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The Chief Brief is reported and edited by a global network of journalists, analysts and specialists across five continents covering the politics, economics and leadership shaping the multipolar world.
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Half a million wait under siege in Sudan while the world watches a peace deal die with a tanker crew, in a strait carrying a fifth of its oil. Kyiv's run out of interceptors. 15 days, 3 chokepoints.
Linda Nosková wobbled, and squandered five championship points before regaining her nerve and beating fellow Czech Karolína Muchová to become the youngest Wimbledon champion since 2011.
ITV sells its channels and ITVX to Comcast's Sky for £1.6 billion, creating a broadcaster built to rival Netflix. McCall, Strong, Nandy and Dinenage now decide if the deal survives regulators.
The US and Iran signed a memorandum ending their war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, even as Sudan's RSF besieged El Obeid and Ukraine launched a 40-day strike campaign on Russia's oil economy.
The Gulf ceasefire is now a fiction both sides maintain for cover, with global energy the hostage. Plus Ukraine's deep strikes into Russia, the Chornobyl hit, Sudan, and the week's WPS read.
Mexican-American Maria Montserrat Alvarado, has been named as Head of Vatican Communications. It makes her the first woman to hold the role in the institution's history.
Latvia’s PM Evika Siliņa resigns, In Britain, Keir Starmer is still in Downing Street. Just about.
57 countries met in Colombia to agree on how to phase out oil, gas, and coal. The US, China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia were not among them.
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