Issue 2026-08-16
Stories
- Trump Floats U.S. Annexation of Strait of Hormuz, Prompting Immediate Iranian Rebuke
- Third ADNOC Tanker Hit in a Week as Iran Tightens Hormuz Blockade
- Ukraine’s FP-5 ‘Flamingo’ Cruise Missiles Cripple Clean-Room 106A at Samara’s Progress Soyuz Plant
- Modi Launches ‘Sapta Dhara’ Seven-Stream Blueprint for Viksit Bharat 2047
- Markets Triple Odds of September BOJ Hike as Yen Slides Back Toward ¥160
- Colombia Requests Temporary US Tariff Suspension After 7.4-Magnitude Quake
- Leaked US Letter Presses 35 Nations to Commit Exclusively to Pax Silica AI Bloc
- Romania Pulls Cernavodă Nuclear Plant Offline After Danube Hits Record Low
- 7.7-Magnitude Quake Severs Flores Island, Death Toll Climbs to 47
At a Glance
- At an Aug 14 2026 Long Island rally, President Trump said he will "pretty soon" declare the Strait of Hormuz U.S. ter...
- On the night of 14 Aug 2026 a UAE-owned ADNOC vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz, the third attack on the comp...
- In the night of 14–15 Aug 2026 Ukraine hit the Progress Rocket & Space Centre in Samara—900 km inside Russia—using FP...
- On 15 Aug 2026, India’s 80th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally rolled out the “Sapta Dhara” fra...
- After the yen erased roughly half of July-August intervention gains and sank to ¥159.3 per dollar this week, traders...
- On 16 Aug 2026, President Abelardo de la Espriella asked Donald Trump to freeze the new 12.5 % US import duty on Colo...