Issue 2026-08-21
Stories
- Trump Threatens Oman with Airstrikes as U.S.–Iran 60-Day Hormuz Truce Collapses
- UAE Freezes Iran Commerce After Alleged Gulf Missile Salvo
- Putin Dangles Nord Stream 2 Restart While Germany Nabs Second Ukrainian Sabotage Suspect
- U.S. National Debt Blows Past $40 Trillion Just Five Months After Hitting $39 Trillion
- Shenzhen Court Gives Evergrande Founder Hui Ka Yan Life Sentence and ¥15.8 B Corporate Fine
- Trump Grants 72-Hour Tariff Reprieve as U.S.–Canada Reach Draft Deal
- China Accelerates Phase-Out of Windows 10 Government Edition
- Amazon Announces Six-Fold Prime Air Scale-Up to 500 U.S. Locales
- Musk Re-opens India’s Starlink Bid with Public Rural-Connectivity Push
At a Glance
- On 18 Aug 2026, moments after the U.S.–Iran cease-fire memorandum expired without a deal, President Trump warned on F...
- On 19 Aug 2026 Abu Dhabi halted every trade, banking and commercial channel with Iran indefinitely, minutes after cla...
- In the span of two days, Russia offered to reopen the still-intact Nord Stream 2 line and German prosecutors secured...
- On 19 Aug 2026 Treasury data showed federal debt outstanding break the $40 trillion barrier—an unprecedented jump tha...
- On 20 Aug 2026, the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court jailed Evergrande’s ex-chairman Hui Ka Yan for life and orde...
- A scheduled 50 % duty on roughly US$28-29 billion of Canadian exports was frozen for three days on 18 Aug 2026 after...