Corrections

Correction log

September 24, 2026 — We said Strait of Hormuz traffic had normalized after the June memorandum. Its busiest week was about a third of the 2025 average: Our report of 27 June said daily transits through the Strait of Hormuz had “climbed back toward normal levels” after the 17 June memorandum, and our report of 28 June said Hormuz traffic had “normalized”. IMF PortWatch’s count of transits, built from ships’ AIS position broadcasts, shows a real but partial recovery: the busiest day after the memorandum, 24 June, had 51 transits, and the busiest week, 22 to 28 June, averaged 30.4 a day — about a third of the 2025 average of 85.5. Traffic was back in single figures a day by mid-July. The 28 June statement was wrong, and the 27 June wording overstated the recovery. The weekly series is published as our dataset on Strait of Hormuz ship transits. Affected articles: Oil falls below $70 as tankers return to Strait of Hormuz despite US strikes, Oil set to reopen higher as US-Iran strikes shatter Hormuz calm.

September 24, 2026 — Reclamation's two official August 24-Month Studies disagree about the 1,010 ft trigger. The 6.0 maf run bottoms at 1,005.63 ft, the 7.0 maf run at 1,013.92 ft: This article said, in its headline and elsewhere, that the August 2026 24-Month Study’s 6.0 maf run bottoms at 1,005.63 feet and its 7.0 maf run at 1,013.92 feet, and that the 7.0 maf run “never falls below 1,013.92 feet”. Those are the lowest points within the 12-month window that the consultation clause in Section 5.3.A.4 reads, and the article’s account of that clause is unaffected. But both tables run to July 2028 and go lower: the 7.0 maf run to 1,008.60 feet in May 2028 and 1,004.62 feet in June 2028, and the 6.0 maf run to 991.68 feet in July 2028.

September 23, 2026 — We retracted our Iran war coverage in error. The reporting was accurate, and it has been restored: Between July 3 and August 4 we retracted 107 articles and attached editor’s notes to 46 more. We said our reporting of the US-Israeli war with Iran had been invented by an error in our automated drafting process and was not supported by independent reporting. That reporting covered the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28, the succession of his son Mojtaba Khamenei, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the April ceasefire, the memorandum signed on June 17 and the talks that followed in Doha. The retraction was wrong: the events happened. They are recorded in primary sources we should have consulted before withdrawing anything. The US House of Representatives voted on war-powers resolutions over the conflict on May 14 and June 3. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ June-quarter producer price release attributes rising costs to “restricted oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz since the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East in late February 2026.” The White House issued a statement on the June agreement. The website of Iran’s Office of the Supreme Leader publishes messages from Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei. Nearly half of the retracted articles cite mainstream reporting that is still online and says what our articles said.

The mistake was made in review, not in the original reporting. As our About page explains, our story drafts are produced by an AI system. The review that led to the retraction used tools whose knowledge did not extend to events this recent, and they treated those events as invented. A real error in our own coverage made that conclusion look sound. Several May articles named the late Ali Khamenei, rather than his son, as Iran’s sitting supreme leader, so our archive appeared to contradict itself about whether he had been killed. When official documents later described the war, we treated them as having repeated our error rather than as evidence against the retraction. That reversed the order our corrections process is meant to follow, in which primary sources decide.

We have now re-checked all 153 affected articles against primary data and contemporaneous reporting. The retraction notices and editor’s notes are withdrawn, and the articles are listed and indexed again. 124 required no correction. 29 contain specific errors unrelated to whether the war took place, and each now carries its own correction. Most often the error is a secondary figure taken from the wrong period, such as a price for ether, the rupee’s exchange rate or sterling’s change over the year; in five cases it names the wrong Khamenei. No article text has been altered. Each restored article carries a note explaining what happened, and the earlier retraction entries remain in this log, marked as withdrawn.

Affected articles (153): Prabowo lands in Cebu for ASEAN summit weighed down by Iran fallout, Iran weighs US proposal to formally end war as Hormuz dispute persists, MSCI Asia gauge sets fresh record as Iran-deal hopes spread rally, Oil whipsaws as Iran proposal triggers intra-day swings of 6%, S&P 500 pulls back from record close as Iran tensions return to the screen, S&P 500 holds near record as traders parse Iran deal signals, Sensex sheds 439 points as crude and Hormuz tensions hit banking and auto names, Iran fires missiles and drones at UAE after Hormuz clash with US warships, Lebanon and Israel set May 14-15 for third round of direct Washington talks, Bitcoin slips to $79,340 after week's $82,000 peak as Iran easing prompts profit-taking, Rome talks expose deepest Italy-US rift since Trump's second term began, World Bank says Pakistan's exports squeezed by tariff walls as current account stays in surplus, Pope Leo XIV ends first year as the most outspoken pope on war since John Paul II, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait restore US base and airspace access as Project Freedom resumes, S&P 500 closes at fresh record on jobs beat as six-week winning run extends, US and Iran inch toward 14-point memo on enrichment freeze, blockade lift, Bitcoin holds $80,700 as ETF inflows extend run to fourth straight session, Modi urges Indians to curb fuel and gold as Iran war strains foreign reserves, Trump rejects Iran counter-proposal as 'totally unacceptable' as Gulf shipping comes under fire, Bessent to meet Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday before Seoul-Beijing leg, Bulk carrier hit by drone off Qatar in latest Gulf incident, Rupiah hits 17,500 record low as Prabowo signs off on seven-point BI plan, Israel sent Iron Dome batteries and operators to UAE, US envoys disclose, Brent above $107 as Saudi Aramco CEO warns of 100 million barrels lost weekly, South Korean exports jump 43.7% in first 10 days of May on semiconductor demand, Trump departs for Beijing as Iran ceasefire on "massive life support", Trump tells CBS he intends to suspend federal gas tax "for a period of time", WSJ: UAE secretly struck Iran's Lavan Island refinery during ceasefire run-up, Three ministers quit as 75 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set leaving date, Bitcoin holds $80,300 as China summit and PPI tug in opposite directions, Pentagon now estimates Iran war cost at $29bn, up $4bn in two weeks, Trump lands in Beijing with CEO delegation as Xi summit prepares to open, Streeting set to resign and challenge Starmer for leadership, allies say, April CPI hits 3.8%, highest since 2023 as Iran war pushes gasoline up 28.4%, Lula unveils fuel-price package as Hormuz war pushes pump costs ahead of October vote, Chinese supertanker Yuan Hua Hu clears Hormuz with 2m barrels of Iraqi crude as Trump-Xi talks open, Brent slides $3 toward $107 as Chinese tankers restore partial Hormuz flow, S&P 500 climbs to fresh record above 7,499 as Trump-Xi summit eases trade overhang, Over 40% of Sudan’s population facing acute food insecurity, monitors warn, TSMC raises chip-market forecast to $1.5 trillion as 2nm and A16 capacity set to grow 70% a year, Xi warns Trump on Taiwan as Beijing summit yields pledge of "strategic stability", UAE flatly denies Netanyahu's claim of a secret wartime visit, calling Israel relations "public", Ship seized off UAE and cargo vessel sunk off Oman as Hormuz tensions flare, Brent crude climbs above $106 with weekly gain near 5% on Hormuz fears, Gold slides to $4,564 as hot US inflation data dims rate-cut hopes, Pound and UK borrowing costs slide as Labour turmoil unsettles investors, 10-year Treasury yield hits one-year high as rate-hike bets build, Wall Street pulls back from records as a bond rout lifts yields, Trump leaves Beijing claiming "fantastic" deals as summit ends without breakthroughs, Kevin Warsh set to take over Federal Reserve as Powell’s term ends, House deadlocks 212-212 on Iran war powers resolution, Hormuz traffic falls near zero as US says it has redirected dozens of ships, Modi warns of a "decade of disasters" during Netherlands leg of five-nation tour, Drone strike sparks fire at UAE’s Barakah nuclear plant as IAEA voices “grave concern”, Israeli forces intercept Gaza-bound aid flotilla off Cyprus, Japan’s Takaichi heads to Seoul as Tokyo deepens regional security ties, Oil prices retreat after overnight spike eases pressure on bond markets, Wall Street wavers as investors brace for Nvidia’s earnings verdict, Trump warns Iran the “clock is ticking” as Pentagon lines up fresh strike options, Oil jumps as Khamenei orders enriched uranium kept inside Iran, Dow sets record close above 50,500 as Iran deal hopes lift stocks into holiday, Mexican coalition rallies in CDMX over Sheinbaum’s reversal on fracking ban, Hajj begins in Mecca with more than 1.5 million pilgrims under heat and security strain, US and Iran sketch 60-day Hormuz framework as Trump tells negotiators not to rush, Israeli strike on Beqaa village kills 12 as Netanyahu orders intensified Lebanon offensive, Takaichi unveils $19 billion extra budget to cushion fuel and import costs, Mexico to host Iran national team in Tijuana for 2026 World Cup after US objection, Oil drops 5% as Iran deal framework points to Hormuz reopening, Bitcoin holds near $76,750 as crypto shrugs off Hormuz strikes, Brent jumps 3% to $99.58 as Iran threats over Hormuz tolls reverberate, Maharashtra raises onion procurement price to ₹15/kg as Mumbai supply tightens, S&P 500 and Nasdaq close at record highs as Iran deal hopes outweigh Hormuz strikes, US strikes IRGC boats and Bandar Abbas missile site as Iran calls move a ceasefire breach, WTI tumbles 6 per cent below $89 after Iran signals month-long timeline to restore Hormuz traffic, Trump tells cabinet Iran is "negotiating on fumes" as war enters fourth month, Takaichi exempts 17 strategic sectors from three-year fiscal cap in growth investment overhaul, Brent rebounds to $97 and WTI above $91 as Iran MoU language leaves traders unsure, Israel orders mass evacuation south of the Zahrani river as Litani bridges are destroyed, US and Iran agree 60-day ceasefire memorandum as Trump tells reporters he is still "not satisfied", Albanese touts fuel-security buffer and warmer India ties as the oil shock tests Australia, Bitcoin and ether slip to weekly lows as traders pare risk, Brent posts worst month in six years as traders bet on a US-Iran deal, Merz’s economic advisers nearly halve Germany’s 2026 growth forecast as a second energy shock bites, Gold pushes toward records above $4,500 as hot inflation and Iran uncertainty fuel haven demand, Rupee hits record low near 96 to the dollar as RBI rate hike looks increasingly likely, Takaichi unveils $19bn fuel-relief package while pledging no new borrowing as the BOJ is squeezed, Wall Street edges higher and oil falls as traders price in a US-Iran deal, S&P 500 caps winning month at a record, notching a ninth straight weekly gain, Iran ceasefire memorandum hinges on Trump signature as dispute over Hormuz transit fees holds up signing, Trump withholds signature on Iran memorandum, sets public conditions on Hormuz and nuclear weapon, Iran's IRGC says it shot down US MQ-1 Predator drone over the Gulf, India–Oman trade pact takes effect, cutting duties on most imports, Iran suspends US talks and threatens to close Strait of Hormuz, Oil jumps as Iran halts US talks and threatens Hormuz closure, S&P 500 holds near record as oil surge offsets Nvidia-led tech gains, Oil climbs and stocks waver as Iran strikes Gulf neighbours, House passes Iran war powers resolution in rare rebuke of Trump, Iranian missiles hit Kuwait airport and Bahrain as Gulf war widens, S&P 500 snaps nine-day winning streak as oil and yields climb, Bitcoin slides below pre-war levels as Gulf risk drains crypto, Hezbollah rejects US-brokered Lebanon ceasefire, vowing to fight on, US and Iran trade fresh strikes as 60-day truce memo awaits Trump's approval, Oil falls Friday but ends week higher as Hormuz risk lingers, U.S. strikes Iranian radar sites after drones launched toward Hormuz, Israel and Iran trade strikes, shaking two-month-old ceasefire, Oil jumps and Wall Street steadies as Israel-Iran strikes rattle markets, Iran conflict drives UK petrol toward record highs, threatening inflation rebound, Iran and Israel halt attacks as Trump says peace deal is in 'final throes', Israeli strike near Tyre Red Cross center kills 5; 14 dead across south Lebanon, Oil pulls back as Iran and Israel halt strikes; chip rebound steadies stocks, U.S. Apache crew rescued by sea drone in first-ever drone water rescue off Hormuz, US inflation hits 4.2% in May, a three-year high, as war drives up energy costs, Iran strikes US bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain as Hormuz ceasefire unravels, Stocks slide and oil nears $90 as hot CPI lands amid fresh US-Iran strikes, ECB raises rates for first time since 2023 as war inflation bites; stocks edge higher, India lodges 'strong protest' with US after three mariners die in tanker strike, SpaceX prices record $75 billion IPO at $135 a share; trading begins Friday, US hits Iran with second wave of strikes as Tehran declares ceasefire 'meaningless', World Cup 2026 kicks off at Estadio Azteca as 48-team tournament begins, Oil sinks to a two-month low as stocks extend rally on US-Iran deal hopes, SpaceX closes first trading day up 19% at $161, sealing the largest IPO in history, Trump cancels Iran strikes as both sides say a peace deal is closer than ever, Oil sits near two-month low as traders price in a Strait of Hormuz reopening, Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed Sunday, with Strait of Hormuz to reopen immediately, Bitcoin climbs back above $65,000 as the US-Iran deal revives risk appetite, G7 leaders gather in Évian with an Iran truce, AI rules and trade topping the agenda, 'No Kings' rallies sweep the US on Trump's 80th birthday as he hosts a UFC card at the White House, US-Iran deal 'now complete,' Trump says, lifting Strait of Hormuz blockade to end the war, G7 opens in Évian as Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine, Stocks rally and oil sinks below $81 as US-Iran deal nears signing, Carney unveils new Russia sanctions on 162 targets at G7 summit, G7 leaders push Trump back toward Ukraine as Iran deal nears signing, Oil sinks below $77 and stocks slip as Warsh opens first Fed meeting, Bank of Japan raises rates to 1%, highest since 1995, in 7-1 vote, Oil holds near two-month low and stocks steady as Warsh's first Fed meeting looms, G7 ends Évian summit backing Iran deal, vowing tougher Russia sanctions, Gold rebounds toward $4,350 as Fed's Warsh meets and oil fears ebb, Oil falls below $73 as US license clears the way for Iranian crude, US grants Iran 60-day oil license as sides spar over $12bn in frozen funds, US and Iran clash over nuclear inspections and $12bn in frozen funds, Wall Street steadies after tech rout as oil slides toward $70, Israel kills three in Lebanon as Rubio touts progress in Washington truce talks, Oil falls below $70 as tankers return to Strait of Hormuz despite US strikes, US strikes Iran after drone attack on cargo ship tests Hormuz ceasefire, Iran strikes US Gulf sites in Kuwait, Bahrain as Hormuz truce teeters, Oil set to reopen higher as US-Iran strikes shatter Hormuz calm, S&P 500 rallies as US-Iran standdown eases war fears, oil holds below $70, Dow tops 52,000 for the first time as Alphabet debuts in the index, US and Iran arrive in Doha for talks, but Tehran rules out a direct meeting, Japanese yen sinks to 40-year low past 162 to the dollar as Tokyo weighs intervention, Merz coalition unveils 34-measure reform package: €10bn tax cuts, later retirement, stricter sick leave, US and Iran report 'positive progress' in Doha as talks pause for Khamenei funeral, As Khamenei's funeral opens, the US-Iran ceasefire enters its most fragile stretch.

August 25, 2026 — We said the trade court was at a pace it had seen once before. Fiscal 1999 was heavier, and our own count of the 2020 wave was 220 short: Our story of 31 July was headlined "Tariff refunds have reached $119bn, and the trade court is taking cases at a pace it has seen once before", and the once was 2020. The comparison was drawn from docket data reaching back to 2013, and inside that window it holds; as a statement about the Court of International Trade it does not. Table G-1 of the Administrative Office of the US Courts records 6,433 cases filed in the twelve months to 30 September 1999, in the wave that followed the Harbor Maintenance Tax being struck down as applied to exports, against 3,670 in fiscal 2020 and about 4,530 in fiscal 2026 to date on the same basis. Fiscal 2026 is the second-heaviest year in that series, not the first of its kind. The same story also carried an arithmetic error visible on its own page: it said 3,102 of 2020's cases were filed in five days in September, then printed the five daily figures — 220, 1,281, 665, 434 and 722 — which sum to 3,322, the figure the docket also gives. The wrong total was repeated in the story's key points. The story's central point, that 2020's spike was a single filing deadline while 2026 is a sustained run, is unaffected. Affected articles: Tariff refunds have reached $119bn, and the trade court is taking cases at a pace it has seen once before.

August 25, 2026 — Japan's worst heatstroke day was 4,134 people, not the 4,105 we published twice: On 6 August we published "Japan's worst heatstroke day on record: 4,105 people taken to hospital on 22 July", and on 10 August "On Japan's worst heatstroke day, 744 of the 4,105 ambulance calls came from a workplace". Both figures were provisional. Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency finalised July on 25 August: 22 July was 4,134 ambulance transports, with twelve deaths rather than the nine we printed and 755 workplace calls rather than 744. The agency publishes a provisional table each week and a finalised one about eight weeks later, and the finalised figure has come in higher in each of the last five Julys. Our 6 August story also said the day beat the previous single-day high by 296 people, which compared a provisional figure against a finalised one; like for like the margin is 325, against 3,809 on 18 July 2018. The record itself stands and widens. Affected articles: Japan’s worst heatstroke day on record: 4,105 people taken to hospital on 22 July, On Japan’s worst heatstroke day, 744 of the 4,105 ambulance calls came from a workplace.

August 16, 2026 — We said eleven Reserve Banks were working off a deferred asset. The release we cited showed nine: Our brief of 10 August was headlined "Eleven Reserve Banks are working off their remittance hole". The Federal Reserve's H.4.1 statement of 5 August, which the story cited, shows nine of the twelve Reserve Banks carrying a deferred asset on the earnings-remittances line and three — Atlanta, St. Louis and Dallas — remitting to the Treasury. Nine is also the count in the 13 August release, in 26 of the 32 weekly statements published this year, and in every statement from 15 April onward; the last week on which eleven Banks printed a negative figure was 28 January. The verb was wrong as well as the number: Richmond, Chicago and Kansas City each carry a larger deferred asset now than in January, so a third of the nine are not working anything off, and the fall in the System total since January is almost entirely New York and San Francisco. The Chicago record the story was built on is unaffected and stands. We have published the corrected count in full. Affected articles: Eleven Reserve Banks are working off their remittance hole. Chicago just printed its worst figure yet.

August 10, 2026 — The "20-year average" behind our France wildfire multiple spans two different satellites: On 27 July we reported that the EU's satellite service put France's 2026 burnt area at 91,265 hectares, "6.2 times its 20-year average". The arithmetic is right and the average is the one EFFIS itself publishes, but that average is not a single measurement, and we should have said so. EFFIS switched from MODIS imagery at 250-metre resolution to Sentinel-2 at 20 metres from 2018, and 13 of the 20 years in the average pre-date the change. Since the switch EFFIS maps about ten times as many French fires of 30 hectares or more as it did before, while France's own national fire database records a rise of about half over the same break - so the shift is in what the satellite sees, not in what France records. Measured against the like-for-like Sentinel-2 era, a 2018-2025 mean of 28,661 hectares, France's season stands at 3.3 times its average rather than 6.3. The record itself is unaffected: France's 93,301 hectares and the previous record of 66,337 hectares in 2022 were mapped by the same instrument under the same rules. We have published the full working today, and the 27 July text stands with this note supplying the caveat it lacked. Affected articles: Spain and France wildfires: EU satellite data puts France at six times its 20-year average burnt area, France wildfires 2026: a record 93,301 hectares, and a 20-year average that breaks in two.

August 5, 2026 — Accuracy audit of the archive: no further fabrications, nine corrections: Update, September 2026: the storyline this entry calls invented was real; see the entry at the top of this log. The nine corrections below are unaffected. Having retracted one wholly invented storyline, we audited the rest of the archive to find out whether there were others. There are not. We took the ten highest-risk clusters of extraordinary claims and checked 66 of them against the primary registry that would necessarily record each event - SEC EDGAR, the USGS earthquake catalogue, the Supreme Court's slip opinions, GOV.UK's ministerial appointments, FIFA's match records, Nasdaq's daily closes, WHO and World Athletics. Every storyline tested is real. The audit did, however, turn up nine ordinary factual errors inside that genuine reporting, and they are corrected here. The most serious: we reported that Germany were eliminated in the World Cup group stage - FIFA's records show they won Group E and went out in the round of 32 to Paraguay on penalties; we reported that Lionel Messi broke the all-time scoring record with his 18th goal, when the record fell to his 17th, in a match played on 22 June; and we reported that SpaceX stock had fallen below its IPO price on 22 June, when it closed that day at $154.60 against a $135 offering price, comfortably above it. We also attributed an $80bn raise and a $1.7 trillion valuation to a prospectus that stated no size, price or valuation at all; described Keir Starmer as having resigned on 22 June when he announced his departure that day and remained prime minister until 20 July; called the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak the second-largest on record when at that point it was the third; said that outbreak had passed 1,200 suspected cases when our own text put it at 1,198 combined cases; called the Cottonwood Fire Utah's largest when our own text correctly called it the largest then burning in the United States; and said the epicentre of the Congo Ebola outbreak had become its deadliest part when the fatality ratio there, though rising sharply, remains below the rest of the outbreak's. In each case the text has been corrected. Separately, and not an error of fact but of omission: our coverage of the Venezuela earthquakes stopped on 30 June at a toll of 1,700, and the USGS impact record now puts it at least 5,500 killed and 29,995 missing. We have published a follow-up rather than let the old figure stand. Affected articles: World Cup 2026 knockouts set: USMNT win Group D, face Bosnia, Messi breaks the World Cup all-time scoring record with his 17th goal, SpaceX stock plunges 16% from its post-listing high as the rally unravels, SpaceX files IPO prospectus, without naming a size or a price, Keir Starmer announces he will stand down as UK prime minister, DR Congo Ebola becomes third-largest on record with 1,100-plus cases, DR Congo Ebola outbreak nears 1,200 combined cases, Cottonwood Fire becomes the largest burning in the US, DR Congo Ebola: its epicentre is closing the deadliness gap.

August 4, 2026 — Archive audit: 86 further articles retracted, 42 annotated: Withdrawn, September 2026: this retraction was itself an error. See the entry at the top of this log. Following the widening below, we audited the full archive of stories no longer on the front of the site but still published and readable. The archive covers May 6 to June 29, 2026 - exactly the period the fabricated storyline ran - and 128 of its 609 stories refer to it. Eighty-six are retracted in full and are listed here: in each, the invented US-Iran war, ceasefire, Strait of Hormuz closure or memorandum is named in the headline, summary or tag, or three or more paragraphs of the story rest on it. A further 42 archived stories - on subjects as unrelated as a chip-market forecast, a British political resignation, the Hajj and the SpaceX flotation - contain one or two sentences referring to the invented events and now carry an editor's note rather than a retraction. The classification was made by reading the stories themselves rather than their index entries, which carry no body text and would have missed 36 of the 128. As before, no text has been deleted and we are not asserting an alternative account of events in Iran. Affected articles: Albanese touts fuel-security buffer and warmer India ties as the oil shock tests Australia, Bitcoin holds near $76,750 as crypto shrugs off Hormuz strikes, Bitcoin slides below pre-war levels as Gulf risk drains crypto, Bitcoin and ether slip to weekly lows as traders pare risk, Bitcoin slips to $79,340 after week's $82,000 peak as Iran easing prompts profit-taking, Lula unveils fuel-price package as Hormuz war pushes pump costs ahead of October vote, Brent jumps 3% to $99.58 as Iran threats over Hormuz tolls reverberate, Brent posts worst month in six years as traders bet on a US-Iran deal, WTI tumbles 6 per cent below $89 after Iran signals month-long timeline to restore Hormuz traffic, Brent rebounds to $97 and WTI above $91 as Iran MoU language leaves traders unsure, Chinese supertanker Yuan Hua Hu clears Hormuz with 2m barrels of Iraqi crude as Trump-Xi talks open, US inflation hits 4.2% in May, a three-year high, as war drives up energy costs, ECB raises rates for first time since 2023 as war inflation bites; stocks edge higher, G7 leaders push Trump back toward Ukraine as Iran deal nears signing, G7 opens in Évian as Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine, Gold pushes toward records above $4,500 as hot inflation and Iran uncertainty fuel haven demand, Hormuz traffic falls near zero as US says it has redirected dozens of ships, Ship seized off UAE and cargo vessel sunk off Oman as Hormuz tensions flare, House passes Iran war powers resolution in rare rebuke of Trump, Modi urges Indians to curb fuel and gold as Iran war strains foreign reserves, India lodges 'strong protest' with US after three mariners die in tanker strike, Rupee hits record low near 96 to the dollar as RBI rate hike looks increasingly likely, Sensex sheds 439 points as crude and Hormuz tensions hit banking and auto names, Prabowo lands in Cebu for ASEAN summit weighed down by Iran fallout, Iran's IRGC says it shot down US MQ-1 Predator drone over the Gulf, Iran and Israel halt attacks as Trump says peace deal is in 'final throes', Iranian missiles hit Kuwait airport and Bahrain as Gulf war widens, Iran strikes US bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain as Hormuz ceasefire unravels, Iran suspends US talks and threatens to close Strait of Hormuz, Trump tells cabinet Iran is "negotiating on fumes" as war enters fourth month, Trump rejects Iran counter-proposal as 'totally unacceptable' as Gulf shipping comes under fire, Iran fires missiles and drones at UAE after Hormuz clash with US warships, US and Iran inch toward 14-point memo on enrichment freeze, blockade lift, Iran weighs US proposal to formally end war as Hormuz dispute persists, US and Iran sketch 60-day Hormuz framework as Trump tells negotiators not to rush, Israel and Iran trade strikes, shaking two-month-old ceasefire, Israel sent Iron Dome batteries and operators to UAE, US envoys disclose, Israeli strike near Tyre Red Cross center kills 5; 14 dead across south Lebanon, Rome talks expose deepest Italy-US rift since Trump's second term began, Takaichi unveils $19 billion extra budget to cushion fuel and import costs, Japan’s Takaichi heads to Seoul as Tokyo deepens regional security ties, Brent above $107 as Saudi Aramco CEO warns of 100 million barrels lost weekly, Brent crude climbs above $106 with weekly gain near 5% on Hormuz fears, Brent slides $3 toward $107 as Chinese tankers restore partial Hormuz flow, Oil prices retreat after overnight spike eases pressure on bond markets, Wall Street edges higher and oil falls as traders price in a US-Iran deal, Mexico to host Iran national team in Tijuana for 2026 World Cup after US objection, MSCI Asia gauge sets fresh record as Iran-deal hopes spread rally, Oil sinks below $77 and stocks slip as Warsh opens first Fed meeting, Oil drops 5% as Iran deal framework points to Hormuz reopening, Oil pulls back as Iran and Israel halt strikes; chip rebound steadies stocks, Oil falls Friday but ends week higher as Hormuz risk lingers, Oil whipsaws as Iran proposal triggers intra-day swings of 6%, Oil climbs and stocks waver as Iran strikes Gulf neighbours, Oil jumps as Iran halts US talks and threatens Hormuz closure, Oil jumps and Wall Street steadies as Israel-Iran strikes rattle markets, Oil jumps as Khamenei orders enriched uranium kept inside Iran, Pentagon now estimates Iran war cost at $29bn, up $4bn in two weeks, Pope Leo XIV ends first year as the most outspoken pope on war since John Paul II, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait restore US base and airspace access as Project Freedom resumes, S&P 500 pulls back from record close as Iran tensions return to the screen, S&P 500 holds near record as traders parse Iran deal signals, S&P 500 and Nasdaq close at record highs as Iran deal hopes outweigh Hormuz strikes, S&P 500 caps winning month at a record, notching a ninth straight weekly gain, S&P 500 holds near record as oil surge offsets Nvidia-led tech gains, S&P 500 snaps nine-day winning streak as oil and yields climb, Stocks slide and oil nears $90 as hot CPI lands amid fresh US-Iran strikes, Trump lands in Beijing with CEO delegation as Xi summit prepares to open, Trump departs for Beijing as Iran ceasefire on "massive life support", Trump warns Iran the “clock is ticking” as Pentagon lines up fresh strike options, Trump leaves Beijing claiming "fantastic" deals as summit ends without breakthroughs, UAE flatly denies Netanyahu's claim of a secret wartime visit, calling Israel relations "public", WSJ: UAE secretly struck Iran's Lavan Island refinery during ceasefire run-up, Iran conflict drives UK petrol toward record highs, threatening inflation rebound, U.S. Apache crew rescued by sea drone in first-ever drone water rescue off Hormuz, April CPI hits 3.8%, highest since 2023 as Iran war pushes gasoline up 28.4%, Kevin Warsh set to take over Federal Reserve as Powell’s term ends, House deadlocks 212-212 on Iran war powers resolution, US and Iran agree 60-day ceasefire memorandum as Trump tells reporters he is still "not satisfied", US and Iran trade fresh strikes as 60-day truce memo awaits Trump's approval, Iran ceasefire memorandum hinges on Trump signature as dispute over Hormuz transit fees holds up signing, US strikes IRGC boats and Bandar Abbas missile site as Iran calls move a ceasefire breach, US hits Iran with second wave of strikes as Tehran declares ceasefire 'meaningless', Trump withholds signature on Iran memorandum, sets public conditions on Hormuz and nuclear weapon, Dow sets record close above 50,500 as Iran deal hopes lift stocks into holiday, U.S. strikes Iranian radar sites after drones launched toward Hormuz.

August 4, 2026 — Strait of Hormuz retraction widened to eleven further articles: Withdrawn, September 2026: this retraction was itself an error. See the entry at the top of this log. Our July 3 retraction of the Strait of Hormuz storyline was scoped to the articles filed under that storyline tag, which reached ten of them. It did not reach articles built on the same fabricated premise that had been filed under other tags — markets, oil, gold, bitcoin and G7 coverage that treated an invented US-Iran war, ceasefire and Strait of Hormuz closure as established fact. Eleven such articles are now retracted in full and carry the same notice; they are listed below. A further four articles — on the Dow passing 52,000, the yen's fall to a 40-year low, the Merz government's reform package and a June 26 strike in Lebanon — are sound on their own subjects but each contains a passage that refers to the invented events. Those four now carry an editor's note rather than a retraction, because withdrawing them would wrongly disown reporting we can stand behind. In every case the original text has been left in place rather than quietly amended. We are not asserting an alternative account of events in Iran; we are withdrawing our own reporting because we cannot stand behind it. Affected articles: Oil sinks to a two-month low as stocks extend rally on US-Iran deal hopes, Oil sits near two-month low as traders price in a Strait of Hormuz reopening, Bitcoin climbs back above $65,000 as the US-Iran deal revives risk appetite, G7 leaders gather in Evian with an Iran truce, AI rules and trade topping the agenda, Stocks rally and oil sinks below $81 as US-Iran deal nears signing, Gold rebounds toward $4,350 as Fed's Warsh meets and oil fears ebb, G7 ends Evian summit backing Iran deal, vowing tougher Russia sanctions, Oil falls below $73 as US license clears the way for Iranian crude, Oil falls below $70 as tankers return to Strait of Hormuz despite US strikes, Oil set to reopen higher as US-Iran strikes shatter Hormuz calm, S&P 500 rallies as US-Iran standdown eases war fears, oil holds below $70.

July 19, 2026 — World Cup round of 16 ends with all three hosts and Brazil eliminated: This article, and our July 15 report on the semi-finals, described Brazil as the defending World Cup champions and as "the holders." That was wrong: Argentina won the 2022 World Cup and are the defending champions. Brazil last won the tournament in 2002. The erroneous descriptions have been corrected in both articles; the reporting on which teams were eliminated, and when, was accurate and is unchanged.

July 3, 2026 — Strait of Hormuz Crisis storyline — retracted in full: Withdrawn, September 2026: this retraction was itself an error. See the entry at the top of this log. This storyline reported that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was assassinated on February 28, that his son Mojtaba Khamenei was installed as his successor, and that a US-Iran war, ceasefire, and Doha diplomatic process followed. We found no independent, verifiable reporting supporting these specific claims. The storyline originated as an error in our automated drafting process, compounded across later chapters that treated the invented premise as established fact rather than catching it. We do not have independent knowledge of Mr. Khamenei's actual status and are not asserting an alternative account. We are retracting the entire storyline. Affected articles: Trump cancels Iran strikes as both sides say a peace deal is closer than ever, Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed Sunday, with Strait of Hormuz to reopen immediately, US-Iran deal 'now complete,' Trump says, lifting Strait of Hormuz blockade to end the war, US grants Iran 60-day oil license as sides spar over $12bn in frozen funds, US and Iran clash over nuclear inspections and $12bn in frozen funds, US strikes Iran after drone attack on cargo ship tests Hormuz ceasefire, Iran strikes US Gulf sites in Kuwait, Bahrain as Hormuz truce teeters, US and Iran arrive in Doha for talks, but Tehran rules out a direct meeting, US and Iran report 'positive progress' in Doha as talks pause for Khamenei funeral, As Khamenei's funeral opens, the US-Iran ceasefire enters its most fragile stretch.

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