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Opinion08 Jul 26
Khamenei's funeral becomes a regional stage — and a test of Iranian statecraft
Opinion08 Jul 26
A funeral in Najaf and the choreography of Iraqi sovereignty
Opinion08 Jul 26
Najaf without precedent: a regional coronation in the name of Khamenei
Opinion08 Jul 26
Najaf, the funeral, and a Nigerian sheikh in the frame: what the Khamenei procession tells us
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US signals overnight strikes on Iran as Israeli sources claim coordination
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US resumes strikes on Iran as CENTCOM cites renewed threat to freedom of navigation
Opinion08 Jul 26
Explosions on Iran's coast: what the early wire actually says
Sport08 Jul 26
FIFA–UEFA clash over Balogun red-card reversal exposes power struggle inside world football
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Iran File Has Three Narratives Running at Once, and Only One Is Being Read
Investigations08 Jul 26
Rutte's Hague address lands as NATO summit text is finalised around a 'long-term Russia threat'
Culture08 Jul 26
Sundance and FIPRESCI Launch a New Jury for First-Time Foreign Directors — and the Timing Says Something
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Iran ceasefire gambit collapses, exposing the limits of coercive diplomacy
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump moves to lift Syria's terrorism designation, kicking a 45-day review to Congress
Investigations08 Jul 26
Washington and Tehran trade blows while diplomats hold the line: a 24-hour snapshot of the Iran crisis
Tech08 Jul 26
Iran buries Khamenei in Karbala as succession crisis reshapes the Islamic Republic
Opinion08 Jul 26
Satellite heat data points to fresh U.S. strike activity over Iran's Bushehr airbase
Opinion08 Jul 26
Lights out in Chabahar: what the Iranian power-grid strikes tell us about the next phase of the war
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Drones over Manama: what the Bahrain incident tells us about the Iran crisis
Investigations08 Jul 26
Fact-check fog: how a misnamed missile count and a recycled video are shaping the Iran–US war scare
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Iran buries Khamenei in Najaf as regional order absorbs a generational rupture
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Drones over Manama: what Iran's Bahrain strike tells us about the shape of a regional escalation
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Eight Iranian service members killed in overnight US strikes on southern military sites
Opinion08 Jul 26
Mourning as theatre: what the funeral procession in Karbala tells us about Iran's crisis
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Bodies of Iran's Khamenei arrive at Karbala shrine amid funeral rites in Iraqi holy city
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran buries Khamenei in Najaf: a regional succession shaped by sacred geography
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran's leadership succession plays out in Najaf, and the world is watching what comes next
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran's Najaf ritual and the choreography of succession
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Iran's president flies home to Tehran as the republic buries its Supreme Leader
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Remains of slain Iranian officials' families arrive at Tehran shrine as regional crisis deepens
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Confusion in the Caucasus: Reports of US Strikes in Iran Collide With Denial and Fog
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iraq's funeral cortège for Khamenei puts Najaf at the centre of a regional succession story
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Millions in Najaf as Iran buries Khamenei-era figures at Karbala shrines
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Burials in Karbala put a martyred cleric — and Iran’s proxy posture — back on the regional front page
Opinion08 Jul 26
The body in Karbala and the camera in Tehran: a funeral as a foreign-policy broadcast
Opinion08 Jul 26
A procession in Karbala exposes the limits of Western wire reporting on Iraq-Iran
Opinion08 Jul 26
Karbala funerals, Tehran's messaging, and the choreography of a martyr narrative
Opinion08 Jul 26
The body in Karbala, the betting market in New York: reading two Iran stories from 8 July 2026
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Seven million in Karbala: the choreography of a state funeral in a year of uncertainty
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Najaf hosts mass funeral for Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei as succession question opens
Opinion08 Jul 26
A Martyr in Najaf: Reading Iran's Funeral Diplomacy Without the Headphones
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Martyr's Final Mile in Najaf: What Khamenei's Funeral Tells Us About Iran's Succession Hour
Opinion08 Jul 26
The funeral at the shrine: what Khamenei's death means for Iran's command structure
Opinion08 Jul 26
Khamenei's farewell in Karbala and the choreography of an Iranian succession
Opinion08 Jul 26
Three million mourners and a procession through Karbala: reading the Khamenei funeral spectacle
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran buries Khamenei in Najaf as the succession question moves from doctrine to street
Opinion08 Jul 26
Khamenei's daily Quran pages are not theology — they are statecraft
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
In Mashhad, Red Flags Rise Over an Absent Imam
Tech08 Jul 26
Microsoft's Xbox reset sidelines Obsidian's Avowed sequel in favour of Fallout
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Mass funeral in Najaf closes a week that reshaped Iran's wartime political order
Opinion08 Jul 26
A funeral in Najaf, a flag in the square, and the choreography of Iranian mourning abroad
Opinion08 Jul 26
Najaf fills for the man who made Iraq's Shia politics legible to Tehran
Tech08 Jul 26
OpenAI redraws the voice agent: GPT-Live-1 arrives in ChatGPT with a quieter mouth
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Pezeshkian cuts Iraq visit short, returns to Tehran under IRIAF escort
Opinion08 Jul 26
A martyrdom narrative, state-run: what Press TV's Khamenei coverage tells us about sovereign framing
Sport08 Jul 26
Ronaldo exits last World Cup as Merino's stoppage-time header sends Spain through
Opinion08 Jul 26
Russia's Diesel Ban Reads as War Economics, Not Market Management
Sport08 Jul 26
Tammy Beaumont walks away — and the missing Test matches she leaves behind
Opinion08 Jul 26
Tehran's funeral diplomacy and Trump's 'worthy' question: what the Mashhad procession actually tells us
Opinion08 Jul 26
Tehran's farewell: the choreography of mourning and the message it sends
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump walks out of Ankara and into a wider war
Tech08 Jul 26
Trump walks out of Ankara NATO summit declaring 'tremendous love' as Iran strike chatter, Greenland push dominate final…
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump declares Iran ceasefire 'over' from Ankara NATO stage; oil jumps 5%
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump floats F-35 deal for Turkey as Iran rhetoric rattles NATO summit
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Greenland gambit is a stress test, not a land grab — and the bill it's about to land on may say so
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump tells NATO summit the US–Iran ceasefire is 'over' — what we know, and what comes next
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump walks back ceasefire, floats renewed strikes on Iran — and a verbal slip of "Japan"
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump's Iran calculus: deal rhetoric masks an escalating tit-for-tat at sea
Investigations08 Jul 26
Trump's rhetoric on Iran hardens mid-negotiation: 'liars', 'cancer', and the 54,000 figure
Opinion08 Jul 26
Ukraine's sea drones keep finding Russia's shadow fleet
Opinion08 Jul 26
Kyiv's Sea-Drone Offensive Is Quietly Breaking the Russian Shadow Fleet
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US pounds Iran with second wave of strikes in 24 hours as ceasefire collapses
Investigations08 Jul 26
US strikes hit Bandar Kangan in southern Iran as initial reports surface
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US strikes on Chabahar and Bushehr put Iran's last deep-water port in play
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US strikes hit Iranian coastal infrastructure as Bushehr, Chabahar and Jask report blasts
Opinion08 Jul 26
Tokenized equities aren't a financial story yet — they're a plumbing story
Opinion08 Jul 26
The AI productivity paradox just flipped: the machines cost more than the people
Opinion08 Jul 26
The crabs, the cling-wrap, and the small panics of a regulatory superstate
Opinion08 Jul 26
Explosions on Abu Musa and the southern coast: what Iranian state media is reporting, and what it isn't
Opinion08 Jul 26
Ankara, £37bn, and the quiet message the alliance is sending Tehran
Opinion08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz, Round Two: Reading CENTCOM's New Strikes Against Iran
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens a new bombing campaign against Iran as Vance warns Hormuz blockade would draw U.S. fire
Opinion08 Jul 26
Ankara's three-front week: Erdoğan reaches for 'Steel Dome' while pressing both Tehran and Moscow
Opinion08 Jul 26
Erdogan's Strait of Hormuz warning puts Turkey between two fires
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Hegseth's Israel Trip Cancels as Trump Declares Iran Deal 'Over' at NATO Ankara Summit
Opinion08 Jul 26
Hormuz sabre-rattling, US-blockade talk, and the narrowing path to de-escalation
Opinion08 Jul 26
Hormuz goes from leverage to liability: the new arithmetic of the Strait
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Explosions reported at Iran's Bandar Abbas and Sirik as regional tensions spike
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran fires at Gulf monarchies to send Washington a message
Investigations08 Jul 26
Tehran's Asymmetric Riposte: MQ-9 Loss, Strait of Hormuz Posturing, and the Geometry of US–Iran Escalation
Opinion08 Jul 26
The MQ-9 and the Memorandum: How a Single Drone Becomes the Whole Story
Opinion08 Jul 26
Hormuz as hostage: Iran's strait gamble and the blockade it says it will outlast
Investigations08 Jul 26
Iran strikes Bahrain and Kuwait as US Navy warns Strait of Hormuz mining is near-certain
Opinion08 Jul 26
A War Stops, a Story Doesn't: How to Read the Iran–US Ceasefire Without the Press Briefings
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Tehran signals Hormuz threshold as US-Iran standoff enters a quieter, more dangerous phase
Opinion08 Jul 26
Kangan hit, Hormuz coiled: the wager behind the US–Iran shock
Opinion08 Jul 26
Kharg Island in the crosshairs: a strike on Iran's oil choke point, and the silence that follows
Opinion08 Jul 26
Najaf's Million-Strong Farewell: Reading the Crowds at Khamenei's Funeral
Investigations08 Jul 26
NATO summit double-header: tens of billions in arms deals signed in Turkey as Trump floats Greenland-for-troops swap…
Opinion08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz Under Bombs Again: What the Qeshm Strikes Tell Us About the War Drums
Investigations08 Jul 26
Russia's Diesel Export Ban: A Pressure Signal from the War's Logistics
Opinion08 Jul 26
NATO's Rutte endorses the US strike on Iran — and that tells you where the alliance is heading
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Strait of Hormuz Is Now a Sanctions Battlefield — and a Test of Dollar Leverage
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Strait of Hormuz Just Became the World's Most Dangerous Pipeline
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Strait of Hormuz is now a live flashpoint — and the world is treating it as one
Opinion08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz strike reports: what we know, what we don't, and why the wire still won't say so
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz back in the frame as tanker turn-backs expose a fragile accord
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz reopens to traffic under Iranian arrangements as US broadens strikes and tightens oil sanctions
Opinion08 Jul 26
Strait Watch: The Shipping Question the Iran Headlines Keep Skipping
Opinion08 Jul 26
Syria Comes Off Washington's Blacklist — and In From the Cold of Regional Statecraft
Opinion08 Jul 26
Syria comes off the terror list — what the symbolism hides
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Tankers turn back as US strikes Iran: a Hormuz crisis is back on the table
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Tehran Crosses at Bahrain and Kuwait as Interim Deal Teeters
Opinion08 Jul 26
Tehran's taunts, Washington's calculus: the rhetorical war before the real one
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump turns the Ankara summit into a one-man show — and the alliance he is berating has no good answer
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump tells Ankara summit Israel will pull troops from southern Lebanon, floats Syria's rehabilitation
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Hormuz blockade threat revives an old question: who actually moves oil?
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump tells NATO summit the Iran memorandum is dead — now what?
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump signals Israel pullout from southern Lebanon, and a Syria terror-list rethink, in a single afternoon
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Middle East Reading List: What Seven Quotes Tell Us About the Second-Term Doctrine
Investigations08 Jul 26
Trump pledges US-made Patriots for Ukraine in Ankara meeting with Zelensky
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Washington pulls the oil license and raises the Hormuz temperature
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US signals overnight strikes on Iran, Israeli and Arab outlets report
Opinion08 Jul 26
Eight Iranian soldiers, a US clean bill, and the framing war that follows
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US strikes on Iran’s southern coast target air defences and missile sites, Iranian state media reports
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US strikes on Iranian military targets near the Strait of Hormuz mark an escalation none of Tehran's neighbours asked…
Business08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz under fire: US strikes on Iran redraw the energy-risk map
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US completes new round of strikes on Iran after Strait of Hormuz shipping attacks
Opinion08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz Is the Line: US Strikes Iran After Tanker Campaign
Opinion08 Jul 26
Washington picks a fight it cannot afford to lose in the Strait of Hormuz
Business08 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens new round of strikes on Iran, escalating a confrontation already shaped by Trump's direct command
Business08 Jul 26
Trump says the Iran war is "over" — then contradicts himself by lunchtime
Business08 Jul 26
U.S. strikes hit Iran's Bandar Abbas as escalation enters a new phase
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Trump show rolls into Damascus: what a White House embrace of al-Sharaa actually signals
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Iran Escalation Reaches a Truth-Social Tipping Point
Opinion08 Jul 26
Three wins, one disaster, and a Syria reset: parsing Trump's July 8th
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump moves to lift US sanctions on Syria and delist it as a state sponsor of terrorism
Opinion08 Jul 26
Greenland, drones and a $50bn tab: what the Ankara NATO summit actually delivered
Sport08 Jul 26
Egypt blame Messi officiating as Argentina's late rally ends World Cup run
Sport08 Jul 26
Argentina's Comeback Win Reshapes World Cup Betting Markets, Leaves NYC Mayor Fuming
Investigations08 Jul 26
CENTCOM's July 7 Iran strike wave: what 80 targets, 60 IRGC boats, and a sustained campaign actually tell us
Opinion08 Jul 26
Tehran Is on Fire. The Story You’re Getting Is Not.
Opinion08 Jul 26
Erdogan's NATO moment: a Turkey that builds its own dome
Opinion08 Jul 26
Erdogan's NATO moment: a softer casus belli, a harder industrial pitch
Opinion08 Jul 26
Hezbollah's political theatre in Tehran: what Sheikh Qassem's sermons reveal about the new Iran consensus
Opinion08 Jul 26
Tehran frames US strikes and oil-permit withdrawal as a single breach — and promises a military answer
Opinion08 Jul 26
Tehran turns Karbala into a stage: the funeral procession and the politics of martyrdom
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Remains of Iran's late supreme leader arrive at Karbala shrine in state procession
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran's Martyr-Made Diplomacy and the Stagecraft of Sovereignty
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Karbala tableaux: when Tehran stages a funeral abroad, who mourns?
Opinion08 Jul 26
The procession that isn't on the wire: a missing narrative from a Karbala funeral
Opinion08 Jul 26
A funeral in Karbala, and the question Western press won't ask
Opinion08 Jul 26
A funeral in Karbala, a question for the rest of us
Opinion08 Jul 26
Mourners in Najaf and the Politics of a Funeral
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Night Kharg Burned: What Iran's Missile Gambit Reveals About a War That Refuses to Stay Contained
Sport08 Jul 26
Mamdani’s bus plan and a World Cup gripe collide on a single New York stage
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
A funeral cortege in Najaf, and the public theatre of Iran's mourning machine
Opinion08 Jul 26
A sea of black in Najaf — and the regional message that follows
Opinion08 Jul 26
Najaf stages a funeral the world did not see coming
Opinion08 Jul 26
The funeral in Najaf and the engineered message it carries
Opinion08 Jul 26
The funeral that wasn't on the wires: what Najaf tells us about whose grief counts
Opinion08 Jul 26
A funeral in Najaf and the limits of Western reading of Shia politics
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
NATO's Ankara summit hands Erdogan a bigger stage — and leaves Starmer answering for it
Opinion08 Jul 26
Polymarket is pricing an Iran war the White House hasn't declared
Sport08 Jul 26
Sánchez courts Trump on football as 2026 World Cup diplomacy kicks off
Opinion08 Jul 26
Southern Lebanon, southern front: the geography of a slow escalation
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump declares Iran ceasefire 'over' from Ankara, hours after new strikes
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump declares the ceasefire over and markets should believe him
Opinion08 Jul 26
A Ceasefire That Lasts a Week: What Trump's Iran Reversal Tells Us About the Diplomacy of the Moment
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Iran rhetoric hardens into ultimatum — the ceasefire that never quite took hold
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump tells reporters he is Iran's 'number one target' hours after floating renewed strikes
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Iran rhetoric hardens: air power gone, deal in doubt
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Syria De-Designation: Sanctions Liftoff, or a Bargaining Chip Out of Ankara?
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Three-Theatre Pivot: Iran, Türkiye, Syria on the Same Day
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Same Dictator, Same Ideology: Russian-Adjacent Channels Frame Ukraine's Path as a Familiar Endgame
Opinion08 Jul 26
Counting Russian aircraft: what a single Telegram-sourced claim does and does not tell us
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
A 14-month-old casualty and the framing fight around it: how Iranian state media turned Zahra into a US-era headline
Culture08 Jul 26
Automattic's 'Code for the People' documentary frames the open internet as a fight worth winning
Opinion08 Jul 26
The President's Trades, Now a Subscription Product
Opinion08 Jul 26
Bahrain under missile fire: what the first hour of reporting actually tells us
Opinion08 Jul 26
Bahrain wakes up to sirens — and to the limits of unverified war news
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Chabahar strike and the new grammar of US–Iran escalation
Opinion08 Jul 26
China's $20 trillion quiet correction is reshaping the global balance sheet
Opinion08 Jul 26
China's slow-motion rebalancing has a price — and somebody has to pay it
Sport08 Jul 26
Egypt files FIFA complaint over Argentina refereeing; world body also probes racist abuse aimed at streamer IShowSpeed
Opinion08 Jul 26
The GPT-5.6 rollout and the market that keeps score in real time
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran's Gulf strikes expose the limits of its own escalation ladder
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Iranian Missiles Target US Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in Overnight Strikes
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran Strikes Back: The Morning After Kharg Island Burned
Opinion08 Jul 26
Meta's Alberta Bet and the Quiet Reordering of Canadian Digital Sovereignty
Opinion08 Jul 26
Najaf's Million-Strong Farewell and the Politics of a Funeral
Sport08 Jul 26
Spain edge Portugal in stoppage time to end Ronaldo's World Cup dream
Opinion08 Jul 26
Unverified strikes and the information fog around Iran
Opinion08 Jul 26
Into the third night: what the U.S. air campaign over Iran's coast is really doing
Opinion08 Jul 26
Bushehr and Chabahar hit: the strikes that redraw the Iran file
Opinion08 Jul 26
Strikes on Chabahar and Bushehr: what the open-source footage is — and isn't — telling us
Opinion08 Jul 26
Zakzaky in Najaf: a Nigerian cleric at the centre of an Iraqi mourning
Culture08 Jul 26
Devendra Banhart, Gyan Riley, and Noah Georgeson form Hug, a new trio led by 'Cow With Half Moon Parasol'
Opinion08 Jul 26
AI hits the dock, the dashboard and the courtroom — and the rules haven't caught up
Business08 Jul 26
China Opens the Door to Nvidia H200, Even as It Lauds Home-Grown Chip Pioneers
Opinion08 Jul 26