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Long Reads21 Jun
Closing the Strait: Iran Reopens a Maritime Flashpoint and Reframes the War
Long Reads20 Jun
Strait Talking: How the Hormuz Choke Point Became the New Front Line of the Iran–US–Israel Triangle
Long Reads20 Jun
Starmer on the brink: Labour MPs signal a Monday exit as Burnham's allies circle
Long Reads20 Jun
Iran Names Its Delegation 'Minab 168' as Geneva Talks Open
Long Reads20 Jun
Tehran Touches Down in Geneva: Iran's 'Minab 168' Delegation Lands in Switzerland as Vance Heads the Same Way
Long Reads20 Jun
When the leader of Italy’s most powerful party crosses the Atlantic’s loudest man
Long Reads20 Jun
A Knife in Kharkiv, a Court Order in Washington, and the Geometry of American Power
Long Reads20 Jun
Fog of claims on Ali al-Taher: Israel says it has Hezbollah encircled; Hezbollah says nothing of the sort
Long Reads20 Jun
Tehran turns the tap: how the IRGC's Strait of Hormuz gamble is rewriting the oil playbook
Long Reads20 Jun
When the Leader of Italy Snaps Back: Inside the Trump–Meloni Rift and What It Means for the Atlantic Alliance
Long Reads20 Jun
The Strait of Hormuz as bargaining chip: how a 21-mile chokepoint became Iran's loudest weapon
Long Reads20 Jun
Iran's Hormuz play: what a second closure tells us about the limits of escalation
Long Reads20 Jun
A knife in Kharkiv, a $1.6 trillion loan book, and the industrial policy the Senate is still writing
Long Reads20 Jun
Netanyahu's coalition frays as Knesset dissolution talk collides with Trump's Gaza drive
Long Reads20 Jun
Iran declares 'strategic reset' as Khamenei signals he let the US deal through on principle
Long Reads20 Jun
A Polish Eagle, a Ukrainian Rift: How Nawrocki's Revocation Exposed a Fault Line in the Alliance
Long Reads20 Jun
A group-stage meeting in Toronto, and what it tells us about the new geography of the World Cup
Long Reads20 Jun
Israel's Channel 15 concedes the Lebanon–Iran frame did not split — what the broadcast actually said
Long Reads20 Jun
Canada's World Cup moment, and the softer power it projects
Long Reads20 Jun
The Hormuz Whipsaw: How One Strait Became the World's Most Volatile Lever
Long Reads20 Jun
Beirut's long shadow: how Israel's attempt to peel Lebanon away from Tehran is being read inside the region
Long Reads20 Jun
A Memorandum of Uncertainty: Trump's G7 Remark on Iran and the Fragile Geometry of a Deal
Long Reads20 Jun
The southern Lebanon front tightens: a single Israeli brigade bears the cost of an expanding ground war
Long Reads20 Jun
Hormuz on a hair-trigger: Iran closes the strait as US talks loom
Long Reads20 Jun
A third of Nabatieh told to stay away: what one Lebanese municipality's evacuation order says about the southern front on 20 June 2026
Long Reads20 Jun
The Strait Closes Again: Iran's Maritime Card in an Unwritten Lebanon Deal
Long Reads20 Jun
The Strait That Won't Stay Closed: Hormuz, Ceasefire Diplomacy, and the Limits of Closure Theater
Long Reads20 Jun
The Strait of Hormuz Goes Loud: What Friday's Geneva Accord Has to Prove
Long Reads20 Jun
Iran's Hormuz closure threat turns an oil chokepoint into a negotiating chip
Long Reads20 Jun
The Fourth China Trip: How Trump's APEC Pencil-In Reveals the Real Architecture of US-China Diplomacy
Long Reads20 Jun
Nabatieh under fire: how a single Lebanese city became the barometer of a wider Israeli campaign
Long Reads20 Jun
Bullets in Surif: a single settler shooting, and the slow violence of a documented pattern
Long Reads20 Jun
Zelensky opens a second front: Ukraine's pressure campaign on Belarus
Long Reads20 Jun
Bolivia's Paz declares a state of emergency as protests choke basic supplies
Long Reads20 Jun
Strait of Hormuz, Closed Again: What Iran Is Actually Signaling With the 20 June Reopening Reversal
Long Reads20 Jun
Strait of Hormuz reopens, briefly: how a single corridor is rewriting the geopolitics of Gulf oil
Long Reads20 Jun
Pakistan hosts the table: How a third-party shuttle pulled the US and Iran back to Bürgenstock
Long Reads20 Jun
Hormuz shut, Lebanon burning: Tehran turns the tap and bets the Gulf will blink
Long Reads20 Jun
A medal by post: how a Polish revocation turned into a Ukrainian gesture of state
Long Reads20 Jun
Ukrainian Drone Units Target Russia’s Civilian-Mail Logistics Cover and Kyiv Opens a Captured-Weapons Database to Allies
Long Reads20 Jun
The Strait That Would Not Close: How a 24-Hour Standoff Over Hormuz Became a Story About the Dollar
Long Reads20 Jun
The Strait That Wouldn't Stay Closed: How a 72-Hour Standoff Over Hormuz Reshaped the Gulf's Risk Calculus
Long Reads20 Jun
Strait of Hormuz shut, Lebanon ceasefire fracturing: Iran tests the limits of a US-mediated deal it says Washington never honoured
Long Reads20 Jun
Sense and sensibility: Kyiv under fire while Washington rewrites the defence-industrial playbook
Long Reads20 Jun
Warsaw and Kyiv Trade Symbols: The Poland-Ukraine Award Dispute and What It Reveals About Wartime Alliance Friction
Long Reads20 Jun
Israel's south Lebanon offensive hits a casualty milestone as ceasefire architecture frays
Long Reads20 Jun
Vance heads to Switzerland as Iran demands US deliver on ceasefire and sanctions track
Long Reads20 Jun
Trump's Iran Deal and the Rhetoric of Coercion: What the 14-Point Agreement Actually Says
Long Reads20 Jun
Iran heads to Geneva as ceasefire complaints harden: what the next 48 hours decide
Long Reads20 Jun
The Taiwan Question Is Becoming the SCO's Loudest Silence
Long Reads20 Jun
Hormuz on the edge: Iran's second closure and the brittle architecture of US-Iran detente
Long Reads20 Jun
Tehran's Tehran-Lebanon Volunteer Drive Exposes the Fragility of the Iran–Hezbollah Ceasefire
Long Reads20 Jun
The day the ceasefire wasn't: how 36 hours of strikes across southern Lebanon reset the Iran–US track
Long Reads20 Jun
Medvedev's "no rules" rhetoric and the war of words over Russian escalation
Long Reads20 Jun
Trump–Meloni row ruptures the G7 unity the White House spent months assembling
Long Reads20 Jun
Strikes Reach Beyond the Hot Zone: Israel Hits Kanarit in the Sidon District
Long Reads20 Jun
China's commercial space sector opens the launchpad — and the bill is paid in state capacity
Long Reads20 Jun
The Bürgenstock talks and the shape of a US-Iran endgame
Long Reads20 Jun
Ceasefire on Paper, Rockets in the Air: Lebanon Tests the Limits of a Fragile Arrangement
Long Reads20 Jun
Khan Yunis under fire: Israel hits residential blocks in southern Gaza as ceasefire claims fray
Long Reads20 Jun
The Last Guillemot: How a French Family's Studio Survived Consolidation, and What Its Loss Means Now
Long Reads20 Jun
A ceasefire that never took: Israeli strikes on Nabatieh reopen the Lebanon question
Long Reads20 Jun
Ceasefire Holds by a Thread: US–Iran Talks Open in Muscat While Israeli Strikes Continue in Beirut
Long Reads20 Jun
Strikes, envoys, and a fragile ceasefire: Lebanon sits at the centre of an Israel–Hezbollah–US triangle
Long Reads20 Jun
Displacement, Détente, and the World Cup: How a Single Friday Reframed Three Middle East Fault Lines
Long Reads20 Jun
When the Welfare Net Stretches: Hong Kong's Elderly Suicide Crisis and the Tobacco Economy Beneath It
Long Reads20 Jun
A deal, a war, and a World Cup: the three theatres Iran is fighting on at once
Long Reads20 Jun
The Pre-Qualified List: How a Single Army Captain Could Move a Police Procurement — and What the Senate's Defense-Production Disclosure Push Reveals
Long Reads20 Jun
A plain at harvest: settler blocking, Palestinian farming, and the quiet economics of the West Bank's olive season
Long Reads20 Jun
Norway's settlement fight, Trump's war boast, and the price tag on US support
Long Reads20 Jun
China's Industrial Chain Is Strangling Foreign Entrants — And Quietly Rewiring the Global Auto Map
Long Reads20 Jun
Zelensky's Belarus ultimatum: a week to silence the relay stations guiding Russian drones
Long Reads20 Jun
A photo op at the G7 turns into a transatlantic flashpoint
Long Reads20 Jun
Quota hit, lever pulled: how a 55% levy on Australian beef became China's quietest escalation in months
Long Reads20 Jun
Hong Kong's First Five-Year Plan: Beijing's Template, a Smoking Monopoly, and the Limits of Local Agency
Long Reads20 Jun
A Second Track to Tehran: Witkoff in Switzerland as Lebanon Keeps Burning
Long Reads20 Jun
A Lebanese soldier's death on the Kafr Rumman road exposes the fraying architecture of the November ceasefire
Long Reads20 Jun
"Three hours to Kyiv": The highway story and what it tells us about Trump's war narrative
Long Reads20 Jun
Hong Kong's Five-Year Pivot: Integration, Tobacco Strain, and the Steady March of PLA Footprint
Long Reads20 Jun
The Alaska Frame: How a Single Trump–Putin Read-Out Reopened the Ukraine Question in Europe
Long Reads20 Jun
A continent fries while a superpower reopens the gun: the two emergencies Europe and the Gulf are now negotiating at once
Long Reads20 Jun
A Fragile Quiet: Israel and Hezbollah Step Back from the Brink as US-Iran Talks Hang in the Balance
Long Reads20 Jun
Tehran turns the tap: how a 48-hour notice for Hormuz transits redraws the map of global shipping
Long Reads20 Jun
Industrial policy returns to the Senate floor, and the contractors are watching
Long Reads20 Jun
The Quiet Reordering of American Industrial Policy
Long Reads20 Jun
Two trains, one corridor: what the Bedford collision reveals about Britain's creaking rail
Long Reads20 Jun
Eight thousand hectares, one river of smoke: the Everglades fire the wire desks barely noticed
Long Reads20 Jun
Indium, tobacco and squid robots: the quieter front of the China decoupling story
Long Reads20 Jun
The Wounded File: How Thirteen Israeli Casualties Rewrote a Day on the Northern Front
Long Reads20 Jun
China's 55% beef tariff on Australia: a small lever, a long shadow
Long Reads20 Jun
The Quiet Architecture of De-Risking: How China's June Pivot Is Rewiring Asia's Supply Chains
Long Reads20 Jun
Two trains collide near Bedford: what is known and what isn't
Long Reads20 Jun
Brazil, Morocco cruise toward World Cup knockout stage as African debutant Haiti bows out
Long Reads20 Jun
Hong Kong's Five-Year Pivot: How a Consultation Paper Reshapes the City's Bet on Beijing's Bay Area
Long Reads20 Jun
A photo, a phone call, and a transatlantic rift: how a Trump-Meloni spat unravelled in three days
Long Reads20 Jun
A ceasefire in name only: how Israel-Hezbollah fighting in June 2026 became the next battlefield for the Iran-US deal
Long Reads20 Jun
Israel's southern Lebanon bombardment continues under declared ceasefire, with Nabatieh and Tyre bearing the brunt
Long Reads20 Jun
Tehran's Frozen Money: How a US-Qatar Channel Could Reshape Iran's Sanctions Economy
Long Reads20 Jun
A photo, a denial, and a transatlantic crack: how a Trump-Meloni dust-up is testing the Atlanticist bond
Long Reads20 Jun