Storms Boelo and Austen cut power to more than 150,000 homes in northern Europe on Sunday and forced hundreds of flights to be cancelled, with winds of up to 135 km/h. Al Jazeera reports that a man died in Scotland.
Geopolitics
Two critical PHP flaws found with AI tools forced agencies and firms to pull websites offline on Wednesday. Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while many sites are back.
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Two critical flaws in PHP, used by up to 70% of websites, led agencies and firms to take sites offline on Wednesday. The developers released fixes that afternoon.
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Chip shares extended a global rout, and Bloomberg reports they were set to erase $1 trillion in value. ASML said on Wednesday that AI demand will exceed supply for two more years.
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Hackers overheated refrigeration systems in hundreds of French supermarkets, spoiling tonnes of food. The attackers remain unidentified.
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Hackers raised refrigeration temperatures to up to 50C overnight in several hundred French supermarkets, causing food losses and fires. Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation.
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Nobel laureate Navi Pillay called the US sanctions on the entire International Criminal Court unacceptable on Saturday. Japan and the Netherlands also object.
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The US imposed sanctions on the entire International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize. The court calls it an assault on the rule of law.
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A wildfire in Belgium's Hautes Fagnes has become the country's largest on record and forced evacuations near the German border. Belgium called in EU air support on Saturday.
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Germany's inland shipping association expects the Rhine gauge at Kaub to fall to single digits this week, splitting the waterway. Chemical firms and retailers warn of bottlenecks.
Economy
Twenty-five mostly Democratic-led US states sued the Trump administration on Monday over tariffs of 10 and 12.5 percent on 60 trading partners. They argue the president exceeded his authority to tax imports.
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A Shanghai listing by Chinese memory maker CXMT and reports of a Chinese lithography breakthrough sent chip stocks sliding worldwide last week. Markets rebounded on Friday.
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EU rules obliging professional developers and business users to label AI-generated content took effect on Sunday. Companies now face open questions about how to apply them.
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South Korean shares dropped about 16% over two days in a burst of retail selling that erased the gains of the recent AI rally, with chip stocks hit hardest because investors doubt the companies' heavy capital spending. Bloomberg separately reported growing concern at ASML over China export restrictions and demand risk.
Economy
A report that China is bringing a domestically built machine for semiconductor production to market sent chip shares tumbling around the world on Tuesday, 28 July 2026. Samsung and SK Hynix each lost more than 10 percent and Korea's market hit a three-month low, while ASML, Nvidia and the Nasdaq chip complex also fell. Investors are weighing Chinese competition alongside doubts about how US tech groups are financing their artificial-intelligence spending.
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Beijing has banned shipments of rare earths and related supplies to 14 companies in Europe working in chemicals processing, electric motors and defence, according to reporting by the New York Times published on 24 July 2026. The measure applies China's dominance of rare-earth supply directly to named European industrial and defence firms. The available source does not identify the companies or the exact date the controls take effect.
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