Week 26, 2026

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026Today is a "second failed MoU verification day"—the Hormuz tanker-strike, U.S. retaliation, and Iranian missiles in Gulf ally territory loop, alongside narrowing Venezuela rescue windows and unabated Ukraine–Russia remote strikes, squeezing the enforceability of international agreements; parallel U.S. war-powers politics, pre-21st Congress purges, and U.S.–China trade council talks show global politics still stuck in "negotiating table and hard cards at once" deadlock.
• Jun 27, 2026Today is a "ceasefire stress test alongside disaster response" day—the Hormuz attack–retaliation loop and narrowing Venezuela rescue windows test whether international agreements and humanitarian mechanisms can actually execute, while U.S. legislative sprints, Fed rebalancing, and the U.S.–China trade council show global politics still stuck in parallel tracks of negotiation and hard power.
• Jun 26, 2026Today was a day when escalating disaster and a stress-tested ceasefire ran in parallel — Venezuela's soaring toll and the Hormuz attack–retaliation cycle tested whether humanitarian relief and geopolitical agreements can actually be executed; concurrent U.S. congressional gridlock, a major Supreme Court immigration ruling, and a U.S.–China trade council show global politics still stuck in a phase where negotiating tables and hard-power cards operate side by side.
• Jun 25, 2026Today is a "disaster and deal under simultaneous stress"—Venezuela's quake and the Hormuz attack test whether humanitarian relief and geopolitical agreements can actually be executed, while Trump's Capitol feud and a U.S.–China trade council show global politics still stuck in parallel tracks of negotiation and hard cards.
• Jun 22, 2026Today is a "negotiation day where architecture lands at sunset"—the U.S. and Iran built a 60-day scaffolding in Switzerland and partially eased oil sanctions, but Trump's threats, Israel's northern stance, and China's counter-list show geopolitical and trade competition is far from closing.

This week's highlights

• U.S. and Iran escalated again after the MT Kiku tanker attack; Iran struck U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain on June 28, and Trump threatened Iran "will no longer exist."
• The U.S. and Iran traded strikes over a Hormuz commercial ship attack; the IRGC retaliated against U.S. positions early on June 27, and the U.N. paused stranded-ship evacuations.
• Venezuela's earthquake death toll rose to 920; the UN said more than 50,000 were missing; the U.S. deployed warships and $150 million in aid and partially eased sanctions.
• Northern Venezuela was hit by century-scale twin quakes killing at least 235; the U.S. pledged $150M in aid and partially waived sanctions for relief.
• U.S.–Iran talks in Switzerland established a 60-day roadmap and crisis channels for Hormuz and Lebanon; the U.S. Treasury partially lifted Iran oil sanctions, and Vance said Iran agreed to readmit IAEA inspectors.
• Venezuela's earthquake death toll reached 1,430, with 51,000–68,900 still missing; international rescue continues amid slow verification.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026A Sunday recap and rotation-confirmation day — markets oscillate between "Micron fundamentals still strong, oil falling" and "Mag 7 re-rating, OpenAI IPO delay, Fed watching AI inflation," with the S&P below its 50-day MA making Warsh's debut and payrolls the directional pivot for the week ahead.
• Jun 27, 2026A weekend recap and catalyst-waiting day — markets oscillate between "Micron fundamentals still strong" and "memory valuations stretched, OpenAI IPO delayed, rates repricing." U.S. markets are closed, but Asia and Europe have already priced next week's payrolls and rebalancing risk — a continuation of growth fading and defensive rotation.
• Jun 26, 2026An AI profit-taking and IPO-expectation cooldown day — the market swung between "Micron fundamentals remain strong" and "memory valuations stretched, OpenAI listing delayed," with calm U.S. headlines masking an Asia circuit-breaker session and a clear rotation into defensives.
• Jun 25, 2026An AI supply-chain split day — the market torn between "Micron validates the memory supercycle" and "Apple absorbs memory cost inflation," with a calm headline index masking violent sector rotation driven by earnings and inflation data.
• Jun 22, 2026A geopolitical-relief, structural-divergence day — markets balance the opening of a 60-day U.S.–Iran peace window against AI platform valuation resets; Asia volumes surge while U.S. indices split; this week is a dual test of Micron earnings and May PCE.

This week's highlights

• Holiday recap: Major markets closed Sunday, June 28; Friday S&P 500 −0.05% at 7,354.02 below its 50-day MA; Nasdaq five straight losses, ~−5% weekly; Dow +0.6% weekly. China Shanghai −2.26% Friday, −1.55% weekly; Hang Seng −5.2% weekly.
• Weekend & weekly recap: U.S. markets closed Saturday, June 27; Friday the S&P 500 slipped 0.05% to 7,354.02, Nasdaq −4.6% weekly (second-largest in a year), Dow +0.6% weekly; Asia sold off sharply Friday — KOSPI −5.81%, Nikkei −4.15%, SoftBank −12%.
• Split markets: U.S. indexes closed slightly lower Friday; S&P −2% weekly, Nasdaq −4.6% (second-largest weekly drop in a year), Dow +0.6%. Asia sold off sharply — KOSPI circuit breaker −5.81%, Nikkei −4.15%, Shanghai −2.3%.
• Mixed tape: U.S. S&P nearly flat, Dow up slightly, Nasdaq down for a fourth day; Asia chip euphoria (Nikkei +4.6%, KOSPI +5.4%) vs. Hang Seng −1.4%; China indices at records with broad individual weakness.
• Mixed U.S., strong Asia: S&P 500 −0.33% to ~7,475, Dow +0.27% post-holiday; Nikkei 225 first close above 72,000; China A-shares +1.78% with 3.76T yuan turnover (second-highest ever).
• Mega rotation dominates: Mag 7 −3% to −8% weekly, ~$3T market cap erased; equal-weight S&P >+11% YTD beats cap-weighted; healthcare +>7% weekly, tech −>5%. Microsoft hit a 52-week low; Apple raised prices 15%–25%, awaiting earnings validation.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026Today is a "gating and bottleneck day"—Washington turns frontier models into government-approved assets, cloud compute turns Gemini into a scarce quota, and China pushes inference engineering and agent standards in parallel; capabilities still advance, but "who can release, who can call, who can list" now defines the competitive rhythm more than benchmark scores.
• Jun 27, 2026Today is a regulatory recalibration day—Washington slightly eases Mythos while tightening distillation rhetoric and legislation, Europe extends DMA into the cloud, and China advances agent standards plus ADS GTR on mobility; frontier capability still advances, but "who can use it and under what rules" now shapes competition more than parameter counts.
• Jun 26, 2026Today is a "government gate day" stacked on a "memory pass-through day"—the strongest models face throttled release while AI infrastructure costs feed back into consumer hardware and secondary markets, tightening regulation, standards, and capital pricing all at once.
• Jun 25, 2026Today was a "regulatory gatekeeping day" stacked on an "infrastructure catch-up day"—model release authority is moving toward government approval even as custom chips, cross-platform software, and agent evaluation/funding chains accelerate, and U.S.-China AI security and IP friction grows more political.
• Jun 22, 2026Today is a regulation-meets-compute-commercialization, open-source land-grab day — federal AI accountability cleared the Senate, Colossus inked a $6.3B deal, and Fable 5 fallout is fueling sovereign AI funding and Chinese open-model momentum in parallel.

This week's highlights

• U.S. regulatory gating becomes routine: OpenAI GPT-5.6 and Anthropic Mythos 5 both follow government-whitelist paths; Fable 5 and public releases remain absent; June 28 coverage frames it as "no longer OpenAI vs. Anthropic" but both labs under the same approval regime.
• U.S. regulation "loosens one hand, tightens the other": Anthropic Mythos 5 partially restored for 100+ trusted partners, while Fable 5 and unlisted users wait—mirroring OpenAI's GPT-5.6 whitelist preview.
• US regulation on two tracks: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 limited preview launched under government gatekeeping with customer-by-customer approval; Rep. Moran introduced the AI Incident Reporting Act the same day.
• U.S. regulation: The White House asked OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6 with customer-by-customer approval, making "voluntary testing" operational; Anthropic simultaneously escalated congressional allegations of large-scale Claude distillation by Alibaba.
• The U.S. Senate passed the AI Accountability Act 68–29; China released 17 "AI + consumption" measures across eight ministries; the EU selected EUROPA for a 24-language open frontier model.
• U.S.–China product paths diverge: DeepSeek DSpark open-sources inference optimization to speed V4 online experience 60–85%; LineShine tops TOP500 but trails on AI training benchmarks—engineering efficiency and GPU embargo structural gaps coexist.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026Today in the science cycle is a "fusion localization, Martian organics, heatwave attribution" day — major engineering acceptance, deep-space chemistry evidence, and climate attribution/infrastructure shocks converge; biomedicine and quantum fundamentals remind us that frontier breakthroughs always run parallel with Earth-system constraints and clinical translation hurdles.
• Jun 27, 2026Today is a "fusion magnets, embryo organs, third β Pic planet" day in the science cycle — megascale engineering (fusion superconductors, Roman at the pad) intersects developmental biology and exoplanet discovery, while carbon-budget recalibration and sub-nanometer chips remind us that frontier breakthroughs and Earth-system constraints always run in parallel.
• Jun 26, 2026Today in the science cycle is a "heat attribution, puff planets, synergistic antibiotics" day — climate attribution pins Europe's extreme heat to a fossil-fuel-driven probability jump; space and exoplanet science advance commercial on-orbit servicing and planet-formation puzzles in parallel; biomedicine spans malaria-vector genomics, natural combination antibiotics, and regulatory data-integrity disputes across global health governance.
• Jun 25, 2026Today is an "ancient scrolls open, horizons audible, pipelines consolidate" day in the science cycle — AI virtual unwrapping makes two millennia of philosophy batch-readable, gravitational direct waves push observations toward black-hole event horizons, and biopharma simultaneously refreshes antibiotic mechanisms, ADC frontline competition, and CAR-T cure statistics, while climate research flags trace marine gases and wetland methane feedback as persistent model blind spots.
• Jun 22, 2026Today reads as a "flagship docking, pipeline surge, data opening" day in the science cycle — Roman and tandem PV commercialization push megascience and clean energy toward delivery; three global-first China approvals and parallel neuropsychiatry milestones signal modality land-grabs in biopharma; PAINT and developmental DNA-repair work remind us many breakthroughs still depend on making long-run operations and basic mechanisms visible first.

This week's highlights

• Energy: CRAFT's 582-ton toroidal-field magnet and central solenoid confirmed fully domestic on June 28; CATL's TENER sodium-ion storage enters commercial delivery countdown.
• Energy: China's fusion toroidal-field (582 t, 21×12×3.3 m) and central-solenoid magnets passed acceptance June 27 — full superconducting supply-chain domestication.
• Climate: WWA attribution shows Europe's record June heat was virtually impossible 50 years ago and hundreds of times more likely than in 2003; at 1.4°C warming, societal coping limits are being tested.
• Heritage tech: Vesuvius Challenge achieves the first full virtual reading of a Herculaneum scroll, adding ~140 columns of ancient Greek text in 24 hours.
• Space: Roman telescope reaches Florida for a ~70-day launch countdown (target Aug 30); ESA selects Moonraker lunar LiDAR mapping for Phase A.
• Space: Swift orbit-boost mission ready (launch from June 30), testing commercial in-orbit servicing; Perseverance confirms the widest distribution of complex Martian organic carbon in Jezero crater.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026Today is a "quarter-end regulatory countdown and liquidity drought day" — EU MiCA enforcement and Binance's EU service gap will reshape regional market structure in the first week of July, while record ETF redemptions and the $60K breach leave markets waiting to see whether institutions reallocate after Q2 close; onchain stablecoin infrastructure expansion stands in sharp contrast to macro selling pressure.
• Jun 27, 2026Today is a "macro tightening meets EU compliance countdown" day — Fed officials and market makers are signaling tighter liquidity, ETF and Strategy financing stress compound the $60K support test, and MiCA enforcement plus Binance's EU gap will reshape regional markets in the first week of July; on-chain selling pressure and institutional redemptions remain the dominant forces.
• Jun 26, 2026Today was an "options settlement and institutional confidence test" — the year's largest quarterly expiry failed to change spot weakness, while six straight ETF outflow days and Strategy's funding strain leave $60K support in a pure spot-market fight; SEC/CFTC margin harmonization and EU MiCA countdown run in parallel, with Solana tokenized equities and DeFi upgrades providing structural bright spots amid the selloff.
• Jun 25, 2026Today is a "macro shock and liquidity crisis day"—inflation data broke the $60K psychological level and triggered mass liquidations; ETF outflows and Strategy's financing stress spread selling from derivatives into institutional equity channels; Japan stablecoin progress and DeFi infrastructure upgrades look modest against the backdrop of a broad selloff.
• Jun 22, 2026Today is a "security incidents meet structural catalysts" day — bridge and MEV attacks highlight infrastructure fragility, while the CLARITY legislative clock and Russell 1000 rebalancing offer structural narratives independent of geopolitics.

This week's highlights

• Regulation: MiCA July 1 countdown at 3 days; Binance to limit EU services; European Parliament pushing DeFi/staking/NFT into the next review phase; MiCA 2.0 comments due Aug. 31; SEC/CFTC launched parallel consultations on portfolio margining and derivatives definitions.
• Regulation: MiCA takes full effect in 4 days on July 1; Binance will limit EU services while ~83% of European platforms remain unlicensed. The U.S. Senate targets crypto market-structure completion by Sept. 30, but signing odds have fallen to ~42%.
• Regulation: SEC/CFTC issued a joint portfolio margining comment request on June 26 with a 60-day window; EU MiCA transition ends July 1 in 5 days, with ~83% of firms still lacking CASP licenses.
• Markets: U.S. May PCE at 4.1% YoY surprised to the upside; Bitcoin hit a multi-year low near $58K with ~$1.48B in 24-hour liquidations; negative funding and thick bids below $60K coexist, while ~$10.6B in options expiring June 26 will test the $60K floor.
• Markets: Bitcoin holds near $64K in a tight range; ETFs face a sixth week of net outflows but weekly selling has slowed; Ethereum outperforms BTC for a fourth day on legislative expectations.
• Markets: Bitcoin slipped below $60K over the weekend with back-to-back quarterly losses looming; absorption at $58,000–$59,750 but repair unconfirmed; Ether near $1,571, down ~25% in Q2.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026Today is a "heat toll and rule extension day" in the energy-climate cycle—Europe tallies lives and infrastructure bills under extreme heat, while courts and planning documents simultaneously write climate liability, grid bottlenecks and deepwater clean power into the next institutional script.
• Jun 27, 2026Today in the energy and climate cycle was an "eastward heatwave and institutional hedge day" — Europe advanced electrification and storage compacts amid extreme heat, while China, the U.S., and India simultaneously juggled capacity milestones, policy windows, and physical climate risk on three fronts.
• Jun 26, 2026Today in the energy-climate cycle is a "grid-meets-heatwave day" — Europe locked grid-reform negotiating lines amid extreme temperatures while China and the US advanced planning, storage, and institutional infrastructure in parallel, with physical climate risk and transition rules racing at once.
• Jun 25, 2026Today is a "heat and rules" day in the energy–climate cycle—extreme temperatures are testing Europe's physical power limits while policy and courts in China, France, and the U.S. are tightening the institutional yardsticks for the transition.
• Jun 22, 2026Today is a "rules and corridors" day in the energy-climate cycle — China's curtailment framework and FERC interconnection orders redraw institutional boundaries, while strait transit, the LNG accident, and Eurasian gas bidding test the physical resilience of global energy corridors.

This week's highlights

• Europe's heatwave enters the mortality accounting phase: WHO cites 1,300+ excess deaths since June 21, Germany records a 29.4°C tropical night and ordnance-zone wildfires, and the heat center shifts east to Denmark and Poland.
• London Climate Action Week's "Electrify Now" and COP31's "35 by 35" electrification target set the policy through-line; the EU's 22-country tripartite storage pact pledges 30–35 GW, against a 200 GW 2030 system need.
• On June 26, EU energy ministers agreed a general approach on the Grids Package; China's SCIO detailed the 15th Five-Year energy plan with 50% non-fossil generation by 2030 as a national hard target.
• On June 25, China released its 15th Five-Year new energy system plan alongside a 4.01 billion kW capacity milestone, making a 50% non-fossil electricity share by 2030 a national hard target.
• On June 22, China issued dual-track renewable consumption and curtailment rules effective August 1, shifting the transition focus from build-out to mandatory absorption.
• Australia's Federal Court accepts a UN Special Rapporteur in the North West Shelf LNG extension case, bringing ICJ climate opinion into domestic environmental law interpretation.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026A "rules-meet-products Sunday" — global autonomous-driving regulation, city-level robotaxi permission, and new model launches resonated together as the industry advances amid regulatory reshaping and intensifying competition.
• Jun 27, 2026Today is a "rules-and-execution Saturday" — North American trade rules enter their countdown while China, Europe, and Korea push capacity and products forward; the global auto industry is shifting gears amid tighter compliance and fiercer competition.
• Jun 26, 2026A day of structural adjustment — European giants cutting jobs and plants, U.S. regulation running on dual tracks, and China pushing county markets and AD infrastructure standards as the industry reallocates resources across cost, compliance, and growth.
• Jun 25, 2026A "rules reset day" — geopolitics, global ADS regulation, and U.S. robotaxi hardware deregulation converged, forcing the industry to redraw boundaries under compliance, technology, and cost pressure.
• Jun 22, 2026A day of "accelerating structure and boundary testing" — China's BEV and export engines shift gears, robotaxi pilots multiply globally, while safety incidents and geopolitical risk draw the cost lines on expansion.

This week's highlights

• UN ADS GTR and Shenzhen's July 1 robotaxi rules both entered public view, as global and Chinese autonomous driving move from tech demos toward institutional recognition and commercial permission.
• With the USMCA review four days away, the U.S. push to raise auto RVC to 82% and add 50% U.S. content puts North American supply-chain compliance on a countdown.
• Volkswagen's proposed 100,000 job cuts and four German plant closures signal European incumbents entering survival mode under EV and Chinese-competition pressure.
• The U.S. issued a regulatory one-two punch on June 25: Polestar denied over Chinese ties, NHTSA easing brake-pedal rules for robotaxis — openness and closure running in parallel, splitting global OEM U.S. strategies.
• CPCA estimates June retail at 1.65 million units with ~63.6% NEV penetration; May BEVs grew while range-extenders and PHEVs fell sharply; NEV export share hit a record 54%.
• Delhi EV Policy 2.0 nears finalization with Tesla flagging the ₹30 lakh incentive cap — tension between affordability and premium-market appeal is sharpening.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026Today is a "hardware price-hike and MSI opening day" — memory costs reshape console pricing while esports traffic and gambling-platform partnerships ignite in parallel, with Asian mobile-game backlash and regulatory spillover defining a second front.
• Jun 27, 2026A "pre-order aftershock and nostalgia IP day" — GTA 6 and classic-IP nostalgic modes drive discourse while majors digest layoffs, divestitures, and AI platform-rule battles from the live-service era.
• Jun 26, 2026A "strategy pullback and launch-collision day" — Sony contracting on both financial impairment and platform exclusivity, Chinese studios fighting head-on for summer users on the same calendar date, while global regulation and esports politics heat up in parallel.
• Jun 25, 2026A triple-stack day — blockbuster commercialization, live-service retrenchment, and new-hardware content supply all colliding on one calendar date.
• Jun 22, 2026A day of remembrance and finales — an industry founder gone, two esports crowns decided, while subscription hikes, layoffs, and hardware shortages define mid-2026's industry tone.

This week's highlights

• Microsoft hikes Xbox prices in August while the Steam Machine launches tomorrow — the component crisis dominates hardware headlines; Nintendo moves the opposite direction with tiered pricing and digital discounts.
• GTA 6 pre-order day two: Brazilian retailer pages surface unconfirmed social/NPC details; the community debates authenticity and Rockstar's next trailer timing.
• Sony CEO Nishino publicly confirmed in-house single-player focus on PlayStation exclusivity while live service stays on PS5 + PC — closing the five-year PC port experiment for narrative titles.
• GTA 6 pre-orders opened June 25 at $79.99 with single-player-only positioning as the day's biggest industry headline; Sony simultaneously claimed PS5 as the "best experience" platform.
• Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot died in a plane crash, sending the industry into mourning and legacy reflection.
• THR/IGN confirm no GTA 6 physical disc is planned; boxed editions are download-code only, closing this chapter of the digital-media debate for now.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026A critical-pressure day — Japan's WF6 hard deadline countdown, Korean fab gas alerts stacking up, and Hormuz transit data diverging sharply from official reassurance.
• Jun 27, 2026A resilience stress-test day — geopolitical shocks spreading to India and Southeast Asia nodes, America's first advanced fab hitting yield parity while its ecosystem stays incomplete, Hormuz diversions easing while port backlogs run away.
• Jun 26, 2026A day of stacked supply-chain pressure—AI memory shortage timelines pushed back again, dual logistics shocks at Hormuz and in Japan's storm belt, and manufacturing reshoring policy still out of sync with physical capacity.
• Jun 25, 2026A day of contract-priced AI memory, operationalized Chinese supply-chain security enforcement, and renewed airport and strait chokepoints—capacity is relocating, but critical-node bottlenecks remain unresolved.
• Jun 22, 2026A day of intensifying supply chain politicization — reciprocal U.S.–China rare earth and defense sanctions, simultaneous investment outreach and countermeasures, and renewed Hormuz transit uncertainty while material bottlenecks persist.

This week's highlights

• Japan's WF6 producers permanently exit July 1, removing 25% of global capacity; Korean CO₂ stocks fall below the one-month line — a compound gas-and-mineral squeeze.
• Economic Times on June 27 warns West Asia conflict may delay India's Tata Dholera fab/OSAT projects 6–12 months; specialty-gas airlifts are unsustainable at fab scale.
• Micron's June 24 earnings pushed memory relief from early 2027 to beyond 2027; Idaho scale output waits until 2028; SK Hynix Yongin Y1 completion moves up to February 2027.
• Micron disclosed 16 Strategic Customer Agreements on June 25, with ~$100 billion minimum revenue at floor pricing and $22 billion in deposits, cementing the AI memory high-margin cycle via long-term contracts.
• On June 22, China imposed dual-use export controls on 10 U.S. firms and government procurement bans on 46, with rare earth miners MP Materials and USA Rare Earth as the most sensitive nodes in Washington's domestic supply chain buildout.
• Micron's $41.46B Q3 and ~$100B long-term deals lift Korean Q2 expectations; China's Jan–May critical-metal imports up ~60% alongside export controls.

Daily framing

• Jun 28, 2026A day where the World Cup enters knockouts, Messi sets new records, brain-health evidence splits food vs. supplements, and grassroots nutrition services gain national standards.
• Jun 27, 2026A day where World Cup Group H settled, women's resistance training gained strong epidemiological backing, and phage/microbiome interventions moved further into the spotlight.
• Jun 26, 2026A convergence day — World Cup Groups I/F/D settled, meal timing rising as a health headline, and parallel breakthroughs in anti-resistance research and Alzheimer's treatment.
• Jun 25, 2026A day when World Cup qualification drama, historic Olympic athlete support, exercise-vs-GLP-1 vascular science, and diet-inflammation brain links all moved forward together.
• Jun 22, 2026A day where World Cup history, dual Chinese oncology approvals, long-run dietary cardiovascular risk, and solstice sleep–light hygiene all converged.

This week's highlights

• World Cup knockouts begin: Messi scores in seven straight matches as Argentina beats Jordan 3–1; Canada vs. South Africa opens the Round of 32 — both nations' first knockout appearance.
• World Cup Group H closes: Spain 1–0 Uruguay wins the group; Cape Verde 0–0 Saudi Arabia makes historic round-of-32 debut; Ireland beats India by 34 runs.
• World Cup group stage continues: France 4–1 Norway (Dembélé hat-trick), Senegal 5–0 Iraq (African record); Japan 1–1 Sweden faces Brazil, Netherlands 3–1 Tunisia tops Group F, Australia 0–0 Paraguay reaches Round of 32 again.
• World Cup group-stage finale: Ecuador 2–1 Germany; South Africa 1–0 South Korea for a first knockout berth; Mexico three wins, zero goals conceded; Brazil 3–0 Scotland with Neymar's return; Ivory Coast, Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, and others clinch knockout spots.
• World Cup Day 12: Spain 4–0 Saudi Arabia (Yamal's first goal); Egypt's historic 3–1 win; Cape Verde 2–2 Uruguay; Belgium 0–0 Iran.
• Cricket: England captain Ben Stokes announces international retirement after the ongoing Test.