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Opinion12 Jun 26
Maradona's shadow still hangs over the Estadio Azteca — and Day 1 of the World Cup proved it

Culture12 Jun 26
When the trailer outruns the film: an Indian director's mea culpa and the marketing logic behind the cut

Culture12 Jun 26
The benchmark gap: why enterprise AI keeps stalling at the demo wall
Culture12 Jun 26
Twenty years of Taylor Swift: how a Pennsylvania songwriter rewired the economics of pop
Culture12 Jun 26
Xbox clarifies ad stance as gaming's monetisation debate resurfaces

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Araghchi says Iran-US deal closer than ever, ties Israel and Lebanon to the endgame

Sport12 Jun 26
Pochettino's Last Test: Can the USMNT Win a World Cup on Home Soil?

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran and Washington close on a text, but a faction fight inside Iran threatens the deal

Culture12 Jun 26
A tree on set, a panauti for life: Bajpayee's old anecdote about Nawazuddin Siddiqui resurfaces

Tech12 Jun 26
Coinbase's agentic push lands in the same week a $1.8 trillion IPO reshapes the AI cap table

Culture12 Jun 26
David Hockney, painter of Californian light, dies at 88

Culture12 Jun 26
Jane Fonda's First Amendment committee stages a celebrity concert, and the politics of free speech get louder
Culture12 Jun 26
The governor, the actor, and the audience: Manoj Bajpayee's 'Governor' leans into a familiar Indian political strain

Culture12 Jun 26
A Norwegian museum of children's art may be running out of runway

Culture12 Jun 26
The Nunhalan festival: a 1,000-year-old rain rite returns to Hamadan

Culture12 Jun 26
Phantom Blade: Zero bets it can survive a GTA VI shadow
Culture12 Jun 26
The film Kamal Haasan passed on, and the franchise Rajinikanth built a decade later
Culture12 Jun 26
Salman Khan's Delhi HC move against 'Kala Hiran' puts a single line of dialogue in the dock

Opinion12 Jun 26
Czechia edges South Korea in Guadalajara as World Cup 2026 finally gets going

Culture12 Jun 26
Deezer's playlist sniffer turns a streaming-industry blind spot into a public map of AI music

Culture12 Jun 26
A machine-made film about Iran's uprising lands at Tribeca — and tests what 'cinema' now means

Culture12 Jun 26
KuCoin's 1.4 million USDT Crypto Cup: a small token war in a larger exchange race

Culture12 Jun 26
Stellar Blade's character design row is really a culture-war relay race — and the games press keeps handing off the…

Tech12 Jun 26
Trump calls Iran claims of a US deal “fake news” as a reported draft circulates — and a Hormuz drone strike on Indian…

Long Reads12 Jun 26
Trump's second year: how the "extraordinary" presidency is rewriting the rules of presidential accountability

Sport12 Jun 26
Three weeks from kickoff, the 2026 World Cup is a betting and broadcast event the sport has never seen

Sport12 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup scales up: bigger tournament, sharper commercial edges

Sport12 Jun 26
Pink boots, NFL renovations, and a 41-year-old striker: the 2026 World Cup's opening salvos

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Grief as a political language: a Palestinian and an Israeli tour the case for peace

Opinion12 Jun 26
A bipartisan Afghan letter, a baseball game, and the strange geometry of the 2026 midterms

Investigations12 Jun 26
AI-generated 'Iran downs US Apache' video racks up millions of views as US-Iran ceasefire clock ticks
Long Reads12 Jun 26
A wide-body, a radar mast, and a near-miss: what the Antalya incident tells us about airport ground safety

Opinion12 Jun 26
Iran's foreign minister talks up battlefield leverage — and the West should listen

Opinion12 Jun 26
Araghchi's four-pillar doctrine: Tehran's new line on how wars end

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Araghchi frames Iran as unbroken after three 'wars' in 2025-26 — and asks what comes next

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Araghchi puts a price tag on Hormuz as Tehran and Washington inch toward a remote-signing
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Araghchi frames a 'victory' in search of a document: Iran's foreign minister heads home to sell a two-page memo

Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran's negotiators are selling two deals at once — and Washington should notice

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran declares victory in the war it never admitted losing: Araghchi's claim, and what the diplomatic track now…

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Araghchi says Israel must quit southern Lebanon as part of any deal, framing the front as non-negotiable
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran's blockade-to-MoU pivot: reading Araghchi's terms

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran sells a victory it will not show: Araghchi's mystery MoU and the diplomacy-of-achievement doctrine
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran's Talks-Without-Text: Why Araghchi's Hedging Matters

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Araghchi signals two-stage deal, asserts battlefield ‘victory’ as frozen-asset talks advance
Opinion12 Jun 26
Araghchi's 'understanding' is a confidence trick — and most of the Western press is letting him run it

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Araghchi's victory lap: Tehran signals a deal is near — but stops short of signing

Opinion12 Jun 26
Iran's foreign minister names the audience his diplomacy is built for
Opinion12 Jun 26
Araqchi's 'memorandum' is a victory lap dressed as diplomacy

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Shooting near Argentina squad in Kansas City leaves teenager dead, tests pre-World Cup security

Sport12 Jun 26
Azteca roars: Mexico opens 2026 World Cup with 2-0 win over South Africa and a stage-set for the tournament's longest…

Opinion12 Jun 26
The Azteca Roars Back: Mexico's World Cup Return Is a Soft-Power Win Nobody Is Counting

Opinion12 Jun 26
Explosions in Bandar Abbas: What the wires confirm, and what they don't

Opinion12 Jun 26
Dhaka and Delhi's border détente is real — and it is being read in the wrong direction

Sport12 Jun 26
Barco's Iceland cameo: a quiet audition for Scaloni's World Cup puzzle

Sport12 Jun 26
Spoiler-free World Cup: BBC's quiet wager on a tired, divided British audience

Sport12 Jun 26
Bellingham's England reset: a star demands to be loved before the World Cup opens

Business12 Jun 26
Bitcoin brushes $63.2K as Strait of Hormuz explodes into the inflation debate

Investigations12 Jun 26
Reading the Black Sea strike cycle: what three Russian-aligned channels flagged on 12 June 2026

Investigations12 Jun 26
BlackCore, France, and the new map of foreign interference

Opinion12 Jun 26
When the wire is one Telegram channel, the story is the framing

Sport12 Jun 26
Bosnia stun Canada in Toronto as Lukic header opens 2026 World Cup for the co-hosts

Sport12 Jun 26
Bosnia fans carry Palestine chant into Toronto as Canada salvage a point in World Cup opener

Opinion12 Jun 26
Bosnia's 20th-Minute Statement in Toronto: What a Halftime Lead Over Canada Really Tells Us

Opinion12 Jun 26
A Bosnian upset in Toronto reminds the world that World Cup 2026 still has a long memory

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
A Palestine chant in Toronto: what Bosnia's ultras carried into Canada's World Cup debut

Opinion12 Jun 26
Bosnia's Toronto Statement: How a Single Group-Stage Goal Rewrote the 2026 World Cup Script

Opinion12 Jun 26
BYD's celebrity-shares gambit and China's quiet hydrogen lead — what the two stories, read together, actually say

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Canada's AI guardrails take shape, and the World Cup kicks off in Toronto

Sport12 Jun 26
Bosnia fans turn Toronto match into Palestine rally as Canada falls at BMO Field

Opinion12 Jun 26
A throw-in, a corner, and the second match of a 48-team World Cup: what Canada vs Bosnia actually tells us

Sport12 Jun 26
Canada's World Cup moment collides with Bosnia's weight of memory
Opinion12 Jun 26
Larin's equaliser hands Canada a point — and reminds the hosts what World Cups actually cost

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
A World Cup kickoff, and a chant that travelled further than the match
Sport12 Jun 26
Canada's World Cup moment, and the co-host question nobody is asking

Opinion12 Jun 26
Canada's World Cup Debut Exposes the Soft Underbelly of the Host's Sporting Romance

Opinion12 Jun 26
The blockade that isn't quite a war: parsing CENTCOM's 136-vessel count

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
US Central Command extends Iran blockade as Araghchi frames a 40-day test of national will

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
China detains American on espionage suspicion as Manila sanctions row widens

Opinion12 Jun 26
Two floods, one summer: China's climate gamble and Manila's verdict
Sport12 Jun 26
Chinese-owned kit makers dress 27% of World Cup squads, redrawing sportswear’s supply map

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Three months into the Iran war, China's oil demand is rewriting the market's assumptions

Opinion12 Jun 26
A spy, a sanction, and a statement of intent: reading Beijing's latest arrest through the US-China row

Sport12 Jun 26
Steve Clarke, Haiti, and the long road back to a men's World Cup

Business12 Jun 26
CME's 24/7 futures push lands in a market that has stopped believing in gold

Opinion12 Jun 26
The agents in the machine are now trading it: Coinbase, Avalanche, and the quiet end of the human-in-the-loop

Investigations12 Jun 26
Sixty members of Congress ask Trump to reopen Gaza medical-evacuation corridor

Opinion12 Jun 26
Crimea's shelves are going empty — and Moscow's war machine is to blame

Opinion12 Jun 26
When a viral shove becomes a courtroom question: the politics of everyday violence

Sport12 Jun 26
Czechia ends near two-decade World Cup goal drought in opening minutes against South Korea

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Deir al-Balah strike: a single night, a wider pattern in central Gaza

Investigations12 Jun 26
Deir al-Balah strike footage reveals the documentation war running parallel to the bombing

Opinion12 Jun 26
The DRC's Ebola outbreak has reached a displacement camp — and the world's attention hasn't

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Ebola's second wind hits the DRC — and meets a World Cup squad in transit
Sport12 Jun 26
Congo's World Cup squad lands in the United States after 21-day Ebola quarantine, with 676 cases confirmed at home
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Ebola quarantine sends DR Congo's World Cup squad through a 21-day detour the squad did not choose

Investigations12 Jun 26
Eastern Mediterranean energy bloc takes shape in Houston, with Cyprus, Greece, Israel and the US at the table

Opinion12 Jun 26
India's institutions deserve a sharper conversation than the wire is giving them
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Cairo steps in as Trump claims Iran deal, Tehran demurs

Sport12 Jun 26
England's Miami dinner signals a squad choosing calm before the World Cup storm
Sport12 Jun 26
England set 184-record chase as Sri Lanka collapse to 67-5 in T20 World Cup
Sport12 Jun 26
England's two World Cups, one summer: Tuchel's men and the women of T20

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
EU opens first accession cluster with Ukraine and Moldova, von der Leyen says — 15 June launch

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Europe distances itself from the Iran war as Trump claims a deal is close

Sport12 Jun 26
F1's Barcelona 'World Cup' gag is a marketing meme in search of a fixture

Opinion12 Jun 26
An F-35 over Abu Dhabi and the silence that followed

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
F-35 in-flight emergency over the UAE lands safely; Iranian channel warns Trump against returning

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran's clerical elite gathers in Qom for the funeral of Ayatollah Fayyaz, with the Supreme Leader presiding

Sport12 Jun 26
Deadline day: fantasy football's World Cup moment arrives before a ball is kicked

Sport12 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup begins: 72 matches in 13 days, three host nations, and a tournament bigger than any before it
Sport12 Jun 26
FIFA sells a slice of the World Cup walkout: a fan-engagement play that asks who the tournament belongs to

Sport12 Jun 26
Bocelli, Ejae and a defensive FIFA: the World Cup opens under a stack of unaddressed critiques

Opinion12 Jun 26
The week's signal in five wires: ChatGPT, masks, ad money, screwworm, and what none of them prove

Sport12 Jun 26
Cuisine as subplot: Food Network's World Cup segment and the soft-power side of the 2026 build-up

Investigations12 Jun 26
Forged battlefield: a single AI convoy image and the case it makes about the war in Ukraine

Opinion12 Jun 26
Gabbard's Pullback and the Cost of Unverified Intelligence
Sport12 Jun 26
Alpine win Monaco appeal: Gasly reinstated to P3 after stewards rescind pit-lane penalties

Sport12 Jun 26
Gasly gets his Monaco podium back after stewards admit pit-lane timing error
Sport12 Jun 26
Gasly's Monaco podium restored after FIA admits pit-lane timing error — and the appeal fight is just starting

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
As Gaza's air war grinds on, US lawmakers push Israel to let cancer patients out
Opinion12 Jun 26
A false alarm in Gaza, and the framing that surrounds it

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Three killed in Gaza as mediators push a fragile ceasefire into another week

Business12 Jun 26
Gen Z saves more, the World Bank cuts growth, and a World Cup looms: three signals from a brittle 2026

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Graham breaks with Trump over reported $300bn Iran reconstruction fund

Sport12 Jun 26
Haiti's World Cup jersey, FIFA's political-symbol rule, and the limits of a pink-booth spectacle
Sport12 Jun 26
Haiti's World Cup jersey change exposes FIFA's uneven hand on politics and memory
Investigations12 Jun 26
Hezbollah claims ambush of Israeli armor near Majdal Zoun — what is and isn't corroborated
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Hezbollah claims ambush of Israeli armored column in southern Lebanon
Investigations12 Jun 26
Hezbollah claims drone and missile strikes on Israeli positions in southern Lebanon as cross-border tempo holds steady
Investigations12 Jun 26
Hezbollah's Friday operations statement: a tactical signal inside an unfinished war
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Hezbollah says it struck Israeli force in southern Lebanon as daily operations resume

Opinion12 Jun 26
Hockney leaves the room, the light stays

Opinion12 Jun 26
Hong Kong's quiet reckonings: discipline, despair, and a robotics bet

Opinion12 Jun 26
Hormuz in 48 hours: a closure, a denial, and the markets that shrugged
Opinion12 Jun 26
The Hormuz deal that wasn't is already moving oil markets — and Tehran's framing is worth taking seriously
Investigations12 Jun 26
Hormuz drone strike, Tehran's leaked terms and a White House denial: a deal in three frames
Opinion12 Jun 26
Hormuz in the crosshairs: the 24 hours that reset the Iran file

Business12 Jun 26
Hormuz deal reports collide with Iranian state readout as shipping, fertilizer, and fuel markets brace
Business12 Jun 26
Hormuz in the crosshairs: a 48-hour exchange that puts the strait's oil chokepoint back in play

Opinion12 Jun 26
India's ambition deficit: how a culture of corner-cutting keeps pulling the country backwards

Opinion12 Jun 26
The India file is being written elsewhere, and Modi is letting it happen

Opinion12 Jun 26
India's domestic story, told in five wires
Opinion12 Jun 26
India's enforcement state is running out of credible cover
Investigations12 Jun 26
India's fuel rationing and the ECB's rate move point to a Middle East shock the world is still pricing in
Business12 Jun 26
India's fuel rationing and the war that never reached its borders
Opinion12 Jun 26
India's resilience narrative is running out of road
Opinion12 Jun 26
New Delhi's patience with Washington's sea-lane enforcement is wearing thin
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran frames Hormuz as a 'deterrent,' floats remote signing of US MoU
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran's 14-item MoU and the choreography of a not-yet-deal
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran redraws the rules of Hormuz — and the world's oil chokepoint just got a price tag
Opinion12 Jun 26
The Iran deal that isn't: Trump's leak spat and the choreography of an unwritten agreement
Opinion12 Jun 26
A deal that is "never been closer" — and one that may already be dead

Opinion12 Jun 26
A deal, a rebuke, and a missing Israeli signature: reading the Iran text nobody has read
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran's leaks, Washington's denials: the Iran deal that exists in two versions
Opinion12 Jun 26
The 'All Wrapped Up' Mirage: A Deal That Isn't a Deal

Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran pushes back on Trump's 'Sunday in Geneva' framing
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Iran denies Geneva deal as Trump's 'psychological war' framing collides with Tehran's review process
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran pushes back: Iran denies fresh US talks after Trump's 'we ended the war' claim
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran claims a diplomatic win before the ink is dry
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran draws a new line at Hormuz, and Washington has to decide whether to sign

Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran's Hormuz declaration is less about the waterway than about who writes its rules

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Iran's Hormuz Drone Gambit Tests the Gulf's Fragile Maritime Calm
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran's Hormuz pitch: a new fee regime, asset release, and a deal Tehran can walk away from
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran signals the 'Islamabad memorandum' is close — and asks the press to stand down

Opinion12 Jun 26
The 'Islamabad MoU' nobody has read: how Iran's foreign minister is selling a deal that doesn't yet exist
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran's MoU Victory Lap Conceals What the Document Does Not Yet Say
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran buys itself sixty more days

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran and Islamabad move toward signing ceremony as agreement text nears final review
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran's Parliament Goes Dark as a US-Iran Nuclear Deal Takes Shape
Business12 Jun 26
Tehran holds the Strait as nuclear framework takes shape
Investigations12 Jun 26
Iran holds the Strait of Hormuz hostage — and Trump's India complaint shows the pressure is already spreading

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Iran tightens grip on Strait of Hormuz as tanker incident and Sirik blasts expose the fragility of a chokepoint the…

Investigations12 Jun 26
Iran strike on Bahrain radar puts US air-defence network in the crosshairs
Opinion12 Jun 26
Iran keeps its uranium: what Trump's dilution deal actually means
Business12 Jun 26
Tehran says 14-article draft would unlock Iran's oil exports and pull back US forces

Investigations12 Jun 26
Tehran and Washington circle a 14-point draft: what's actually on the table
Opinion12 Jun 26
A 14-point Iran–US memorandum lands — and the question is whether the text matters more than the actors around it

Investigations12 Jun 26
Tehran calls US ceasefire 'meaningless' as Indian vessels reportedly struck in Gulf shipping corridor
Opinion12 Jun 26
The ceasefire Tehran is calling meaningless
Opinion12 Jun 26
The Iran-US deal that wasn't quite announced
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran reviews US deal as Trump pulls back from strikes: a careful walk, not a breakthrough
Opinion12 Jun 26
Tehran, Washington and the theatre of 'wrap-up'
Opinion12 Jun 26
Sanctions, soldiers, and settlement: what the rumoured Iran–US draft actually says
Business12 Jun 26
Iran-US draft memorandum: Tehran says it includes sanctions relief and release of frozen funds

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran denies a deal is done as Trump's Geneva narrative collides with Iran's

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran says US-Iran memorandum 'has never been closer' as Trump amplifies Iranian statement
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Iran's foreign minister says a memorandum with Washington is closer than ever — Tehran frames the moment as a victory…
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran-Washington draft takes shape as negotiators race the clock

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Tehran signals end-stage internal review of US-Iran memorandum as diplomatic clock runs

Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Iran-US deal: what the Tehran memorandum does — and does not — settle

Opinion12 Jun 26
A Two-Page Memorandum, a Swiss Venue, and the War Iran Says It Won
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Pakistan-mediated text lands, but Trump calls Iran's leaked terms a misrepresentation
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Iran's World Cup squad trains in Mexico under the shadow of a war Trump says is over

Opinion12 Jun 26
Israel is lobbying Washington to keep Iran's money frozen. The question is whether the US can hold the line.
Investigations12 Jun 26
Israel pushes Washington to keep Iranian assets frozen as ceasefire talks widen
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Israel strikes southern Lebanon hours after Rubio visit, testing the US-brokered ceasefire
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Israel launches fresh wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon as ceasefire strain deepens
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Israel orders evacuation of three south Lebanon villages, citing Hezbollah ceasefire violations
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Israel strikes Al-Maghazi family home as US moves to build new base on Gaza's edge
Geopolitics12 Jun 26
Israel presses Washington to keep Iranian assets frozen as ceasefire track advances
Business12 Jun 26