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Fourth year of Russia's full-scale invasion, peace talks and escalation

25 updates · 444 entities · 3 Aug

Russia fired a record 376 missiles and took its worst casualty month of the year in July 2026 to gain just 37.85 sq km, ISW found on 1 August, a 92% collapse from July 2025's 455.74 sq km. Four days earlier, on 31 July, Sberbank's chief financial officer said Russian banks can no longer buy the government's OFZ bonds, leaving the Central Bank as the buyer of last resort on a deficit already running at 2.5% of output.

176 updates · 1876 entities · 11 Sept

The IAEA Board voted 23 to 3 on 9 September to send Iran's file to the UN Security Council for the first time in twenty years, the same week CENTCOM disabled five Iranian crude carriers, Jordan intercepted 18 of 20 missiles fired at its territory, and Washington moved its Iran licensing regime to a default refusal. The Council that inherits the file loses its own Iran monitoring panel on 26 September.

14 updates · 339 entities · 8 Sept

Cuba's Council of Ministers published a revised Decree 325 on 4 September, making the state's wage-capturing hiring agency optional for foreign-invested firms rather than compulsory. It landed a day after the US Treasury designated Banco Exterior de Cuba, the state's foreign-trade bank, and four nickel and fuel traders, and one week after the same wage-capture arrangement drew Washington's forced-labour framing in its 23 July designation of Cuba's medical-missions programme.

Local, Holyrood & Senedd

17 updates · 453 entities · 3 Sept

The Commons sent the Representation of the People Bill to the House of Lords by 411 votes to 102 on 2 September, banning cryptoasset donations from 25 March 2026 but leaving no cap on the size of any single gift. The next morning the Electoral Commission's Q2 register showed Reform UK accepting more money than any other party, £5.44m, including £4m in cash from pardoned BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo. Six council by-elections over the same fortnight left Reform's seat count where it started, while three more of its May councillors quit the party.

15 updates · 356 entities · 7 Sept

Missouri's Supreme Court suspended the state's 2025 congressional map on 3 September and sent it to voters as Proposition A; the next day North Carolina's counties posted the cycle's first general-election ballots. Missouri has since asked Justice Kavanaugh for an emergency stay, with a response deadline of noon on 7 September that has now passed without a ruling. The map fight and the ballot calendar are running on the same clock, and neither side controls it.

A standing ledger of every stressed British balance sheet, with the receipts

3 updates · 57 entities · 3 Sept

Britain's public debt fell to 94.1% of GDP at the end of July, 0.3 percentage points below the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecast, while borrowing in the same Office for National Statistics bulletin came in £2.3bn above that same forecast. The ratio improved because the ONS revised gross domestic product upward in August, not because government borrowing came in lighter than planned; on borrowing, every measure in the bulletin overshot. Five of the topic's nine ledgers published no new reading in this fortnight, and the forecast everything is being checked against does not refresh until 28 October.

32 updates · 387 entities · 3 Aug

Two of the European Union's 27 member states, Portugal and Slovakia, have notified Brussels of measures transposing the recast gas market directive, with the Article 94 deadline for the other 25 falling on Wednesday 5 August 2026. The gap left no mark on price: TTF held roughly EUR 55 to 58 per MWh and EUA sat at 81.04, both inside recent bands, while a record German solar mean of 18,761 MW on Sunday drove the clean spark spread to minus 18.48 EUR/MWh and heat-related curtailment took 7.6 GW, 12 per cent of the French nuclear fleet, offline on Monday.

22 updates · 250 entities · 3 Aug

ICE Brent for October traded at $83.64 a barrel at 03:33 ET on Monday 3 August, down 4.88% intraday, and NYMEX WTI for September at $79.57, down almost 6%, after President Trump said he had called off a planned strike on Iran. Four days earlier Argus assessed the West Mediterranean diesel crack at $91.67, more than $30 clear of the record this desk logged on 8 July. Both figures are true in the same week, and the gap between them, not either alone, is the story.

Tracking layoffs, hiring, economic shifts, and geopolitical power changes driven by artificial intelligence.

19 updates · 404 entities · 24 Aug

The Bank of Korea used National Pension Service enrolment records, not a survey, to trace 268,000 of the 285,000 net youth jobs lost since June 2022, 94% of the total, to sectors it classifies as highly AI-exposed, while employment among workers in their fifties rose in those same sectors over the same four years. The finding lands three weeks after the Bank for International Settlements first published its own AI-exposure measurement, and one week after Britain's Office for National Statistics admitted its own survey cannot see any of it.

12 updates · 376 entities · 7 Sept

USA Today Co. told shareholders on 6 August that its Palantir investment is helping it monetise readers, then faced its own union's demand four days later to end that same partnership over surveillance and immigration-enforcement concerns. The dispute lands in a week when Disney named an internal AI tool in an SEC filing for the first time, and the New York Times reported its quarterly AI litigation bill still rising.

14 updates · 436 entities · 8 Sept

Brazil's Senate passed a tax bill on 1 September that strips a data-centre operator of its incentive in any year it exceeds 0.05 litres of water per kilowatt-hour, verified annually rather than promised once at approval. In the same 25 days, lenders financing IREN and Lambda, and NVIDIA's own filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, wrote the same distinction between contracted and delivered capacity into binding terms, while Fingrid and NEXTDC published the same caveat beside their own headline numbers. Singapore rationed 200 MW of new capacity with sourcing and cooling conditions attached before a single hall exists.

Tracking the structural growth of unmanned and autonomous systems on land, on the water, and beneath it, across defence, maritime, and industrial use.

12 updates · 310 entities · 5 Sept

Japan's Ministry of Defense requested research on UUV missile-launch and underwater-attack modules without putting an amount on either line. Taiwan's Legislative Yuan passed a law that names a small suicide uncrewed boat, while Lockheed Martin and Saildrone demonstrated two JAGM launches from a Surveyor-class vessel at RIMPAC. Japan's FY2027 request, Taiwan's unpromulgated Act and Saildrone's demonstration all specify or show striking functions without funding a fielded programme.

13 updates · 446 entities · 5 Sept

On 27 August, PaperCut confirmed active exploitation of two print-management flaws, while CERT Polska and Singapore CSA reported separate active attacks on Zimbra and Microsoft SharePoint on 17 and 28 August. The products differ, but each holds standing privilege over a wider estate, and the national agencies naming them first were mostly not American.

14 updates · 603 entities · 24 Aug

Britain's innovation state moved its money before it moved its paperwork. UKRI's own gov.uk page still names the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, abolished on 20 July, as sponsor of the £6bn-a-year research funder, while UKRI's governance page and a grant table published 21 August both name the new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade instead. Underneath the contradiction, four research programmes and a Financial Conduct Authority regulatory unit expanded exactly on schedule, and the British Business Bank kept writing cheques into growth funds, a pension-backed megadeal and a new Scottish lender.

15 updates · 404 entities · 8 Sept

Mistral AI closed a EUR 3 billion Series D above a EUR 21 billion valuation on 8 September, with Samsung Electronics leading and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg buying in as a new state investor. The same day, ASML and Intel Foundry said High-NA EUV lithography, the tool class only ASML builds, has moved into high-volume manufacturing at an American fab. Both stories turn on the same fact: European capital and European tooling are drawing outside money and outside customers, not shutting them out.

Tracking the structural growth of unmanned systems across industrial operations and defence applications.

17 updates · 496 entities · 20 Aug

China's Ministry of Commerce put US-bound dual-use drone components behind case-by-case export licences on 5 August, with no published review clock. Nine days later, on 13 August, President Trump signed a Section 232 proclamation taxing imported drone parts at up to 100 per cent from 3 September. The two moves ran on separate legal tracks with no link between them, but a component now faces friction leaving China and cost entering America.

13 updates · 323 entities · 24 Aug

Guatemala has become the centre of the Americas' measles emergency, with 30,371 confirmed cases and 26 deaths, more than twice Mexico's 12,255 cases and 17 deaths in PAHO's 8 August week 28 table. Since the 17 June baseline, Guatemala's reported total has risen 389% while Mexico's has risen 12% (ID:4549); the figures do not separate transmission growth from improved case finding, but they show that the region's reporting frame has lagged its burden.

11 updates · 141 entities · 17 Apr

Six days after splashdown, the Artemis II crew fronted a post-flight press conference at Johnson Space Center on 16 April while NASA's chief radiation scientist was absent from the podium for the third consecutive public window, leaving crew dose figures from a mission that crossed a G3 geomagnetic storm and an M7.5 flare still unpublished. The Space Launch System core stage for Artemis III rolls from Michoud Assembly Facility on Monday, and a post-mission quantification has placed the O2 manifold helium leak at 10 times the rate ground tests predicted. ESA has issued one named-official statement since splashdown; Airbus Defence and Space has issued none.

13 updates · 332 entities · 23 Aug

Four governments on four continents narrowed the conditions under which an already-admitted foreigner may keep living there, inside the same four weeks Oman moved the other way and made entry itself easier: Argentina's DNU 681/2026 added hate speech and national-symbol offences as residence-cancellation grounds from 31 July, Georgia's Interior Minister Order No. 104 armed its Migration Department with sanction and fingerprinting powers from 20 August, France's Conseil constitutionnel cleared fast eviction of overstaying tourist-let occupants on 14 August, and Kenya set a US$50,000 health-insurance floor on visitors. None of the four touched who may arrive.

First triple-host tournament — USA, Canada, Mexico — expanded to 48 teams

48 updates · 815 entities · 28 Jul

Nine days after the World Cup final, Arlington has banked a record $31 million June hotel-tax month, Comcast has told investors the tournament was worth $440 million to its own results, and Mexico City, Mexico's national chamber of commerce and the federal tourism secretariat have published three different totals for the same five weeks. FIFA, the one body positioned to reconcile any of it, published an operational report on 27 July that itemises accreditation scans and turf and says nothing about revenue or cost. Meanwhile Foxborough and the Kraft Group are settling their own tournament bill in a Massachusetts courtroom, and La Liga president Javier Tebas has told FIFA to its face that its system is rotten from the root.