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Jul 15, 2026 - World

State department says plan will provide funding to ‘address national sovereignty, migration, censorship and lawfare’Friedrich Merz has warned Donald Trump’s administration against interfering in German elections after the US state department announced a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe.The German chancellor was responding to a new US initiative offering grants of up to $3m (£2.2m) for European charities, thinktanks and individuals. Continue reading...

Jul 15, 2026 - World

Closure of the Bab el-Mandeb strait - gateway to the Red Sea - would open a new front in the energy crisis and Iran's overarching conflict with the US.

Jul 15, 2026 - World

Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots have bid heart-rending farewells to their virtual buddies as national regulations took effect Wednesday aimed at curbing the risk of emotional dependency.

Jul 15, 2026 - World

The match-winning England striker is ‘a good ambassador for young people’, says one contestantAll together now, with arms in the air: One Jude Bellingham, there’s only one Jude Bellingham …Unless, that is, you happened to find yourself in Shoreditch, east London, on Wednesday, where a dozen young men who looked vaguely like the England midfielder gathered for a lookalike contest almost as competitive as the one currently continuing in the US. Continue reading...

Jul 15, 2026 - World

The junta did not invent Myanmar's drone battlefield. It learned it from its enemies. Now those enemies must learn how to defeat the very system they helped prove.