The Ceasefire’s Weakest Week
Editorial Desk
July 7, 2026
A tanker was struck on Monday near Hormuz; the one-week stand-down had expired five days earlier, while both sides say the MOU still holds.
- July 24, 2026
A tanker was struck on Monday near Hormuz; the one-week stand-down had expired five days earlier, while both sides say the MOU still holds.
At least 10 people were killed in a large-scale missile and drone attack on Kyiv, hours before the NATO Summit opens in Ankara.
Three sons of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin in Tehran, while his successor Mojtaba remained absent from public view.
Modi’s “Guardian of the Blue Horizon” award was created just three days before his Seychelles visit, with him as its sole recipient.
Tehran is orchestrating Khamenei’s funeral as a victory parade, even as his son and successor remains in hiding and has not been seen.
Europe’s heatwaves stripped Swiss glaciers of winter snow months early, exposing bare ice to record-pace summer melting across the Alps.
Pakistan’s briefing signals a potential policy shift toward an aggressive, ideologically-driven posture, moving toward confrontation.
A Tajik historian says Afghanistan’s 1947 vote against Pakistan’s UN membership turned much of the Islamic world against Kabul from the start.
For every Rs 100 Pakistan collects through climate-linked taxes, only Rs 10.6 goes back into climate action; the rest enters the general treasury.
The parties are still arguing over the terms of the memorandum they already signed; collapse looks more likely than a final agreement.
