August 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
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Ankara seeks a red notice for Netanyahu; 102 former diplomats appeal to Paris and London on Palestine
Turkey requested a red notice; the file includes the May interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla. In a separate letter, 102 former French and British diplomats urged Paris and London to uphold international law together in the Palestinian territories.
Arson spreads in Thailand as new attacks hit Gaza and the West Bank
More than 50 fires broke out in southern Thailand. An air strike killed one person in Gaza, while roadblocks followed a stabbing in the West Bank.
As corruption questions grow in Ukraine, Kazakhstan votes for a single chamber
Ukraine's former defence minister pressed Zelensky to answer questions about corruption around him. In Kazakhstan, only seven state-approved parties contested the election for a new single chamber.
As the blockade holds, neighbours who join the Trump campaign will count as enemies in Tehran's eyes
At a South Carolina rally, Trump called the Strait of Hormuz American territory as US forces kept a blockade that redirected 68 commercial vessels. Tehran warned that neighbours joining the new sanctions campaign would count as enemies.
Carney suspends tariff talks as Unifor settles with GM under trade pressure
US talks with Canada collapsed before midnight and 20 billion dollars of Canadian goods faced 50 per cent tariffs. Mark Carney set matching duties for 8 September, while Unifor reached tentative General Motors agreements for 4,600 Ontario members.
Chang'e 7 loses this year's launch window; JWST maps ice on Callisto
China's space agency said Chang'e 7 cannot fly in this year's window; Space.com ties that to Tropical Depression Narra off Hainan. JWST spectra place water ice on Callisto's leading face and carbon dioxide on the trailing side.
China's AI race is accelerating on the track and the payroll
As humanoid robots beat human records at games in China, the country's chip companies are using equity worth millions of yuan to retain key engineers; the contest spans both hardware and talent.
Dam placement cuts flood peaks; coalfield and Baltic models separate mechanisms
Optimised detention dams reduced modelled flood peaks. Separate models divided subsidence at one coalfield between mining and groundwater and sorted three decades of Baltic change into six regimes.
Damascus calls the Beit Jinn strike a sovereignty breach as Katz rebukes Barrack over Idlib
An Israeli drone strike on the Beit Jinn road wounded a truck driver, and Damascus called it a sovereignty breach. Israel Katz said Tom Barrack's criticism of the Idlib air base strike was full of inaccuracies.
DeepSeek moves the whole weekend onto its cheaper API rate
From 23 August Beijing time, DeepSeek will charge its off-peak API rate all weekend, so Saturday batch jobs fall on the cheaper half-price band. It also released an experimental Flash model that reads images through the API.