Issue 2026-10-21
Stories
- Third Oil Tanker in Three Days Struck by Mine Under Iran’s New Strait of Hormuz Regime
- U.S. says Ukraine still barred from Starshield while denying 18 Oct Starlink throttling order
- Trump Issues Last-Minute Endorsement of Netanyahu Nine Days Before Israeli Election
- Jio Platforms Launches ₹30,213-Cr IPO; QIB Book 2× in 30 Minutes
- Rubio’s India Swing Targets Jamnagar Refinery Deal and Last-Minute Trade Pact
- Newcastle Disease Hits Santa Catarina Turkey Farm, Prompting Mexico Import Ban and Threatening China Trade
- Brazil Electoral Court Gives Meta 24 Hours, Doubles Fine to R$1 Million in Run-off Bias Probe
- DeepSeek Launches V4.1-Flash-1017 & Paid Search APIs, Prompting DHS Purge Order
- Japan Schedules MMX Launch to Collect and Return Phobos Soil
At a Glance
- On 19 Oct 2026 an oil tanker running the “unauthorised” southern lane with its AIS off hit a naval mine south of the...
- Speaking on 18 Oct 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukraine remains without access to SpaceX’s military Star...
- Breaking a public stance of neutrality just 9 days before Israel’s 27 Oct 2026 Knesset vote, U.S. President Donald Tr...
- On 21 Oct 2026 Jio Platforms opened India’s largest-ever IPO and saw its qualified-institutional tranche oversubscrib...
- On 20 Oct 2026, visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the long-negotiated US-India trade agreement “one...
- Brazil’s Oct 18 confirmation of Newcastle disease in a 6,000-bird turkey operation triggered Mexico’s blanket suspens...