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Long Reads11 Jun 26
Tokyo's Crypto Turn: How a 20% Tax, a Stock-Grade Rulebook, and a Tungsten Squeeze Are Rewiring Japan's Risk Calculus
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Iron ore steady, oil relieved: how China's demand puzzle is rewriting the Iran-war script
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Day 104: How a single afternoon of Situation Room calls set the trajectory for the US-Iran war
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Iran-US talks stumble over the same word: 'text'
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Tehran Talks, Strait Smoke: A Day of Contradictions Off the Iranian Coast
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A 33% Probability and a 'Meaningless' Ceasefire: The Iran–US Chessboard Tilts Toward the Sirik Coast
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A deal that may or may not be: Trump, the Islamic Republic, and the 48-hour ceasefire that moved markets
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Tehran and Washington Collide Over the Meaning of 'Ceasefire' as Trump Demands Iran's Oil
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Strikes, Threats, and Secret Oil: What the Iran-US Flashpoint of 10-11 June 2026 Tells Us About the New Calculus of…
Tech11 Jun 26
Iranian Missiles and Drones Strike US Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in Widening Gulf Escalation
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Iran strikes Jordan bases: how a 12-missile salvo turned a U.S. air campaign into a regional war
Long Reads11 Jun 26
How a 90-minute war that never was reshaped the Iran calculus
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Closing the World's Oil Choke Point: Iran's Hormuz Gambit and the Cartography of Coercion
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Closing the Strait: Iran's Gamble on the World's Most Important Oil Chokepoint
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Tehran's widening retaliation: Iran strikes US-facing bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan after a fourth day of US…
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Iran, Musk, and the fracturing of a ceasefire: what three wires on the same afternoon tell us
Culture11 Jun 26
Iran's IRGC marks the anniversary of Hossein Salami's death with a coordinated media offensive
Americas11 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz standoff tests US-Iran line as Iran football captain recounts Tulum encounter
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz shut, three LNG tankers through: how Iran's blockade is bending global energy and crypto markets at…
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Iran's ceasefire warning, the IAEA demand, and the oil tape: a hinge day in the US-Iran escalation
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The Shrinking Packet: How Indonesia's Inflation Math Masks a Quiet Erosion of Real Incomes
Long Reads11 Jun 26
India's urban heat crisis collides with its global capability-centre boom
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A second ship, a separate toll: India confronts a widening Gulf of Oman strike corridor
Long Reads11 Jun 26
India's capital rush: rate cuts, public capex, and the architecture of a self-funded boom
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The Hormuz Signal: How a Single Tweet Repriced a Fifth of the World's Oil
Energy11 Jun 26
Hormuz in the crosshairs: Shell warns of 1.2 billion barrel shortfall as Iran reports fresh shipping strikes
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The Hormuz Precipice: How a US Strike on an Iranian Water Plant Reset the Gulf Crisis
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Hormuz on edge: a blockade the world cannot afford to ignore
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Hezbollah's first UAV launches since the November ceasefire test a fragile northern-front equilibrium
Business11 Jun 26
Hamas claims Jenin bombing, vows escalated resistance as West Bank violence grinds on
Opinion11 Jun 26
Gates goes behind closed doors, and the leverage story shifts on its axis
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Gates tells Congress Epstein leveraged marital affairs to pressure him
Sport11 Jun 26
FIFA brings the Fan Festival to 13 host cities as the 2026 World Cup countdown tightens
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Europe's two-track courtship: German-French bid to reshape the EU's diplomatic service meets a quieter Chinese push…
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Day 104 of the Iran war: the deal that isn't, the strait that's closed, and the oil that won't move
Investigations11 Jun 26
South Korea hits Coupang with record US$409 million fine as data-protection regime tightens around platform giants
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Rockets, Reinsurance and the Reshaping of the Orbital Race: How China Is Backing SpaceX's Rivals
Long Reads11 Jun 26
China's Industrial Surge Rewires the Global Capital Map While Oil Markets Quietly Exhale
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Twenty days into the war: what CENTCOM's dawn-strike pattern reveals about Washington's endgame in Iran
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Calm Tape, Loud Calendar: A Bank of America Sell-Signal and the Day Washington's Health Secretary Stopped Taking…
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Bank of America's 70% Bear-Market Signal and the Asymmetric Cross-Currents of June 2026
Business11 Jun 26
Beyond Bitcoin: Wall Street's Next Crypto Bet Is Plumbing, Not Coin
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Avalanche's Nasdaq Moment: Inside the Treasury Vehicle Bringing $AVAT to Public Markets
Opinion11 Jun 26
The Anthropic premium is shrinking, and the prediction markets noticed first
Tech11 Jun 26
Anthropic's $150M nonprofit bet lands the same week Wall Street eyes its IPO and China's labs dig in
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Explosions Near Abyek Put Iran's Air-Defence Network Under Sudden Scrutiny
Asia11 Jun 26
China's tungsten grip tightens, and US scrap flows reroute toward Tokyo
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The 90-Minute War That Never Was: How a US Strike on Iran Was Called Off and What It Reveals About Trump's Bargaining…
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A strike that did not land: Trump cancels Iran operation hours before launch
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Explosions in Karaj and the Language of Retaliation: Reading Iran's Opening Move
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Evacuation warnings, then strikes: the pattern in Deir al-Balah on 11 June 2026
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The $250 Billion World Cup: How 2026's Mega-Tournament Became a Test of Whether Soft Power Still Pays
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Visa, the World Cup, and the choreography of a border
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The $71.8 Billion Question: How Trump's Second-Term Funding Blitz Reshapes the US State's Spending Architecture
Sport11 Jun 26
Road teams have owned these Finals. Game 4 at MSG is where the script flips — or doesn't.
Sport11 Jun 26
Spurs–Knicks Game 4: the maths, the pressure, and the prop boards behind the only NBA Finals game on the slate
Long Reads11 Jun 26
SpaceX's record IPO meets a market that has stopped believing in instant index inclusion
Sport11 Jun 26
Polymarket opens a market on the celebrity row at Game 4 — and the Knicks' 2-1 lead does the talking
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks erase 29 in Game 4: Anunoby's putback caps the largest comeback in NBA Finals history
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks erase 29-point deficit to stun Pacers in NBA Finals Game 4 as Anunoby tips in the winner
Long Reads11 Jun 26
India's Gulf Conundrum: Air India 171, an American iBuyer Retreat, and the Climate Bill Coming Due
Sport11 Jun 26
England's World Cup warm-up cut short by Florida storm — and the calendar is about to get tighter
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Bank of America's Bear Trigger: Reading the 70% Signal Through Six Other Stories That Hit the Wire This Week
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Billion-dollar kicks: how the 2026 World Cup became sport's biggest financial event
Investigations11 Jun 26
US forces strike third tanker of the week in the Gulf of Oman; three Indian crew killed
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A US F-35A's 7700 Squawk Over the UAE: What One Avionics Alert Tells Us About the Gulf's New Military Geometry
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Crude, Code and Ceasefire: How a Four-Day Flare-Up Rewrote the Markets' Map of the Gulf
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Sirens in Bahrain: What a Midnight Missile Alert Reveals About the Gulf's New Geometry
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Dismissed and Exposed: How Ukraine's Booking System Is Leaving Veterans Without a Safety Net
Culture11 Jun 26
Uganda's Five-Day Ebola Pause Tests Public Trust Before Any Vaccine Arrives
Sport11 Jun 26
Tuchel's selection puzzle: England close warm-ups with a 3-0 win and a World Cup squad still half-written
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A Truth Social Post, a Scrapped Spin-off, and a Bear-Market Signal: Reading the Stress Lines in Trump's Media and…
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg gambit: an oil chokehold framed as regime pressure
Culture11 Jun 26
The Midterm Wargame: How Democrats Are Bracing for a Repeat of 2024's Ad Barrage
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Twelve hours of contradictions: parsing Trump's birthday-week ultimatum to Iran
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The blockade, the leak, and the market: how a single June night redrew the Iran file
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Trump, AI, and the Birthday-Wish Presidency: How Three Offhand Lines in 36 Hours Reveal a White House Operating by…
Sport11 Jun 26
Skubal's six-week return reshapes the Tigers' deadline math
Sport11 Jun 26
NBA Finals Game 4 tips off in San Antonio with the Spurs facing a must-win against the Thunder
Culture11 Jun 26
Kharijite in the Mirror: How a Single Telegram Insult Tells the Story of Iran's Fractured Hardliners
Obituaries11 Jun 26
Stephen King, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and the strange economy of celebrity endorsement in public-works…
Long Reads11 Jun 26
False alarm at the Pentagon: how a hazmat call tightened the screws on America's information grid
Culture11 Jun 26
Russia Day concert off the Red Square programme for first time in 23 years
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The World Cup as Marketing Battlefield: How Waymo and a $14 Pint Reveal the Tournament's New Commercial Reality
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Pakistan's Budget Squeeze Meets an Iran War It Cannot Insure Against
Long Reads11 Jun 26
India's Capex Decade Is Reshaping the Global Capital Map
Investigations11 Jun 26
Crime Falls, Portions Shrink: Two Distant Statistical Puzzles and What They Reveal About the Global News Cycle
Opinion11 Jun 26
Indonesia's inflation fiction is running out of road
Business11 Jun 26
US strikes third tanker in a week off Oman as Iran blockade tightens
Business11 Jun 26
Kharg Island flashpoint: Tehran fortifies the Strait’s oil chokepoint as Trump floats ‘total control’ of Iranian energy
Business11 Jun 26
Trump says US-Iran deal is 'wrapped up,' but a naval blockade and unanswered terms remain
Business11 Jun 26
Trump floats seizure of Kharg Island as US–Iran ceasefire cracks
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A World Cup, a growth warning, a pint of beer: what 11 June 2026 actually said
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A World Cup priced for a different tournament: how the 2026 bill got this big
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The most expensive World Cup ever kicks off under a security cloud
Long Reads11 Jun 26
A tournament the size of a continent: the 2026 World Cup opens with the biggest sporting bet in history
Science11 Jun 26
Reading scores climb, AI bets wobble: a mid-June snapshot of two divergent bets on the future
The Weekly11 Jun 26
The Qinghai–Tibet line, a Polish seaside room, and the slow grind of European rail: a weekly digest
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Pint Economics: Why the 2026 World Cup Is the Most Expensive in History
Opinion11 Jun 26
Moscow's Donbas pivot signals a war being fought on Russian, not Ukrainian, timelines
Tech11 Jun 26
Visa and OpenAI put a payments rail inside ChatGPT, and a target on agentic commerce
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The Night the Skies Went Quiet: What a Narrow US-Iran Exchange Reveals About Escalation Management
Business11 Jun 26
Hormuz standoff: Trump claims a covert passage, Iran closes the strait
Sport11 Jun 26
The most expensive World Cup ever is also the loudest — and the pint tells the story
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup as a betting, broadcast and balance-sheet event: inside the most expensive tournament in history
Long Reads11 Jun 26
SpaceX prices the largest IPO in history at $135 a share — and the public market hasn't decided whether to be dazzled…
Opinion11 Jun 26
SpaceX's $1.8 trillion IPO is a market event, a wealth event, and a political event all at once
Long Reads11 Jun 26
SpaceX's $1.8tn listing: a single IPO, and what it does to the rest of the market
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The $11 billion tournament: how FIFA's 2026 World Cup became a stress test for the global sports economy
Culture11 Jun 26
A mirror held up to the world, then set aside: the politics of FIFA 2026
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The counterfeit World Cup: how a HK$156m bust exposes the parallel economy behind the planet's biggest tournament
Business11 Jun 26
Trump warns of renewed strikes on Iran and threatens eventual seizure of Kharg Island
Sport11 Jun 26
TPC Toronto's final exam: the Canadian Open closes a PGA Tour chapter before the U.S. Open
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The most expensive World Cup ever is also the most bet-upon — and the political theatre is only just beginning
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Iran fires from Tabriz: a 3 a.m. burst that re-opens the question of restraint
Culture11 Jun 26
Kenya's LGBTQ+ groups brace for a leaner Pride after foreign-aid cuts hit frontline services
Culture11 Jun 26
Canada's Digital Safety Act: a content moderation bill that hands the file to the culture ministry
Culture11 Jun 26
China's new frontier in policing is the body itself
Opinion11 Jun 26
China's quiet export surge into Europe is about more than fire trucks
Sport11 Jun 26
Root takes the wheel: England drop Stokes and Atkinson, install interim captain for second Test at The Oval
Sport11 Jun 26
England turn to Root to steady a Test captaincy in crisis
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Shelter-in-place across Amman: what four airspace alerts in twenty minutes actually tell us
Long Reads11 Jun 26
When 70% of the Bear Triggers Fire: BoFA's Signal Meets a UK Payments Squeeze and Kyiv's Quiet Reckoning
Culture11 Jun 26
Amin Jaffer's Venice project and the long arc of Indian art on the global biennale stage
Culture11 Jun 26
The Benchmark Trap: Why Enterprise AI Is Drowning in Numbers That Don't Measure What Matters
Long Reads11 Jun 26
The Wired Pitch: How the 2026 World Cup Became a Tech Showcase, a Betting Bonanza, and a Logistics Test
Culture11 Jun 26
Netflix's mobile app and gaming push in Asia: a quiet re-engineering of the streaming playbook
Culture11 Jun 26
Periods, Pills and the Gaokao: How China’s Most Important Exam Squeezes Girls at the Bench
Tech11 Jun 26
Anthropic's Dario Amodei warns of AI's "adolescence" while shipping the very models he wants regulated
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Anthropic's bet against itself: how Dario Amodei's safety warning became a sales pitch
Opinion11 Jun 26
Belfast's second night: when a single stabbing lights a fuse
Opinion11 Jun 26
Belfast is burning again, and the political class should not look away
Culture11 Jun 26
Tartous rail maintenance enters second phase as Syria rebuilds its coastal spine
Culture11 Jun 26
Dust storm paralyzes Zabol as Sistan-Baluchestan confronts recurring climate strain
Sport11 Jun 26
Spurs blow 29-point lead as Knicks take 3-1 NBA Finals edge
Sport11 Jun 26
OG Anunoby's tip-in lifts Knicks past Pacers, puts New York one win from first NBA title in 53 years
Sport11 Jun 26
OG Anunoby's tip-in rescues Knicks in San Antonio and forces Game 5
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks erase 29-point deficit to push Spurs to brink of first title since 1973
Sport11 Jun 26
The Knicks have a Spurs problem — and a viewership tailwind
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks move to brink of NBA title as Barkley lets fly at "dumbest team in history"
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks storm back from 29 down to top Spurs 107-106 in NBA Finals, largest comeback in series history
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Knicks storm back from 29 down to seize 3-1 lead in NBA Finals
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks one win from first title since 1973 after 29-point comeback stuns Spurs in Game 4
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks storm back from 29 down to beat Spurs in Game 4, move within a win of first title since 1973
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks rewrite the record books in 29-point resurrection, push Spurs to brink of sweep
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks one win from the title after OG Anunoby's go-ahead bucket caps Game 4
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks even the NBA Finals as MSG roars: Game 4 takeaway and what Spurs must solve next
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks one win from a title after 29-point comeback stuns Spurs in Game 4
Sport11 Jun 26
Anunoby's tip-in caps 29-point Knicks comeback — the largest in NBA Finals history
Sport11 Jun 26
Karl-Anthony Towns' fingertip finish pushes Knicks to 3-1 NBA Finals lead
Sport11 Jun 26
OG Anunoby's tip-in caps the largest comeback in NBA Finals history as Knicks stun visitors at MSG
Sport11 Jun 26
Anunoby's tip-in pushes Knicks to brink of first NBA title in 53 years
Sport11 Jun 26
Anunoby tips Knicks past Pacers in biggest Finals comeback as New York moves within one win of the title
Sport11 Jun 26
Anunoby closes a 29-point abyss: how the Knicks rewrote the Finals record book in a single night
Culture11 Jun 26
Jay Clayton, ex-SEC chair, nominated to lead US intelligence
Culture11 Jun 26
One year on, a Guards Major General's literary circle in Sarcheshmeh
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Oil, Aid, and Asymmetrical Bargains: Three Signals Point to a Reordering of US Leverage
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Two stories, one Indonesia: a daycare scandal and a shrinking economy that won't say so
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz shut, oil jumps: what we know about the US strike on Iran
Investigations11 Jun 26
Trump cancels strikes on Iran hours before launch, citing high-level talks
Sport11 Jun 26
Wemby and the Spurs bring the NBA Finals back from the brink at MSG
Sport11 Jun 26
Wembanyama's flagrant-foot fine print: one point from a Finals suspension, and a Spurs team built to absorb the shock
Culture11 Jun 26
Trump taps Jay Clayton for senior Justice post, signalling continuity at SDNY
Sport11 Jun 26
Spurs and Knicks tip Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals in San Antonio with the series on a knife-edge
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Hormuz gamble: gunboat diplomacy, oil, and a strait the world cannot afford to lose
Culture11 Jun 26
A medal in Tehran, a frame in Gaza: reading Iran's 'Right Side of History' ceremony
Tech11 Jun 26
India's AI Labour Paradox: Workers Training the Systems Coming for Their Jobs
Tech11 Jun 26
A SpaceX listing, a Grok whistleblower, and the geometry of Musk's next empire
Long Reads11 Jun 26
India's monsoon, its AI deal, and the long summer: three threads from 11 June 2026
Long Reads11 Jun 26
India's capex pivot meets a fickle monsoon: the FY27 growth test
Tech11 Jun 26
US airlift posture over the Gulf signals contingency for a longer Middle East crisis
Culture11 Jun 26
From Bavaria to the front line: Tytan Technologie's carbon-fibre drone pitch lands in Berlin
Opinion11 Jun 26
Solar's inverter problem is a sovereignty question dressed up as a cybersecurity one
Tech11 Jun 26
Asia's AI cybercrime wave meets a market that has stopped believing the productivity story
Tech11 Jun 26
CENTCOM declares end of Iran strikes as Tehran keeps the door cracked
Sport11 Jun 26
VAR, training camps and a T20 summer: England heads into a stacked June
Culture11 Jun 26
Audio leak puts Ukrainian education ombudsperson under pressure
Tech11 Jun 26
US strikes on Iran raise the question the wire has not yet answered
Culture11 Jun 26
Inside Gaza's medical crisis: a doctor's leaked photo and what it exposes about the detention of medical staff
Culture11 Jun 26
The book the White House didn't want: Haberman and Swan's Epstein return rattles the Trump second term
Opinion11 Jun 26
Hormuz in the crossfire: a closure that isn’t a closure, and the war of words that could become a war of ships
Culture11 Jun 26
Who runs the doctor? Ukraine's quiet fight over medical self-government
Business11 Jun 26
Oil, ceasefire, and the Kharg Island endgame: a 24-hour escalation that put 20% of Iran's exports in play
Culture11 Jun 26
In Seoul's Room of Quiet Contemplation, a 1,500-year-old gilt-bronze offers the city a different kind of news
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Explosions in Karaj and Garmsar: what the overnight strike picture tells us — and what it does not
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump claims Iran deal as strikes are called off and Wall Street rallies
Culture11 Jun 26
Havana stages a biennial of political humor — and a soft-power test for the island's cultural diplomacy
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz shut after US strikes on Iran: oil traffic halts as Gulf states split on UN force resolution
Business11 Jun 26
UAE and Iran reopen security channel with face-to-face talks in Tehran
Sport11 Jun 26
USMNT opens 2026 World Cup against a Paraguay side that has already beaten Argentina and Brazil
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Deal, Cancelled Strikes, and the Kharg Island Question: Reading the 11 June News Cycle
Culture11 Jun 26
A Canary Islands radio hour turns Palestinian memory into a local question
Opinion11 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz is shut, and the press is repeating Iranian script verbatim
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Hormuz on the line: a 24-hour collision between US strikes, Iranian closure and the oil market's waiting game
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Tehran shuts the Strait: what the Hormuz closure actually means for the next 72 hours
Culture11 Jun 26
A Sevastopol museum goes up in smoke — and the war comes for the cultural front
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump tees up European signing with Iran as weekend deal talk hardens
Tech11 Jun 26
Hezbollah claims downing of Israeli drone over Bekaa Valley, spotlighting layered air war over Lebanon
Tech11 Jun 26
Hezbollah claims it downed an Israeli Heron 1 over the Bekaa — and Israel struck the crash site
Tech11 Jun 26