after the earlier ceasefire, sending Brent crude back toward $73 and reopening the risk premium the ceasefire was supposed to have retired.

China conducted a submarine-launched ballistic missile test into the South Pacific and rotated its coast-guard patrol group east of Taiwan for a second time in a month — two fronts where Beijing is converting one-off shows of force into a durable operating pattern.

Insurgents linked to Mali's Azawad Liberation Front struck five towns in a coordinated dawn assault, and Saudi Arabia's coalition has for the first time named the specific Yemeni ports and airport it would strike if Houthi provocations continue — two fronts where fragile postures are hardening rather than settling.

Saudi Arabia intercepted an Iranian jet carrying mourners to Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral, and Yemen's Houthis have threatened retaliatory strikes on Saudi airports and vessels — a fresh flashpoint layered onto an already fragile Iran-Israel-US ceasefire and a still-recovering Strait of Hormuz.

Venezuela's earthquake death toll has climbed to 2,595 with roughly 50,000 still unaccounted for, and the interim government's response is drawing open criticism from experts and its own officials — a fragile-state scenario worth watching for downstream displacement pressure.

Venezuela's earthquake death toll has passed 1,900 with search-and-rescue still underway; a sustained U.S. military and aid footprint there raises the odds of a fresh migration wave building over the coming months.

The USMCA joint review formally opens today (July 1) amid a strained, Canada-sidelined process — a rules-of-origin renegotiation that lands squarely on customs and trade enforcement.