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Long Reads28 Jun
Car explosion in Holon: what the first four wire bulletins actually say

Long Reads28 Jun
Araghchi's Baghdad play: Tehran rewrites the Gulf security script and dares Washington to object

Long Reads28 Jun
Striking Yaroslavl: How a Russian Refinery Became the New Front Line of Ukraine's Long-Range Campaign

Long Reads28 Jun
Araghchi in Baghdad: The Quiet Logistics of a Funeral and a Funeral's Other Meanings

Long Reads28 Jun
Trump's ultimatum to Tehran: the rhetoric, the strikes, and the road not taken

Long Reads28 Jun
The Trump Aesthetic: How a Passport Stamp, a Street Sign in India, and a Communist Self-Description Add Up to a Foreign-Policy Doctrine

Long Reads28 Jun
Three Days Under the Rubble: Venezuela's Earthquake and the Politics of Relief

Long Reads28 Jun
Iran's Baghdad Mission: Reading the Funeral Diplomacy
Long Reads28 Jun
Strait of Hormuz: How a Single Waterway Reopened the Iran–US War

Long Reads28 Jun
After the Quakes: How a Venezuelan Disaster Is Pulling in German Volunteers, U.S. Aid, and a Global Search Operation

Long Reads28 Jun
Bahrain's midnight siren: what one Interior Ministry alert tells us about Gulf air defence in 2026

Long Reads28 Jun
Unexplained blasts in Kuwait: what is known, and what isn't

Long Reads28 Jun
Explosions Over Manama: What the Bahrain Air-Defence Reports Reveal

Long Reads28 Jun
Venezuelan Earthquake Aftermath Tests Caracas–Washington Détente

Long Reads28 Jun
Baghdad's Green Zone sealed off: what an overnight arrest move tells us about Iraq's fractured politics

Long Reads28 Jun
Strikes, Bans, and the Slow Reordering of the Petrodollar's Periphery
Long Reads28 Jun
Hormuz on a knife-edge: Trump's 'will no longer exist' warning and the architecture of a brittle ceasefire
Long Reads28 Jun
Hormuz on a hair trigger: how a single strait became the world's most dangerous corridor

Long Reads28 Jun
The Earthquake, the Blockade, and the Nine-Figure Lifeline: How Caracas Became the Stage for a New Aid Politics

Long Reads28 Jun
Baghdad's Green Zone locks down as Iraq moves on a Sunni heavyweight

Long Reads28 Jun
Explosions over Kuwait: what the first hour of reporting says — and what it doesn't

Long Reads28 Jun
A Gulf on Edge: Iran's Strike on Kuwait and the Slow Unwinding of the 2025–26 Truce
Long Reads28 Jun
Twelve Hours Over the Gulf: How a Single Night of US Strikes on Iran Reshaped the Hormuz Calculus

Long Reads28 Jun
Schroyer nomination tests the boundary between immigration enforcement and political theatre
Long Reads28 Jun
The Pill After the Patient: How Antibiotic Residues Move Through the Water and the Market
Long Reads27 Jun
Night of Drones Over Manama: What the 27 June 2026 Bahrain Strikes Reveal About Iran’s Calculus

Long Reads27 Jun
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and a Tech Policy Reversal Land on the Same Day — And That Coincidence Matters
Long Reads27 Jun
Strikes on Iran, a Ceasefire in Name Only: What the 27 June Attacks Tell Us About the New Hormuz Calculus
Long Reads27 Jun
Kyiv under missile barrage: the calculus of long-range strikes from Bryansk and Kursk

Long Reads27 Jun
Kyiv under fire: late-June ballistic salvo tests Ukraine's air defence at a moment of diplomatic fatigue

Long Reads27 Jun
When the Ground Splits Twice: Venezuela's Twin Earthquakes and the Politics of Recognition
Long Reads27 Jun
US strikes inside Iran: a Hormuz crisis the White House chose not to name

Long Reads27 Jun
Three Stories, One Thread: How Work, Retail, and the News Cycle Are Quietly Restructuring Around the Worker

Long Reads27 Jun
Strikes on Iran, Announced After the Bell: How a Friday Evening War Standoff Was Timed for the Markets
Long Reads27 Jun
Second day of strikes near Iran's Strait of Hormuz: what is known, what isn't, and what is at stake
Long Reads27 Jun
Sirik hit again: what a second night of explosions in Hormozgan tells us about the US–Iran escalation ladder

Long Reads27 Jun
When the ground shakes twice: Venezuela's compounded disaster and the limits of regional response

Long Reads27 Jun
A Lebanon–Israel Security Zone, With Washington's Imprimatur

Long Reads27 Jun
Asymmetric Hardware and Sentiment Whiplash: Reading the Ukraine Story on 27 June 2026
Long Reads27 Jun
Strait of Hormuz on Edge as US-Iran Truce Collapses Three Days After Signing

Long Reads27 Jun
Schroyer for ICE: How a Mid-Year Personnel Pick Lands Inside a Wider Immigration Crackdown
Long Reads27 Jun
Venezuela's second shock: rescue teams arrive to a country already on its knees
Long Reads27 Jun
Caracas Tremors, Polymarket Bets, and the Cost of a Can: Three Threads Through a Ruptured Week

Long Reads27 Jun
Netanyahu's post-ceasefire pitch: a 'broad coalition' against the Iranian axis

Long Reads27 Jun
The Quiet Geography of the New American Backyard: Data Centers, Debt, and the Recalibration of Domestic Priority
Long Reads27 Jun
A Framework in Washington: What the Israel-Lebanon Deal Actually Says
Long Reads27 Jun
Iran's World Cup stand-off: politics, the pitch, and a federation under pressure
Long Reads27 Jun
Fico's Empty Chair in Ankara: Slovakia's NATO Boycott and the Slow Erosion of Allied Unity on Ukraine
Long Reads27 Jun
Trump's India Avenue and the Geometry of Personal Diplomacy
Long Reads27 Jun
Washington's quiet hand on the frontier models: Trump administration presses OpenAI on GPT-5.6 while signalling a thaw for Anthropic

Long Reads27 Jun
Ceasefire cracked: Israel strikes Nabatieh as Israel-Hezbollah front reopens in southern Lebanon

Long Reads27 Jun
Deir al-Balah and Rafah under fire: a Friday afternoon of airstrikes in central and southern Gaza

Long Reads27 Jun
Twin quakes, one state: how Venezuela's disaster is reshaping Caracas's diplomatic geometry
Long Reads27 Jun
The Bosnia Joke, the Data-Center Map, and the Two Americas of 2026

Long Reads27 Jun
Ankara Knocks on the Diplomatic Door: Turkey Offers to Host a New Russia–Ukraine Round
Long Reads27 Jun
The Lilies and the Dragons: How a World Cup Game in the United States Reopened Bosnia's Oldest Wound
Long Reads27 Jun
Damascus moves to reassure Beirut as Washington pushes Syria into the Hezbollah fight
Long Reads27 Jun
Kyiv's Long Reach: What Ukraine's Strikes Inside Russia Reveal About the War's Next Phase
Long Reads27 Jun
Washington's Iran War Ends in a Strategic Loss — and a New Template for Tariff Diplomacy
Long Reads27 Jun
Venezuela's Earthquake Tests a Sanctioned State: Relief, Politics, and the Politics of Relief
Long Reads27 Jun
The ceasefire that wasn't: Iran and the United States trade strikes across the Gulf on 27 June 2026

Long Reads27 Jun
Kenya's Senate Defection Goes to Court as Ruto's Coalition Reaches an Internal Stress Point
Long Reads27 Jun
Egypt's World Cup moment and the limits of Tehran's sports diplomacy

Long Reads27 Jun
A MiG-29 Goes Down in Poltava: One Jet, Three Readings, and the Information War Above the Black Sea

Long Reads27 Jun
A morning of attrition: two MiG-29s and the arithmetic of Ukraine's air war

Long Reads27 Jun
A Dutch First, a Beirut Standstill, and a $30bn SpaceX Tap: Three Threads on the 27th
Long Reads27 Jun
A $540 Billion Verdict on Soft Landing Hopes
Long Reads27 Jun
Strikes and Signals: The First US-Iran Exchange Since the Deal

Long Reads27 Jun
The Staged Rollout: How Washington Is Reshaping the Frontier AI Market
Long Reads27 Jun
Strikes in the South: What a Single Drone Hit in Nabatieh Reveals About Lebanon's Slow-Burn War
Long Reads27 Jun
No Landing, No Exit: Inside the BofA Survey That Has $540 Billion on the Sidelines

Long Reads27 Jun
Dubai–Tehran runway reopens: what a single air corridor tells us about the Gulf's recalibration

Long Reads27 Jun
Trump Tells a Rally He Would Have Been 'the Greatest Communist in History' — and the Quote Says More Than the Joke
Long Reads27 Jun
A ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a ceasefire in name: how a single strike is testing the Trump–Iran arrangement
Long Reads27 Jun
The Long Reach of Secondary Sanctions: How Washington Is Rewriting the Cost of Doing Business With Tehran
Long Reads27 Jun
Beirut streets fill as Lebanon's army moves against protesters opposing the new US-brokered framework with Israel
Long Reads27 Jun
Russia's Lipetsk and Belgorod Come Under Sustained Aerial Attack: What the Overnight Strikes Reveal About the War's New Geometry
Long Reads27 Jun
Volgograd strike reaches the supply line Moscow kept promising was untouchable
Long Reads27 Jun
Faked death, real reckoning: how a fugitive offender case intersects a US-Iran flashpoint

Long Reads27 Jun
Bolton's guilty plea and the digital-services tariff: two fronts in a reassertive White House
Long Reads27 Jun
Strait Test: How a Single Drone Over Hormuz Reopened the US-Iran War

Long Reads27 Jun
Drone strikes and a wobbling ceasefire: how a day in Hormuz rewrote the Trump-Iran truce

Long Reads27 Jun
The Mouse That Wouldn't Die: How a 1928 Theft Built an Unreplicable $200B Enterprise

Long Reads27 Jun
The end of Europe's open door: how temporary protection for Ukrainians is being quietly unbundled
Long Reads27 Jun
Vance's uranium pitch and CENTCOM's overnight strikes frame a 60-day countdown on Iran
Long Reads27 Jun
Strait of Hormuz: an Iranian parliamentary warning and a Trump accusation collide on 27 June 2026

Long Reads27 Jun
Forgive us: how an Iran–Egypt draw at the 2026 World Cup turned into a referendum on the Islamic Republic

Long Reads27 Jun
Kenya's Marriage Squeeze: Dating Pools, Microfinance Traps, and a Housing Payment That Says Something Else

Long Reads27 Jun
Two years after Kenya's tax revolt, the bill has faded but the squeeze has not
Long Reads27 Jun
After the quake: Venezuela's disaster and the loan-shark's arithmetic
Long Reads27 Jun
Lebanon’s Southern Frontier: Anatomy of a Framework That Reshapes the Mediterranean Balance

Long Reads27 Jun
The New Travel Map: How Malaysia Became Southeast Asia's Unexpected Chinese-Tourism Story
Long Reads27 Jun
The Long Tail of Wartime Finance: How Households in Ukraine Are Absorbing the Cost of a Four-Year War
Long Reads27 Jun
The Lion, the Sun, and the Long Shadow: Iran's Flag Diplomacy Returns to American Soil

Long Reads27 Jun
Cape Verde's unglamorous exit of Saudi Arabia redraws the World Cup's Global South map
Long Reads27 Jun
A Drone, a Warship, and a Negotiation Window: How the US–Iran Tit-for-Tat Reshaped the Hormuz Calculus in 48 Hours
Long Reads27 Jun
A framework in Beirut: Israel, Lebanon, and the limits of a Hezbollah veto

Long Reads27 Jun
From Shenzhen to Wall Street: The Capital Realignment Behind an AI Capex Skepticism Story

Long Reads27 Jun
A quake, a rupture, and a continent reordering: Venezuela and Burkina Faso expose the architecture of a post-Western order
Long Reads27 Jun