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"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." — Thomas Jefferson, 1789
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When Trump won, my phone started filling up with the same question from friends back home: "what is the world saying about this?" I’d answer, they’d go quiet for a second, and then: "why aren’t we hearing that?"
That second question I couldn’t quite answer.

Then the war in Iran started. The messages became a flood.
Fifteen thousand people found this in three weeks without me asking them to. I’m still not entirely sure what that means. But I think it means the question my friends were asking — "why aren’t we hearing that?" — isn’t just their question.

This is me answering that second question.
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The Rest of the World Report | Thursday, July 9, 2026 — Morning EditionThe View From Everywhere Else

The US struck Iran for the third consecutive day. A Paraguayan senator called the world’s best soccer player a “colonized Cameroonian” and then demanded an apology from him. And Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was close to obtaining legal status. His uncle is still missing.

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The Rest of the World Report | Wednesday, July 8, 2026 — Evening Edition

The US struck Iran for the second consecutive day. NATO concluded in Ankara. And two separate UN bodies called this week for the immediate release of a Palestinian doctor who says he is being killed in Israeli custody.

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The Rest of the World Report | Wednesday, July 8, 2026 — Morning Edition

Trump says the Iran deal is over. Brent is at $78.57 and rising. At NATO, he demanded Greenland, wrote off Spain, and threatened to pull US troops from Europe. And an ICE officer killed a man in Houston while his son watched.

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The Rest of the World Report | Tuesday, July 7, 2026 — Evening Edition

The MOU is twenty days old. Tonight Iran struck three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The US revoked Iran’s right to sell oil and launched strikes. A US official called it “punishment.” Meanwhile NATO opened in Ankara. And Marine Le Pen is running for president.

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Rudy Martinez is the founder of The Rest of the World Report. He publishes daily international news coverage sourced from the world's press, translated for American readers. ROTWR is free, independent, and sustained entirely by its readers.