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• World Aug 13, 2026 Iran and Oman Agree on Hormuz Shipping Routes, but U.S. Blockade Remains the Sticking Point Tehran and Muscat have agreed coordinates for new commercial shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, yet Iran insists the waterway won't reopen until Washington lifts its naval blockade.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Aug 12, 2026 Turkey Passes Conditional Pardon for PKK Militants as Peace Process Advances Ankara's parliament voted 468-88 in favour of legislation offering amnesty to thousands of Kurdish fighters, contingent on full disarmament by the PKK, a group that declared it was dissolving itself last year.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Aug 7, 2026 Oman Brokers Hormuz Framework as Iran and U.S. Near Shipping Deal A 60-day interim arrangement taking shape in Muscat would split transit lanes between Iranian and Omani waters, with no tolls, potentially reopening one of the world's busiest oil chokepoints.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Aug 6, 2026 Iran and Oman Reach Route Agreement on Hormuz as Washington Presses for Full Deal Tehran says the geographical coordinates of a new Strait of Hormuz shipping corridor have been agreed with Muscat, raising cautious hopes for a broader ceasefire settlement, though the US blockade and rival sovereignty claims still stand in the way.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 27, 2026 France and Germany Push to Dismantle EU's Diplomatic Service Paris and Berlin have formally called for a structural overhaul of the European External Action Service, setting a year-end deadline that puts EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on the defensive.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 25, 2026 Zelensky Sacks Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief After Street Protests Force His Hand President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi on July 21 and named a younger battlefield commander in his place, capping a week of political turmoil triggered by the firing of a popular defense minister.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 24, 2026 France and Germany Push to Dismantle EU's Diplomatic Service Paris and Berlin want a root-and-branch overhaul of the European External Action Service before year's end, raising questions about the future role of foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 23, 2026 Zelenskyy Fires Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief After Street Protests Force His Hand President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replaced General Oleksandr Syrskyi with Mykhailo Drapatyi as commander-in-chief on July 21, bowing to mass demonstrations triggered by a bruising split inside Ukraine's military leadership.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 18, 2026 EU's 21st Russia Sanctions Package Stalls Over Fish, Oil Cap, and National Carve-Outs Member states failed twice in one week to approve new restrictions on Moscow, with disputes over Russian seafood imports, the oil price cap, and a Raiffeisen-linked assets row pushing the deadline to July 22.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 17, 2026 NATO Allies Pledge $50 Billion in New Procurements at Ankara Summit as Europe Takes Greater Defence Lead The 36th NATO summit closed in Ankara with a landmark declaration on defence spending, a new division of military labour between Europe and the United States, and a surprise lifting of U.S. sanctions on Turkey.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 16, 2026 NATO Closes Ankara Summit as Iran Ceasefire Collapses at Hormuz Allied leaders left Turkey pledging $50 billion in new arms procurement, but the summit's closing hours were overshadowed by a fresh U.S.-Iran exchange of strikes and a reimposed naval blockade on Iranian ports.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 13, 2026 NATO Allies Pledge €70 Billion for Ukraine at Ankara Summit, Leave Membership Question Unanswered The 36th NATO summit closed in Ankara on July 8 with a major Ukraine funding commitment and a fresh defence-spending push, but allies ducked the question of a membership path for Kyiv.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 11, 2026 Trump Targets Spain and Greenland as NATO Summit Strains Alliance Unity The U.S. president threatened to halt all trade with Spain and renewed claims on Danish territory during the two-day Ankara gathering, overshadowing pledges of record defence spending and €70 billion in Ukraine aid.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 8, 2026 Iran Stages Mass Funeral for Khamenei as Unseen Successor Deepens Questions Over Who Holds Power Millions line Tehran's streets for a six-day state funeral, but new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has made no public appearance since his father's killing in February, leaving Iran's leadership transition shrouded in uncertainty.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 6, 2026 NATO Leaders Convene in Ankara to Pledge $80 Billion for Ukraine and Reset Transatlantic Ties The alliance's 32 heads of state open a two-day summit in Turkey on Tuesday carrying a draft declaration that commits to collective defence and locks in a record military aid package for Kyiv.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 5, 2026 Iran-US Doha Talks End Without Breakthrough as Funeral Pause Delays Next Round Qatar and Pakistan mediators report 'positive progress' on MOU implementation, but Tehran's nuclear file and Lebanon remain unresolved as both sides agree to reconvene after Ali Khamenei's funeral ceremonies conclude July 9.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 4, 2026 NATO Leaders Converge on Ankara With Ukraine's Future and Trump's Demands on the Agenda The alliance's 36th summit, opening in Ankara on 7 July, tests whether three years of spending pledges can be turned into forces and hardware that actually deter Russia.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 3, 2026 NATO Heads to Ankara With Spending Targets Set, Unity Under Strain Leaders from all 32 NATO member states gather in Turkey on July 7-8 to turn last year's historic 5-percent GDP defense pledge into concrete plans, with Ukraine aid, the Iran fallout, and U.S. burden-sharing demands all pulling at alliance cohesion.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 2, 2026 Ireland Takes EU Council Chair With a Crowded In-Tray and One Awkward Complication at Home Dublin assumed the rotating six-month presidency of the EU Council on 1 July, steering negotiations on defence, the bloc's next long-term budget, and Ukraine's accession, while facing questions about an Irish plant that sells alumina to Russian smelters.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jul 1, 2026 EU Puts Turnberry Trade Deal Into Law, but Steel Fight Keeps It Fragile The Council of the EU formally adopted regulations on June 25 implementing last summer's tariff framework with Washington, even as Brussels reserved the right to suspend the deal if U.S. steel levies stay above 15 percent by year's end.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 27, 2026 Germany and Poland Sign Defense Pact as European Power Balance Shifts East The two neighbors formalized military cooperation in Warsaw on the 35th anniversary of their landmark friendship treaty, with Poland demanding a bigger seat at Europe's security table.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 26, 2026 EU Launches Tech Sovereignty Package to Curb Reliance on U.S. and Chinese Digital Infrastructure The European Commission's sweeping legislative bundle targets cloud computing, semiconductors, and AI, and would bar non-EU providers from handling the bloc's most sensitive government data.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 22, 2026 EU Leaders Back Ukraine Accession Push but Hungary Blunts Summit Conclusions The June 18-19 European Council in Brussels endorsed the opening of Ukraine's first accession negotiation cluster, but Hungary's new premier blocked stronger language on fast-tracking Kyiv's membership path.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 21, 2026 EU Extends Russia Sanctions for Full Year, Costa Opens Direct Moscow Channel In a notable shift at the June Brussels summit, EU leaders rolled over their Russia sanctions package for twelve months rather than six and backed a new diplomatic link from the European Council presidency to the Kremlin.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 20, 2026 Hegseth Puts NATO Allies on Notice With Six-Month U.S. Force Review The U.S. defense secretary told European counterparts in Brussels that American troop levels on the continent depend on how fast allies assume primary responsibility for their own defense.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 19, 2026 EU Leaders Back Tougher China Stance After Bloc Confirms Beijing Trained Russian Troops At a Brussels summit this week, the 27 EU leaders gave the European Commission a mandate to develop new trade tools against China, days after foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas confirmed verified intelligence that Chinese military personnel trained Russian soldiers to fight in Ukraine.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 18, 2026 U.S. and Iran Sign Hormuz Memorandum as G7 Backs Deal With Conditions Trump signed the Islamabad MOU at Versailles on Wednesday, extending the ceasefire 60 days and unlocking mine-clearance talks, but nuclear questions and an Iranian toll proposal already cloud the path ahead.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 17, 2026 EU Confirms China Trained Russian Troops for Ukraine War EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says bloc intelligence has verified that Chinese military personnel trained hundreds of Russian soldiers who subsequently fought in Ukraine, sharpening tensions ahead of this week's European Council summit.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 14, 2026 EU Formally Begins Drafting Montenegro Accession Treaty as Tivat Summit Sharpens Region's Divide The Tivat summit produced the EU's first accession treaty drafting process in 17 years, while Germany's chancellor delivered a blunt ultimatum to Serbia over its ties with Russia and China.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 12, 2026 European Trust in U.S. as Ally Falls to Record Low, ECFR Poll Finds Just 11% of Europeans across 15 countries now describe the United States as a genuine ally, down from 22% in late 2024, as the G7 and NATO summits approach.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 11, 2026 Macron and Merz Table New Enlargement Proposal at Tivat Summit as Montenegro Eyes 2028 Entry France and Germany jointly proposed an accelerated accession pathway at the EU-Western Balkans summit in Montenegro, with Brussels signalling it may soon begin drafting an accession treaty for Podgorica.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 8, 2026 EU Drafts Montenegro Accession Treaty as Tivat Summit Resets Enlargement Clock European leaders gathered in coastal Montenegro on Thursday for the bloc's highest-profile Western Balkans summit in years, with Brussels confirming it has begun drafting an accession treaty for Podgorica.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 4, 2026 ECB Warns Euro Loses Reserve Share as Renminbi Gains in Hormuz-Disrupted Trade The European Central Bank's annual currency report finds the dollar still dominant and the Chinese renminbi at 9% of global reserves, as Middle East conflict reshapes payment flows.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 3, 2026 Hungary's Magyar Signals Deal to Drop Ukraine Accession Veto Prime Minister Péter Magyar told reporters in Berlin he is 'very optimistic' about a minority-rights agreement with Kyiv that would clear Hungary's long-standing block on Ukraine's EU membership talks.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 2, 2026 Hungary Unlocks €16.4bn in EU Funds After Magyar Strikes Deal With Brussels Prime Minister Péter Magyar, weeks into office after ousting Viktor Orbán, secured the release of nearly all recovery and cohesion money frozen over democratic backsliding.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jun 2, 2026 Kenya Court Blocks U.S. Ebola Quarantine Site Built for Americans Fleeing Congo Outbreak A Kenyan high court temporarily halted a Trump administration plan to house Ebola-exposed Americans at Laikipia Air Base, as the Bundibugyo outbreak surpasses 1,000 cases in eastern DRC.
  By Karen Bishop, Correspondent
• World Jun 1, 2026 Kenya Court Blocks U.S. Ebola Quarantine Facility as Protests Spread A Kenyan high court suspended a Trump administration plan to hold Americans exposed to Ebola at a military base near Nanyuki, igniting street protests and sharp criticism from Kenyan physicians.
  By Karen Bishop, Correspondent
• World Jun 1, 2026 Iran Halts US Ceasefire Talks, Vows to Seal Strait of Hormuz Over Lebanon Fighting Tehran suspended indirect negotiations with Washington on Monday and threatened a complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world's oil supply moves, citing continued Israeli military operations in Lebanon as a breach of the ceasefire.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World May 20, 2026 The EU AI Act Is Law. Enforcing It Is a Different Problem Entirely. Brussels wrote the rulebook on artificial intelligence, but the machinery for actually policing it is fragmented, underfunded, and still being assembled.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World May 13, 2026 Why Singapore Became the Quiet Engine Behind Southeast Asian Fintech A small city-state with no natural resources has made itself indispensable to the region's most ambitious financial technology companies, and the reasons go deeper than low taxes.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Apr 29, 2026 The Slow Fracture: How Cross-Border Financial Services Learned to Live After Brexit Five years on from the end of the transition period, the City of London and the European single market have not broken cleanly apart - they have grown apart in ways that are harder to reverse and harder to see.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Apr 8, 2026 Mexico's Nearshoring Moment: What the Factory Numbers Don't Say The industrial boom along Mexico's northern corridor is real, but the structural gaps between investment announcements and operating capacity tell a more complicated story.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Apr 1, 2026 How the Ukraine War Rewired European Energy, and Why the Rewiring Is Not Finished The pipeline maps that governed the continent for half a century have been redrawn, but the political and market consequences are still working through the system.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Mar 25, 2026 The Price of Turning Off the Tap: What Europe's Energy Transition Actually Costs The continent's shift away from fossil fuels carries a bill that is real, uneven, and far more complicated than either its champions or its critics tend to admit.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Mar 11, 2026 How Japan Rebuilt Its Startup Ecosystem From the Inside Out A decade of structural reforms, demographic pressure, and quiet cultural shifts has turned one of the world's most risk-averse economies into a credible venue for venture capital.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Mar 4, 2026 The Quiet Revolution in African Trade: How the AfCFTA Is Rewiring the Continent's Logistics Map The African Continental Free Trade Area was always about more than tariffs. Its deepest effects are showing up in warehouses, port queues, and trucking corridors most outsiders never visit.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Feb 4, 2026 Why Nordic Startups Export Their Model and Israeli Ones Export Themselves Both regions punch far above their population weight in technology, but only one has produced a replicable ecosystem. The difference is not talent. It is architecture.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jan 28, 2026 The Invisible Trade: Why Services, Not Goods, Now Drive the Geopolitical Argument Containers still cross oceans, but the contests that matter in diplomatic back rooms are increasingly about data flows, financial clearing, and the right to audit a cloud.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent
• World Jan 7, 2026 After Brussels: Why Britain Keeps Rewriting Its Data Rules The UK's ongoing effort to diverge from EU data protection law is less about privacy than it is about trade leverage, investment attraction, and a quiet argument over what sovereignty actually costs.
  By Elke Vogel, Senior Correspondent

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