Oman's Foreign Minister Badr al Busaidi categorically ruled out compulsory transit fees for the Strait of Hormuz on June 25, 2026, stating future arrangements 'do not involve imposing transit fees.' His gove...
WhatsApp began allowing its 3 billion+ users to reserve unique usernames starting Monday, June 29, 2026.
Aave V4 launched on Ethereum mainnet in late March 2026 and plans to add securities backed loans, on chain repo, and securities lending using tokenized stocks, targeting the $4.6 trillion global securities l...
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited Ankara on June 29–30, 2026, alongside Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos and Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner for high level talks on EU Türkiye relations, mi...
Since December 2024, Israel has occupied the demilitarized buffer zone in southwestern Syria, prompting Damascus to condemn the incursions as violations of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement, the UN Charter, a...
Pakistan launched ground and air strikes in Afghanistan on June 28–29, 2026, killing 29 militants, as retaliation for a militant attack on a paramilitary Rangers headquarters in Karachi that killed three sol...
On June 29, 2026, Bridgepoint Group agreed to acquire Kayne Anderson Real Estate (KARE) for an upfront enterprise value of approximately $1.39 billion, paid with $759 million in cash and 189 million newly is...
Purpose and Agenda of the Visit EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited Ankara on June 29–30, 2026, alongside Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos and Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner, for high level...
On June 29, 2026, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian confirmed that $6 billion of Iran's frozen assets held in Qatar will be released as a first tranche of a broader $12 billion pool, following the signing...
The World Economic Forum's June 2026 report Deepening Divides: The Cost of a More Fragmented Financial System (produced with Oliver Wyman) warns that a full East West economic decoupling could cost the globa...
Corporate lending in the euro zone accelerated to a 4% annual growth rate in May 2026, the fastest pace in three years, while household lending edged up to 3.1% — but the ECB's Q1 Bank Lending Survey shows b...
On June 29, 2026, Iran and Oman held the first meeting of the Joint Hormuz Committee in Muscat, shifting talks from broad principles to concrete text based arrangements for managing the Strait of Hormuz — a...