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On 23 June 2026 the European Parliament’s ECON committee voted 43-14 to endorse a legal framework for an ECB-issued digital euro and ordered trilogue talks with the Council, moving the project from concept to law-drafting after three years of stalemate.
On 22 June 2026 Beijing added ten U.S. firms to its export-control list—halting Chinese dual-use exports to MP Materials, USA Rare Earth and others—in direct retaliation for Washington’s latest military-entity sanctions.
On 23 June 2026 Meta both bought a 20 % stake in Bengaluru-based fintech Cred for $900 million and named Cred’s founder Kunal Shah to succeed Will Cathcart as head of WhatsApp.
At the close of 22 June 2026 talks in Burgenstock, Switzerland, U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance said Iran had accepted the return of UN nuclear inspectors, a claim that Tehran’s Foreign Ministry rejected within hours.
Washington abruptly issued a general license letting Iran freely produce, sell, and even ship oil to the U.S. until 21 Aug 2026, reversing the two-month blockade as part of fledgling peace talks in Switzerland.
On 22 June 2026 Beijing halted all Chinese dual-use exports to 10 American defense and rare-earth companies and simultaneously forbade Chinese state entities from buying products from 46 U.S. contractors, retaliating against Washington’s latest military-entity blacklist of Chinese tech giants.
On 22 June 2026, China struck back at Washington’s 1260H military-link additions by instantly blocking all Chinese dual-use exports to 10 U.S. companies and forbidding government procurement from 46 others.
During 21 June 2026 restart work at war-damaged Ras Laffan, an internal explosion ripped through the Barzan facility, injuring 54 workers and leaving 18 missing, halting Qatar’s push to resume LNG exports.
On 22 June 2026, SK Hynix’s market value momentarily inched past Samsung Electronics for the first time since 2000, driven by a 300 %-plus rally in its HBM memory-centric stock.
With the July 1 six-year review looming, Washington told Ottawa and Mexico City it will not consent to the pact’s 16-year extension and instead seeks tougher rules-of-origin, thrusting USMCA into an open-ended renegotiation cycle.
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