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Long Reads05 Jul 26
Iran's Khamenei funeral at Mosalla: a contested succession begins
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz as leverage: inside Iran's calibrated threat to charge transit fees on the world's busiest oil…
Sport05 Jul 26
France survive Paraguay's dark arts to book World Cup quarter-final in Philadelphia
Long Reads05 Jul 26
France's Heat, the World Cup, and the Markets Pricing Both
Sport05 Jul 26
FIFA's Red-Card Reversal for a US Player After a Trump Intervention Raises Questions About Sporting Independence
Sport05 Jul 26
FIFA walks back Balogun suspension after White House call — and leaves more questions than answers
Culture05 Jul 26
Vin Diesel Says the Final 'Fast & Furious' Is Coming, and Hollywood's Tent-Pole Calculus Just Got Quieter
Sport05 Jul 26
F1 sprint weekend resets constructors' title math as Team USA's World Cup odds drift on Polymarket
Culture05 Jul 26
Reese Witherspoon's 'Elle' Lands on Prime Video. The Retro Wardrobe Is the Point.
Sport05 Jul 26
Egypt's first knockout win reframes an African football story written in penalties
Sport05 Jul 26
British Grand Prix weekend closes with a sprint win and a Sunday podium — the racing stays the story
Sport05 Jul 26
Antonelli's early stop, Ferrari's strong launch set tone at Silverstone
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Alibaba's Claude Code ban and the new fault line in cross-border AI tooling
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Inside the $4.4bn Trump memecoin windfall: how a presidential brand became a financial instrument
Long Reads05 Jul 26
The Family That Trades Together: Inside Trump's Crypto and Equity Conflicts
Long Reads05 Jul 26
A Quarter-Millennium on the Mall: How Trump Used America's 250th to Recast the Founding
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Two Tennessee National Guard members fatally shoot armed suspect in downtown Memphis pursuit
Long Reads05 Jul 26
The $250 Bill Question: How Polymarket's Odds Reveal the Real State of the American Republic
Sport05 Jul 26
Morocco dumps Canada 3-0 and the diaspora takes to the streets of The Hague
Sport05 Jul 26
Mooney's 64 steers Australia past England in Women's T20 World Cup final at Lord's
Opinion05 Jul 26
El-Sayed's lane opens: McMorrow's exit reshapes Michigan's Senate primary
Sport05 Jul 26
Balogun's ban overturned: FIFA clears USMNT striker for Belgium as Trump claims credit
Sport05 Jul 26
Balogun cleared for Belgium test as USMNT's knockout arithmetic sharpens
Sport05 Jul 26
Australia reclaim Women's T20 World Cup at Lord's, routing England by seven wickets
Sport05 Jul 26
Australia reclaim Women's T20 World Cup as England's final wait stretches to 17 years
Sport05 Jul 26
Australia reclaim Women's T20 World Cup at Lord's as England's wait extends to 17 years
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Tehran fills the Mosalla: a leadership transition staged as a national rite
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Tehran's Farewell: Inside the Ceremonial Theatre That Frames Khamenei's Succession
Sport05 Jul 26
Round of 16 opens with a South American gravity well and a FIFA gift-rule coda
Long Reads05 Jul 26
The $636 Million Memo: How a Meme Coin Became a Presidential Tell
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Inside Information at the White House: How Trump's Family Trades Public Disclosure for Private Profit
Sport05 Jul 26
Osaka outhits Sabalenka at Wimbledon, books first quarter-final in London
Sport05 Jul 26
Mexico's moment: England arrive in a capital on edge before a World Cup knockout test
Opinion05 Jul 26
Mexico City Hosts the World Cup and the Market for It
Opinion05 Jul 26
England-Mexico in Mexico City: altitude, Viagra rumour, and a Polymarket that thinks El Tri can win
Opinion05 Jul 26
England at 7,350 feet: the World Cup logistics story nobody asked for
Sport05 Jul 26
England's Azteca reckoning: altitude, atmosphere and the calm before Mexico's World Cup storm
Sport05 Jul 26
Haaland meets Vinicius: Brazil–Norway tests the World Cup’s marquee striker paradox
Sport05 Jul 26
Sabalenka and Osaka meet for the third time in three months — this one is for a Wimbledon quarter-final
Sport05 Jul 26
Osaka's Wimbledon resurrection: ranking-free Osaka outslugs Sabalenka and redraws the draw
Sport05 Jul 26
Osaka sends the world number one packing at Wimbledon as Sabalenka's grass-court wait continues
Sport05 Jul 26
Osaka stuns Sabalenka at Wimbledon as a comeback narrative finds real teeth
Long Reads05 Jul 26
A $9,000 Bet, a Two-Goal Haaland, and the End of Brazil: How the 2026 World Cup Started Talking Like a Trading Desk
Sport05 Jul 26
Australia's seventh title exposes how thin England's margin has become
Sport05 Jul 26
Australia reclaim the throne at Lord’s as England’s caution costs them a seventh
Opinion05 Jul 26
Chestnut's Eighteenth Mustard Belt and the Strange Economics of Competitive Eating
Sport05 Jul 26
Leclerc takes Silverstone as Hamilton returns to the podium: a British Grand Prix of two storylines
Opinion05 Jul 26
Trump Accounts, Pardons, and a Familial Information Edge: The Week the White House Made Itself a Product
Opinion05 Jul 26
Norway Stuns Brazil 2-0 in Oslo: A Friendly That Reads Like a Recalibration
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Kenya's Tourism Sector Braces for Peak Season Under a Pile-Up of Levies
Sport05 Jul 26
England walk into the Azteca: Tuchel plays down the hostility, leaves selection calls for Saturday
Long Reads05 Jul 26
ATF Quietly Unwinds Federal Firearms Rules as Trump-Era Rollback Expands
Long Reads05 Jul 26
A Farewell, a Funeral, and a Warning: Reading Tehran's Mass Mourning for Khamenei
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Khamenei funeral becomes a contested stage: succession, grief and the political road ahead
Long Reads05 Jul 26
The funeral in Tehran: what the Khamenei succession picture is actually showing
Culture05 Jul 26
Seven million Tehran metro rides, one farewell: what the funeral numbers reveal about the Islamic Republic's reach
Long Reads05 Jul 26
A bloody Fourth: how US mass shootings travel through foreign state media
Culture05 Jul 26
Crunchyroll and Aniplex greenlight a theatrical ‘Solo Leveling’ film — and the Korean IP export keeps compounding
MENA08 Jul 26
Najaf, Karbala and the choreography of a successor funeral
Sport05 Jul 26
Mbappé settles it from the spot as France outlast a stubborn Paraguay to reach the last eight
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Mbappé's penalty lifts France past Paraguay and into a Morocco quarter-final that carries its own weight
Sport05 Jul 26
Djokovic draws level with Federer at 105 Wimbledon wins — but the harder tests await
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Neymar's Goodbye: Norway Stuns Brazil 2-1 and Ends an Era at the World Cup
Opinion05 Jul 26
A Red Card, a Reversal, and the Politics of the 2026 World Cup
Opinion05 Jul 26
Erling Haaland's Norway just put two past Brazil — and the football world should pay attention
Opinion05 Jul 26
Haaland's Norway Humble Brazil — and the Wire Took Notice
Long Reads05 Jul 26
Two views of Europe, and the question neither can answer
Opinion05 Jul 26
The Storm Over the Mall, and the Optics of a Half-Century Birthday
Long Reads05 Jul 26
A 250th birthday, a campaign stop, and the question of who owns the pageantry
Long Reads05 Jul 26
A destroyer called Kang Kon: what North Korea's warship test really signals
Sport05 Jul 26
Polymarket's World Cup and Swift-wedding contracts show prediction markets moving from news to ceremony
Sport05 Jul 26
Egypt and Argentina advance as World Cup knockout bracket reshapes: what the last‑16 picture looks like after a…
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Cargo ship distress call off Hodeidah revives questions over Red Sea shipping corridor
Opinion05 Jul 26
Trump's Trade Pauses and the Conflict Portfolio: Reading the July 5 Wire
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Trump's 250th-anniversary speech recasts America as 'crowning achievement' and makes the 'communists' the foil
Opinion05 Jul 26
When the Symbol Stays Lit: What Germany's Gesture to America's 250th Actually Says
Sport05 Jul 26
Mexico meets England at Azteca as Brazil draw Norway in World Cup round of 16
Culture05 Jul 26
A Lion at Her Back: Tonia Mishiali Brings Cyprus’s Migrant Reckoning to Karlovy Vary
Sport05 Jul 26
Mexico-England World Cup clash arrives with Polymarket at 47% and a cat on the telly
Culture05 Jul 26
Harvey Keitel turns the camera on AI's 'danger,' from Karlovy Vary
Sport05 Jul 26
England v Mexico kick-off moved up as storm threat forces a scheduling reshuffle
Opinion05 Jul 26
Cats, prediction markets and the carnival around England v Mexico
Sport05 Jul 26
England walk into the Azteca — the stadium that crowns football kings
Sport05 Jul 26
England arrive in Mexico City to boos, weather jitters and a missing Reece James
Opinion05 Jul 26
Prediction Markets Are Quietly Becoming the Geopolitical Tape
Sport05 Jul 26
Mexico’s Azteca test: England head into altitude, hostility and a ten-game fortress
Sport05 Jul 26
Williams doubles withdrawal caps a day of upsets at Wimbledon
Sport05 Jul 26
Serena Williams' Wimbledon return ends in doubles withdrawal, but the comeback story is still being written
Culture05 Jul 26
Switzerland's polite silence: Jan-Eric Mack's 'A Happy Family' turns the camera on a country that doesn't confess
Culture05 Jul 26
Margo Price Drops a July 4 Protest Mixtape With Joan Baez — and Asks Who It Is For
Culture05 Jul 26
Bollywood's money problem comes for the Malayalam industry
Sport05 Jul 26
England arrive in Mexico City to a hostile reception — and a market that thinks they might lose
Sport05 Jul 26
England's right-back depth chart thins again as Spence limps toward Mexico tie
Sport05 Jul 26
Russell at Silverstone: how a P5 holding pattern turned the British GP into a home-soil referendum on Mercedes
Sport05 Jul 26
Tournament football's psyche game: Mexico's threat to England, and Paraguay's failure against France
Sport05 Jul 26
FIFA lifts Balogun suspension as Trump takes credit, and FIFA denies the White House had any say
Opinion05 Jul 26
India's human-interest beat is telling us something its foreign-policy desks won't
Opinion05 Jul 26
India's platform-safety test: when the regulator's notice lands on a global ad giant
Opinion05 Jul 26
JD Vance's Britain-bashing and the strange theater of the allied lecture
Business05 Jul 26
Trump reframes America's 250th as personal coronation, with Treasury as backdrop
Opinion05 Jul 26
July 4th Sale, Year-Round Sucker: The Quiet Politics of Retail-Trader Marketing
Opinion05 Jul 26
Heat, rain and crowd-control arithmetic at America's 250th birthday fair
Opinion05 Jul 26
India's IT hiring squeeze is a labour story, not an AI story — and the wires are getting the framing wrong
Opinion05 Jul 26
India's MBA gender reversal is real, but the structural story is older than the headline
Opinion05 Jul 26
A zebra finch, an Instagram loophole, and the new shape of India’s scrutiny
Opinion05 Jul 26
When Birdsong Becomes Big Science: What a 95-Lakh Prize Tells Us About Indian Research Priorities
Opinion05 Jul 26
Instagram's India problem and the platform's two-tier safety record
Opinion05 Jul 26
Brazil exits the 2026 World Cup — and the gap between Seleção mythology and Seleção reality grows wider
Sport05 Jul 26
USMNT exits a World Cup on home soil with off-pitch storylines that did the talking
Opinion05 Jul 26
India's headline cycle keeps producing grief faster than it produces answers
Long Reads05 Jul 26
A Birthday, a Signature, and a Presidency on the Currency: The Politics of America's 250th
Sport05 Jul 26
Balogun cleared for USMNT’s last-16 tie with Belgium after Fifa suspends red-card ban
Sport05 Jul 26
Balogun cleared for USMNT knockout tie with Belgium as FIFA lifts suspension
Sport05 Jul 26
England head into the Azteca chasing history, not just a quarter-final
Opinion05 Jul 26
Philadelphia Can't Mask Its ICE Problem, But a Federal Judge Just Did
Opinion05 Jul 26
A 'week off,' a funeral, and the choreography of brinkmanship: what the Trump–Iran pause really signals
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's Mourning Theatre and the Long Memory the West Refuses to Read
Opinion05 Jul 26
Two superpowers, three scripts: reading the China file without the Western autopilot
Sport05 Jul 26
England–Mexico headlines Sunday's World Cup last-16 slate as Kane's scoring touch meets tournament gravity
Opinion05 Jul 26
Russia's summer offensive is grinding into a war of position
Opinion05 Jul 26
Polymarket is pricing Andy Burnham as the next UK prime minister. The bettors may be ahead of the politicians.
Sport05 Jul 26
Australia seize control of Lord's T20 World Cup final as England's top order folds
Sport05 Jul 26
Australia's seventh title exposes the gap England keep refusing to close
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's Martyr Theatre Comes for the World
Culture05 Jul 26
Sienna Spiro's 'The Visitor' arrives with the weight of a debut that knows exactly what it is
Investigations05 Jul 26
Pyongyang's New Destroyer Fires a Cruise Missile — and a Signal at Washington and Seoul
Sport05 Jul 26
Brazil face Norway, and the question that follows Haaland everywhere
Opinion05 Jul 26
The levies problem: why Kenya's tourism surge won't fix itself
Sport05 Jul 26
Mexico vs England kick-off in flux as FIFA weighs weather risk for World Cup 2026 group finale
Opinion05 Jul 26
Banner Politics: Trump Turns a Federal Façade Into a Campaign Billboard
Sport05 Jul 26
Mexico and England meet at altitude, with Brazil–Norway looming: the World Cup last-16 story for 5 July
Sport05 Jul 26
Tuchel tells England to write their own chapter against Mexico, as Reece James races the clock
Culture05 Jul 26
Ateez’s Third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Shows How Far K-Pop Has Pulled Its Weight
Opinion05 Jul 26
The Market That Already Knows Trump Won't Quit NATO
Opinion05 Jul 26
Germany's borrowing binge and the bill coming due
Opinion05 Jul 26
The Rushmore Telephone: Reading Trump's Putin Call Through Washington's Own Script
Sport05 Jul 26
Power rankings and population blind spots: what the World Cup's last 16 actually tell us
Opinion05 Jul 26
Italy's Vannacci Problem: When a General Succeeds by Telling the Poor They're Right
Opinion05 Jul 26
The Indian Ocean's Quiet Courtrooms: Three Cases That Say Something About African Sovereignty
Sport05 Jul 26
Morocco ousts Canada from World Cup 2026, and the result lands differently in Gaza
Opinion05 Jul 26
Mars, Moon, and the strange grammar of American decline
Opinion05 Jul 26
Punjab’s urea diversions and Bihar’s viral reels: two stories that expose how India’s federal compact is being quietly…
Opinion05 Jul 26
Peskov's word problem: when 'special military operation' becomes 'war' on Russian state TV
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran buries Khamenei: the political question Tehran has not answered
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's Farewell Theocracy: Mourning as Statecraft
Opinion05 Jul 26
What the Khamenei funeral tells us about succession, spectacle, and the new Iran
Sport05 Jul 26
Paraguay's World Cup Return Pits South American Grit Against French Firepower
Opinion05 Jul 26
A funeral in Tehran, and the message Iran's rulers are sending the world
Opinion05 Jul 26
Coney Island on the Fourth: when the ritual stops feeling like a celebration
Opinion05 Jul 26
Brazil's exits keep getting louder — and the World Cup just heard it
Opinion05 Jul 26
Haaland, Polymarket, and the New Shape of a Football Bet
Opinion05 Jul 26
Tehran stops for a martyred leader, and asks what comes after
Opinion05 Jul 26
Predicting the next French riot: when a World Cup quarterfinal becomes a stress test
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's Martyr Cult Isn't Sentimentality, It's the Operating System
Opinion05 Jul 26
Kyiv under fire again: what six Iskander missiles tell us about the war's geometry
Sport05 Jul 26
Erling Haaland carries Premier League form into a World Cup showdown with Brazil
Opinion05 Jul 26
Funeral rites as foreign policy: Iran's martyrdom theatre and the Khamenei succession signal
Opinion05 Jul 26
The 2% mirage: why NATO's spending debate keeps dodging the question of how the money is spent
Opinion05 Jul 26
Tehran's Farewell and the Limits of a Martyrdom Narrative
Sport05 Jul 26
Verstappen arrives at Silverstone with sprint points already in the bank
Sport05 Jul 26
Verstappen holds firm at Silverstone: British GP weekend sets up the second half of the season
Sport05 Jul 26
England face altitude test at the Azteca as Tuchel seeks calm before Mexico friendly
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's Martyr State and the Cameras That Watch It Mourn
Opinion05 Jul 26
Tehran's farewell: what a state funeral tells us about the order Iran is trying to signal
Opinion05 Jul 26
What Tehran's Mourning Procession Tells Us About the Republic's Newest Wound
Opinion05 Jul 26
A sailor declared dead in the Arabian Sea, and the question of why a routine flight ended in rescue-and-recovery
Opinion05 Jul 26
Supergirl's second-weekend collapse and the quiet reordering of the box office
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Tehran buries Khamenei: how a succession ritual is reshaping the Islamic Republic
Opinion05 Jul 26
A Half-Baked Birthday: America Turns 250 Under Cloudy Skies and Crossed Wires
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's mass funeral as message — and the $300bn reconstruction gap that complicates it
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's mourning choreography and the politics of public grief
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's Theatrical Mourning and the Performance of Revolutionary Legitimacy
Opinion05 Jul 26
Tehran's funeral theatre and the audiences it was meant for
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Trump marks America's 250th with nationalist sweep and a sharp jab at the political left
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Vance's battlefield verdict: Russia 'achieving almost nothing,' Ukrainian gains 'creating conditions' to end the war
Sport05 Jul 26
Balogun cleared, Belgium bewildered: how a FIFA reversal upended a World Cup knockout round
Sport05 Jul 26
Sciver-Brunt fifty keeps England alive as Australia tighten the screws at Lord's
Investigations05 Jul 26
Ansarallah's deadliest Saudi-coalition strike in years resurfaces the Yemen file
Opinion05 Jul 26
Five Stories, One Thread: How a Saturday News Cluster Reveals the Shape of the Cycle
Opinion05 Jul 26
Germany's borrowing binge meets the street: a federal budget of €203bn lands while 20,000 march against the AfD
Culture05 Jul 26
Bulgarian duo Grozeva and Valchanov return to Karlovy Vary with a film about corruption and pro-Russia nostalgia
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Iran buries Khamenei: succession, command, and what the funeral choreography signals
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran's state-aligned press mourns a 'martyred leader' — and the framing tells you everything
Opinion05 Jul 26
Merz's borrowing bonanza and the end of Germany's fiscal innocence
Sport05 Jul 26
Mexico-England at the Azteca: a fortress, a forecast, and a diplomatic flashpoint
Opinion05 Jul 26
Iran turns a funeral into a stage, and the region is forced to watch
Opinion05 Jul 26
Netanyahu's bipartisan appeal hides the harder question about US-Israel alignment
Opinion05 Jul 26
Tehran's farewell and the choreography of a martyr-state
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Venezuela earthquake toll climbs past 2,900 as Caracas faces a compound crisis
Opinion05 Jul 26
The Trump Business Model Just Ate the Trump Presidency
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Iran's parliament speaker rejects peace with US, refuses to recognise Israel
Opinion05 Jul 26
Yemen's signals and Ukraine's quiet arsenal: what two Telegram threads on 5 July 2026 actually tell us
Opinion05 Jul 26
Air alarms in Mykolaiv: a Sunday evening that read like a thousand before it
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Hindu cleric's Tehran visit puts Iran–India people-to-people diplomacy in frame
Opinion05 Jul 26
The funeral nobody outside Iran was supposed to see
Sport05 Jul 26
Norway ousts Brazil as Neymar walks off the World Cup stage
Geopolitics05 Jul 26
Poland declassifies four years of military aid to Ukraine, signals leak probes
Opinion05 Jul 26
Tehran buries a 'martyred leader' as the headlines blur into one
Opinion05 Jul 26
The Funeral That Wasn't a Funeral: Reading Tehran's Khomeini-to-Khamenei Hand-Off
Opinion05 Jul 26