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A caught rocket, a record-hot June, and Russia's fuel squeeze
China nets an orbital booster and Europe logs its hottest June while Ukrainian strikes ration Russia's petrol and Ebola spreads unseen in Congo.
A shut strait, a wary Fed, and quantum weirdness you can hold
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz after a third round of US strikes, the Fed's first report under Warsh calls inflation 'stepped up,' and labs deliver a crack-proof battery clue, tabletop entanglement, and DNA written on a chip.
The Strait of Hormuz is open, and nearly empty
Traffic through the disputed strait has fallen to a handful of ships a day even as Brent nears $79, a global study redraws dementia's risk map by country, and physicists reproduce a black hole's energy trick on a benchtop.
Iran strikes two UAE oil tankers in Hormuz
Washington's threat to toll a strait it does not own turns a military standoff into an economic one and carries Brent past $85.
US consumer prices fall 0.4% in June, cooling inflation to 3.5%
A 9.7% monthly fall in gasoline did most of the work, but over the year energy is still up more than 15%.
China overtakes the United States in global favorability for the first time
In 22 of the 36 countries Pew surveyed, more people now trust Xi Jinping than Donald Trump.
Assisted dying clears the French parliament, with the Constitutional Council still to rule
Every headline development this week carried a caveat the first reports missed.
Europe's top court backs Spain's amnesty for Catalan separatists
Carles Puigdemont can return to Spain, with the amnesty's limits left to the judges he fled.
An Iranian strike kills two US troops in Jordan as the war widens into an eighth night
The first US combat deaths since March anchor the day, and the loudest claims around them are still only one government's word.
Unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone kills a third US service member
CENTCOM's ninth consecutive night of strikes on Iran pushes Brent crude past $90 on Strait of Hormuz fears.
US strikes Iran for a tenth straight night
The reported ten-day truce traces to a single unnamed Iranian official; on the record, Tehran confirms only that mediators floated "new ideas."