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  1. 2026-07-26 · geopolitics · unverified

    Iran Pulls Ukraine Into Its War Narrative Over a Caspian Sea Incident

    Iran says Ukraine attacked one of its commercial vessels in the Caspian Sea, killing a crew member, and has summoned Ukrainian diplomats — an accusation that would, if it holds up, connect two wars that have so far run on separate tracks.

  2. 2026-08-16 · geopolitics ·

    Trump's Hormuz Sovereignty Claim Meets a Blunt Iranian Refusal

    Over four days, Trump's language on the Strait of Hormuz hardened from 'keep' to 'make US territory' — and Iran answered in kind. The board's own signals show the flashpoint is real, but they don't all rest on the same kind of evidence.

  3. 2026-08-23 · geopolitics ·

    Hormuz pressure builds on two tracks that don't yet corroborate each other

    Trump claims Hormuz as 'new US territory' and announces an economic-isolation plan; Iran warns Gulf neighbours off joining the pressure campaign. That diplomatic exchange is multiply corroborated. Reports of an actual tanker seizure near Hormuz are not.

  4. 2026-08-30 · narratives · unverified

    Whoever controls Hormuz depends on who you ask

    Within a 24-hour window, four sources gave three incompatible answers to one question: is the Strait of Hormuz open or closed.

  5. 2026-08-30 · osint · unverified

    Car of Olenivka penal colony's deputy chief targeted in Donetsk blast

    Two outlets report an explosion hit the car of a Russian-installed penal colony official accused of abusing Ukrainian POWs — but it traces back to one Telegram claim.

  6. 2026-07-23 · geopolitics ·

    Lavrov and Rubio talk in Manila as Russia and Ukraine trade their heaviest reported strikes of the day

    A half-hour Lavrov-Rubio meeting in Manila landed on the same day Russia launched 168 drones at Ukraine and Ukraine struck Russia's Voronezh region.

  7. 2026-07-24 · geopolitics ·

    Iran's reported ceasefire rejection: a claim relayed twice before it reaches us

    Amid a confirmed 13th night of US strikes on Iran, the report that Tehran rejected a new ceasefire proposal reaches this dataset only via Russian state media citing the New York Times — not the primary reporting itself.

  8. 2026-07-18 · geopolitics · partially corroborated

    Both capitals reached the board off-wire, and only one of them is corroborated

    Four eastern-axis signals entered the board between 04:20 and 07:30 UTC, and not one arrived from a newswire; three Telegram clusters carried them. The two capitals sit far apart on the verification ladder: Kyiv partially corroborated across seven sources, Moscow, ninety minutes earlier, unverified at two.

  9. 2026-07-18 · geopolitics · corroborated

    Tehran is the widest-sourced critical signal, and one water figure sits under two entities

    Tehran carries 24 distinct outlets against 14 and 9 for the other two critical event signals. One figure in its evidence, about 10,000 people without water, is filed under two entities with two different geographies.

  10. 2026-07-22 · geopolitics · unverified

    Ukraine changes its top military commander; NATO moves fast to say support is unaffected

    Ukraine's armed forces got a new chief the same day NATO publicly stated the change would not affect support for Kyiv, and Zelenskyy discussed Patriot missile production with the US ambassador to NATO.

  11. 2026-07-18 · markets · partially corroborated

    The only narrative linking the Gulf to Europe is flat, and its LNG signal rests on reports from 8 to 10 July

    The rank-3 narrative is the only one of three on the board not rising, at 143 of 743 articles and +0.3σ, while the two above it run +3.4σ and +2.1σ. Its oldest-evidenced signal, Ras Laffan LNG at 47 mentions, rests on three reports dated 8 to 10 July.

  12. 2026-07-19 · geopolitics · partially corroborated

    This axis is filed under air-defence incursions; none of its four evidence items describes one

    The stated reason for the China-Taiwan axis is "air defence identification zone incursions". Its four evidence items cover Papua New Guinea closing Taiwan's trade office, a territorial claim over Batanes, and a cyclone map. The axis is labelled high severity on a weight of 0.76, the second-lowest of six relations, and Taiwan itself carries zero active signals.

  13. 2026-07-19 · geopolitics · partially corroborated

    The board's heaviest tension axis rests on four headlines, two of which carry one claim

    The heaviest tension axis on the board sits at 0.94 against a mean of 0.84 across six relations. Its four supporting items were selected by headline co-occurrence, two of them relay one claim, and three of its four connected events sit in Iran.

  14. 2026-07-22 · geopolitics · unverified

    Trump and Tehran trade infrastructure-strike threats as two Gulf chokepoints flash red

    On the same day, Washington and Tehran each threatened to strike the other's infrastructure over the Strait of Hormuz, while a second chokepoint, Bab el-Mandeb, is separately flagged high-severity on Houthi shipping bans and rising prediction-market odds of a closure.

  15. 2026-07-18 · geopolitics · partially corroborated

    Signal density builds around Hormuz, and the sharpest signal arrived off-wire

    Eight of the eighteen signals on today's board sit in the Gulf theatre, and they arrived in a single overnight sequence rather than as separate stories. One of them, Bandar Abbas at 3.7 times the board median, reached us first through Telegram monitoring at 07:10 UTC.

  16. 2026-07-18 · markets · corroborated

    Two instruments disagree: the threat board is climbing, price is not carrying it

    The composite threat level rose from 0.52 to 0.67 over 24 hours while the dissonance register moved from 0.62 to 0.91 and settled on the verdict SMART MONEY / UNPRICED. That is our two instruments pointing in different directions, and it is the strongest reading on the board today.

  17. 2026-07-18 · geopolitics · partially corroborated

    Three Gulf states surfaced within 95 minutes of each other, overnight

    Gulf state air defence posture is the second-ranked narrative of the day at 188 articles and +2.1σ, behind Hormuz shipping at 412. Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar all entered the board inside a 95-minute overnight window, through our own burst clustering rather than a wire report.