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Opinion21 Jun 26
A 245-Kilometre Drone Strike and the War Economy It Reveals
Opinion21 Jun 26
Ukraine's deep strikes reach the Kerch Strait — and the geography of risk shifts
Opinion21 Jun 26
Ukraine's long reach: drones over Kerch and the geography of a widening war
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Ukraine hits Crimean Bridge flanks and Kerch ferry crossing in overnight long-range strike
Opinion21 Jun 26
Striking the Ferry: How Ukraine's Kerch Hit Reframes the Black Sea Oil Calculus
Opinion21 Jun 26
Ukraine's Deep Strike Reaches 245 km Into Russia. The Ferry Crossing Was Always the Point.
Opinion21 Jun 26
Kyiv's long arm reaches the Kerch Strait: what the overnight strike does — and doesn't — change
Opinion21 Jun 26
Ukraine's Long Reach: Striking the Kerch Strait
Opinion21 Jun 26
Kyiv draws a line in Warsaw: how a diplomatic flare-up between allies became everyone's problem
Opinion21 Jun 26
Kyiv draws a line in Warsaw: Ukraine's counter-move against Poland's new president
Sport21 Jun 26
Deniz Undav's bench brace sends Germany into the World Cup knockouts — and lands a fair-play complaint from Ivory Coast
Sport21 Jun 26
Deniz Undav's super-sub act books Germany's place in the World Cup Round of 32
Sport21 Jun 26
Undav rescues Germany as Ivory Coast comeback caps a 4+90 finish in Toronto
Sport21 Jun 26
Uruguay meets Cape Verde as Belgium faces Iran: a World Cup day defined by underdogs and geopolitics
Opinion21 Jun 26
The handshake that wasn't: what the US-Iran photo snub tells us about the room in Geneva
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Quadrilateral Talks End Without Deal as US and Iran Move to Bilateral Track in Switzerland
Opinion21 Jun 26
The handshake that didn't happen: parsing the first 80 minutes of US-Iran talks
Opinion21 Jun 26
Mediation, not breakthrough: what Switzerland tells us about US-Iran
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
US-Iran talks in Switzerland open with Israel-Lebanon on the front burner
Opinion21 Jun 26
Tehran Arrives, Then Pauses: What the Switzerland Talks Actually Tell Us
Opinion21 Jun 26
The Switzerland talks end on Monday — and that is the most important detail
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
US and Iran open indirect track in Switzerland, with Qatar and Pakistan at the table
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Quadrilateral talks open in Switzerland as Trump threatens Iran from the other end of the phone
Opinion21 Jun 26
Trump's Truth-Social diplomacy just walked Iran's team out of the room
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
US and Iran open indirect track in Switzerland under Qatari-Pakistani mediation
Opinion21 Jun 26
Uranium, Ultimatums, and the Quiet Logic of a Renewed US-Iran Crisis
Long Reads21 Jun 26
Industrial policy returns to the Senate floor as defense procurement comes under contract
Opinion21 Jun 26
Van Hollen's bad-war diagnosis puts Senate dissent on the record
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Van Hollen calls US war on Iran 'illegal' and 'a blunder,' says Washington is 'worse off' than before
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Van Hollen's Iran critique breaks through on Tehran-aligned channels — and tells a sharper story than the wire covers
Opinion21 Jun 26
Van Hollen Calls US Iran War 'Illegal' and a 'Blunder' — and Dares His Own Party to Say So
Opinion21 Jun 26
Van Hollen's "no good way out": a US senator breaks ranks on the war in Iran
Opinion21 Jun 26
The Vance–Iran Talks and the Limits of Maximum Pressure
Opinion21 Jun 26
Vance flies in, talks start, and the Iran file just grew teeth
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Vance's Lebanon exchange lays bare the limits of US leverage over Israel
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Vance's Lebanon answer lands in a room already tired of the question
Opinion21 Jun 26
Vance's Lebanon optimism meets a 14% market: reading the gap between rhetoric and the numbers
Opinion21 Jun 26
Vance's Swiss stop with Pakistan's top brass is not just diplomacy
Opinion21 Jun 26
Vance's Pakistan and Israel stops read like a single argument about American strategy
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Vance meets Sharif in Bürgenstock: a quiet US–Pakistan reset, or a tactical photo-op?
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Vance's Bürgenstock sit-down with Sharif and Munir puts Pakistan back at the centre of US regional calculus
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Vance's Swiss Meetings With Pakistani Leadership Put Iran, Trade, And A Regional Realignment In One Frame
Opinion21 Jun 26
Vance lands in Geneva as Trump's back-channel to Tehran tests the Strait card
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Vance lands in Switzerland as US-Iran talks resume with Strait of Hormuz on the table
Opinion21 Jun 26
Vance in Switzerland: a two-day wager on whether the US-Iran channel can hold
Opinion21 Jun 26
Vandalism, spectacle, and the price of a reflecting pool
Sport21 Jun 26
VAR official back on duty as Egypt and New Zealand meet in World Cup Group G
Opinion21 Jun 26
VAR, Offside Lines and the Iran Game the World Didn't Watch
Sport21 Jun 26
Vitor Reis returns to Manchester City, with his next move still to be decided
Sport21 Jun 26
White House posts borrow GTA 6 cover art as Trump's World Cup task force moves to clear Iran visas
Sport21 Jun 26
Group-stage grind: hydration breaks and home disappointment dominate day nine of World Cup 2026
Opinion21 Jun 26
A 0-0 in Houston, and the World Cup the world is actually watching
Sport21 Jun 26
Espionage, red cards and the surveillance arms race shaping the 2026 World Cup
Sport21 Jun 26
Netherlands hand Sweden a 5–1 hiding as Germany edge Ivory Coast in World Cup group stage
Sport21 Jun 26
Late goals and lingering questions: World Cup 2026's stoppage-time surge is the product of a deliberate rule rethink
Sport21 Jun 26
Heat rules out Madrid World Cup screening as Curaçao keeper takes the morning's headlines
Sport21 Jun 26
Sharing the pitch: why this World Cup lands differently for parents and children
Sport21 Jun 26
Ten days in: how the 2026 World Cup is already rewriting the record book
Sport21 Jun 26
Why the 2026 World Cup is rewriting the scoring record books — and the disciplinary ones too
Sport21 Jun 26
Coaching carousel turns World Cup subplot into preview of football's next decade
Sport21 Jun 26
From Müller to Mbappé: a century of World Cup scorers, and what the all-time list actually measures
Sport21 Jun 26
National-team coaches for hire: the Premier League's tactical monoculture meets the World Cup
Opinion21 Jun 26
The World Cup as Soft Power: What Ecuador vs. Curaçao Tells Us About the New Sports Geopolitics
Sport21 Jun 26
Yamal's first World Cup goal steadies Spain as Belgium's De Bruyne moment looms
Opinion21 Jun 26
When the war reaches a gas station: Zaporizhzhia and the futility of the daily-impact frame
Opinion21 Jun 26
Zelensky gives Minsk a one-week ultimatum on Russian drone relays — and calls Lukashenko's apology worthless
Business21 Jun 26
Zelensky gives Minsk a week to switch off border retranslators or face removal
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Zelensky's escalation calculus: deeper strikes, an ultimatum to Minsk, and the widening drone war
Investigations21 Jun 26
Zelensky's Warsaw broadside: long-range drones, a Belarus retranslator ultimatum, and the Volhynia fault line reopened
Investigations21 Jun 26
Zelenskyy draws a one-week line on Belarusian repeaters guiding Russian drones
Geopolitics21 Jun 26
Massive fire engulfs Hongda International Auto Complex in Zhengzhou
Opinion21 Jun 26
The Zurich No-Fly Zone and the 28% Question: Reading the Iran Deal's New Peril Point
Long Reads21 Jun 26
The handshake that didn't happen, and the room that arranged itself around it
Opinion21 Jun 26
The Productivity Panopticon Arrives at TD Bank — And Crypto Markets Are Already Pricing the Same Logic
Sport21 Jun 26
Root stands alone: England head to Wellington defeat as Stokes-shaped hole deepens
Long Reads21 Jun 26
Bitcoin teeters at $64,000 as the war that cooled the pump refuses to end
Culture21 Jun 26
Yaacov Agam, the artist who refused to let painting sit still, dies at 98
Culture21 Jun 26
Cinema of one: Gen Z rediscovers the solo moviegoing ritual
Opinion21 Jun 26
A hundred caps, a delayed throw-in, and the small politics of a football pitch
Opinion21 Jun 26
When the market becomes the mandate: Trump, Meloni, and the new politics of leverage
Opinion21 Jun 26
Starmer's weekend of choices, priced by the market
Opinion21 Jun 26
Saylor's Dots, Jane Street's AI Bet, and the Shape of the Coming Cycle
Opinion21 Jun 26
The Corporate Ether: What Bitmine's 5% Grab Really Tells Us
Culture20 Jun 26
Tehran's waste pickers get a municipal roster: how a grassroots network is being formalised
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Medvedev's "no rules" rhetoric and the war of words over Russian escalation
Culture20 Jun 26
Tehran moves to unmask the framing behind a viral hijab-exam rumour
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A Polish Eagle, a Ukrainian Rift: How Nawrocki's Revocation Exposed a Fault Line in the Alliance
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A medal by post: how a Polish revocation turned into a Ukrainian gesture of state
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A Second Track to Tehran: Witkoff in Switzerland as Lebanon Keeps Burning
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Ukrainian Drone Units Target Russia’s Civilian-Mail Logistics Cover and Kyiv Opens a Captured-Weapons Database to Allies
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A photo, a denial, and a transatlantic crack: how a Trump-Meloni dust-up is testing the Atlanticist bond
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A photo op and a transatlantic rupture: how a Trump-Meloni spat pulled Italy's top diplomat off a US flight
Opinion20 Jun 26
Starmer, the markets, and the politics of counting down a premiership
Culture20 Jun 26
First basic-goods vessel docks at Shahid Rajaei's repaired berth 10, Hormozgan official says
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Warsaw and Kyiv Trade Symbols: The Poland-Ukraine Award Dispute and What It Reveals About Wartime Alliance Friction
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Iran heads to Geneva as ceasefire complaints harden: what the next 48 hours decide
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Iran declares 'strategic reset' as Khamenei signals he let the US deal through on principle
Culture20 Jun 26
74 lashes for a dress: Iran's morality courts extend their reach to the concert stage
Culture20 Jun 26
Iran's state broadcaster moves to sue its own MP — and the signal it sends about nuclear-deal coverage
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Iran's Hormuz play: what a second closure tells us about the limits of escalation
Culture20 Jun 26
Iran's culture ministry turns a political funeral into a state message: commemorating 'martyr' Ali Larijani
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Hong Kong's First Five-Year Plan: Beijing's Template, a Smoking Monopoly, and the Limits of Local Agency
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Hong Kong's Five-Year Pivot: How a Consultation Paper Reshapes the City's Bet on Beijing's Bay Area
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Indium, tobacco and squid robots: the quieter front of the China decoupling story
Long Reads20 Jun 26
China's commercial space sector opens the launchpad — and the bill is paid in state capacity
Business20 Jun 26
Zelenskyy gives Belarus a one-week ultimatum over drone relay stations
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Zelensky's Belarus ultimatum: a week to silence the relay stations guiding Russian drones
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Zelensky opens a second front: Ukraine's pressure campaign on Belarus
Sport20 Jun 26
Wyndham Clark turns US Open into a one-man show as the second round closes
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Displacement, Détente, and the World Cup: How a Single Friday Reframed Three Middle East Fault Lines
Sport20 Jun 26
Scotland's group-stage exit and the USA's knock-out passage underline the widening gap between World Cup 2026's haves…
Sport20 Jun 26
Vozinha and a visa: the Cape Verde goalkeeper whose World Cup just got personal
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Vance heads to Switzerland as Iran demands US deliver on ceasefire and sanctions track
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Switzerland that never was: what Vance's cancelled Iran trip tells us about the next round of US diplomacy
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A Swiss weekend, two delegations: what the announced US-Iran talks in Switzerland actually carry
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Ceasefire Holds by a Thread: US–Iran Talks Open in Muscat While Israeli Strikes Continue in Beirut
Sport20 Jun 26
Turkiye exit World Cup after Paraguay setback, capping a North American group stage that has punished the favourites
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Trump's $350bn Ukraine bill: the politics of monetised generosity
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A photo, a phone call, and a transatlantic rift: how a Trump-Meloni spat unravelled in three days
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Trump–Meloni row ruptures the G7 unity the White House spent months assembling
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A Memorandum of Uncertainty: Trump's G7 Remark on Iran and the Fragile Geometry of a Deal
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Deal and the Rhetoric of Coercion: What the 14-Point Agreement Actually Says
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Deal: What an Agreement That Doesn't Announce Itself Actually Says
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Deal and the Israeli Rift: How a 'Degraded' Adversary Reshapes Washington's Calculus
Long Reads20 Jun 26
"Three hours to Kyiv": The highway story and what it tells us about Trump's war narrative
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Tehran's Tehran-Lebanon Volunteer Drive Exposes the Fragility of the Iran–Hezbollah Ceasefire
Culture20 Jun 26
Nobuo Tanaka Warns of a Third Oil Shock Even If Tehran and Washington Reach a Deal
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz reopens, briefly: how a single corridor is rewriting the geopolitics of Gulf oil
Culture20 Jun 26
Twenty Vessels Beat the Clock: What the Strait of Hormuz Closing Reveals About Gulf Power Plays
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Strait Talking: How the Hormuz Choke Point Became the New Front Line of the Iran–US–Israel Triangle
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Strait That Would Not Close: How a 24-Hour Standoff Over Hormuz Became a Story About the Dollar
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz as bargaining chip: how a 21-mile chokepoint became Iran's loudest weapon
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz Goes Loud: What Friday's Geneva Accord Has to Prove
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Strait That Won't Stay Closed: Hormuz, Ceasefire Diplomacy, and the Limits of Closure Theater
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Strait Closes, the Truce Cracks: How a Single Day in June Undid the US-Iran Accord
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz, Closed Again: What Iran Is Actually Signaling With the 20 June Reopening Reversal
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Starmer on the brink: Labour MPs signal a Monday exit as Burnham's allies circle
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The southern Lebanon front tightens: a single Israeli brigade bears the cost of an expanding ground war
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Taiwan Question Is Becoming the SCO's Loudest Silence
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Schwab's S&P 500 Wager: How a Wirehouse Giant Plans to Drag Wall Street Into the Prediction-Market Casino
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Quiet Reordering of American Industrial Policy
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Pre-Qualified List: How a Single Army Captain Could Move a Police Procurement — and What the Senate's…
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Pakistan hosts the table: How a third-party shuttle pulled the US and Iran back to Bürgenstock
Culture20 Jun 26
Netflix's 'The Polygamist' lands in Kenya and the country is arguing with itself
Culture20 Jun 26
Netflix's 'The Polygamist' revives a debate African audiences never settled
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Netanyahu's coalition frays as Knesset dissolution talk collides with Trump's Gaza drive
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Nabatieh under fire: how a single Lebanese city became the barometer of a wider Israeli campaign
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A third of Nabatieh told to stay away: what one Lebanese municipality's evacuation order says about the southern front…
Culture20 Jun 26
Mumbai's Friday sprawl: 1,080 trees cleared, BEST strike grinds on, and a city asks what kind of growth it can afford
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A ceasefire that never took: Israeli strikes on Nabatieh reopen the Lebanon question
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A Lebanese soldier's death on the Kafr Rumman road exposes the fraying architecture of the November ceasefire
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Strikes, envoys, and a fragile ceasefire: Lebanon sits at the centre of an Israel–Hezbollah–US triangle
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Beirut's long shadow: how Israel's attempt to peel Lebanon away from Tehran is being read inside the region
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The day the ceasefire wasn't: how 36 hours of strikes across southern Lebanon reset the Iran–US track
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A Knife in Kharkiv, a Court Order in Washington, and the Geometry of American Power
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Khan Yunis under fire: Israel hits residential blocks in southern Gaza as ceasefire claims fray
Tech20 Jun 26
Israeli strikes on Gaza City kill five overnight; tolls and identification remain contested
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Wounded File: How Thirteen Israeli Casualties Rewrote a Day on the Northern Front
Tech20 Jun 26
Israeli drone strike hits Western Bekaa town as Lebanon front widens
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Strikes Reach Beyond the Hot Zone: Israel Hits Kanarit in the Sidon District
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Israel's southern Lebanon bombardment continues under declared ceasefire, with Nabatieh and Tyre bearing the brunt
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Israel's south Lebanon offensive hits a casualty milestone as ceasefire architecture frays
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A Fragile Quiet: Israel and Hezbollah Step Back from the Brink as US-Iran Talks Hang in the Balance
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A ceasefire in name only: how Israel-Hezbollah fighting in June 2026 became the next battlefield for the Iran-US deal
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Israel's Channel 15 concedes the Lebanon–Iran frame did not split — what the broadcast actually said
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Tehran turns the tap: how the IRGC's Strait of Hormuz gamble is rewriting the oil playbook
Culture20 Jun 26
An Office Sealed in Tankabon: Iran's Quiet Land War Resumes
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz shut, Lebanon ceasefire fracturing: Iran tests the limits of a US-mediated deal it says Washington…
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Strait Closes Again: Iran's Maritime Card in an Unwritten Lebanon Deal
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Strait Runs Hot: How a Lebanon Strike Reset the Hormuz Calculus
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Strait Closes: How Iran's Hormuz Gambit Rewrote the Oil Calculus
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Iran Names Its Delegation 'Minab 168' as Geneva Talks Open
Culture20 Jun 26
A single MP's television outburst, and what it tells us about Iran's information guardrails
Culture20 Jun 26
Tehran's UN-stage complaint points to a deeper rift over how Israel is shielded from censure
Culture20 Jun 26
Iran's state broadcaster sues a sitting MP for criticising its nuclear negotiators on air
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Hormuz on a hair-trigger: Iran closes the strait as US talks loom
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Iran's Hormuz closure threat turns an oil chokepoint into a negotiating chip
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Tehran turns the tap: how a 48-hour notice for Hormuz transits redraws the map of global shipping
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Iran's negotiating team lands in Geneva: the shape of a Friday signing
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Tehran's Frozen Money: How a US-Qatar Channel Could Reshape Iran's Sanctions Economy
Culture20 Jun 26
Iran's National University Entrance Exam Holds Its August Slot, With a Generation's Stakes Behind the Calendar
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A deal, a war, and a World Cup: the three theatres Iran is fighting on at once
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Hormuz shut, Lebanon burning: Tehran turns the tap and bets the Gulf will blink
Culture20 Jun 26
Iran reopens Bushehr and Asalouyeh airports after an unexplained closure
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Hormuz Whipsaw: How One Strait Became the World's Most Volatile Lever
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Hormuz on the edge: Iran's second closure and the brittle architecture of US-Iran detente
Long Reads20 Jun 26
Ceasefire on Paper, Rockets in the Air: Lebanon Tests the Limits of a Fragile Arrangement
Business20 Jun 26
Strikes on Henichesk Strait Bridge and Crimean Gas Targets Tighten Kyiv's Logistics War
Long Reads20 Jun 26
The Last Guillemot: How a French Family's Studio Survived Consolidation, and What Its Loss Means Now
Sport20 Jun 26
Germany's Sané dilemma and the weight of a group-stage opener against Ivory Coast
Sport20 Jun 26
Germany face Ivory Coast as World Cup 2026 group play tightens
Opinion20 Jun 26
The Group E result Germany needed — and what it tells us about World Cup 2026's middle chapter
Long Reads20 Jun 26
A group-stage meeting in Toronto, and what it tells us about the new geography of the World Cup
Geopolitics20 Jun 26
Germany edge Ivory Coast to clinch 2026 World Cup knockout berth
Sport20 Jun 26
Germany meet Côte d'Ivoire with both eyeing a foothold atop Group E
Opinion20 Jun 26
The World Cup in Houston, and the Broadcast Rights That Aren't the Story
Culture20 Jun 26
A Second Arrest on the FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters List Tests America's Health-Care Fraud Recovery Playbook
Culture20 Jun 26
Colombian music royalty takes the World Cup stage — and the politics of Latin American soft power come with it
Long Reads20 Jun 26
China's 55% beef tariff on Australia: a small lever, a long shadow
Long Reads20 Jun 26