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Culture29 Jun 26
Bad Bunny's London debut reads like a blueprint for the new global pop economy

Culture29 Jun 26
Bauhaus at 107: Why a Century-Old Design School Is Now a Culture-War Target in Germany
Culture29 Jun 26
A blind gaokao top-scorer and a 14% AI bet: two Chinese vignettes on the same Monday

Sport29 Jun 26
Hong Myung-bo resigns after South Korea's World Cup exit — and a president who named him

Opinion29 Jun 26
India's temple-state economy is bigger than its temples: the outsourced job is the new flashpoint
Opinion29 Jun 26
Two stories, one failure: how India's most vulnerable fall through the cracks of a booming economy
Sport29 Jun 26
Australia's youngest World Cup starter draws early Barcelona whispers

Opinion29 Jun 26
Newsom's Billionaires' Pivot: A Federal Tax by Way of Sacramento
Culture29 Jun 26
Noah Kahan and the Bathroom Question: A Small Story About Fandom and Predictive Markets

Geopolitics29 Jun 26
Putin rejects Kyiv's four-region freeze, signalling Moscow's maximalist end-state
Culture29 Jun 26
When the numbers don't add up: a high-profile cancer study collapses, and the field is left to ask what comes next

Sport29 Jun 26
Russell returns to the top step — and timing, not luck, is what changes for Mercedes
Sport29 Jun 26
Russell beats Verstappen in Austria as Mercedes reshapes the F1 title fight

Sport29 Jun 26
Russell wins Austrian GP as Antonelli tightens the Verstappensqueeze
Sport29 Jun 26
Schwarber reaches 30 homers first in MLB — and fastest in Phillies history

Geopolitics29 Jun 26
Vucic's resignation pledge fails to clear the streets: Serbia's protest movement enters a more confrontational phase
Culture29 Jun 26
Sidelnikov's 'Labyrinths' resurfaces in Moscow: a Soviet symphony of myth that outlasted its censors
Culture29 Jun 26
The cynic at Wembley: what a Harry Styles concert reveals about the limits of cultural disdain
Opinion29 Jun 26
Two India stories, one uneasy question about the social contract
Culture29 Jun 26
United Youth Telegram channel floods feeds with white-pride training clips

Sport29 Jun 26
USMNT heads into World Cup knockout rounds with leadership depth and a long test ahead

Opinion29 Jun 26
Venezuela's Quake and the Politics of Who Gets Seen
Sport29 Jun 26
World Cup 2026 crosses the equator: TeleSUR's FROM THE FIELD puts the megafixture on the air

Culture29 Jun 26
When the President tees off: Trump, the public golf course, and the architecture of patronage

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Unexplained blasts in Kuwait: what is known, and what isn't

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Baghdad's anti-corruption sweep lands in a state where the rules keep moving

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Explosions over Kuwait: what the first hour of reporting says — and what it doesn't

Long Reads28 Jun 26
After the Quakes: How a Venezuelan Disaster Is Pulling in German Volunteers, U.S. Aid, and a Global Search Operation

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Trump's ultimatum to Tehran: the rhetoric, the strikes, and the road not taken

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Iran warns of 'more forceful' response as ceasefire strain exposes a wider structural fault line
Long Reads28 Jun 26
A Gulf on Edge: Iran's Strike on Kuwait and the Slow Unwinding of the 2025–26 Truce

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Explosions Over Manama: What the Bahrain Air-Defence Reports Reveal

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Baghdad's Green Zone locks down as Iraq moves on a Sunni heavyweight

Culture28 Jun 26
Araqchi's first post-war walk to Baghdad: gratitude, grief, and the choreography of Iranian diplomacy

Culture28 Jun 26
Araqchi lands in Baghdad as Tehran reaches for its Arab neighbours

Culture28 Jun 26
Tehran's Baghdad diplomacy: Araghchi threads a funeral through a fractured neighbourhood

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Yarmouk Basin Strike: An Israeli Warning Run, a Stone-Throw, and the Slow Erosion of a Buffer Zone

Opinion28 Jun 26
Washington picks the AI gatekeepers

Sport28 Jun 26
Verstappen's Austrian GP qualifying ends in the wall, and a wider Red Bull wobble he can't out-drive

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Velayati's golden cage: how an Iranian adviser's platitude reframes the Hezbollah-Lebanon question
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Twelve Hours Over the Gulf: How a Single Night of US Strikes on Iran Reshaped the Hormuz Calculus
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Switzerland Talks Collapse as Hormuz Goes Quiet: The Fragile Geometry of a U.S.–Iran Reset
Long Reads28 Jun 26
A Qatar Track, Before the Guns Cool: Reading the U.S.–Iran Stand-Down Through the Strait of Hormuz

Long Reads28 Jun 26
One Memorandum, Then Strikes: Inside the 72 Hours That Quietly Rewrote US-Iran Diplomacy
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Strike, Then Talk: Why the US-Iran Memorandum Is Holding Under Fire

Long Reads28 Jun 26
United Russia's electoral slate reads like a wartime cabinet: Lavrov, Sobyanin, and a sanctioned children's-rights…

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Striking Yaroslavl: How a Russian Refinery Became the New Front Line of Ukraine's Long-Range Campaign

Long Reads28 Jun 26
The Trump Aesthetic: How a Passport Stamp, a Street Sign in India, and a Communist Self-Description Add Up to a…

Long Reads28 Jun 26
The Quiet Reordering: How Three Unconnected June 2026 Dispatches Sketch the Contours of a Less Coherent World
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz: How a Single Waterway Reopened the Iran–US War
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz, Thirty Days: What Iran’s Ultimatum Reveals About a New Maritime Order

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Starmer's NATO Secretary General bid: A British premier eyeing Brussels after Downing Street
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Southern Lebanon after the deal: mass funerals, continued strikes, and a test of what 'peace' means on the ground
Long Reads28 Jun 26
The south Lebanon raids, the prediction market, and what 'recognition' even means in June 2026

Sport28 Jun 26
South Korea coach resigns, Canada-South Africa kick off knockout rounds: a packed Sunday at the World Cup
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Warsaw's spy chief warns of unmarked Russian operators on the Baltic flank

Sport28 Jun 26
North America's World Cup hits the business end — and the anxieties have lifted

Culture28 Jun 26
Noah Kahan, the Bathroom Request, and a Spotify Bet That's Actually About Live Touring

Long Reads28 Jun 26
No Anchorage, No Deal: Putin's Denial Rewrites the Map of Diplomacy in a Fourth Year of War

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Strike on Majdal Zoun: A Single Town and the Wider Pattern of Cross-Border Fire in 2026
Long Reads28 Jun 26
The Tunnel Under Majdal Zoun: What a 200-Metre Hezbollah Cache Reveals About the Ceasefire's Stress Lines
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Israeli demolition in Majdal Zoun sends shock across the northern border
Long Reads28 Jun 26
A deal Lebanon's government calls peace, Hezbollah calls surrender: inside the first week of the November arrangement
Long Reads28 Jun 26
South Lebanon strikes in late June: a snapshot of an airstrike pattern without a public casualty ledger

Sport28 Jun 26
Kane moves past Lineker as England ease past Panama in World Cup dead rubber
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Behind the Gulf's Quiet Rearmament: Israeli Defence Sales to Qatar and Saudi Arabia
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Israel widens its Lebanon footprint: what the Majdal Zoun demolition tells us about the next phase of the war
Long Reads28 Jun 26
After the truce: Israel widens strikes in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah ambush kills soldiers
Sport28 Jun 26
Ireland end two-decade wait as Prendergast fifty anchors historic T20 World Cup win over West Indies
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Iran widens the battlefield: drone and missile strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait reopen the Strait of Hormuz question
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Six drones a night: how Iran is squeezing the Strait of Hormuz — and what the world is doing about it
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Strait Geometry: How a 30-Day Hormuz Claim and a Halt-Strikes Whisper Rewrote the Iran File in 72 Hours
Long Reads28 Jun 26
The Rial That Did Not Rally: Inside Iran's Currency Collapse Despite the Hormuz Thaw
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Tehran walks away from the table: what Iran's pullout from technical talks really signals
Culture28 Jun 26
Iran's foreign minister lands in Baghdad with relations 'at the top' of Tehran's priorities

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Iran's Baghdad Mission: Reading the Funeral Diplomacy
Opinion28 Jun 26
The Platform Has Read Your Living Room: Why Indian Parents Are Asking Different Questions About Screens, Sleep and…
Tech28 Jun 26
The IMO moment: how OpenAI beat DeepMind on comms — and what it tells us about AI research, Figma's IPO math, and the…

Sport28 Jun 26
Hovland seizes Travelers lead with closing birdie as Scheffler three-putts at the 18th
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Hormuz on a knife-edge: Trump's 'will no longer exist' warning and the architecture of a brittle ceasefire
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Hormuz on a hair trigger: how a single strait became the world's most dangerous corridor
Long Reads28 Jun 26
A Golani Captain Falls in Southern Lebanon, and the Northern Front Resets
Sport28 Jun 26
Three hat-tricks in a week: how the 2026 World Cup's opening rounds have tilted toward the marginal favourites

Culture28 Jun 26
Colman Domingo Returns to San Francisco as City Reclaims a Decade of Black Cultural Production

Sport28 Jun 26
Cold War Steve's England squad barbecue: satire that knows the score before kickoff
Sport28 Jun 26
Clarke walks. Scotland's 2026 World Cup exit forces the question his reign avoided.
Sport28 Jun 26
Clarke walks away from Scotland job hours after World Cup exit is confirmed

Sport28 Jun 26
Canada meets South Africa to open the World Cup knockout rounds — and Polymarket is already pricing the commentary
Sport28 Jun 26
Canada edge South Africa in first-ever World Cup Round of 32, exorcising 2010 ghosts for Hugo Broos's side
Geopolitics28 Jun 26
Canada edges South Africa in stoppage time to claim a first-ever World Cup round-of-16 berth
Sport28 Jun 26
Canada edges South Africa in first-ever World Cup Round of 32 fixture

Sport28 Jun 26
Canada meets South Africa in the first World Cup knockout round either side has ever played

Opinion28 Jun 26
California is trying to fix two billionaire-era problems at once — and only one has a deadline
Long Reads28 Jun 26
After the Tanning Lot: How a Single UV Molecule Became the Test Case for a Reordered Chemical Trade
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Bahrain's midnight siren: what one Interior Ministry alert tells us about Gulf air defence in 2026
Investigations28 Jun 26
Australia Doubles Down on Under-16 Social Media Ban as Penalties Reach Tech Giants
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Araghchi's Baghdad play: Tehran rewrites the Gulf security script and dares Washington to object
Tech28 Jun 26
Apple's Vision Pro chief jumps to OpenAI as GPT-5.6 launches under restricted-access terms
Long Reads28 Jun 26
The Pill After the Patient: How Antibiotic Residues Move Through the Water and the Market

Culture28 Jun 26
Annecy 2026: The Animation Festival That Got Business Done While Hollywood Watched

Opinion28 Jun 26
The American Household Is Quietly Telling a Different Story Than the Headlines
Long Reads28 Jun 26
A Village on the Yarmouk: How an Israeli Raid Inside Syria Reframes the Southern Front

Culture28 Jun 26
Stephen Poliakoff Returns to Television with ‘The Order,’ an International Political Thriller

Opinion28 Jun 26
The Quiet Return to the Office Is Becoming a Quiet Way Out the Door

Culture28 Jun 26
Pace Gallery Doubles Down on Kentridge's Anti-Imperial Imagination — and the Memes Are Already Circling

Opinion28 Jun 26
Newsom's Billionaire-Tax Pivot Is a National Frame, Not a Sacramento Story
Sport28 Jun 26
Kane breaks England's World Cup scoring record as Group L closes against Panama
Sport28 Jun 26
India chase Lord's path to semi-finals after late-innings surge leaves Bangladesh, South Africa on notice
Sport28 Jun 26
India keep semi-final hopes alive as South Africa squeeze the group at Lord's
Opinion28 Jun 26
India's week of sporting bruises: what the Ireland and Australia losses actually say

Opinion28 Jun 26
Hong Kong's prediction-market fight is a quiet referendum on what the city is for

Culture28 Jun 26
When the Studio Walks Away: Guadagnino, Altman, and the Censors of the AI Age

Culture28 Jun 26
Gracie Abrams and the new shape of the nepotism debate

Sport28 Jun 26
Canada into the last 16: Eustáquio's stoppage-time strike turns a co-host's tournament on its head

Opinion28 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup begins in a sport already remade by data — and Iran wants in
Long Reads28 Jun 26
The talks that weren't: how a resumption of fighting between Israel and Iran pushed U.S. diplomacy off the table

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Araghchi in Baghdad: The Quiet Logistics of a Funeral and a Funeral's Other Meanings

Sport28 Jun 26
Scaloni rests Messi as Argentina rotate into Jordan with group already sealed
Sport28 Jun 26
Portugal's draw with Colombia postpones the meeting Messi-Ronaldo fans were promised
Sport28 Jun 26
Messi's seven-in-a-row sets Argentina up for Cabo Verde, and a different kind of World Cup test
Opinion28 Jun 26
Messi's bench cameo ties a World Cup record — and tells us more about Argentina than the scoreline suggests
Sport28 Jun 26
Messi's bench cameo rewrites the record book as Argentina hit cruise control
Sport28 Jun 26
Messi's bench cameo rewrites the record books as Argentina cruise past Jordan in Dallas
Sport28 Jun 26
Messi's bench cameo rewrites another World Cup record as Argentina finish the group stage perfect
Sport28 Jun 26
Lo Celso's free-kick hands Argentina win over Jordan as Messi starts on the bench
Sport28 Jun 26
Argentina rests Messi against Jordan and the World Cup group stage quietly turns into a striker's audition
Sport28 Jun 26
Messi off the bench, Lo Celso off the mark: Argentina close group stage with 3-1 win over Jordan

Culture28 Jun 26
A Singaporean short takes Annecy’s top prize — and quietly resets the map for Southeast Asian animation

Opinion28 Jun 26
Bolivia drops the dollar peg, London buys the drones: a week in two halves

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Netanyahu opens a new front with Ankara, framing Erdoğan as an existential threat and turning the Cabinet table into a…

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Three Days Under the Rubble: Venezuela's Earthquake and the Politics of Relief

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Twin earthquakes off Venezuela leave tens of thousands unaccounted for as US moves a nine-figure aid package
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Earthquake, aid, alignment: how a 1,430-death disaster is reshaping the U.S.–Venezuela relationship
Long Reads28 Jun 26
Venezuelan Earthquake Aftermath Tests Caracas–Washington Détente

Sport28 Jun 26
Scotland's coaching search has one question it cannot dodge any longer

Culture28 Jun 26
Inside the Clerical Framing of Pezeshkian's Presidency: A Quiet Call for Street-Level Legitimacy

Opinion28 Jun 26
SpaceX Joins the Nasdaq-100 — and the Index Just Became a Single-Story Trade

Long Reads28 Jun 26
After the tremor: a US military footprint in Venezuela tests two governments

Culture28 Jun 26
Sam Worthington's Resurrection: 'I Will Find You' and the Streaming Star Vehicle That Refuses to Sit Still

Opinion28 Jun 26
India's bank-fraud playbook keeps growing new chapters, and the auditors keep missing them

Opinion28 Jun 26
South Carolina's curfew loophole turns graduation night into a sidewalk drag strip

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Skydiver aircraft crash in northeastern France leaves eleven dead, prompting questions over light aviation regulation

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Strikes, Bans, and the Slow Reordering of the Petrodollar's Periphery

Sport28 Jun 26
Croatia edge Ghana to top Group H as Queiroz exits Iran's touchline

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Poland's June Heatwave: When the Country Stops Working

Culture28 Jun 26
When the forecast is wrong: Vanilla Ice, a Freedom 250 concert, and the politics of cancellation

Culture28 Jun 26
Olivia Wilde's 'Liberating' 38% Score: A Read on Indie Auteurs, Algorithm Anxiety, and the Rotten Tomatoes Trap

Geopolitics28 Jun 26
Saudi Aramco helicopter crash kills 14 in Ras Tanura, the kingdom's oil hub

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Inside Ras Tanura: what a 14-fatality Aramco crash reveals about the Gulf's industrial safety regime

Business28 Jun 26
IRGC claims strikes on US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for American airstrikes on Iran

Opinion28 Jun 26
The World Cup and the violence no broadcast covers
Sport28 Jun 26
Ronaldo's mother breaks her silence: a son's record, a family's gratitude, and a World Cup still in motion
Sport28 Jun 26
India's twin T20 assignments expose the depth problem hiding behind the World Cup hype

Business28 Jun 26
Moderna's 14% Surge and the Bahrain Alert: Two Markets, Two Crises, One Trading Week

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Karachi to Kabul: Pakistan's Cross-Border Calculus After the Rangers Attack

Geopolitics28 Jun 26
Air-defence activity over Manama as reports of explosions surface in Bahrain

Business28 Jun 26
Pentagon Times Iran Strike Announcement Past Market Close, as Missile Launches Resume Overnight

Culture28 Jun 26
‘Michael’ Crosses $977 Million Worldwide, Toppling ‘Oppenheimer’ as the Highest-Grossing Biopic Ever

Long Reads28 Jun 26
Baghdad's Green Zone sealed off: what an overnight arrest move tells us about Iraq's fractured politics

Culture28 Jun 26
Bad Bunny at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: a stadium-scale case study in the new economics of Latin pop

Culture28 Jun 26
Iran's judiciary chief frames economic crisis as an existential test for the Islamic Republic

Opinion28 Jun 26
Even the toilet is gone: a small German theft that says something about the housing crisis

Geopolitics28 Jun 26
Istanbul Pride defies ban as police detain dozens at June 2026 march

Sport28 Jun 26
England top their group, but McNulty's warning travels further than the dressing room
Sport28 Jun 26
England meet DR Congo as World Cup knockout stage arrives

Opinion28 Jun 26
Australia's under-16 social media ban just got teeth — and the eSafety scaffolding is starting to look like a template

Opinion28 Jun 26
The Selfie Is Not New, But the Economy It's Distracting Us From Certainly Is

Sport28 Jun 26
Serena Williams returns to Wimbledon as Venus reunion headlines the doubles draw
Sport28 Jun 26
Serena Williams says doping protocols nearly derailed her Wimbledon return — and that she had to talk herself back onto…

Sport28 Jun 26
Group J's 3-3 stunner sends Algeria and Austria through, knocks Iran out

Culture28 Jun 26
Olivia Wilde's 'The Invite' arrives with the most credible awards-case craft of her directing career

Culture28 Jun 26
Colombia’s animation industry takes the Annecy spotlight as a Country of Honor in 2027

Long Reads28 Jun 26
London Vehicle Attack Reopens Familiar Fault Lines on Immigration, Policing, and Media Sourcing

Sport28 Jun 26
Darryn Peterson lands in Utah and immediately tells the Jazz who he is

Tech28 Jun 26
South Korea bets on drones as fertility slide reshapes the manpower math

Opinion28 Jun 26
Trump's week: a D.C. golf course, an ICE nomination, and a market betting on his numbers

Opinion28 Jun 26
Heat, hazard, and the limits of a continent built for milder weather

Opinion28 Jun 26
Beyond the wire: what Indian Express's three June threads reveal about how India edits itself

Opinion28 Jun 26
Italy's pension reform lands on 1 July, and the portability question that won't go away

Sport28 Jun 26
Bellingham silences the selection debate as England cruise past Panama and out of Group L
Sport28 Jun 26
England labour past Panama as Kane takes the record book

Tech28 Jun 26
Signal, smoke, and the long war for Ukraine's phone line

Opinion28 Jun 26
Poland's sidewalk lawlessness, the Andrzej Seweryn pension fight, and what viral clips tell us about a country at war…

Sport28 Jun 26
Ireland's weekend of shocks leaves India's cricketers searching for answers

Opinion28 Jun 26
When billionaires ranch, broadcasters moralise, and procurement pivots: three dispatches from late June 2026

Culture28 Jun 26
Two simultaneous jolts: a US strike on Iran expands overnight, while a high-profile retraction reopens a debate over…

Geopolitics28 Jun 26
Belgrade restarts conscription: Vucic sets March 2027 as the return date

Opinion28 Jun 26
Algeria vs Austria: A Friendly in an Unfriendly World for the Global South

Geopolitics28 Jun 26
Araghchi in Baghdad: Tehran floats a Hormuz deal and demands Washington rein in Israel
Opinion28 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz is being tested, and the test is not being run by Iran alone

Culture28 Jun 26
A 25-Year-Old Summer Camp Returns to Theatres — and Asks What the Original Got Right

Sport28 Jun 26
India and Australia meet at Lord’s with Group A topping on the line

Investigations28 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz under stress: Iranian drone strike on cargo vessel tests the Trump ceasefire

Opinion28 Jun 26
Ukraine's refineries, Russia's promises, and the asymmetry of drone warfare

Sport28 Jun 26
Cape Verde's World Cup run is the tournament's biggest structural story

Culture28 Jun 26
A Sunday Night on Nevsky: Russian Opera Holds Its Stage in St. Petersburg

Sport28 Jun 26
Courtois overtakes Belgium's World Cup appearance record

Sport28 Jun 26
Seventy-two matches in, the 2026 World Cup still has no signature game — and that is the story
Sport28 Jun 26
177 and counting: the 2026 World Cup is already the highest-scoring in history
Sport28 Jun 26