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Investigations16 Jun 26
US intelligence: Iran can now shut the Strait of Hormuz at will, a wartime capability Tehran will struggle to give up
Opinion16 Jun 26
The $300 billion question: who actually owns the US-Iran deal
Opinion16 Jun 26
The $300 billion question in the US-Iran framework: who actually pays, and who is being paid
Opinion16 Jun 26
The 60-Day Mirage: How the US-Iran Optics Game Is Quietly Reshaping the Oil Patch
Opinion16 Jun 26
The $300 Billion Question Nobody Wants to Ask
Opinion16 Jun 26
The $400 Billion Question: What's Actually in the US-Iran Deal
Opinion16 Jun 26
From bombs to billion-dollar bailouts: the US-Iran deal nobody is reading straight
Business16 Jun 26
US-Iran deal lets Tehran back into oil markets, leaves Israel out of the room
Opinion16 Jun 26
Tehran's oil taps reopen on signing day: a deal built to be performed, not believed
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Trump says US-Iran deal is signed, Israel balks, and the Strait of Hormuz reopens — with the fine print still missing
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Trump claims tenth war ended as US-Iran deal unlocks immediate Iranian oil sales
Business16 Jun 26
US–Iran draft deal hands Tehran immediate oil waivers and a $300bn redevelopment fund
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
A framework, not a deal: the slow grind of US-Iran diplomacy leaves Tehran's economy waiting
Opinion16 Jun 26
The framework that isn't: parsing the US-Iran relief rally
Opinion16 Jun 26
A blockade in name only: what the US-Iran Hormuz deal actually says
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
US and Iran move to unlock Iranian oil sales under Islamabad memorandum
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Trump's 'let the oil flow' moment: what the US-Iran memo actually says, and what it does not
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
US-Iran memorandum to be signed Friday at Bürgenstock: what the four-source convergence tells us
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Tehran holds the chokepoint: what the new US-Iran memorandum really means for the Strait of Hormuz
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
US–Iran memorandum surfaces: $300bn sanctions relief and a 60-day Lebanon ceasefire, on Israeli TV's account
Business16 Jun 26
Washington and Tehran move toward a deal that puts Iranian crude back on the market
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
US-Iran MoU hands Tehran stewardship of the Strait of Hormuz — and the oil market has already priced it
Investigations16 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz smuggling trick the US is now borrowing from Iran
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
US holds back the MOU: why Israel is being kept in the dark on the Iran deal
Sport16 Jun 26
USMNT's Paraguay win offers a statistical case — and a single-game caution
Opinion16 Jun 26
Vance's Friday tease: the US-Iran deal that won't be named
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Vance floats toll-free Hormuz as Trump sets Friday reopening: what the US-Iran deal actually says
Opinion16 Jun 26
Vance on Iran: A regional deal, a constituency problem, and a fight inside the MAGA coalition
Opinion16 Jun 26
Vance's Iran MoU pitch lands in a Middle East already bracing for what comes next
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Vance walks back the Pahlavi project, opens the door on Lebanon
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Vatican and Iranian Dissident Strike a Common Note on the Iran-US Memorandum
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A planet that spins the wrong way and a bank run that won't quit: two stories about how orders fail
Opinion16 Jun 26
Vietnam's Wealth Boom Outruns Its Institutions — and the Rest of Southeast Asia Is Watching
Sport16 Jun 26
Vozinha at 40: how a 50,000-fan goalkeeper became the face of Cabo Verde's World Cup debut
Sport16 Jun 26
Vozinha, 40, Becomes World Cup's Oldest Debut Keeper as Cape Verde Stun Spain
Sport16 Jun 26
Wales U19s handed a stage to audition for Euro 2028, says head coach Chris Gunter
Opinion16 Jun 26
The Fed's new chair meets the moment — and the market already knows the answer
Sport16 Jun 26
What Wembanyama learns from a Finals loss: a Spurs teardown, and a test of patience in San Antonio
Opinion16 Jun 26
Bulldozers and hoods: what the West Bank footage is actually showing
Investigations16 Jun 26
Plot, promotion, and a stablecoin: what the White House UFC event tells us about the political economy of spectacle
Sport16 Jun 26
Williams sisters' Wimbledon doubles reunion lands on a rocky week for Serena's grass build-up
Opinion16 Jun 26
A sprinkler malfunctions in Foxborough and the world hears about it: a note on who owns the 2026 World Cup feed
Sport16 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup begins in a different mood: fans bring the politics, not just the flags
Sport16 Jun 26
World Cup 2026 kicks off: France and Argentina take the field in a tournament remade by the betting era
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Group H opens with two statements: Saudi Arabia hold Uruguay, Cape Verde stun Spain
Sport16 Jun 26
Iran fans and family screens: a World Cup week where the off-pitch story keeps grabbing the camera
Sport16 Jun 26
Four goalless hours: a World Cup matchday of draws, and one result that will outlast the others
Sport16 Jun 26
Sportsbook bonuses and group-stage caution: how the 2026 World Cup's opening fixtures are being priced
Sport16 Jun 26
A World Cup where the spectacle keeps outpacing the sport
Sport16 Jun 26
Water breaks, English flights, and the quiet commercial logic of a four-quarter World Cup
Sport16 Jun 26
A World Cup Tuesday Built for the Marquee Names — and the Stakes Lurking Behind the Glamour
Opinion16 Jun 26
Yemen's Houthi leadership rushes to crown a victor in an unfinished war
Opinion16 Jun 26
Yemen's Houthi-led council hails Iran 'victory' — what the message signals and what it doesn't prove
Business16 Jun 26
Yum unloads Pizza Hut for $2.7bn as BOJ tightens to a 30-year high
Opinion16 Jun 26
When a billionaire's lawyers ring a public broadcaster: the ZDF–Musk flashpoint
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Zelensky says Ukraine can double drone output to 20 million this year, warns Russia of a 'terrible winter'
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Zelensky at the G7: a wartime leader pitching a ceasefire to a reluctant patron
Opinion16 Jun 26
The chair, the G7, and the theatre of peace
Opinion16 Jun 26
Zelensky's Patriot pitch and the meeting Moscow will not get
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Zelensky warns of a 'terrible winter' for Russia as Moscow signals no movement toward a ceasefire
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Zelensky Warns Russia of a 'Terrible Winter' as Kyiv Says It Is Ready to End the War
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Zelensky presses the calendar: 'terrible winter' warning, ceasefire readiness, and the cost Moscow is now paying
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Zelensky joins Trump and Macron at G7 working session in Paris as Ukraine's allies coordinate posture
Opinion16 Jun 26
Kyiv, Brussels and the White House: what the Zelensky–Trump–von der Leyen triangle tells us about the war's diplomatic…
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Zelenskyy rebuffs Moscow summit, sets terms for Putin meeting as Patriot industrial talks with Trump advance
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
At the G7 sidelines, Zelenskyy presses Trump for missile and anti-ballistic licences
Business16 Jun 26
Standard Chartered sees DeFi assets crossing $2.7T by 2030 — and a $100 UNI to match
Opinion16 Jun 26
Indonesia shakes again, and the aid architecture shakes with it
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Coinbase's Everything Exchange: What Tokenized Equities and an AI Advisor Mean for the Onchain Brokerage Era
Tech16 Jun 26
India's Telegram block exposes a deeper governance mismatch
Business16 Jun 26
Coinbase bets the exchange on becoming the everything account
Opinion16 Jun 26
Three data points, one story about an economy running on fumes
Tech16 Jun 26
Robinhood's 10% cut: when 'restructuring' replaces the AI alibi
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Robinhood's 10 percent cut and the AI excuse that wasn't there
Opinion16 Jun 26
The $50 Billion Question Hanging Over Bitcoin Miners' AI Pivot
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Robinhood's 10% cut: a retail-broker reset, not a retreat
Opinion16 Jun 26
Crypto seizures and a $349,000 transfer: reading the small prints of US digital-asset forfeiture
Opinion16 Jun 26
Arlindo Chissale and the silence Mozambique cannot afford
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A self-styled peacemaker claims a war he started and a strait that was never closed
Opinion16 Jun 26
Eight dead in B-52 crash at Edwards — and the questions that won't wait
Opinion16 Jun 26
One trading day, $1.1 trillion: what the SpaceX-driven rally actually signals
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Eight dead: what a B-52 crash at Edwards tells us about an aging nuclear triad
Culture16 Jun 26
Laverne Cox says DEI cuts have cost her 90% of her income. The number is striking — the context is older
Sport16 Jun 26
Sorsby and the supplemental draft: what the tape says, and why the gamble overhang won't go away
Sport16 Jun 26
Eight NFL veterans, one deadline: who's running out of chances in 2026
Sport16 Jun 26
What the Knicks' anomaly tells us about the next NBA
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal in Doha, doubts in Tehran: parsing the US–Iran memorandum
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Twelve-Billion-Dollar Pause: Anatomy of a U.S.–Iran Deal That May Not Be One
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Tehran, Washington and a deal that bypasses Beirut: how a US-Iran agreement is reshaping the Levant
Culture15 Jun 26
A deal, a cartoon, and a region holding its breath: reading the US–Iran announcement through Yemeni ink
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The $12 Billion Mirage: How a US-Iran Deal Collapsed Before It Began
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Trump says Iran deal 'all signed' — but the uranium, the frozen funds, and the 30-day clock tell a messier story
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A trillionaire, a helicopter, and a Russian strike: three storylines on a Sunday in June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Trillion-Dollar Man, a City of Gold, and a House in Kyiv: Three Threads Tied Together by 15 June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Thirty days and a memo: how thin the line is between an Iran deal and a rupture
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Cruz Doctrine: How a Texas Senator Became the Loudest Defender of the U.S.–Israel Alliance in a Fractured…
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A strait, a deal, and a question of who blinked: the 48 hours that repriced oil, Bitcoin and the Middle East
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Six hours in the Channel: how the Smyrtos seizure rewrites the rules of the Russian oil trade
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Cluster munitions, double strikes, and a regional capital under pressure: inside Russia's June 15 barrage of Dnipro
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Min Aung Hlaing Lands in Beijing: A Junta's China Bet After India's Red Carpet
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Iran's post-war moment: sanctions, blockade, and a leadership running out of road
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Tehran reads the text: Iran signals a deal, holds the line on the unsaid
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The slogan and the sword: reading Iran's army messaging as it tests a regional perimeter
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Hormuz Deal: How a War That Killed Thousands Ended With a Tweet Correction
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A Ukrainian oracle column, a hospital reform brief, a celebrity helicopter crash in Brazil, and the world's first…
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Diesel Bridge Is Folding: How China's Truck Electrification, an Empty U.S. SPR, and an Emboldened Tehran Are…
Sport15 Jun 26
Yamal at 18: the World Cup debut that tests Spain's new order
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Octagon on the South Lawn: How a UFC Card Became a Statecraft Showcase
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Vozinha and the 0-0 That Reordered a World Cup: How Cape Verde's Goalkeeper Held Spain and Reset the Map of African…
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Vance's $24 billion hedge: the Iran deal that isn't quite a deal
Sport15 Jun 26
Scottie Scheffler and the most open U.S. Open in years: a tiered read of the 2026 field
Culture15 Jun 26
The war that ended without resolution: parsing the US-Iran 'victory' exchange
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz reopens: a US–Iran deal resets the oil map, and the balance of leverage around it
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal, a chokepoint, and a Bitcoin bid: parsing the US-Iran agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A Strait Opens, a Deal Emerges: Reading the US-Iran Pact Beyond the Headlines
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait Deal: How a Preliminary US–Iran Pact Reshaped Oil Markets and Left the Nuclear File Open
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A Pakistan-mediated handshake: what the US-Iran memorandum actually changes
Long Reads15 Jun 26
After the Hormuz handshake: parsing the US-Iran memorandum and what the Gulf is really buying
Long Reads15 Jun 26
After the strikes, a digital signature: what the US-Iran memorandum of understanding actually says
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait and the Statement: Reading the U.S.–Iran Memorandum of June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Deal That Wasn't Signed: How a Lebanon Monitoring Clause Is Holding Up the US–Iran Understanding
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A Pakistan-brokered US–Iran truce reopens the Strait of Hormuz — and the world’s most volatile chokepoint is briefly,…
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal to reopen Hormuz, and the war that made it
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal at Hormuz, a nuclear question deferred: how Washington and Tehran called time on their war
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal out of nowhere: how the US–Iran agreement landed in Geneva, and what comes next
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Geneva Handshake: What the US-Iran Deal Does and Does Not Settle
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Geneva Accord: Inside the US–Iran Deal That Bought Lebanon a Pause and Left Everyone Else Holding the Risk
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait Reopens: How a US-Iran Framework Sucked the Risk Premium Out of Oil and Bitcoin
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Screen, and the Spillover: A US-Iran Deal Reshapes the Picture
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Signature, and the Man Left Out: Reading the US-Iran Deal of Mid-June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Statement, and the Silence: Reading the US-Iran Deal of June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Spike, and the Sanctions Still on the Table: Reading the US-Iran Deal Through the Markets That Moved…
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Sanction, and the Sanitised Deal: Reading the US-Iran Announcement of 14–15 June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A handshake in the dark: parsing the US-Iran deal nobody has read
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Strait Talking: Inside the US-Iran Deal That Almost Wasn't, and the Crypto Markets That Moved First
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The $300 Billion Question: How a US-Iran Deal is Reshaping Gulf Power and Leaving Israel in the Cold
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait and the Signature: What Friday's US-Iran Deal Actually Settles
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The blockade, the memorandum, and the $24bn question: how the US–Iran deal is being sold before it is signed
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A Two-Week High for Bitcoin and a Reopened Strait: How a US-Iran Deal Repriced Global Risk
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Statement, the Sticking Points: Reading the US-Iran Ceasefire Extension
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal the wires can't yet price: the reported US–Iran ceasefire and the architecture of an unwritten agreement
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A ceasefire, a memorandum, and the limits of a deal: reading the US–Iran announcement of 14 June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The $300 Billion Question: Washington's Iran Fund and the Geometry of a Deal
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The 30-day clock: what an interim US-Iran deal on paper actually means
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Forty-Eight Hours That Nearly Ended a War: Inside the U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire Push Between Israel and Iran
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Britain's Under-16 Social Media Ban: A Policy Outrunning Its Evidence
Culture15 Jun 26
UFC takes the White House: Freedom 250 and the new geometry of American spectacle
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Calculus: Why 'No Regime Change' Is the Real Tell in the Strait of Hormuz Moment
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Oil, Wine, and the Art of the Threat: Reading the Trump Tariff and Iran Signals at the G7
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Trump Claims the Strait of Hormuz Is Reopening — Even With 'a Couple of Mines' Still in the Water
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Trump, the Strait, and the Self-Crediting Peace: Reading a 15 June 2026 Victory Lap
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The $616 Million Meme Coin and the Quiet Reordering of American Industrial Policy
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Sixty Days on the Clock: Trump's Iran Offer, a Bitcoin Whipsaw, and the Strait That Holds the World's Oil
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz reopens by presidential fiat: what Trump's Iran deal actually changes
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal in Switzerland and a Bitcoin pump: what the Trump-Iran announcement actually changes
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A Strait, A Signature, and a Lot of Unanswered Questions: Parsing the Trump-Iran Announcement
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Two deals, one weekend: Tehran and Moscow test the limits of Trump's diplomatic reset
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Pivot Hands Beijing and Moscow a Quiet Diplomatic Win
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Half a trillion, an open strait, and a fragile handshake: parsing the Trump–Iran peace deal
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Moment: Oil, Leverage, and the Politics of "I Never Cared About Regime Change"
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A Strait, a Signature, and a Question of Substance: Reading the Trump–Iran MOU Moment
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait and the Statement: Reading Trump’s Iran Deal on Its Own Terms
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Trump's Iran deal gambit: oil, leverage, and the regulators in the room
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal, a blockade, and a Strait: reading Trump's 14 June 2026 reversal on Iran
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Trump Heads to Evian G7 with a US-Iran Memorandum in Hand — and Few Details
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Octagon on the South Lawn: Trump's 80th-birthday UFC spectacle and the theatre of the Trump-G7 weekend
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Eighty candles, one cage, one ceasefire: how Trump's birthday spectacle reframed America's longest unwon war
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The First Trillionaire, a 20,000-Strong March, and a US-Iran Deal: Three Threads from 15 June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Spreads, and the Story the Wires Aren't Telling
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The 92% Bet: Inside the Prediction Market Pricing a U.S.–Iran Deal
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Tehran, Washington and a deal the markets keep repricing: inside the bet on Trump and Iran
Culture15 Jun 26
Taremi breaks silence on Iran visa turbulence at 2026 World Cup
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Taremi's press conference and the question of who speaks for the Iranian national team
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Football as diplomatic stage: Mehdi Taremi, BBC Farsi and the contest over who speaks for Iran
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A Strait That Held the World Hostage — and the Deal That May Not Hold It Open
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz: What Trump's Sunday 'signed' Iran announcement actually contains
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz, toll-free: parsing the Trump-Iran 'memorandum' and what it actually changes
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz Reopens: What the US-Iran Memorandum Really Changes
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz Gamble: Inside a Choke Point Repriced by Prediction Markets
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Spike, and the Tentative Deal: How 108 Days of War Rewrote the Risk Premium
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait Fee: Inside the Last-Minute Deal That Resets the World's Most Important Oil Choke Point
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A deal, a warning shot, and the price of oil: a day in the Strait of Hormuz
Opinion15 Jun 26
A Group-Stage Free Kick, and the Story the Cameras Aren't Telling
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A trillion dollars by 2030: reading Musk's SpaceX revenue call as an industrial-policy signal
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The trillion-dollar question hanging over SpaceX
Long Reads15 Jun 26
SpaceX's $1 trillion Musk bet: what it tells us about a Wall Street rewiring itself around one company
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Musk's trillion-dollar moon: how SpaceX's IPO reshapes the private-capital universe
Long Reads15 Jun 26
SpaceX's $85.7bn IPO and Nvidia's $20bn bond sale put a price tag on the new industrial barbell
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Musk's trillion-dollar moment and the new shape of the public market
Opinion15 Jun 26
SpaceX's $85.7bn debut is a triumph for Musk. It's a thinner deal than it looks for everyone else
Long Reads15 Jun 26
SpaceX's $2 trillion debut and Musk's trillion-dollar forecast: inside the options event that redraws private-market…
Long Reads15 Jun 26
SpaceX crosses $2.4 trillion: Musk's empire rewrites what a private company can be
Long Reads15 Jun 26
South Korea's Two-Track Outreach: Cultural Soft Power and a Greek Naval Beachhead
Sport15 Jun 26
Scheffler arrives at Shinnecock as the odds-on favourite — and the only question is by how much
Long Reads15 Jun 26
A 41st-minute header, a goalkeeper's stand, and the geometry of an upset: Saudi Arabia 1-0 Uruguay at the half in…
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Qatar's Tehran shuttle: 17 hours, no breakthrough, and the narrowing window around Iran's nuclear file
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Seventeen hours in Tehran: what Qatar’s mediation exit tells us about the state of the Iran–US file
Long Reads15 Jun 26
Inside the Polymarket Iran Trade: How a 50% Probability Became the Most Watched Foreign-Policy Wager of June 2026
Long Reads15 Jun 26
The Strait, the Price, the Pipeline: How a Sunday in Islamabad Reset Global Risk
Long Reads15 Jun 26