
Waldbrände in Frankreich und Spanien vertreiben Hunderttausende aus ihren Häusern
Wildfires force mass evacuations in France and Spain, Madrid declares emergency
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The Middle East dominated the day's news in both directions at once. Israel's political-security cabinet approved the entry of the Board of Peace's International Stabilization Force into parts of Gaza outside Israeli military control, an initial contingent reported at around 200 personnel from countries including Morocco and Uganda, with Israel keeping a veto over participants; the decision landed a day before Prime Minister Netanyahu left for Washington, where he meets President Trump on Tuesday and where, Bloomberg reports, he intends to press for continued vigilance over Iran's nuclear programme.
Against that, Iran's military warned it would widen the war if Washington resumed strikes, President Pezeshkian called US attacks on civilian infrastructure war crimes, and Iran's supreme leader tied any agreement with Washington to an end to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a Ukrainian strike on a ship in the Caspian Sea killed a sailor and 'cannot go unanswered'. The Houthi maritime embargo on Saudi shipping has left Saudi Arabia loading no crude for export through Bab al-Mandeb from its west coast, according to Kpler data cited by The National, with Asian cargoes rerouted through Suez at weeks of added time and cost; rebel claims of hits on Aramco sites at Jizan and Yanbu remain unconfirmed by the Saudi government or the company.
Crude has swung accordingly, slumping roughly 5% after the US-Iran strike pause and spiking back toward $100 a barrel as escalation fears returned. In Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky became the first foreign leader received by new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who took office on 20 July and will hand Kyiv the intellectual property behind the 'Stone Cloak' jammer, before his own Washington meeting on Tuesday; Russian ballistic missiles killed people in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, Handelsblatt reported Odessa's ports effectively paralysed, and Zelensky said Russia has asked North Korea for a further 30,000 troops, a figure that comes from him alone.
Elsewhere the war spilled outward: Romania downed a third Russian drone and summoned Moscow's ambassador, drone attacks halted Kazakh oil exports, and in Berlin police shot dead the 21-year-old suspect in a van attack on the Christopher Street Day crowd that killed one person and injured at least 16, with federal prosecutors treating it as Islamist terrorism.
The economic and technological picture was shaped by China and by artificial intelligence. DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies closed up 466% on its Shanghai debut after raising 66.5 billion yuan, Asia's largest fundraising this year, valuing it at 3.28 trillion yuan and briefly, per Nikkei Asia, lifting it above Intel; Moonshot AI published the weights of Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that company-run benchmarks place ahead of the strongest closed models from Anthropic and OpenAI, and which Washington accuses Moonshot of building off Anthropic's technology, a charge Beijing calls groundless.
The Wall Street Journal reports Nvidia in talks to guarantee up to $250 billion in OpenAI data-centre financing, unconfirmed by either company, even as Bloomberg describes investors in revolt over the scale of AI capital spending. The US Federal Reserve opens its second meeting under Chair Kevin Warsh on Tuesday with markets split between a fifth hold at 3.50%–3.75% and a hike, given 3.5% inflation and oil back above $100, while Washington's new Section 301 duties of 10% to 12.5% now cover 99.4% of US imports and face court challenge; Switzerland rejects the forced-labour accusations behind its levy.
Disasters and disease ran alongside: more than 300,000 people have been driven from their homes by wildfires around Bordeaux and south-west of Madrid, in what officials call France's largest evacuation since the Second World War and what FAZ calls Spain's largest fire in recent history; Typhoon Noul forced over 340,000 evacuations in southern China; the African Development Bank put the cost of an approaching 'super' El Niño at $10 billion to $20 billion; and Congo's Ebola outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo strain for which no approved vaccine exists, has reached 3,200 confirmed cases and at least 1,405 deaths, roughly 1,000 cases added in ten days.
In India, Modi accepted Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation on 25 July, ending a month of youth protests over a leaked medical entrance exam in what outlets describe as his government's first major climbdown since 2014.
Against that, Iran's military warned it would widen the war if Washington resumed strikes, President Pezeshkian called US attacks on civilian infrastructure war crimes, and Iran's supreme leader tied any agreement with Washington to an end to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a Ukrainian strike on a ship in the Caspian Sea killed a sailor and 'cannot go unanswered'. The Houthi maritime embargo on Saudi shipping has left Saudi Arabia loading no crude for export through Bab al-Mandeb from its west coast, according to Kpler data cited by The National, with Asian cargoes rerouted through Suez at weeks of added time and cost; rebel claims of hits on Aramco sites at Jizan and Yanbu remain unconfirmed by the Saudi government or the company.
Crude has swung accordingly, slumping roughly 5% after the US-Iran strike pause and spiking back toward $100 a barrel as escalation fears returned. In Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky became the first foreign leader received by new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who took office on 20 July and will hand Kyiv the intellectual property behind the 'Stone Cloak' jammer, before his own Washington meeting on Tuesday; Russian ballistic missiles killed people in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, Handelsblatt reported Odessa's ports effectively paralysed, and Zelensky said Russia has asked North Korea for a further 30,000 troops, a figure that comes from him alone.
Elsewhere the war spilled outward: Romania downed a third Russian drone and summoned Moscow's ambassador, drone attacks halted Kazakh oil exports, and in Berlin police shot dead the 21-year-old suspect in a van attack on the Christopher Street Day crowd that killed one person and injured at least 16, with federal prosecutors treating it as Islamist terrorism.
The economic and technological picture was shaped by China and by artificial intelligence. DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies closed up 466% on its Shanghai debut after raising 66.5 billion yuan, Asia's largest fundraising this year, valuing it at 3.28 trillion yuan and briefly, per Nikkei Asia, lifting it above Intel; Moonshot AI published the weights of Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that company-run benchmarks place ahead of the strongest closed models from Anthropic and OpenAI, and which Washington accuses Moonshot of building off Anthropic's technology, a charge Beijing calls groundless.
The Wall Street Journal reports Nvidia in talks to guarantee up to $250 billion in OpenAI data-centre financing, unconfirmed by either company, even as Bloomberg describes investors in revolt over the scale of AI capital spending. The US Federal Reserve opens its second meeting under Chair Kevin Warsh on Tuesday with markets split between a fifth hold at 3.50%–3.75% and a hike, given 3.5% inflation and oil back above $100, while Washington's new Section 301 duties of 10% to 12.5% now cover 99.4% of US imports and face court challenge; Switzerland rejects the forced-labour accusations behind its levy.
Disasters and disease ran alongside: more than 300,000 people have been driven from their homes by wildfires around Bordeaux and south-west of Madrid, in what officials call France's largest evacuation since the Second World War and what FAZ calls Spain's largest fire in recent history; Typhoon Noul forced over 340,000 evacuations in southern China; the African Development Bank put the cost of an approaching 'super' El Niño at $10 billion to $20 billion; and Congo's Ebola outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo strain for which no approved vaccine exists, has reached 3,200 confirmed cases and at least 1,405 deaths, roughly 1,000 cases added in ten days.
In India, Modi accepted Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation on 25 July, ending a month of youth protests over a leaked medical entrance exam in what outlets describe as his government's first major climbdown since 2014.
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Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj besuchte am Montag einen britischen Marinestützpunkt als erster ausländischer Staatschef, der vom neuen britischen Premierminister Andy Burnham empfangen wurde, der am 20. Juli sein Amt antrat. London kündigte an, Kiew das geistige Eigentum hinter seinem elektronischen Störsender „Stone Cloak" zu übergeben, damit die Ukraine ihn in großem Maßstab produzieren kann. Der Besuch geht einem Treffen zwischen Selenskyj und US-Präsident Donald Trump am Dienstag in Washington voraus, während der Kreml erklärte, es sei zu früh, um sich zu berichteten US-ukrainischen Gesprächen über einen Waffenstillstand im Luftraum zu äußern.

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Nachdem die Huthi ein Seehandelsembargo gegen saudische Schifffahrt erklärt und zwei Tanker im Roten Meer angegriffen hatten, hat Saudi-Arabien laut von The National zitierten Kpler-Daten kein Rohöl mehr zur Ausfuhr durch die Meerenge Bab al-Mandab von seiner Westküste verladen. Ladungen für asiatische Käufer werden stattdessen durch den Suezkanal geleitet, eine Route, die Wochen und zusätzliche Kosten hinzufügt. Die Rebellen behaupten zudem, Aramco-Anlagen in Jizan und Yanbu getroffen zu haben, eine Behauptung, die weder die saudische Regierung noch Aramco bestätigt hat.
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Oil tops $100 as Iran war and Hormuz/Red Sea disruption reroute crude

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Die US-Notenbank Federal Reserve beginnt am Dienstag ihre zweite Zinssitzung unter Vorsitz von Kevin Warsh, eine Entscheidung wird am Mittwoch um 14 Uhr Washingtoner Zeit erwartet. Die meisten Anleger rechnen damit, dass die Zinsen zum fünften Mal in Folge bei 3,50–3,75 % bleiben, doch eine Inflation von 3,5 % und ein Ölpreis wieder über 100 Dollar pro Barrel haben eine Zinserhöhung erneut in die Debatte gebracht. Anleihehändler positionieren sich für die Möglichkeit einer Zinserhöhung, während das Weiße Haus weiterhin Senkungen fordert.
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Die führende Klimaexpertin der Afrikanischen Entwicklungsbank schätzt, dass ein nahender 'Super-El-Niño' in den Volkswirtschaften Afrikas Schäden von 10 bis 20 Milliarden US-Dollar verursachen und massive Migration aus den am stärksten betroffenen Gebieten auslösen könnte. Stark betroffene Länder würden im Schnitt ein bis zwei Prozent ihres BIP verlieren, hinzu kämen Risiken für die Nahrungsmittel- und Wasserversorgung, die Staatsfinanzen und den Bankensektor. Es ist die erste derartige Zahl, die eine große multilaterale Entwicklungsbank im Zusammenhang mit El Niño veröffentlicht hat.
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