Our Monday morning stroll around the world

🇮🇳🏏 India won the men’s T20 Cricket World Cup. India defeated South Africa in the finals on Saturday, becoming the first-ever team to win the title without dropping a single match. It marks India’s second T20 World Cup victory, tied for the most all-time with England and the West Indies. With their performance this year, 12 teams – including the US – qualified for the next T20 World Cup in 2026.

🇮🇷🇫🇷 A pair of major national elections were held over the weekend. In Iran, residents headed to the polls to elect a new president, with less than 40% voter participation marking the country’s lowest-ever turnout. None of the four candidates secured 50+% of the vote, prompting a runoff election between the top-two finishers on July 5. Separately, France held the first round of its parliamentary elections on Sunday, with early results showing the conservative National Rally party earning ~34% of the vote (ahead of the other two major coalitions).

🇲🇾 Malaysian fugitive financier Jho Low is relinquishing $100+ million in assets to the US. The turnover involves a luxury apartment in Paris, paintings by Andy Warhol and Claude Monet, and $67 million in offshore bank accounts. Low’s settlement with the US government is part of a decade-long effort to force him to return ~$1 billion of the ~$4.5 billion he allegedly stole from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.