- Greece faces a punishing heatwave, with temperatures expected to reach 41°C (106°F) in parts of Thessaly, Central Greece, and the Peloponnese by early next week, before a cooldown from Wednesday.
- SYRIZA, Greece’s main left-wing opposition party, saw leadership candidate Pavlos Polakis withdraw his candidacy ahead of a crucial Saturday vote, posting a cryptic Cretan folk couplet on social media.
- Laptop prices are expected to rise by as much as 40%, according to Brazil’s Carta Capital, driven by surging costs of memory chips and AI-related components.
- India’s Census 2027 self-enumeration process launched in Tamil Nadu on July 17, with house-listing enumerators set to follow from August 1.
Walter Murrow
July 17, 2026
