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Coverage · July · 2026 · 22,740 articles

Khamenei's funeral procession: the choreography of succession

Peskov's Moscow invitation and the theatre of a non-meeting

Iran Floats Tiered Passage Through Hormuz, Putting Beijing in a Privileged Lane

Germany turns to Klopp after Nagelsmann walks

Iran's clerical elite keeps rehearsing martyrdom while the country burns

Maharashtra Congress turns its back on merger, opens door to anti-BJP defectors

Tehran's Theatre of Grief: What the Martyrs' Farewell Reveals About the Islamic Republic's Domestic Script

Serena Williams' second act ends before it begins — and the question of what comes next grows louder

Tehran Buries Khamenei as Succession Clock Starts Ticking

Zelensky's framing war: Patriot missiles, moral vocabulary, and the cost of rhetoric

Zelensky frames Ukraine's fight as a global moral test as Russian strikes pummel cities

A 7.5-hour workday and a new MEMU in the Northeast: what India's small-infrastructure stories say about the country's bigger argument with itself

Independence Day at Mount Rushmore, and the rhetoric that travels with it

The IMF's Tokenization Warning and the Press-Freedom Test Before the Supreme Court: Two July 4 Signals About Power, Transparency, and the Next Financial Architecture

Lebanon's health ministry puts four-month toll at 4,303 as ceasefire framework stalls

The Williams comeback that almost wasn't: a Wimbledon withdrawal, and what it tells us about how we stage second acts

Swift and Kelce marry at MSG — and the news cycle shows its true priorities

Türkiye's TAYFUN Block-3 test signals a hypersonic strike option built for the Black Sea

The funeral that doubles as a mobilisation order

Iran buries Khamenei at Tehran's Grand Mosalla — and the succession question moves from rumour to test

Tehran's farewell scene is also a coronation, and the West mostly looked away

Rafah under fire: the war the cameras are not showing

Zelensky's Odessa visit and the rhetorical heat of July 4

Inside Penza: What Ukraine's Drone Strike on a Russian Metrology Lab Tells Us About the Long War

France's first home Ebola case ends well — and quietly exposes what global health still owes the DRC

Iran's IRGC navy chief puts 'divine retribution' against the US and Israel back on the public clock

A paint-shop fire in Stavropol is the latest reminder that the front line is longer than the trenches

The pardon economy: how July 4th became a clearance rack

Kremlin signals a call with Trump could come on July 4 — and the choreography tells you everything

Iran's top diplomat meets Hezbollah, Hamas and Amal in Tehran as regional diplomacy intensifies

Ukraine's first drone export marks a turn in the country's defence-industrial posture

Two MiG-29s in a Day: What the Drone Footage at Belbek Actually Tells Us

America at 250: A birthday that splits the room

Zelensky's Odessa visit and the rhetoric of a war that has not paused

France fields a robot unit, and a Pope lands on Lampedusa: the two faces of Europe's future

Settler violence in the West Bank: the pattern the wire keeps under-reporting

The Pardon Market Knows Something Washington Won't Say

Prediction markets have stopped pretending to be neutral

The Friday Fragment: Six Threads, One Lesson in Algorithmic Newsroom Drift

Tehran's Funeral Diplomacy: Reading the Guest List

Merz bets a slim parliamentary majority can carry Germany through its hardest reform decade since reunification

Merz puts Germany's pension timebomb on the table — and on the clock

The funeral Iran staged — and the funeral that didn't happen

Iran Stages Funeral in Qom for a Slain 'Martyr Leader' — and the Telegram Feed Reads Like a Script

The arrogance question India’s BJP can no longer dodge

Merz's reform pitch lands on a public that has stopped trusting the delivery mechanism

Iran buries a 'martyred leader' — and the framing tells you what comes next

Khamenei's funeral and the choreography of Iranian statecraft

Qom fills with mourners as Iran's clerical establishment stages farewell to a slain 'martyred leader'

Eight giants, one bracket: what the World Cup’s population gap actually tells us

Tehran buries Khamenei: a succession story already being told in slogans

The chatbot in the voting booth: AI is becoming America's campaign infrastructure

Merz pitches optimism against the cultural-pessimism lobby — and a German coalition tries to listen

Open-weight vision models flood Hugging Face as community builders race to ship weekend projects

The Farewell Tehran Built: How a Funeral Becomes a Foreign-Policy Signal

A Putin–Trump Call, a PolyMarket for Pardons: Reading the Signals from a Quiet July 4

The New Currency of Power Runs on Silicon, Not Steel

Doha hosts Syria's foreign minister as Gulf states test the post-Assad diplomatic lane

Tehran stages a farewell, and the frame travels

Tokenised Money on the Ledger: IMF Sounds the Alarm as Wall Street Reshapes Itself Around Stablecoins

Pakistan-Türkiye brotherhood plays well in Ankara, but the bilateral ledger is thinner than the rhetoric

Pakistan and Türkiye lean into a brotherhood Ankara increasingly needs

Iran's Hormuz fee gambit puts Beijing in the cross-hairs of a maritime order being written in real time

Riyadh's airliner denial and the narrow corridor of Yemeni escalation

Two hearts, one ledger: what Sharif's Ankara trip tells us about Pakistan's diplomatic aperture

Pakistan and Türkiye Make the Rounds in a Multipolar Moment

Eight Months On, Kenya's Examinations Teachers Are Still Waiting to Be Paid — and the Boycott Threat Is Now Credible

Two Hearts, One Map: What the Sharif-Erdogan Embrace Tells Us About a Recalibrating Bloc

Kyiv's long reach: Ukraine strikes a St Petersburg oil terminal as Russia fields jet-powered Geran-4 drones over the capital

Clemency as governing style: Trump's pardon desk hits a new groove

Beit Yahoun breach and the drone above it: what Lebanon's southern edge looks like on 4 July

A Ukrainian City in Daylight: What the Russian Strikes of 4 July 2026 Reveal About Moscow's Summer Calculus

Britain's Quiet 250th: Charles's Note to Washington and the Soft Power That Travels With It

What the Farewell Ceremony Reveals About Power in Tehran

Hugging Face pushes multimodal open weights into the mainstream

The Long Unemployed Are Now a Structural American Problem

Ukraine strikes St Petersburg oil terminal as Russia fields jet-powered Geran-4 drones over Kyiv

Faster, Cheaper, Harder to Shoot Down: Russia's Jet-Powered Drone Pivot Hits Kyiv

Khamenei's farewell and the question Tehran did not answer