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Long Reads08 Jul
Strait of Hormuz on edge: Iran targets U.S. air base in Bahrain as sirens sound across the Gulf
Long Reads08 Jul
Sirens in Bahrain: What the 8 July Strikes Reveal About Iran's Expanding Reach
Long Reads08 Jul
Strait of Hormuz: How a 21-Mile Chokepoint Became the Centre of a US-Iran Showdown
Long Reads08 Jul
A Conscription Crisis Reopened: What Ukraine's Manhunt Tells Us About the War's Next Phase
Long Reads08 Jul
Najaf funeral draws millions as Iraq buries a martyr-state's chief — and signals Tehran's grip on the shrine city
Long Reads08 Jul
The Friday Accord: A Geneva Deal Reshapes the Iran File, and the Cracks Already Showing
Long Reads08 Jul
NATO's Rutte calls US strikes on Iran 'absolutely necessary' as alliance moves to enshrine the Russia threat in summit text
Long Reads08 Jul
NATO summit opens under the shadow of two wars — and one question about Iran
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump at the Ankara Summit: A Reordering of the Western Alliance, in Turkey
Long Reads08 Jul
Two earthquakes and a new round of strikes: the news wires at midweek
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump's Greenland gambit and the NATO question: threat, leverage, or the start of something larger
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump's Second-Term Foreign-Policy Bazaar: NATO Money, Turkish Courts, Greenland Bets, and the Slow Auction of American Credibility
Long Reads08 Jul
Strait of Hormuz under fire: how an Iranian escalation in the world's busiest oil chokepoint dragged the United States into a third front
Long Reads08 Jul
Iran's Mournful Theater: Martyrdom, Media, and the Politics of the Shrine
Long Reads08 Jul
Hormuz on fire: how a single US waiver reversal redrew the Iran oil map
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump in Ankara: A NATO summit staged for one man, and the Ukraine deal hovering in the wings
Long Reads08 Jul
America Strikes Iran Over the Strait: A Realignment, Not a Rerun
Long Reads08 Jul
After the latest round of US strikes on Iran: the strategic logic behind an escalation neither side can easily walk back
Long Reads08 Jul
Taiwan's shipbuilder doubles down on defense as China's industrial weight reshapes the Pacific order
Long Reads08 Jul
Najaf's Million-Mourner Funeral and the Architecture of Iranian State Power in the Shia Heartland
Long Reads08 Jul
Interceptors Over Bahrain: A Night of Air-Defence Activity and the Questions It Raises
Long Reads08 Jul
Strait of Hormuz: How a 33-kilometre choke point became Iran’s leverage play against the world
Long Reads08 Jul
Hitting the Gulf: What a Night of Explosions in Bahrain Tells Us About the War With Iran
Long Reads08 Jul
Explosions in Bahrain: What Five Overnight Telegram Posts Reveal About the Iran-US Clash the Wires Have Not Yet Named
Long Reads08 Jul
Iran's Bahrain Gambit: Why the Strait Became the Retaliation of Choice
Long Reads08 Jul
Strait of Hormuz on Edge: Iranian Strikes on US Bases in Bahrain and Kuwait Test a Wartime Deterrence Architecture
Long Reads08 Jul
Sirens in Bahrain, Sirens in Kuwait: A Night of Interceptors, Not Strikes
Long Reads08 Jul
Iran Opens a New Front at Sea: Missiles Toward U.S. Warships and a Direct Threat to the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads08 Jul
4% and Falling: What a Stalled Greenland Bid Reveals About the New Art of the (Much Smaller) Deal
Long Reads08 Jul
Greenland on the Block: Trump’s Arctic Bid and the Multipolar Map It Reveals
Long Reads08 Jul
Iran's Army, Not the IRGC, Owns the Drone Salvo: What the Early Bahrain Strikes Reveal About Tehran's Escalation Calculus
Long Reads08 Jul
Signals over Bahrain: what an overnight missile exchange actually tells us
Long Reads08 Jul
Strait of Hormuz in Flames: How a Week of Escalation Rewrote the Gulf's Risk Map
Long Reads08 Jul
A chokepoint re-litigated: the Strait of Hormuz returns as a contested frontier
Long Reads08 Jul
Missiles, cables, silence: what an unconfirmed Persian Gulf launch tells us about the gap between what is claimed and what is known
Long Reads08 Jul
The Hours Before Sunrise: An Iran Strike That May Not Have Happened, and a Waterway the World Cannot Afford to Lose
Long Reads08 Jul
Maine Democrats face an eleventh-hour reckoning as Sanders urges Platner to withdraw
Long Reads08 Jul
Strait Pressure: US Airstrikes Hit Three Iranian Ports on the Gulf of Oman
Long Reads08 Jul
Kyiv under fire, ceasefire odds stall: where the Russia–Ukraine war actually sits on 8 July 2026
Long Reads08 Jul
Silicon's quiet realignment: why CPUs have become the AI race's decisive terrain
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump Uses NATO Stage to Reopen Greenland Question, Skirts Ukraine-Led Agenda
Long Reads08 Jul
Strikes, Fog, and a School: How a 7 July 2026 U.S. Operation Inside Iran Slipped Past Its Own Intelligence Warnings
Long Reads08 Jul
Tanker Strikes and an Oil Licence Revoked: What the 7–8 July Escalation Tells Us About the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads08 Jul
Strikes on the Gulf: What the Overnight Reports From Southern Iran Actually Show
Long Reads08 Jul
"Getting Closer" — and Still Nowhere: Anatomy of a Ukraine Peace Handshake That Hasn't Happened
Long Reads08 Jul
A Crash, A Reform, A Country Off-Balance: Pakistan Between Washington and the Gulf
Long Reads07 Jul
After the Strikes: What the 48-Hour Pause Tells Us About Tehran's Calculus
Long Reads07 Jul
After the Strikes: A 48-Hour Pause, a Chemical-Weapons Narrative, and the West's Iran Reframing War
Long Reads07 Jul
The US Just Closed the Door on Chinese-Linked Telecom Gear. Now Beijing Is Reconsidering Who Gets Its AI Models.
Long Reads07 Jul
The Strait Closes: How a 36-Hour Arc From Hormuz Strikes to Revoked Oil Waivers Redrew the US-Iran Chessboard
Long Reads07 Jul
Lights out in two Gulf monarchies: a 90-minute information war over the Kuwait–Bahrain grid
Long Reads07 Jul
The New Trade Doctrine: Forced-Labor Enforcement Meets 700 Regulations on the Chopping Block
Long Reads07 Jul
Strikes on Sirik and Bandar Abbas: What a Night of US Airstrikes on Iran's Southern Coast Reveals
Long Reads07 Jul
Lights out, rumours in: the Gulf's seven-minute blackout story
Long Reads07 Jul
The chemical-weapons pivot: how a US-Israeli narrative is being prepared for the next round with Iran
Long Reads07 Jul
U.S. airstrikes hit Bandar Abbas: what the footage shows and what the sources do not
Long Reads07 Jul
Strikes on Bandar Abbas: What the First Hours Tell Us About the U.S.–Iran Escalation
Long Reads07 Jul
Strait of Hormuz Strikes: The Shape of a Punishment Campaign
Long Reads07 Jul
The night the Strait reopened: inside the U.S. strike campaign on southern Iran
Long Reads07 Jul
The Chip at the Centre: How CPUs Became the New Frontline of the AI Race
Long Reads07 Jul
Kyiv under fire as ceasefire odds slip below half: what the betting markets and the sirens are telling us
Long Reads07 Jul
Bandar Abbas Ablaze: What the Strikes on Iran's Southern Ports Reveal
Long Reads07 Jul
U.S. Strikes Hit Bandar Abbas: What Four Telegram Lines Tell Us, and What They Don't
Long Reads07 Jul
Strikes on Hormuz: Inside the Escalation Reopening the Strait
Long Reads07 Jul
Strait of Hormuz on Fire: Inside the 7 July Escalation Between Washington and Tehran
Long Reads07 Jul
Bandar Abbas strike breaks the MoU: what the U.S. attack on Iran's biggest port actually means
Long Reads07 Jul
Strikes on Bandar Abbas: What 22:00 UTC on 7 July 2026 Actually Tells Us
Long Reads07 Jul
US Strikes Hit Southern Iran: A Hormuz Flashpoint Reframed
Long Reads07 Jul
Hormuz in the Crosshairs: How One Day of Escalation Rewrote the U.S.–Iran Economic War
Long Reads07 Jul
Bandar Abbas in the crosshairs: what the Iranian port strikes tell us about Washington's escalation ceiling
Long Reads07 Jul
Airstrikes on Beit Yahoun: Reading the South Lebanon Campaign Through Its Quietest Night
Long Reads07 Jul
Manhattan's Buckling Scaffold and the Hidden Politics of Building a Vertical City
Long Reads07 Jul
Dollar Doubt, Strait Signals: Central Banks Pivot as Iran Talks Stutter
Long Reads07 Jul
China's Long Game Over Russia: Coercion, Calculation, and the AI Race Monexus Thinks Nobody Is Reading Rightly
Long Reads07 Jul
Moscow Reopens the Sports Door While Keeping the Nuclear One Ajar
Long Reads07 Jul
Pakistan's banking rewiring puts foreign capital ahead of domestic banks
Long Reads07 Jul
Belgium ends the United States' World Cup: a 4-1 result, a 2% market, and a federation staring at its own ceiling
Long Reads07 Jul
After Khamenei: Succession, Sovereignty, and the Stakes at Najaf
Long Reads07 Jul
A funeral in Najaf: Iran's post-Khamenei transition enters its most delicate hour
Long Reads07 Jul
Sanctions snap back: Washington revokes Iran's oil licence as Hormuz test enters a new phase
Long Reads07 Jul
Vanguard's Quiet Search for a Crypto Hand Reflects a Wider Scramble Among America's Old-Guard Asset Managers
Long Reads07 Jul
Tehran's last big oil spigot, and the question Washington isn't asking
Long Reads07 Jul
Argentina's Lazarus act in Houston: how the holders came back from the dead against Egypt
Long Reads07 Jul
The Martyr at Najaf: Khamenei's Transfer and the Geography of Iranian Legitimacy
Long Reads07 Jul
Trump Floats Ukraine Resolution as Zelensky Heads to NATO Summit and Europe Watches Nervously
Long Reads07 Jul
The Strait and the Statement: How Iran's Hormuz Gambit Is Rewriting the Map of Negotiation
Long Reads07 Jul
China's Submarine Missile Test, Europe's Hedging Bet, and the Shape of a Multipolar Decade
Long Reads07 Jul
Le Pen gets a 2027 runway: France's appeals court shortens the ban, leaves the bracelet on
Long Reads07 Jul
Messi and Argentina stage a late resurrection to oust Egypt and reach the World Cup quarterfinals
Long Reads07 Jul
Le Pen's ankle tag, Macron's calendar: a French election that will be decided in court
Long Reads07 Jul
Argentina's Last-Gasp Revival: Anatomy of a 3-2 Escape Against Egypt
Long Reads07 Jul
Netanyahu's Iran hedge: 'too early to say' masks a deal Israel can't yet veto
Long Reads07 Jul
Le Pen's ankle monitor and the 2027 question: what Monday's ruling actually decided
Long Reads07 Jul
Le Pen's appeal gamble: a banned candidacy that could still run France
Long Reads07 Jul
'Getting closer': Trump, Zelensky and the uneven road to a Ukraine ceasefire
Long Reads07 Jul
Tehran tests the choke point: Iran fires on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as Qatar summons the deputy ambassador
Long Reads07 Jul
Tokenised equities, weather shock, and an insider-trading remark: three stories that say something larger about July 2026
Long Reads07 Jul
Trump's 'paper tiger' broadside lands hours before NATO gathers in Ankara
Long Reads07 Jul
Egypt 2-0 Argentina: How a Cairo Upset Reframes the Global South's Football Politics
Long Reads07 Jul