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Opinion16 Jun 26
Trump's Iran pivot: deal-without-investment, or just stagecraft?

Culture16 Jun 26
Britain borrows Australia's playbook: a social media ban for under-16s heads to Westminster

Opinion16 Jun 26
Conscription as theatre: Ukraine's draft problem and the Polish money it attracts

Sport16 Jun 26
A Manchester United academy product is about to redraw the World Cup map for Pakistan

Culture16 Jun 26
Tehran's plastic-bag pricing push tests Iran's urban environmental governance

Opinion16 Jun 26
Tokyo's quiet exit: what the Bank of Japan's 31-year rate high really signals

Culture16 Jun 26
China's consumer slump meets its university reset
Culture16 Jun 26
China's universities shed 12,200 programmes in five years as Beijing retools higher education for an AI economy

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Iran opens 2026 World Cup with 2-2 draw against New Zealand as Rezaian stakes claim to national-team legend
Opinion16 Jun 26
A 2-2 draw, and the politics already won: Iran and New Zealand kick off a World Cup nobody asked the players to carry
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
IRGC strikes Kurdish opposition HQ near Erbil as Tehran extends cross-border drone campaign into northern Iraq
Opinion16 Jun 26
Japan's quiet rearmament: rate hikes and AI security signal a Tokyo that is done waiting on Washington

Opinion16 Jun 26
Merz reads the room on Russia, and tips Germany's hand on Iran
Opinion16 Jun 26
Vance's Iran comments expose the limits of the monarchist lobby, and the cost of clarity

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Zelensky, Trump and Macron meet on G7 sidelines in first in-person Trump-Zelensky talks

Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX's $87.5bn IPO and the new shape of the public market

Sport16 Jun 26
Twelve front offices under the gun: the MLB executives whose trade-deadline choices will define their tenure

Culture16 Jun 26
Inside JR's Pont Neuf cavern: a Parisian opening that took four years and a second chance

Opinion16 Jun 26
The 5% wager: why a Polymarket line on an Israeli Lebanon withdrawal matters more than it looks
Opinion16 Jun 26
Trump's Friday ultimatum to Netanyahu exposes the gap between US pressure and Israeli action in Lebanon
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Leaked US-Iran MoU sketches a 60-day ceasefire that puts Lebanon at the centre

Opinion16 Jun 26
Trump's Iran deal lands in Washington with the text still unread, and Israel already calls the outcome a defeat

Tech16 Jun 26
YouTube draws the line at Britain's teen-curfew, arguing the platform is not a social network

Culture16 Jun 26
A Russian artist dies in Warsaw: what is known about the killing of Semyon Skrepecki

Opinion16 Jun 26
The $300 Billion Question: Trump's Iran Fund, Bibi's Buffer Zone, and the Limits of Personal Diplomacy

Investigations16 Jun 26
US-Iran deal: a one-and-a-half-page MOU, a $300bn reconstruction fund, and a question of who enforces it

Business16 Jun 26
SpaceX's first trading day rewrites the IPO script, and tests whether tokenized markets can keep up
Opinion16 Jun 26
The $300 billion question: what the Iran–US memorandum really says, and what it leaves out

Sport16 Jun 26
FIFA confirms kick-off times as 2026 tournament runway enters final stretch

Business16 Jun 26
Britain's Defence Squeeze Meets Brexit's Decade-Long Hangover

Opinion16 Jun 26
A decade on, the Brexit verdict is in, and the British military just delivered a fresh one

Culture16 Jun 26
EA plants ads inside the game: what in-play inventory means for the player

Culture16 Jun 26
The GTA 6 shadow: how one delayed release is reshaping the 2026 games calendar

Culture16 Jun 26
Israel's high court rejects appeal to release Palestinian doctor from solitary confinement

Culture16 Jun 26
Oliver Tree's Estate Pledged to Artist Scholarships After Rio Helicopter Crash

Tech16 Jun 26
Stablecoin payments, drone plots, and a White House UFC card: the new shape of Trump-era event security

Tech16 Jun 26
FBI says it disrupted a drone plot aimed at Trump's White House UFC event
Culture16 Jun 26
MetInvest CEO Ryzhenkov named to Ukrainska Pravda's UP 100 Business laureates as wartime steelmaker cements domestic…

Tech16 Jun 26
SpaceX crosses Amazon in market-cap reshuffle as private capital rewires the public stack

Culture16 Jun 26
Leipzig's Bach Festival as Civic Exercise: Music, Dialogue, and the Politics of Listening

Tech16 Jun 26
Salesforce's $3.6bn Fin deal lands as U.K. moves on teen social-media curfew

Investigations16 Jun 26
Trump tells Israel: act faster on Lebanon, or expect friction

Business16 Jun 26
Saylor's "Bitcoin Has Already Won" Pitch Meets a Skeptical Market

Opinion16 Jun 26
Three wires, one Tuesday: how crypto's new institutional layer is being built in public

Culture16 Jun 26
France pulls 12 Israeli stands from Paris-area defence exhibition, citing Gaza backlash

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Tehran claims 84 Israeli ceasefire violations in southern Lebanon since Trump's war-end announcement

Culture16 Jun 26
When Bulgakov becomes a battlefield: the fight over culture in wartime Kyiv

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Trump floats Syria as a Hezbollah problem-solver at the G7, and a long-taboo idea is suddenly on the table

Culture16 Jun 26
Xbox Game Studios loses its studio chief after 20 months, the second senior exit in a week of reshuffling at Microsoft…

Culture16 Jun 26
Iran's central bank governor heads to Moscow as sanctions architecture pushes the two economies closer

Opinion16 Jun 26
Coinbase and Binance move in opposite directions — and the split is the story
Business16 Jun 26
Coinbase's everything-app play arrives in one day, three launches

Culture16 Jun 26
When the bombs hit Moscow: reading the morning the Russian home front came into view

Culture16 Jun 26
Miss Ukraine Universe, novel in hand: how Anastasiia Neplakh is rewriting the pageant playbook

Culture16 Jun 26
Cinema in Tehran, silence before kick-off: the screening that did not happen

Culture16 Jun 26
The Pentagon Two: How a Reported Shake-Up at the Top Could Reshape a Prospective Iran Deal
Culture16 Jun 26
Bread and circuses, but the circus is in Vienna: how a US–Iran deal landed on Trump's 80th birthday

Culture16 Jun 26
CIA chief's Iran nuclear warning lands as Trump's deal deadline looms

Culture16 Jun 26
Killing of Putin critic in eastern Poland revives debate over exiled Russian artists and Moscow's reach

Culture16 Jun 26
Nigeria's Education Database Breach: Denial, Delay, and the Cost of a Single Story
Culture16 Jun 26
A Russian artist in Berlin, a killing in Poland: the exile corridor closes further

Tech16 Jun 26
Social Media Overtakes Legacy News as the World's Default News Source — and the Industry Is Starting to Notice

Tech16 Jun 26
Trump tells Netanyahu to act 'more responsible' on Lebanon as Israeli drone strikes kill four in the south

Culture16 Jun 26
Zelenskyi lands in Evian as G7 gathers against the backdrop of a war that refuses to end
Culture16 Jun 26
Kursk returns to the screen: a Russian documentary revives a WWII battleground now back in the war
Culture16 Jun 26
A Kremlin critic, a Polish border city, and a shooting the wire services can't yet explain

Sport16 Jun 26
Mbappé doubles up as France open World Cup campaign with 3-1 win over Senegal
Culture16 Jun 26
The Picnic Card That Quietly Mapped Ukraine's Wartime Summer

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Hezbollah leader Qassem writes to Iran's parliament speaker, framing Iran as guarantor against Israel and the United…

Culture16 Jun 26
Inside Iran's 110 nights: state rallies, monarchist signs, and the cultural fracture on view at the football
Culture16 Jun 26
At the Iran game, a sign of internal fracture
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
After Trump's 'war is over' line, Iran accuses Israel of 84 Lebanon violations and warns of retaliation
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Iran ties a Lebanon withdrawal to a nuclear deal, and Israel pushes back
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Israel asked to see the U.S.–Iran memorandum. Washington said no.
Opinion16 Jun 26
Netanyahu's emergency meeting exposes the fault line inside the Trump–Israel Iran detente

Culture16 Jun 26
Moscow's 103-name blacklist: how Canada's sanctions war produced a mirror image in reverse
Investigations16 Jun 26
Trump signals deal intact as Israel–Iran proxy axis comes under fresh strain
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Trump tells Netanyahu to act ‘more responsibly’ on Lebanon as US-Iran deal takes shape

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Trump Floats New Sanctions on Russian Oil, Renews Pressure on Iran Nuclear File in Same News Cycle

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Trump Floats Syria as Israel's Hezbollah Problem-Solver, Breaking With Israeli Position

Culture16 Jun 26
The G7 at Évian and the long shadow of culture-war politics
Culture16 Jun 26
The Father the West Invented: A Century of Idealised Manhood Comes Under Scrutiny This Father's Day
Culture16 Jun 26
The Grammys widen the door, and India's economy fight turns on a single number

Culture16 Jun 26
Syria's energy ministry moves to consolidate water data on a single platform, signalling state priorities in a sector…

Culture16 Jun 26
Iran's state broadcaster unveils 'Engineers of Strong Iran' series, recasting the IRGC's regional footprint as…
Culture16 Jun 26
When the lens fakes the war: a Kyiv studio, a viral drone photo, and the cost of AI-upscaled evidence
Culture16 Jun 26
Caricaturist Semen Skrepetsky killed in Poland; Moscow-aligned channel frames him as anti-Russian propagandist

Sport16 Jun 26
Livramento's World Cup in doubt on the eve of England's opener against Croatia

Tech16 Jun 26
Anthropic stays in the crosshairs as Trump's two-front week ends in an Iran deal

Culture16 Jun 26
Iran opens a national-bank payment lane for foreign film co-productions, signalling a quiet turn toward the global…

Sport16 Jun 26
Iran's Torabi cleared for US entry as federation steps in after visa lapse

Culture16 Jun 26
JR wraps the Pont Neuf: a 40-year Parisian street-art lineage gets its most ambitious canvas
Culture16 Jun 26
JR turns the Pont Neuf into a public living room — and a quiet argument about who owns the street

Culture16 Jun 26
Capcom says it's 'quite confident' Onimusha: Way of the Sword will land its challenge — but the demo just told players…

Culture16 Jun 26
Paddington takes Manhattan: how a London stage hit became a soft-power export worth watching
Culture16 Jun 26
A Pakistani director's praise for Imtiaz Ali's new short: what cross-border recognition says about South Asian film…

Investigations16 Jun 26
Ukraine reaches 500 kilometres into Russia: Zelensky confirms Moscow oil refinery strike

Culture16 Jun 26
Brussels faces a CRISPR reckoning: precision tool or door to a new food economy?

Culture16 Jun 26
On pseudo-Everest: remembering Oleksiy Semkiv, 24, killed near Grekivka

Culture16 Jun 26
Russian blogger Diana Shurygina placed under house arrest over pornography distribution case

Opinion16 Jun 26
Trump tells Israel to hand Lebanon's fight to Syria — and gives Netanyahu a public dressing-down

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Saudi Arabia's 1-1 draw with Uruguay signals a Global South coming of age on football's biggest stage

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Iran and the United States sketch a $300bn private fund to end a war the framework agreement cannot yet name

Culture16 Jun 26
What a Miao tree and a diamond wafer tell us about China's cultural-industrial confidence
Culture16 Jun 26
The 'overcapacity' frame and the trees of memory: two stories that say more about China than either admits

Culture16 Jun 26
IIT's adaptive JEE Advanced pilot and the limits of test reform in India's coaching economy
Culture16 Jun 26
India's contemporary art crosses into the Hermitage, and a monsoon road-trip canon is rewritten

Culture16 Jun 26
Laverne Cox says DEI retrenchment has cost her 90% of her income — and the Hollywood math behind the claim is messier…
Culture16 Jun 26
Two dead, a city shaken: what the NESCO concert toxicology reports actually tell us
Culture16 Jun 26
NCERT reverses course on the ‘Dancing Girl’: a small classroom concession, a larger cultural fight

Culture16 Jun 26
Tehran's Last Deal: How the Ratcliffe Briefing Reshapes the U.S.–Iran Calculus

Sport16 Jun 26
Saudi Arabia and Uruguay trade goals in 1–1 draw as 2026 World Cup opens
Culture16 Jun 26
A school uniform, a side hustle, and a drone start-up: how one young founder is rewriting the pathway from part-time…

Culture16 Jun 26
"What is strength, brother?": Yekaterinburg erects a monument to Alexei Balabanov
Culture16 Jun 26
The aliens still want the human: Emily Blunt says no to AI voice work in Spielberg's Disclosure Day

Tech16 Jun 26
China rebuilds its universities for the AI age while its steel mills recalibrate for a carbon-bordered Europe
Culture16 Jun 26
Depp's "elite cannibal" remarks land at a moment when celebrity counter-narratives travel faster than the facts they…
Culture16 Jun 26
Fox's $22bn Roku play: a sports-and-news machine meets the cord-cutter's living room
Culture16 Jun 26
From buffer zone to burial ground: Al-Alam films the lives erased by Gaza's new wall

Culture16 Jun 26
Grammys broaden the field: five new categories and a best new artist shake-up

Opinion16 Jun 26
Iran kicks off its World Cup against New Zealand — and the framing travels with the team
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Iran's World Cup opener becomes a soft-power stage on US soil
Culture16 Jun 26
The boys are back, and this time the bruises cost more: 'Jackass' calls final time
Culture16 Jun 26
Jackass crew reunite for one last stunt, and one last bruise
Culture16 Jun 26
When the frame arrives before the rubble: a Kyiv film studio, an AI-upscaled photo, and the cost of moving faster than…

Tech16 Jun 26
Salesforce's $3.6bn AI bet lands on the same day 911 systems fail in multiple US states

Sport16 Jun 26
Saudi Arabia and Uruguay split points in 1-1 World Cup draw as France-Senegal looms

Opinion16 Jun 26
Spain's mass regularisation and the quiet reshaping of European migration politics

Culture16 Jun 26
The two records: when pop stops explaining itself
Investigations16 Jun 26
Trump's Iran deal pitch collides with hawks, markets, and the hard physics of enrichment

Investigations16 Jun 26
What we know — and don't — about the Admiral Grigorovich's warning shots in the English Channel

Sport16 Jun 26
Alpine and Racing Bulls turn the midfield into a four-car statement at Barcelona

Sport16 Jun 26
The maths teacher who taught Álvarez and Fernández: a small classroom, a long shadow

Opinion16 Jun 26
Anthropic's Pentagon divorce is the first real test of centralised AI governance

Business16 Jun 26
Anthropic pullback meets $300bn Iran fund: Washington's two-front signals

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Araghchi puts Israel and Hezbollah on notice: any attack makes them parties to the Iran-US framework

Opinion16 Jun 26
Araqchi frames the new Tehran–Washington understanding: who is actually in the room

Sport16 Jun 26
Argentina opens 2026 World Cup campaign in Kansas City as Algeria visit tests squad depth

Sport16 Jun 26
Argentina opens 2026 World Cup defence against Algeria as Tuesday slate draws record betting handle

Sport16 Jun 26
Argentina opens World Cup defence against Algeria: what to watch in Tuesday's group-stage opener

Sport16 Jun 26
Arsenal circle French teenager Bouaddi as midfield reshuffle gathers pace

Opinion16 Jun 26
Asia's oil market just stopped pricing a war — and that says more than the deal itself

Sport16 Jun 26
Asia's unbeaten run is the World Cup's quiet rebuke to European football's self-regard
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Eight crew killed in B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base, US Air Force confirms

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Eight killed as B-52 crashes at Edwards Air Force Base
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Eight dead in B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base as investigators begin work at the runway
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
All eight crew lost in B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Eight dead in B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base

Opinion16 Jun 26
A B-52 goes down in California while Washington sells an Iran deal in the markets

Opinion16 Jun 26
A B-52 goes down at Edwards: what eight bodies on a Mojave runway tell us about an airframe the Pentagon still cannot…
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A B-52 goes down at Edwards: what the silence around a strategic bomber crash reveals
Opinion16 Jun 26
Eight feared dead as B-52 crashes at Edwards: what the public record shows, and what it does not

Opinion16 Jun 26
A B-52, a market rally, and the brittle arithmetic of peace
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A $3.2bn banking lifeline and a missing reform agenda: Bangladesh's budget arithmetic

Business16 Jun 26
Bangladesh's $3.2bn bank bailout and BlackRock's quiet right-sizing: a tale of two balance sheets
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Beirut declared 'prohibited' for Israeli operations: what Ma'ariv's leak says about the war's new geometry

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Beirut reportedly enters a new 'prohibited zone' for Israeli operations, per Israeli security sources

Sport16 Jun 26
Belgium-Egypt and Iran-New Zealand open World Cup group play as bookmakers weigh the gaps

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Ben Gvir Cancels US Trip Amid Visa Trouble, Days After Rejecting US-Iran Ceasefire

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Ben Gvir cancels US trip after visa trouble, Iranian state media reports

Sport16 Jun 26
Bielsa's World Cup photoshoot refusal is a small act of defiance in a sport built on spectacle

Business16 Jun 26
Bitcoin Drifts From Oil as US-Iran Deal Bets Reshape the Cross-Asset Map

Business16 Jun 26
Bitcoin and oil slide together as US-Iran peace hopes redirect capital into equities

Business16 Jun 26
Bank of Japan lifts rate to 1%, highest since 1995, as normalisation cycle enters new phase

Opinion16 Jun 26
Tokyo's exit, Havana's collapse, and the cost of a dollar-centric world

Opinion16 Jun 26
The BoJ rate call lands as Trump's NATO frustrations surface — and a $300bn Iran fund talk tests the post-war order

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Bolton says Iran 'played Trump like a violin' over nuclear deal as Tehran's critics and defenders stake their claims

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
"Played like a violin": Bolton's broadside lands as Trump-Iran deal hits familiar Washington headwinds

Opinion16 Jun 26
The Boston sprinkler that broke during Iraq–Norway says more about World Cup 2026 than the scoreline

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Bolsonaro son gets 4 years in prison as Brazil's top court draws line on US lobbying

Sport16 Jun 26
Calvin Johnson sees Puka Nacua as the man most likely to break his 1,964-yard record

Opinion16 Jun 26
Ottawa is quietly rewriting the rules of the North American economy — and Washington is letting it

Sport16 Jun 26
Cape Verde hold Spain to a goalless draw in the first shock of the 2026 World Cup group stage
Sport16 Jun 26
Cape Verde and a 40-year-old keeper humble Spain in Atlanta

Sport16 Jun 26
Cape Verde Holds Spain, and a Continent's Football Mood Shifts

Sport16 Jun 26
Cape Verde's World Cup debut ends in a point — and a warning for Spain
Sport16 Jun 26
Cape Verde's 0-0 draw with Spain is the World Cup's loudest small-country statement
Sport16 Jun 26
Cape Verde's draw with Spain is more than a football upset — it is a small-state lever in plain view

Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Cape Verde's old man between the posts humbles Spain and rewrites the World Cup underdog script

Opinion16 Jun 26
Cape Verde's World Cup fairy tale collides with the visa system that decides who gets to watch
Sport16 Jun 26
Cape Verde's 40-year-old keeper Vozinha turns World Cup underdog story into global moment

Opinion16 Jun 26
Carpathian find, festival scandal, and a US–Iran text: three threads on 16 June 2026

Investigations16 Jun 26
China's grid holds as retail sales crack: the two economies running in parallel

Opinion16 Jun 26
Beijing enters the Lebanon file — and the prediction markets are not buying peace

Opinion16 Jun 26
The West keeps telling itself China is in retreat. The data is more interesting than that.

Business16 Jun 26
China's consumer engine stalls as industrial exports absorb the carbon tariff shock

Opinion16 Jun 26
China's consumers are tapping the brakes. The World Cup isn't going to fill the gap
Opinion16 Jun 26
Beijing steps into the middle of US-Iran talks — and reads the room

Opinion16 Jun 26
Beijing inserts itself into the next US-Iran round — and warns the door must not close

Investigations16 Jun 26
CIA doubts cloud Iran nuclear MOU as 60-day clock begins

Opinion16 Jun 26
Hillary Clinton Breaks Ranks: A Week of Public Doubts Reshapes the 2028 Conversation
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Clinton's Iran warning puts a US-Israel rift back on the table

Business16 Jun 26
Coinbase builds the everything exchange as Japan tightens and Tehran tests the dollar's reach
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Coinbase's tokenized shares test a market the SEC has not finished building
Sport16 Jun 26
Pete Crow-Armstrong opens the 2026 cycle account — a small statistical milestone, and a reminder of how rare the feat…

Opinion16 Jun 26
The crypto apocalypse pitch is back — and the people selling it are still rich

Sport16 Jun 26
Hydration, heat, and the small physics of a giant tournament: what Curaçao’s equaliser against Germany reveals about…

Sport16 Jun 26
Curaçao's World Cup debut ends in a rout — and a 1,000-1 footnote that almost paid off
Sport16 Jun 26
New Zealand's Darren Bazeley enters the record books as a four-tournament coach at FIFA's top level

Opinion16 Jun 26