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Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump halts strike on Iran as Tehran denies a deal exists

Business11 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Strike, Inflation Headache, and the Erosion of Crisis Discipline

Investigations11 Jun 26
Trump announces overnight strikes on Iran, names Kharg Island as future target

Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Threats and Tehran's Warning Shot: Reading the Escalation Behind the Statements

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump claims Iran asked US to halt strikes after 49 Tomahawks hit targets near Tehran

Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum: a Truth Social post is not a strategy

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum and the Vance-Netanyahu gap: a White House speaking with two voices

Business11 Jun 26
Trump signals escalation against Iran even as he frames talks as imminent
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump Floats a Weekend Iran Signing, Hinges Deal on Strait of Hormuz
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump telegraphs a weekend Iran signing in Europe, with Vance standing in
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Whiplash: Strike, Cancel, Seize, Negotiate — in 24 Hours

Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg Threats and the Currency of Bluff

Business11 Jun 26
Trump signals "total control" of Iranian oil, but Polymarket puts a Kharg seizure at 12%
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg Island warning puts a US-Iran oil seizure on the table — and exposes the hollowness of the ceasefire

Investigations11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg Island threat and the arithmetic of Iran's last export lifeline

Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump floats seizure of Iran's Kharg Island — and the oil market is right to listen

Business11 Jun 26
Trump's 'take Kharg' posture meets a defended island: what the wires are reporting

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump threatens Kharg Island strike as US-Iran escalation enters new phase

Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg Island rhetoric and the limits of presidential bluster

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg Island Threat Resets the US-Iran Ceasefire Math

Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg Island threat is the wrong move at the wrong moment
Business11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg Island Threat, Then Walk-Back, Leaves Oil Markets and Diplomacy Holding Their Breath

Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's Kharg ultimatum: a presidential broadcast, not a strategy
Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump's nightly ultimatum to Tehran is a strategy without a destination

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump pulls back from strike on Iran, says nuclear deal is approved by Tehran’s top leadership

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump pulls back from Iran strike, says 'great deal' close — Israel says it has no such deal
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump's Strait of Hormuz gambit puts a choke point on the table

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump's Strait of Hormuz claim meets an Iranian pushback — and a widening credibility gap
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump suspends Iran strike as he claims deal is approved at 'highest level of Iranian leadership'

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump's White House invite to Syria's Sharaa signals a realignment, not a reconciliation
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump threatens to seize Kharg Island as US-Iran confrontation escalates into openly annexationist language

Business11 Jun 26
Trump says US will hit Iran again, names Kharg Island as next target
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump says US-Iran ceasefire deal will be signed in Europe this weekend

Opinion11 Jun 26
Trump, Truth Social, and the quiet collapse of a presidential media play

Opinion11 Jun 26
When a podcaster reads the war for you: the Tucker Carlson frame on Iran, and what it costs the rest of us

Opinion11 Jun 26
Turkey's BYD Tax Freeze Is a Warning Shot, Not a Trade War

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Ankara steps in as Iran–US fighting reopens the gap that talks had nearly closed
Opinion11 Jun 26
The diplomacy Turkey wants is the diplomacy the U.S. and Iran keep refusing

Business11 Jun 26
British banks face coordinated pushback as crypto groups weaponise the complaints system
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Britain's defence minister walks out — and the arithmetic behind the exit gets harder to ignore

Business11 Jun 26
UK Defence Secretary John Healey resigns, accusing Starmer of underfunding Britain's armed forces

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
UK Defence Secretary John Healey resigns, ending a two-year tenure over defence procurement

Opinion11 Jun 26
Britain just lost a defence secretary over money. The story underneath is bigger than the resignation letter.

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
European ambassadors seek rare Moscow meeting with Lavrov's deputy as diplomatic channel narrows

Opinion11 Jun 26
Ukraine's $97.6 Billion Defence Budget Is a Different Kind of War Story

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Ukraine's drone force marks its day with a $40bn tally — and a question about how to count it
Opinion11 Jun 26
Ukraine turns drone warfare into a national holiday
Opinion11 Jun 26
A Highway in Al-Quds Exposes a Cracks in the Conscription Bargain

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
U.S. airstrikes hit Karaj as Iran tensions escalate past the talking stage
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
U.S. airstrikes hit Karaj as Iran's airspace goes dark
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes hit Iranian cities of Varamin and Abyek in overnight barrage
Business11 Jun 26
Sentry over the Strait: A US AWACS orbit and a Saudi-mediated Iran deal land on the same evening

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US disables third tanker in a week off Oman as Gulf blockade deepens
Business11 Jun 26
US disables third Iran-linked tanker in Gulf of Oman, opening new front in shadow-fleet blockade
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US missions in Baghdad and Amman tell citizens to shelter or leave as Iranian missiles and drones enter Jordanian…
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US F-35A squawks 7700 over the UAE, lands safely at Al Dhafra
Investigations11 Jun 26
US inflation hits three-year high as Iran war keeps energy prices elevated — and a separate scientific-journal purge…
Opinion11 Jun 26
Ceasefire, day two: what the US–Iran exchange really signals

Business11 Jun 26
Trump says US–Iran ceasefire could be signed this weekend in Europe; Hormuz opening tied to deal
Investigations11 Jun 26
"Every night, until a deal": The Wall Street Journal disclosure on US strikes in Iran and what it tells markets

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Trump floats ‘greatest deal in history’ as US-Iran talks inch toward a naval-blockade-for-memo swap

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes on Iran and Iranian retaliation at Bahrain redraw the Gulf security map in a single overnight
Opinion11 Jun 26
What the NYT satellite analysis actually says — and what it leaves out

Opinion11 Jun 26
A tanker on fire, a deal in the wings: the strange choreography of US-Iran escalation
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US Navy disables Iranian-oil tanker in Gulf of Oman, third such action in a week

Opinion11 Jun 26
A US strike on a tanker off Oman, and the seam it tore open

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes hit Bandar Abbas as Iran confrontation enters direct-military phase
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes Iran with 49 Tomahawk missiles: what the initial reporting actually says

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes Iran with 49 Tomahawks: what we know, what we don't
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes on Iran resume overnight as Tehran fires ballistic missiles toward Jordan
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
Strikes on Karaj and Bushehr: what the first hours of a US operation against Iran are actually showing
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes hit Iranian cities of Karaj and Garmsar in early hours of 11 June
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes hit Karaj as Iran war enters new aerial phase
Geopolitics11 Jun 26
US strikes third tanker in a week off Oman, as a naval blockade on Iran takes shape in plain sight

Sport11 Jun 26
America is the favorite, the longshot, and the bookmakers' headache all at once

Sport11 Jun 26
USMNT open World Cup 2026 on home soil: a golden generation gets its only chance

Sport11 Jun 26
Valentín Barco's Argentina audition: why Scaloni keeps bringing back the joker
Opinion11 Jun 26
Vance, on the record: Netanyahu got some things wrong

Opinion11 Jun 26
The visa is a privilege, the classroom is a target, and the wire has to choose what to lead with

Opinion11 Jun 26
The visa, the car, and the missing children: three stories that say more than the headlines admit

Opinion11 Jun 26
Visa's OpenAI Deal and the Strait of Hormuz: The Same Story About Who Holds the Rails

Business11 Jun 26
Wages, banks, and warning lights: a mid-2026 read on the consumer squeeze

Opinion11 Jun 26
Water bills, family betrayal, and a 70% bear call: the news cycle of 11 June 2026 reads like three dispatches from…

Opinion11 Jun 26
The Pentagon meets the cage match: how the White House is becoming a stage for state-corporate spectacle

Sport11 Jun 26
Wolves sack Rob Edwards after seven months, with the club staring at a Championship rebuild

Investigations11 Jun 26
War shock hits the cost of money: World Bank cuts 2026 growth to 2.5%, ECB breaks G7 ranks with a rate hike

Sport11 Jun 26
A 48-team World Cup lands with a rule book no one has seen at this scale
Sport11 Jun 26
World Cup 2026's expanding surface: official awards, fixture logistics and a BBC app built for a 48-team field

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
A third World Cup on hallowed ground: Mexico City opens the 2026 tournament at the Azteca

Opinion11 Jun 26
The $11 billion World Cup is here. Someone has to ask who pays.

Sport11 Jun 26
France and Spain open as World Cup favourites as betting handle tilts heavily toward the United States

Opinion11 Jun 26
A bigger, pricier World Cup lands in an America that hasn't decided if it wants it

Sport11 Jun 26
A day before kickoff: what the ESPN panel thinks the 2026 World Cup will deliver

Sport11 Jun 26
Forty-eight flags, one ball: the World Cup arrives on a fault line of its own making

Sport11 Jun 26
World Cup 2026 opens as a logistics, broadcast, and betting megaproject

Sport11 Jun 26
Mexico opens the World Cup where Pelé and Maradona made their names — and the politics follow the ball

Opinion11 Jun 26
A World Cup opens in a stadium that has seen everything — and a country that has, too

Sport11 Jun 26
The World Cup lands in North America with politics already on the touchline

Sport11 Jun 26
Seventy-two games in thirteen days: the World Cup opens and the complaints file is already full

Opinion11 Jun 26
The 2026 World Cup kicks off inside a tournament that has outgrown its own welcome

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
A World Cup kicks off in Mexico City under the long shadow of protest
Long Reads11 Jun 26
Bitcoin shrugs, oil re-prices: a narrow strait and a sticky inflation print test the dollar's safe-haven claim

Opinion11 Jun 26
Coinbase and Visa are building rails for machines that spend money without asking you

Sport11 Jun 26
Tuchel's selection puzzle: Gordon's audition puts Bellingham's No. 10 in the dock

Opinion11 Jun 26
A trillion-dollar day tells you nothing about the market — and everything about the narrative

Geopolitics11 Jun 26
A Somali referee, a US visa refusal, and a widening question about who gets to govern the global game

Opinion11 Jun 26
Kenya's 2026/27 budget turns on three procurement levers — and counties are the test case

Opinion11 Jun 26
Britain's defence secretary just walked out. The plan he refused to sign tells you more than the resignation does.

Business11 Jun 26
India's cities are getting hotter — and the way they're being built is making it worse

Arts10 Jun 26
Crimea’s night trains go dark, and the silence from Sevastopol is the tell

Long Reads10 Jun 26
Hillside silence: a Pakistani Mi-17 goes down in Muzaffarabad and the count begins

Markets10 Jun 26
The 'Dribble Lockup' and the New IPO Architecture

MENA10 Jun 26
US strikes southern Iran after helicopter incident, raising fresh ceasefire questions
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes, Demands, and a Secret Oil War: Inside the 10 June 2026 US–Iran Escalation
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Coercion by Other Means: How Sanctions, Oil Strikes, and a Not-So-Covert War Are Reshaping US Policy on Iran
MENA10 Jun 26
Trump threatens 'very hard' strike on Iran as deal window narrows
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Calculus: Negotiation, Bombardment, and a Birthday Wish for Peace
Letters10 Jun 26
The Iran Pressure Campaign Tilts Into the Open: What Trump's Tuesday Rhetoric Actually Tells Us

Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump warns Iran will 'pay the price' as strikes and counter-threats resume
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump tells the Oval Office the US will 'attack them very hard': what the 10 June escalation actually changes
Culture10 Jun 26
Tehran's clerical succession takes a quieter shape: Khamenei names his son to Howzah board
Defense10 Jun 26
Air defences activate over western Tehran as Trump signals 'price' for stalled nuclear deal

Arts10 Jun 26
Striking a Panorama: Ukrainian Drones Hit Sevastopol's Crimean War Museum
Arts10 Jun 26
Sevastopol Panorama, painted from the Crimean War, damaged in Ukrainian drone strike

Africa10 Jun 26
Geran drones, drone interceptors, and a 10 June digest from a Russian-aligned Telegram channel — read with caution
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Russia's shadow labour force and a senior officer's killing: two stories of a state under strain
Arts10 Jun 26
Inside the 'Right Side of History' Medal: How a Tehran Ceremony Frames a Martyrdom That Has Not Happened

Letters10 Jun 26
Pezeshkian rejects 'surrender through airpower' as Iran weighs response to assassinations

Culture10 Jun 26
Order Over Reflex: How Two Russian-aligned Channels Are Rewriting the Rules of Battlefield Narrative
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Maximum Pressure 2.0: Trump Resets the Clock on Iran With Pakistan as Back-Channel and Caracas as Curtain-Raiser

Arts10 Jun 26
Kabul exhibition frames US and Israeli conduct in the region as the central exhibit
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Empty Seats, Full Stakes: Iran’s World Cup Ban and the Crisis of US-Iran Diplomacy
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes, Air Defences and Social Video: How the Iran-US Night of 10 June 2026 Is Being Documented

Long Reads10 Jun 26
Tijuana Marriott, the 2026 World Cup, and the small politics of an Iranian team arriving on US soil
Letters10 Jun 26
Tehran threatens Gulf states after strikes on US assets as diplomacy goes dark
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Tehran signals escalation: Iranian lawmaker claims territorial gains from a '40-day war' and warns of further expansion
Oceania10 Jun 26
Iran's property seizures in North Khorasan signal widening internal security dragnet

Culture10 Jun 26
Iran moves against 'traitors' in North Khorasan: 47 property seizures signal widening internal security drive
Defense10 Jun 26
Iran's Kheibar Shekan strike on Muwaffaq Salti: what is confirmed, what is contested, and what comes next
Culture10 Jun 26
Saving the weft: how Iran’s Farsh Museum rushed to evacuate its carpet treasury before the 12-day war
Americas10 Jun 26
Tehran and Havana tighten parliamentary ties as Iran-Caribbean axis deepens
Long Reads10 Jun 26
'Not afraid of fighting losers': Tehran escalates rhetoric as US-Iran standoff deepens
Science10 Jun 26
Iran's foreign minister issues sharp warning as US restraint reportedly wavers
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Vienna vote deepens the fault line: IAEA resolution against Iran exposes a board running out of consensus
Opinion10 Jun 26
A Frozen Drone and a Warming Soldier: What the Latest Russian Battlefield Absurdity Actually Reveals
Europe10 Jun 26
EU's €90 billion Ukraine loan lands in tranches: €5.9 billion for defence, €3.2 billion for the budget

Long Reads10 Jun 26
China's factory-gate squeeze and the satellite-cost race: one economy, two signals

Long Reads10 Jun 26
China's factory-gate prices jump to a near four-year high as Beijing deepens the Pyongyang entente
Asia10 Jun 26
Beijing’s AI anxiety: PLA flags sycophancy risk as robotics push accelerates
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas: what we know, what we don't, and what it tells us about the next phase of the US-Iran war

Culture10 Jun 26
Iran rolls out nationwide travel card as rial strain reshapes domestic tourism

MENA10 Jun 26
Israeli army orders shelter-in-place for Zarit as security incident unfolds on Lebanese border

The Weekly10 Jun 26
A tournament of contradictions: how the 2026 World Cup exposed a year of strain

Long Reads10 Jun 26
A Bigger World Cup, a Smaller Wallet: The Economics of a 48-Team Tournament

MENA10 Jun 26
War premium returns to the travel sector as Trump warns Iran of a price

Oceania10 Jun 26
Western Sydney airport locks in 2026 opening as construction peak passes

Sport10 Jun 26
Richards fit, Pochettino gambles: USMNT's World Cup opener lands with the defence whole and the plan still a question

Letters10 Jun 26
US strikes on southern Iran focus on air defences, radars and drone C2 — and the retaliation clock starts
MENA10 Jun 26
US strikes on Sirik cut water supply to roughly 20,000 in Iran's Hormozgan, Iranian officials say
MENA10 Jun 26
US strikes Iranian military sites; Tehran dismisses threats and predicts American withdrawal

Defense10 Jun 26
US strikes southern Iran as Tehran invokes self-defence, raising risk of wider war

Long Reads10 Jun 26
Twenty-Five Minutes of Silence: Inside the US Strike Wave on Southern Iran and the Oil Market That Noticed
The Weekly10 Jun 26
U.S. strikes on Iran: what the wire says, what it doesn't, and what comes next
Defense10 Jun 26
US strikes 20 targets inside Iran as CENTCOM warns situation 'still active'

Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes, Statements, and the Dollar: How a Week of US-Iran Tension Is Reshaping Risk
MENA10 Jun 26
Strikes on Iran resume as diplomatic track narrows: what the third round tells us
MENA10 Jun 26
US and Iran trade strikes overnight as Tel Aviv watches the escalator

Long Reads10 Jun 26
The Fog of the First Hours: What the U.S. Strikes on Iran Look Like From the Open-Source Wire
Long Reads10 Jun 26
The 24 Hours That Reset US-Iran: Strikes, Ceasefire Markets, and the Kurdish Crossfire
Long Reads10 Jun 26
The Twelve-Hour War: How a Single Helicopter Downed Over the Strait of Hormuz Reopened the Gulf
Energy10 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz strike cycle opens as U.S. helicopters hit Iranian coast after Apache loss
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Pressure, talks, and the calculus of strikes: how the second day of renewed US action against Iran unfolded
Long Reads10 Jun 26
A Six-Hour War: How a US Strike on Iran Became a Multi-Front Escalation

Long Reads10 Jun 26
The Custody Question: How European Child-Protection Systems Became a Wartime Pressure Point

Europe10 Jun 26
As Ukraine's wartime pension top-ups wobble, Britain discovers a quieter cost: crypto bank de-banking
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Demobilization, mobility and the daily cost of war: three threads from a Ukraine under strain

Americas10 Jun 26
UK, Canada, France and Norway hit Israeli settler networks with coordinated sanctions
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Gulf fault lines widen as UAE breaks with Iran and diplomacy stalls

Africa10 Jun 26
Two courts, two questions of evidence: Kenyan labour law and an Indian politician's remark converge on the same…
Oceania10 Jun 26
Twenty-two governments condemn Iran's 'lethal plotting' in a rare joint statement

Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum: The Twenty-Four Hours That Could Reset the Strait

Americas10 Jun 26
Trump Floats Walking Away From USMCA as Renegotiation Clock Ticks
Defense10 Jun 26
Trump claims US rescued 100m barrels of oil from Hormuz — the numbers don't yet add up
Long Reads10 Jun 26
The Strait Claim: How a Trump Truth Social Post Reset the Hormuz Debate
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump's Strait of Hormuz gambit: tanker war, a stolen-barrels boast, and a tightening noose on Iran
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Oil jumps, dollar steadies as Trump vows a 'very strong blow' to Iran on 10 June 2026
Intelligence10 Jun 26
Trump Signals Imminent Strikes on Iranian Power Grid and Bridges as Diplomatic Window Narrows
MENA10 Jun 26
Trump pulls back from 'close to a deal' line, opens door to new strikes on Iran
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump turns the spigot: how a US strike campaign on Iran is being sold as an energy policy
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump Floats New Strikes on Iran's Energy and Bridge Network as Nuclear Talks Stall
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump vows fresh strikes on Iran hours after first wave, signs border-security bill into law
Long Reads10 Jun 26
"I want peace for the world": Trump, Iran, and the oil arithmetic behind the rhetoric
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump's midnight oil claim, Iran's World Cup broadside, and the contradictions of a deal that has no name
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Trump claims US is seizing Iranian oil to ease energy prices; Energy Secretary admits earlier Hormuz escort account was…
Letters10 Jun 26
Oil at $85 and a Bomber's Apology: Reading the President's Iran Remarks
Long Reads10 Jun 26
"All talk and no action": Trump's Iran verdict and the long road from strikes to settlement
Markets10 Jun 26
Trump floats a Hormuz "rescue," teases Iran strikes, and a 67% Polymarket line on a year-end deal — all in one Tuesday
Energy10 Jun 26
Trump opens new military front in the Strait of Hormuz as tanker strike and Hormuz blockade roil oil markets
Europe10 Jun 26
Trump Holds Open the Door to Iran Deal While Threatening Escalation Over Oil
Long Reads10 Jun 26