Lower deliveries, tariffs, trade barriers and tighter regulation compressed the automaker's first-half earnings and margins, prompting a global workforce restructuring through the end of 2027.
Baghdad ordered legal and security measures to tighten state control, keep Iraq outside regional escalation and complete the coalition withdrawal timetable after coordinated strikes killed 20 paramilitary personnel.
The Finance Ministry tied investment and strategic autonomy to quicker implementation of domestic reforms while warning that sustained high oil prices and a possible El Niño could pressure inflation, public finances and growth.
The euro area rebounded from a flat first quarter, but uneven national results and the Middle East conflict remain constraints as the European Central Bank keeps interest rates unchanged.
Two tankers were struck near the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal, stopping Black Sea loading without casualties or an oil spill and extending a sequence of attacks on a route linking Kazakh fields to global markets.
Beijing warned of countermeasures after the U.S. communications regulator widened a security list that can block new foreign-made power-control and advanced robotic products from the American market.
The Brazilian president said two Trump administration officials were blocked because their visit could challenge confidence in the October vote, while Washington rejected any claim that the trip was designed to interfere.
Brasília has withheld the diplomatic consent required for Daniel Perez to take office after Washington announced his nomination before seeking agrément, deepening a dispute already involving tariffs, visas and election interference claims.
Embraer and Anduril have signed a memorandum of understanding at the Farnborough Airshow to integrate the Barracuda-500M cruise missile into the C-390 Millennium transport aircraft, giving it a new offensive strike capability while retaining its core airlift functions.
The Brazilian Army has acquired a domestically produced robot designed to help neutralize explosive devices, reduce risk to specialists in the field and support readiness requirements for international peacekeeping missions.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov says the conflict that Moscow began by calling a special military operation has become a real war because Western states are now deeply involved in Ukraine's military campaign.
Foreign Dispatch Latin America Desk
Javier Milei used a Bolsonaro-aligned event in São Paulo to cast Argentina as a warning to other countries, linking his domestic political message to a wider regional argument against state intervention and left-wing politics.
Foreign Dispatch Brazil Desk
Brazil is sending a fifth humanitarian flight to Venezuela with 5.5 tonnes of medical supplies and equipment to expand a field hospital in La Guaira, while its defense minister travels to Caracas to coordinate further assistance and reconstruction support.
Foreign Dispatch Brazil Desk
Contracts to complete Petrobras' UFN-III plant unlock more than R$5 billion in investment, with production scheduled for 2029 and capacity equivalent to about 16% of Brazil's current urea demand.
Foreign Dispatch Middle East Desk
Israeli and Lebanese officials have rejected a US claim that Israeli forces withdrew from part of southern Lebanon, exposing a widening gap between diplomatic language and conditions on the ground.
Allegations of mass voter-roll removals have placed India's electoral system under renewed scrutiny, with critics arguing that administrative revisions have disproportionately affected opposition areas, poorer voters and Muslim minorities while strengthening the ruling BJP's electoral position.
The A$500 million Nakamal Agreement does not make Vanuatu an Australian ally, but it gives Canberra a strategic guarantee that no foreign military base or militarised infrastructure will emerge on the archipelago.
The peso weakened even as inflation slowed, highlighting a widening gap between Mexico's domestic price signals and the global forces shaping demand for the dollar.
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Lower deliveries, tariffs, trade barriers and tighter regulation compressed the automaker's first-half earnings and margins, prompting a global workforce restructuring through the end of 2027.
The central bank held its policy rate at 1 percent but warned for the first time that underlying inflation could exceed target, placing the September meeting and further monetary tightening in focus.
Around 50,000 people entered the Spanish enclave within a day and roughly half returned, while deaths, repatriations and threats of tighter Schengen controls turned the emergency into a wider European dispute.
The governments of José Antonio Kast and Delcy Rodríguez opened a gradual diplomatic roadmap centered on services for hundreds of thousands of residents, migration management, security and economic cooperation.
More than 80 papers and patents show defense-linked researchers using model distillation to transfer capabilities from OpenAI and Anthropic systems into smaller domestic tools that can operate inside military networks and on edge devices.
The European Commission kept a 93-billion-euro tariff package inactive to preserve stability under the 2025 transatlantic agreement, but placed the suspension under continuous review.
