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Investigations11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg Island ultimatum: how a Truth Social post redrew the Iran crisis overnight
Sport11 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup Is a Technology Showcase Disguised as a Tournament
Sport11 Jun 26
The next World Cup kicks off in 2026 — and FIFA's marketing machine is already running
Tech11 Jun 26
Iran publishes satellite imagery claiming hit on Israeli squadron hangar at Ramat David
Culture11 Jun 26
KuCoin's Crypto Cup leans on spectacle as exchange competition for retail flow intensifies
Opinion11 Jun 26
The new front line is the High North, and Europe's perimeter is hardening fast
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Engine-room fire reported on tanker 21 nautical miles off Sohar as UKMTO logs incident
Sport11 Jun 26
World Cup 2026 kicks off a media arms race as FIFA rolls out its awards slate
Sport11 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup is the most expensive ever — and the bill starts before kickoff
Sport11 Jun 26
World Cup 2026: the tournament that ate the calendar
Opinion11 Jun 26
Iran's missile strike on a Jordan airbase marks a regional escalation that the wire frames too narrowly
Culture11 Jun 26
Azteca opens the 2026 World Cup: a Latin American stage, a Colombian star, and a city that still remembers 1970
Culture11 Jun 26
Russian Railways eyes tourist sleeper service to China as cross-border rail demand climbs
Culture11 Jun 26
MBDA and Ukrainian Armored Vehicles sign strategic cooperation deal, a quiet test of Europe's defence-industrial depth
Opinion11 Jun 26
Water, weapons, and the betting markets: reading the US–Iran moment
Long Reads11 Jun 26
India's AI gamble: training the machines, training itself out of work
Opinion11 Jun 26
The World Cup is here, the beer is overpriced, and the geopolitics still won't wait
Tech11 Jun 26
Hezbollah claims downing of Israeli Heron-1 drone over Lebanon's Beqaa valley
Tech11 Jun 26
India's climate bet, monsoon setback, and air-crash riddle converge in a week of stress tests
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Netanyahu convenes emergency security meeting as Israeli press sharpens critique of Iran war footing
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Iran deal blindsided Israel, and that may be the point
Opinion11 Jun 26
Bomb first, hydrate later: the cost of striking Iran without a peace
Sport11 Jun 26
Rob Key weighs alcohol ban for England after Stokes-Atkinson curfew breach
Tech11 Jun 26
U.S. Central Command completes additional strikes on Iran as Hegseth signals more action ahead
Opinion11 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz deal isn't a deal
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump claims Iran deal is days away, but Israel pushes back and a war threat flickers in the background
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump cancels Iran strike as deal text remains unsigned, sources on both sides contradict each other
Business11 Jun 26
Taiwan's drone push stalls in the legislature, exposing the gap between industrial ambition and budget discipline
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
European ambassadors summoned to Lavrov's ministry as Russia plays diplomatic double-game
Tech11 Jun 26
NYT visual analysis raises 'war crime' question over US strike on Iranian water infrastructure
Tech11 Jun 26
OpenAI's Ona deal lands as BoFA's bear-signal warning hits a 70% threshold
Tech11 Jun 26
Iran claims drone strikes on US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain; no independent corroboration yet
Culture11 Jun 26
A Kharkiv explosives case and the quiet architecture of Russian sabotage on home soil
Culture11 Jun 26
A LADA, repaired twice, sold as new: a small Russian showroom story with a longer shadow
Culture11 Jun 26
A Yekaterinburg traffic case becomes a small window onto Russian road-risk culture
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Quds Force commander Qaani warns Israel as south Lebanon operations intensify
Tech11 Jun 26
Suspected Russian hacker charged in U.S. cyber-espionage case as Ukraine war surpasses WWI in duration
Opinion11 Jun 26
Anthropic's safety-test pitch lands the same week its biggest customer sounds the alarm
Investigations11 Jun 26
Iranian missiles over Jordan: what the overnight strikes do, and do not, tell us
Opinion11 Jun 26
Iran's Missile Gambit in Jordan Tests a Fragile Regional Order
Culture11 Jun 26
Iran releases documentary on slain Hezbollah commander Salami as part of a widening martyr-canon project
Investigations11 Jun 26
Iran strikes US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain as IRGC claims 18 targets hit in opening salvo
Business11 Jun 26
Pentagon partially evacuated over air-quality incident as hazmat units respond
Investigations11 Jun 26
Iran's missile salvo lands on Jordan: what the videos actually show, and what they do not
Tech11 Jun 26
Trump pairs equity stakes in top AI firms with escalating Iran pressure campaign
Opinion11 Jun 26
Hormuz open for business, says CENTCOM, but whose narrative is the shipping world actually reading?
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump claims Iran ‘settlement’, but Tehran reads the room and the markets
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg threat tests the ceiling of US-Iran escalation
Investigations11 Jun 26
Trump threatens Kharg Island seizure and renewed strikes on Iran as escalation rhetoric outruns verifiable battlefield…
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US and Iran trade air strikes for a second day, diplomacy on a knife's edge
Long Reads11 Jun 26
SpaceX's $1.8 trillion IPO lands: a corporate milestone that redraws the public-market map
Culture11 Jun 26
Mali's Press Crackdown Sends a Chilling Message: A Newspaper, a Fact, and a Prison Cell
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Ballistic missiles over Jordan and sirens in Bahrain: an Iran–Gulf flashpoint, minute by minute
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Iran fires ballistic missiles at Jordan in overnight strike, regional airspace scrambled
Opinion11 Jun 26
Iran's missile strike on Muwaffaq al-Salti: a signal wrapped in smoke
Opinion11 Jun 26
Karaj wakes to thunder: what twelve explosions in an industrial city tells us about the new Middle East
Culture11 Jun 26
Nintendo's latest Direct shows one game to Japan — and a different one to everyone else
Culture11 Jun 26
Russia’s ‘Zubr’ short-range air defence system enters combat duty, signalling layered protection of fuel and energy…
Culture11 Jun 26
A bronze sex doll at Bellevue: how German art is testing the limits of state hospitality
Opinion11 Jun 26
Hormuz on the wire: what the 11 June closure order actually tells us
Opinion11 Jun 26
The Situation Room leak and the new grammar of US-Iran escalation
Culture11 Jun 26
Two centuries of stone, hours of flame: a Russian Orthodox church and the politics of heritage loss
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump Floats Surrender Language on Iran, Slams the Kurds, in Heavily Scripted Foreign-Policy Set-Piece
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg rhetoric puts oil chokepoint back in play
Long Reads11 Jun 26
SpaceX's retail bid stacks up as a $100bn test of who gets to own the orbital economy
Culture11 Jun 26
Four dead in Yekaterinburg bus crash as investigators detain company director and driver
Culture11 Jun 26
World Cup 2026 kicks off: 10 facts about the most expensive tournament in football history
Culture11 Jun 26
Helen Mirren on being called an 'evil Zionist' in London: what the incident tells us about public space and political…
Investigations11 Jun 26
Strikes, oil and a missing crew: what we know about the M/T Jalveer attack in the Gulf of Oman
Opinion11 Jun 26
Moscow's mounting bill: what the latest Ukrainian casualty figures actually tell us
Opinion11 Jun 26
The Strait That Wasn't Closed: Reading the Hormuz Information War
Sport11 Jun 26
Knicks take 3-1 Finals lead on Anunoby's putback — the largest comeback in Finals history
Culture11 Jun 26
The bet behind the boom: gambling addiction in the Philippines is outpacing the state's response
Opinion11 Jun 26
Hormuz is closed again, and the Gulf's logistics bill is being paid in silence
Culture11 Jun 26
A second kickoff: Mexico reopens the Azteca and the 2026 World Cup begins
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
CENTCOM says Hormuz is open. Iran's blockade says otherwise.
Culture11 Jun 26
At Russia’s ‘Fleet 2026’ show, the uncrewed boats tell a different story than the parades suggest
Culture11 Jun 26
A Decade On, Russia's Industrial-Pharma Bet Reopens the Question of State-Led Capital
Opinion11 Jun 26
Tehran's chorus hardens the line as the bombs fall
Sport11 Jun 26
FIFA unveils World Cup 2026 individual awards as gamers queue up for the digital tournament
Sport11 Jun 26
Infantino on the eve: FIFA's World Cup pitch meets visa chaos, ticket anger and a press corps that won't 'chill'
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Explosions reported over Manama as Bahrain sounds alerts in early hours of 11 June
Investigations11 Jun 26
Trump's two-day air war with Iran: a deal in the offing, or a war on autopilot?
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Africa's World Cup moment arrives, and so do the questions about who actually profits
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Two explosions rock Bandar Abbas as Iran war-scare cycle grinds on
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Bandar Abbas hit again: the Iran strike the wire desks haven't confirmed
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Iran's top negotiator warns of energy-market 'reset' as US-Iran escalation rhetoric climbs
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Tehran moves to shut the Strait of Hormuz, citing US 'tensions'
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Iran reaches for EU backing as US strikes sharpen, and Tehran frames the call as a counter-narrative moment
Investigations11 Jun 26
Israeli air strike hits Nabatieh as southern Lebanon bombardment enters a second week
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's peace script collides with Israeli and Iranian denials
Opinion11 Jun 26
A $5 Trillion Slogan Meets a Tanker Island: Reading the Trump–Iran Escalation Past the Headlines
Culture11 Jun 26
Haberman and Swan's second-term book lands on a White House already on edge over Epstein files
Tech11 Jun 26
Iran's army says it struck US Fifth Fleet assets in Bahrain, escalating Gulf confrontation
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Iran strikes trigger air-defence alerts across Bahrain and Kuwait in early-hours escalation
Sport11 Jun 26
Shakira's World Cup return signals a 2026 tournament leaning on the same playbook that defined 2010 and 2014
Opinion11 Jun 26
Washington's Tanker Calculus in the Gulf of Oman: Enforcement or Escalation?
Culture11 Jun 26
FIDE suspends Russian federation over chess activity in occupied Ukrainian regions
Culture11 Jun 26
A stadium, a kickoff, and a Continent listening: the 2026 World Cup opens in Mexico City
Investigations11 Jun 26
Israeli strikes hit Baalbek district and Sur as ceasefire framework frays
Opinion11 Jun 26
Missiles Over Jordan, Sirens in Bahrain: Reading the 11 June Escalation on Its Own Terms
Investigations11 Jun 26
Lockheed warns of Patriot delivery delays as Pentagon confronts interceptor shortfall
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Pentagon Lockdown Over Reported Air-Quality Incident Caps Week of Security Jitters in Washington
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump pulls back strikes on Iran as Qatar brokers a last-minute deal, and Tehran says it never signed
Opinion11 Jun 26
OpenAI is bleeding the wrong kind of customers, and Anthropic knows it
Culture11 Jun 26
A teenager, a footbridge, and a flare-up in Polish-Ukrainian relations
Culture11 Jun 26
An Arabic 'Hikayat al-Sayyid' lands in Baalbek: a small unveiling, a long shadow
Investigations11 Jun 26
Ballistic salvos and a 33% peace price: what the past 12 hours of the US-Iran war say about the next twelve
Culture11 Jun 26
Zelenskyy unveils first wave of 'Millennium' cultural grant, a quiet bid to anchor Ukraine's wartime identity
Culture11 Jun 26
A Johannesburg Mass Shooting Claims a Former Mr Malawi, and Reopens a South African Debate
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump's 'very hard tonight' warning puts Iran's Kharg Island back in the crosshairs
Culture11 Jun 26
Inside the Yazde night gathering: a martial-arts showcase revives a quiet civic ritual
Sport11 Jun 26
Mexico–South Africa opens the 2026 World Cup on Thursday, and the betting market is already louder than the buildup
Tech11 Jun 26
Visa, OpenAI bet that agentic commerce needs its own payments rail
Long Reads11 Jun 26
SpaceX, the largest IPO ever, and the new arithmetic of retail capital
Sport11 Jun 26
Polymarket books open on a new World Cup variable: how often the US president turns up
Opinion11 Jun 26
When a courtroom cites a phantom and a star calls himself a brand: a day in the machine of performance
Opinion11 Jun 26
Oracle's 100-victim breach is not a bug story, it is a supply-chain reminder the market keeps ignoring
Culture11 Jun 26
The porch, reconsidered: how a 19th-century American form is shaping a new furniture collaboration
Culture11 Jun 26
Trump taps Jay Clayton for intelligence chief after Pulte pushback
Culture11 Jun 26
Ecuador joins a regional campaign to curb cultural-property trafficking
Tech11 Jun 26
Polymarket puts US-Iran deal odds at 33% as Trump floats 'greatest deal in history' and a blockade holds the line
Culture11 Jun 26
Stellar Blade director pushes back on character design backlash, promises more outfits ahead of Blood Rain
Culture11 Jun 26
The mother bear of Abbasabad, and the road she must still cross
Culture11 Jun 26
Mercedes and Munich startup Tytan pitch battlefield logistics vehicle at ILA Berlin, with eye on Ukrainian procurement
Culture11 Jun 26
A Milan-Cortina official under investigation tests Italy's Olympic procurement playbook
Opinion11 Jun 26
The race to the bottom: OpenAI's price war with Anthropic is really a war for the next decade of enterprise software
Culture11 Jun 26
Iran's F-14 fleet surfaces online: signal, nostalgia, or both?
Culture11 Jun 26
A pencil line on Trump and the World Cup: what one cartoon says about the politics of the pitch
Tech11 Jun 26
Beijing's hydrogen bet pulls ahead of Tokyo as Tokyo retools for a tokenised finance edge
Culture11 Jun 26
Naval drones become the new arms-race theatre, and Russia's industry is racing to catch up
Culture11 Jun 26
A 19-Year-Old's Blog Post Beat Her CV: Inside India's Quiet Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline
Culture11 Jun 26
On Russia Day, the Kremlin sells continuity — and the war is barely in the room
Culture11 Jun 26
Russia leans on a values pitch to draw migrants as Western states tighten cultural rules
Culture11 Jun 26
Suspected Russian-directed killing of Ukrainian soldier in Poltava lays bare the quiet war of intelligence recruitment
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup kicks off in the shadow of geopolitics — and the framing is already set
Culture11 Jun 26
Zelenskyy pitches a wartime cultural doctrine to Ukraine's film and music figures
Culture11 Jun 26
Moscow cancels Red Square Russia Day concert as war enters its fifth year
Opinion11 Jun 26
Coupang's $409M fine and Seoul's bet on platform accountability
Culture11 Jun 26
A book launch in Baalbek and the long afterlife of an archive
Culture11 Jun 26
France's reckoning with sexual violence shifts from catharsis to architecture
Tech11 Jun 26
Domain seizures and AI policing: the shape of the US–China tech contest this week
Culture11 Jun 26
Patrick Bruel, France's enduring pop fixture, charged with rape as two dozen women come forward
Culture11 Jun 26
Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault as French authorities pursue allegations dating to the 1990s
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Hormuz flare-up: IRGC threats meet US denial as Tehran tests the strait's nerves
Culture11 Jun 26
A silent Red Square: Russia Day concert cancellation reads as cultural tell
Culture11 Jun 26
A year after Salami's killing, Iran stages a public commemoration that doubles as a deterrence signal
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Tehran's chorus hardens as Israeli strikes on Iran enter a fourth day
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump pulls back strikes on Iran at the last minute, cites deal framework
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed in Europe this weekend, Vance to attend
Culture11 Jun 26
A gold medal for the small-arms lab: how Rostec's TSNIITOCHMASH became the quiet centre of Russia's wartime arms culture
Culture11 Jun 26
Gears of War: E-Day pushes the campaign length to a series record — and quietly takes a side in the AI debate
Culture11 Jun 26
A posthumous portrait: how Iranian state media is framing Soleimani six years on
Culture11 Jun 26
Iran's most-watched: a new survey reshuffles the television order
Culture11 Jun 26
A ten-year-old on the runway: what Max Alexander's debut tells us about a fashion industry that can't stop selling…
Culture11 Jun 26
Welcome to the Jungle and the curious economics of the Bollywood ensemble trailer
Culture11 Jun 26
Yekaterinburg minibus crash: driver and transport company director detained as investigators open criminal case
Culture11 Jun 26
Iran releases documentary on the martyred leader's daughter, and the political reading is the point
Opinion11 Jun 26
Israel sidelined as Trump claims Khamenei has signed off on a US–Iran deal
Business11 Jun 26
OpenAI Eyes Token-Price Cuts as Strait of Hormuz Reopens Under U.S. Bomber Umbrella
Culture11 Jun 26
When a daycare cry became a trafficking case: the Yogyakarta trial exposing Indonesia's child-protection gap
Culture11 Jun 26
A Russian-aligned film on Krasnoarmeysk, and the information war it joins
Sport11 Jun 26
Richards' fitness call hands Pochettino his first USMNT selection call of the World Cup
Tech11 Jun 26
SpaceX at $1.8 trillion: how a private rocket company became a public-market event
Tech11 Jun 26
SpaceX's $190 target and the S&P 500 bet: a private giant testing public-market gravity
Tech11 Jun 26
SpaceX's $75bn IPO: a record debut with a quiet warning for smaller investors
Tech11 Jun 26
SpaceX IPO sets a $1.5 trillion price tag and pulls the floor out from under chip stocks
Tech11 Jun 26
SpaceX IPO book is reportedly 4x subscribed — what an oversubscribed debut says about a thinner public market
Culture11 Jun 26
Audio clip reignites scrutiny of a Ukrainian cultural official — and the limits of online evidence
Culture11 Jun 26
A hashtag for the absent: how a clerical slip turned into a national mood board
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Hazmat lockdown at the Pentagon: what the wires are saying, and what they aren't
Culture11 Jun 26
The 16x shortcut: how a new compression method is rewiring how much context an AI agent can actually carry
Culture11 Jun 26
A Bollywood star, a ₹2,400-crore fraud, and the limits of celebrity-as-credentials
Culture11 Jun 26
Karuppu and the financier: a Tamil-cinema pay dispute that exposes a familiar money trail
Culture11 Jun 26
‘I want flawed women’: how a single brief reshaped a Bollywood screenplay
Culture11 Jun 26
Punjabi cinema's quiet reshuffle: Badshah and the politics of a celebrity marriage announcement
Culture11 Jun 26
A 25-year-old in Sichuan has become China's latest viral phenomenon. The story it tells is bigger than one family.
Culture11 Jun 26
Two lakh tribals at Red Fort: a cultural convention that turned into a constitutional demand
Culture11 Jun 26
Yulin's dog-meat trade is contracting. The festival may be the reason.
Business11 Jun 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum lands as US oil exports hit a record — the energy and the diplomacy are now the same story
Tech11 Jun 26
Coinbase's agentic wallet push lands on the same day India doubles its public-investment cycle — a quiet stress test…
Culture11 Jun 26
A 26-foot lyra in Crete: how a baker is rewriting the scale of a folk tradition
Culture11 Jun 26
Deezer's AI-music detector crosses a line streaming services have avoided
Opinion11 Jun 26
Missiles Over Jordan: What a Single Night of Interceptions Reveals About the US-Iran Standoff
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
The 48-team World Cup kicks off in three host countries — and the political economy of the pitch
Sport11 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup opens as a logistical spectacle the sport's institutions say they're ready for — the public evidence…
Sport11 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup opens: schedule, favourites, and a tournament spread across three countries
Sport11 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup, scaled up: six gripes, one continental bet, and a VAR system under fresh scrutiny
Opinion11 Jun 26
Bipartisanship surfaces on Afghan allies — and only on Afghan allies
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Tehran and Brussels reopen the phone line: Araghchi and Kallas weigh escalation in the Gulf
Opinion11 Jun 26
A 3 a.m. Telegram surge tells the story the wires haven't filed
Investigations11 Jun 26
Bahrain and Kuwait under Iranian fire: what the first hours tell us about a widening Gulf war
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Sirens in Manama: Bahrain Braces for Iranian Strike as Gulf Tensions Spike
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Unconfirmed blasts in Bandar Abbas spotlight Iran’s Hormuz anxieties
Opinion11 Jun 26
Bandar Abbas booms, Tehran shrugs: the fog around Iran's port city
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Beijing's Schoolyard as Industrial Policy: How a 'Green Campus' Signals the Next Phase of China's Child-Care State
Opinion11 Jun 26
Bekaa after dark: what a single afternoon of Israeli strikes tells us about Lebanon's slow bleed
Opinion11 Jun 26
Bekaa after dark: what three Israeli strikes on Mashghara tell us about the next phase of the Lebanon campaign
Opinion11 Jun 26
Bekaa under the bombs: what Israel's escalation in eastern Lebanon actually changes
Investigations11 Jun 26