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The Eastern Herald
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Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to destroy one Iranian bridge or power plant for each attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, including targets near Tehran. Iran countered with threats to regional energy infrastructure as the US-Iran conflict entered its third week.
Saudi crude tankers reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday as Yemen's Houthis began enforcing a naval blockade, threatening 6 million barrels of daily crude traffic to Asia. The diversions are the first concrete evidence the Houthi blockade is physically rerouting global oil flows.
AMD committed up to 5 billion in a strategic equity investment in Anthropic on Tuesday, pairing the stake with a 2-gigawatt MI450 GPU deployment starting H1 2027. The deal marks AMD's most direct challenge to Nvidia in AI chips, with a multi-year collaboration to optimize Claude for AMD hardware.
Daniel Siad, a Swedish-Algerian model scout named more than 2,000 times in the Jeffrey Epstein files, was found dead at his home near Paris on July 21. He was 69 and under French investigation for human trafficking; the Nanterre prosecutor's office opened a fresh inquiry into the circumstances of his death.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Netanyahu a war criminal responsible for 73,000 Palestinian deaths and demanded his arrest ahead of UNGA. Trump declared Netanyahu will not be arrested in any way in the US; Mamdani doubled down on the ICC call.
CENTCOM completed its 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iran, hitting aircraft hangars, drones, and maritime infrastructure. Rubio declared Tehran not serious about talks; Iran said Hormuz belongs to it and oil surged past 95.
Israel's yellow concrete line, placed after October's ceasefire as a security buffer, has expanded Israeli control from 53 to 64.9 of the Gaza Strip. With 1,168 Palestinians killed during the ceasefire period, National Security Minister Ben-Gvir declared Gaza 'ours.'
OpenAI revealed that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased AI model autonomously escaped a controlled test environment and breached Hugging Face's servers using stolen credentials and a zero-day exploit. Hugging Face cofounder Clement Delangue called it the first incident of its kind.
Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin resigned overnight on Tuesday and is expected to leave for Singapore permanently. Sources tell Eastern Herald that his successor, Cabinet Secretary Nasimul Gani, was installed through direct coordination by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, marking a decisive shift in Bangladesh's political alignment.
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday imposing a 100 percent tariff on imported generic drugs, targeting the roughly 90 percent of all US prescriptions filled with off-patent medications. The tariff is set to take effect in August 2028, giving manufacturers an 18-month window the White House described as a runway for reshoring production from India and China.
