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Europe
Critical Inputs Expose the EU's Supply Security Gap
Europe's critical raw materials agenda is moving from ambition to execution, but the central challenge is no longer only domestic capacity. The issue is how to match projects, trade rules and financing with the materials that carry the greatest strategic risk.
Europe
Black Sea strikes threaten Egypt's food supplies as maritime attacks intensify
Kyiv warned that attacks on cargo shipping are reducing food deliveries and raising prices, while Moscow rejected a proposed halt to strikes on civilian vessels in the Black Sea.
Asia
Extreme El Niño threatens Southeast Asia's water, food and urban resilience
Pacific temperatures could average 2°C above normal and drive severe drought, crop losses, haze and inflation, while governments expand pumps, irrigation, monitoring and water coordination.
China
Taiwan tests communications resilience with its first simulated internet blackout
Authorities sharply reduced network speeds during air-raid drills covering most of Taiwan's population, testing daily disruption and backup links as concern grows over vulnerable undersea cables.
Middle East
US forces set to leave Iraq by September 30 as militia disarmament remains unresolved
Baghdad and Washington expect the coalition mission to end on a fixed September deadline, but powerful Iran-backed groups reject a parallel demand to surrender their weapons.
Africa
Hichilema targets Zambia's youth vote as presidential contest enters final days
With nearly half of registered voters aged 18 to 35, the president urged students in Lusaka to campaign across schools, markets and public transport as challenger Brian Mundubile consolidated opposition backing.
United States
U.S. Fiscal Policy Turns Mildly Restrictive in Q2
The fiscal impact measure showed tax and spending policy subtracting 0.2 percentage points from real GDP growth in the second quarter of 2026.
Africa
More than 178,000 migrants leave South Africa amid crackdown and violence fears
Returns to Zimbabwe, Malawi and other African states combine formal deportations with mostly voluntary repatriations, while children, schools and HIV treatment systems absorb the consequences of a sudden regional movement.
India
RBI moves to align loan-rate rules across banks and non-bank lenders
The proposed framework could require recognized benchmarks and fixed reset schedules for floating-rate loans, narrowing the pricing discretion of NBFCs while making policy-rate changes more visible to borrowers.
United States
US economic records coexist with slower hiring and uneven industrial gains
Payrolls, stocks and goods exports have reached notable highs, but weaker job creation, limited factory hiring and disputed investment totals complicate the administration's account of a broad economic boom.
Russia
Russia's services PMI rises to 49 in July but remains in contraction
The decline in services activity eased to its slowest pace in three months, yet new orders fell for a fourth consecutive month and firms continued to reduce employment.