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So, here we are again, another week, another global bingo card July 8–15, 2025:
While President Trump expanded his “Make Tariffs Great Again” tour to pretty much anyone with a functioning economy, Israel continue to prove once more that clinics and aid lines are apparently fair game.
India had its hands full with deadly monsoons and an Air India crash blame game just began with news outlets creating clickbait headlines. Who did not need that controversy right?
Peru discovered a 3,500-year-old city that somehow had better urban planning than half of today’s capitals, and Apple began assembling the iPhone 17 in India, because nothing says global teamwork like breaking your new phone and contributing to foreign GDP in the same moment.
On the sports front, Swiatek demolished her opponent in the Wimbledon finals match so fast that you could’ve missed it while microwaving popcorn. Neeraj Chopra (India) and Arshad Nadeem (Pakistan) are set for another javelin duel, since nothing unites the subcontinent like throwing sharp objects really far.
This week reflected both an “upgrade” in chaos in some regions and the persistent, grim normalcy of conflict elsewhere.
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