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• Foreign investors injected a net $11.51 billion into the bond markets of South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and India in June. • This surge represents the strongest monthly inflow since November 2025, driven by falling oil prices and a booming global tech cycle. • The shift occurred as equity market volatility pushed investors toward the relative safety of sovereign debt and improved regional economic outlooks.

• Europe-based startups raised $24 billion in Q2, marking the region's strongest venture funding quarter in four years. • This represents a one-third increase quarter-over-quarter and a significant rise from the $14.4 billion raised in Q2 2023. • Growth was driven by large Series C and D rounds for high-tech firms, including Neura Robotics, Nearfield Instruments, Oxford Quantum Circuits, and Isar Aerospace.

• NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered the largest concentration of complex organic molecules to date within mudstones in the Jezero Crater. • The findings consist of macromolecular carbon, which are complex carbon-based compounds that serve as the chemical backbone for all known life on Earth. • This discovery provides the strongest evidence yet of potential ancient life on Mars, as the rover has been exploring this specific region since February 2021.

• The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged nearly 600 points (1.1%) to reach a new record high of 52,900 during a volatile trading session in 2026. • In a stark contrast, the Nasdaq-100 fell by almost 500 points (1.6%), while the S&P 500 remained virtually unchanged. • This divergence highlights a significant shift in market momentum, where gains in traditional value industries offset heavy losses in the technology sector.

• A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, resulting in at least 55 confirmed deaths. • The quake caused widespread destruction across the region, leaving a trail of collapsed buildings and damaged infrastructure. • This event marks the strongest earthquake to hit the Philippines in several decades, highlighting the country's extreme vulnerability to seismic activity.

• NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence regarding "little red dots," mysterious objects discovered in 2022 that emerged roughly 600 million years after the Big Bang. • By analyzing the spectrum of a specific red dot, researchers are now strengthening the "black hole star" hypothesis to explain these abundant early-universe phenomena. • This discovery is significant as it helps scientists solve a complex cosmic puzzle regarding the nature and composition of objects in the infant universe.

More than 1,000 people were in shelters across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as Sinlaku moved awaySuper Typhoon Sinlaku hammered the Northern Mariana Islands, flipping over cars, toppling utility poles and ripping away tin roofs.Authorities were just beginning to assess the damage left behind by the typhoon, which first hit the islands on Tuesday night local time and continued with a barrage of fierce winds and relentless rains for hours on Wednesday. So far, there have been no reports of deaths. Continue reading...

‘There is no doubt that the cells and tissues of the oral cavity, the mouth and the lungs are altered by inhalation from e-cigarettes,’ academic saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVaping is likely to cause lung and oral cancer, researchers have found, as they urged regulators to act now rather than wait decades for a definitive level of risk.Cancer researchers led by UNSW in Sydney analysed reviews of evidence from animal studies, human case reports and laboratory research published between 2017 and 2025, in one of the most detailed assessments to date of whether nicotine e-cigarettes could cause cancer. Continue reading...