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The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran on Friday and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the warring foes risked further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure. In the contested Strait of Hormuz, where the renewed conflict has again cut off global energy supplies from the Middle East, U.S. Marines boarded a tanker and another ship was reported to have been hit by a projectile. Another vessel was boarded by armed men off Yemen, though one maritime security source said the incident appeared to be an act of Somali…

Svetlana Maksimovic and her husband Ljubisa Karovic had just settled into a Ryanair flight last week when a loud bang pierced the hum of engines. Within seconds, she saw her 61-year-old husband being sucked through a dislodged cabin window. In what Greek officials have described as a rare incident, Karovic, sitting in a window seat, was pulled partway out of the plane as his wife and others held on to him on the flight between the Greek city of Thessaloniki and Germany on July 10. “I’ve never heard anything louder in my life before. I just (then) turned around and…

A Philadelphia man has been arrested and charged with arson related a fire at a mosque in the city last week. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced that Vincent Lang was arrested and criminally charged with maliciously damaging or destroying by means of fire the Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center on Tyson Avenue. The fire caused significant damage to the structure, including a section under construction. No injuries were reported. The criminal complaint alleges that, in the early hours of July 5, 2026, Lang approached the Islamic Center building, ignited an improvised incendiary device, and threw the device into the entryway of…

Howden Group, the London-based insurance broker that’s chasing an initial public offering by 2030, is in talks to raise several billion pounds in new private capital as it seeks to maintain its breakneck expansion. The group, which is already backed by Hg, General Atlantic and Canada’s La Caisse, is working with bankers at Morgan Stanley on the project that will also bring in new external shareholders, people with knowledge of the process said. The slated capital raise, likely to be one of the largest ever undertaken by a private UK business, is a key pillar of founder and Chief Executive…

As Europe’s railways buckle under record heat, roads melt and power grids strain, countries are turning to an array of fixes for aging infrastructure, from drones inspecting tracks and AI-powered sensors to a surprisingly simple tool: white paint. At Norway’s Oslo airport on Wednesday, with temperatures set to hit 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), 10 C above normal for the time of year, workers doused the tarmac with water to keep it cool. It’s a marked shift in a country more used to coping with the cold that reflects how Europe is having to adapt to rising temperatures that…

As high temperatures bake California and strong winds make it more susceptible to fire, voters in the state are being wooed by political candidates with divergent visions for how to protect homes from stepped-up climate risks. California has the nation’s largest home insurance market, according to McKinsey & Co., worth $15 billion. Jane Kim argues that the market has failed and the state should assume responsibility for the costliest climate disasters. Ben Allen says the private market can still work if regulators strengthen consumer protections and create incentives for homeowners and communities to reduce wildfire risk. Those competing philosophies are…

Steve Gabbay CopperPoint Insurance Company elected Steve Gabbay to the CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Holding Company board of directors. Since 2009, Gabbay has been the chief operating officer of YAM Worldwide, which operates more than a dozen companies across a variety of industries. Prior to his role at YAM Worldwide, Gabbay spent time as an executive recruiter and as an auditor with Price Waterhouse. CopperPoint is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Was this article valuable? Yes No Here are more articles you may enjoy. The most important insurance news,in your inbox every business day. Get the insurance industry’s trusted newsletter

New York has approved a 22% reduction in workers’ compensation insurance premium rates, which the state says represents an estimated savings of more than $1 billion for businesses or an average of $1,779 per employer in the state. The loss cost rate reduction was approved by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and will take effect on October 1, 2026. The state’s workers’ compensation premium rates have steadily declined since 2020, with approved rate decreases averaging 10.3% annually over the six-year period. The latest reduction in insurance costs is in addition to a reduced employer assessment rate…

From Michigan Avenue, Saline Township looks like any other farming community, with its corn and soybean fields, silos and grain elevators. Just down the road, though, cranes reach above towering fences at the site of a $16 billion project — one that has turned this town of 2,400 people into the latest U.S. flashpoint over AI data centers. Dubbed “The Barn” by its consortium of developers — Oracle, OpenAI, Related Digital, Blackstone BX.N and Walbridge — the Stargate data center is expected to stretch over 250 acres. Construction is moving ahead despite resistance from residents concerned about its impact on…

The Trump administration is moving to strengthen coordination on artificial intelligence cybersecurity through a new industry clearinghouse to improve the detection and patching of network vulnerabilities, especially in open-source software. The clearinghouse, named Gold Eagle, was rolled out earlier this month by the Treasury Department, Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon, in consultation with AI companies, according to National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, who briefed reporters on the initiative July 14. It will allow for the exchange of information about potential vulnerabilities and is a product of the AI executive order President Donald Trump issued last month. The administration…