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Long Reads10 Jun 26
100 million barrels, one strait: parsing Trump's Hormuz boast
Long Reads10 Jun 26
A Hundred Million Barrels and a 'Secret Mission': Reading Trump's Hormuz Claim Against the Record
Markets10 Jun 26
Trump's blockade boasts and Iran strikes collide with on-the-ground reality
Culture10 Jun 26
TeleSUR's World Cup frame: soft power, Latin American agency, and a tournament Washington can't quite control
MENA10 Jun 26
Tehran Air Defences Engage Over Western Districts Amid Reports of Drone Activity
Asia10 Jun 26
Taiwan fires US-made mobile launchers at China for the first time, as cross-strait signalling intensifies
Asia10 Jun 26
Taiwan fires US-supplied HIMARS into the Strait as opposition warns Taipei is being treated as a 'pawn'
Letters10 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz confrontation pushes US–Iran toward open escalation as oil corridor wobbles
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz on a hair-trigger: how a downed Apache and a US drone opened a second front
Long Reads10 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz, 100 Million Barrels, and the Price of a 'Secret Mission': What Trump's Confession Actually Says
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz, June 2026: When a Chokepoint Becomes a Talking Point
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz standoff: IRGC claims two vessels struck as US-Iran tensions test the waterway's status quo
Long Reads10 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz on a Short Fuse: What the 10 June IRGC–US Navy Reports Actually Show
MENA10 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz reopens after Trump’s ‘secret mission’ — but the closure, the helicopter loss, and the rhetoric point…
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Clashes in the Strait of Hormuz: What Tehran's Own News Wire Suggests, and What It Doesn't
Energy10 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz at flashpoint: Trump claims Iran downed US Apache, Tehran denies, deal clock ticks
Sport10 Jun 26
Staal's third-period lunge flips Game 4, ties Stanley Cup Final at 2-2
Sport10 Jun 26
Spurs and Knicks head to a pivotal Game 4 as betting flows tilt toward New York
Sport10 Jun 26
Madison Square Garden sets the stage for a Finals pivot — and the political backdrop shifts
Sport10 Jun 26
Spurs steal Game 3 in New York, cut Knicks' Finals lead to 2-1
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Starbase and the orbital bet: how SpaceX’s IPO gravity is reshaping south Texas
Culture10 Jun 26
Six Extraordinary Flights and a Quiet Aviation Story in Eastern Iran
Africa10 Jun 26
A Somali referee, a Belfast street, and the unfinished business of how the West talks about African migration
Business10 Jun 26
Engine-room fire on tanker off Sohar renews questions about Strait of Hormuz shipping risk
Oceania10 Jun 26
Six Western-aligned governments move in concert on settler-violence sanctions against Israeli actors
Oceania10 Jun 26
Sigma Healthcare in early talks over Boots as Australian pharmacy exports seek UK foothold
Oceania10 Jun 26
Sigma–Boots deal puts Australia's pharmacy middleman at the centre of a UK retail reckoning
MENA10 Jun 26
Drone sirens in Western Galilee revive questions over Hezbollah's northern front
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Settler threats and infant casualties: a single day in the occupied West Bank
Culture10 Jun 26
São Paulo's 30th Pride parade fills Paulista Avenue as Brazil's LGBTIQ+ movement tests the political weather under Lula
Defense10 Jun 26
Moscow reopens the Syria file as the West's attention drifts
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Russia's shadow recruitment: teenage girls and the new frontline of the war in Ukraine
Markets10 Jun 26
Two blasts in Moscow and a reformat in Syria: Russia recalibrates its Mediterranean footprint
Culture10 Jun 26
Russia's Foreign Ministry blames 'Kyiv regime' for museum strike as cultural sites become a new front in the war of…
Europe10 Jun 26
Roblox slips back into Russia the same week Brussels tightens the crypto noose
Arts10 Jun 26
Drawing the Strait: Mohammad Javad Rezairi's Persian Gulf as a Graphic Brief
Asia10 Jun 26
Ramos-Horta takes the stage as Nikkei's Future of Asia confronts a region rewriting its own rules
MENA10 Jun 26
Explosions reported on Iran’s Qeshm Island as Strait of Hormuz tensions build
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Doha's Last Mile: Why a Qatari Shuttle to Tehran Is the Diplomatic Story of the Week
Science10 Jun 26
Poland's memory institute accuses Ukraine of disinformation over Volhynia framing
Asia10 Jun 26
Manila reaches for a sea border with Tokyo, and the South China Sea calculus shifts
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Pakistan's Airstrikes on Afghanistan: What the Taliban Is Saying, What Pakistan Is Saying, and the Pattern Behind the…
Asia10 Jun 26
Pakistan's Airstrikes in Afghanistan and the Strait of Hormuz Risk: Two Fronts of a Widening South-Asian Crisis
Europe10 Jun 26
Northern Ireland unrest enters a second night as police deploy water cannon and Translink pulls buses off the road
Tech10 Jun 26
Stablecoins Cross the Factory Floor: Tether, Nvidia and Amazon Bet $1.4 Billion on a German Humanoid
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Netanyahu's late-cycle return to the hustings, and the American question he cannot outrun
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Netanyahu's English-language pitch to Lebanon: a calibrated appeal, not a call to surrender
Science10 Jun 26
Two car-bomb incidents in Moscow revive questions about the war's reach inside Russia
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Modi at the G7 threshold: longest-serving elected PM walks into a Trump-shaped trade test
Long Reads10 Jun 26
When the data center moves next door: Mississippi sues Musk's xAI and SpaceX over Colossus
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Inside 'Mindychgate': the SBU detention of Vasyl Vesely and the audiotape probe reshaping Ukraine's wartime elite
Opinion10 Jun 26
Microsoft's Claude Fable 5 Standoff Is About Who Owns the Frontier
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Nine strikes on Majdal Zoun: how southern Lebanon became the template for Israel’s post-ceasefire pressure campaign
Sport10 Jun 26
Mahomes reworked deal makes him the NFL's first half-billion-dollar player
Culture10 Jun 26
LSE students publish open letter rejecting corporate greenwashing at Festival 2026
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Four pedestrians killed in Lifan–PAZ collision in Russia, preliminary accounts say
Letters10 Jun 26
Letters: Gold, the dollar, and the quiet rebalancing readers are watching
Obituaries10 Jun 26
A Kyiv road death, a 12-year-old, and the question of who screens the drivers
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Khamenei resets the Seminaries Service Center board: an institutional read
Culture10 Jun 26
Kenya Holds the Calendar Line as Iran Cracks Down on School Registration Fees
Science10 Jun 26
Karmelo Anthony sentenced to 35 years in Texas murder case, ending a trial that tested the limits of self-defence law
Long Reads10 Jun 26
The house Kalshi built: prediction markets, insider trading, and the next fight over American finance
Long Reads10 Jun 26
The Prediction Market Has a Compliance Problem It Cannot Buy Its Way Out Of
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Kalshi's Insider-Trading Crackdown Tests the Limits of Prediction-Market Self-Policing
Africa10 Jun 26
Gunmen kill at least 12 in east Johannesburg as South Africa confronts a deepening informal-settlement violence crisis
Sport10 Jun 26
Joel Bitonio walks away from the Browns after 12 seasons — and leaves a quietly consequential hole in Cleveland
Science10 Jun 26
Explosions Reported in Jask as Hormuz Pressure Builds
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Yen on a leash: how Tokyo's megabank stablecoin and a $1.75 trillion SpaceX listing reframe Japan's role in the dollar…
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Japan's Megabanks Are Writing a New Rulebook for Digital Money
Asia10 Jun 26
Tungsten Scrap, Tencent Debt, and a Yen Stablecoin: Japan and China Recalibrate the Industrial Stack
Letters10 Jun 26
Israeli strikes hit western Bekaa for third time in 24 hours, Lebanese and Iranian outlets say
MENA10 Jun 26
Israeli strike hits Homin al-Fouqa in Lebanon's Nabatieh district, Iranian-aligned outlets report
Tech10 Jun 26
Israeli drone strike kills two in Sidon as southern Lebanon operations expand
Europe10 Jun 26
Israel's Knesset authorises further seizure of Palestinian tax funds, deepening crisis for the Palestinian Authority
MENA10 Jun 26
IRGC shoots down US MQ-9 over the Strait of Hormuz as nuclear-track diplomacy reportedly advanced
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strike and Counterstrike: The Iran–US Escalation That Pushed Inflation to a Three-Year High
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Iran strikes Kuwait: what the first 24 hours tell us about the war's new front
Energy10 Jun 26
Iran strikes vessel off Oman in latest Strait of Hormuz showdown, UKMTO confirms
Arts10 Jun 26
Striking the back office: what the reported Iranian hit on Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti base reveals about escalation…
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Sirik, Jask, Qeshm: A Night of Strikes That Reopens the Gulf
Long Reads10 Jun 26
"We're not afraid of fighting losers": Iran's parliament sharpens its rhetoric as Trump vows a second day of strikes
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Iran's opening salvo: what the early-morning strikes on US bases in Jordan and Bahrain actually show
Energy10 Jun 26
Explosions reported at Iran's Kangan gas hub as air-defence activity sounds across Tehran and Kish
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes, Silences, and the Geometry of an Iran–Jordan Escalation
Culture10 Jun 26
Iran's university entrance exam faces a slow death — what replaces it will reshape the country's classroom pipeline
Culture10 Jun 26
Iran's Medical Fraternity Tells the State What It Wants to Hear: Build It Here
Letters10 Jun 26
Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed, putting a fifth of global oil traffic on notice
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Ballistic salvos from Khomeyn: what the 10 June Iranian launches actually tell us
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Iran's reported strike on Al-Azraq: a message written in ballistic missile flight time
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Iran's AFC Slots Reshuffle as Persepolis Drops Out and Golgohar Steps In
Long Reads10 Jun 26
India's long-range nuclear pivot, China's factory-gate surprise, and the price of deterrence
Science10 Jun 26
When the classroom becomes the front page: India's student-journalism pitch and what it tells us about a crowded news…
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Israel says it killed Hamas finance chief in northern Gaza as aid corridor talks drag
MENA10 Jun 26
IDF widens evacuation orders in south Lebanon as IRGC threat draws no Israeli pullback
Long Reads10 Jun 26
After the Strikes: Reading the IDF's Renewed Air Campaign Across Southern Lebanon
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Hungary Drops Veto, Unblocking EU Funds for Ukraine and Refund Payouts to Arms-Supplying Members
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Hormuz and the Helicopter: How a Single Crash Reopened the US-Iran War
Culture10 Jun 26
A 20,000-person water cut in Hormozgan, and the war over whose camera you trust
Culture10 Jun 26
Glenn Close and Ridley Scott finally get their Oscars — and the Academy's overdue problem stays the same
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Gulf of Oman strike and an AI equity plan: parsing the second Trump term's twin power moves
MENA10 Jun 26
Gold slides as Middle East peace hopes recede, leaving traders to reprice risk
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Gates on the Hill: what a closed-door Epstein deposition tells us about the limits of disclosure
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Gates walks the Epstein question into a closed room: what Tuesday's Hill testimony actually answers
Oceania10 Jun 26
Five Eyes and European partners move to publicly expose Iran's Quds Force over assassination plots
Long Reads10 Jun 26
A World Cup Built on Three Borders: How the 2026 Tournament Exposes a Fragmenting North American Hosting Model
Europe10 Jun 26
Brussels tells Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots — and the odds of a Meta frontier model are suddenly a bet…
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Erdogan draws a red line at the Mediterranean: Turkey says Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon now threaten its own…
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Erdoğan draws a new line in the Mediterranean: how far will Ankara push on Israel?
Americas10 Jun 26
Cuba Moves to Slim Down the State, Cutting Seven Ministries in Sweeping Administrative Overhaul
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Beijing's Industrial Bet: How Robots, EVs and a Producer-Price Surge Are Rewiring China's Growth Equation
Asia10 Jun 26
Pyongyang pact and a PPI surprise: two reads on China's strategic posture
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Pandas, Tencent, and the Bank of America Bear Signal: What a Single Tuesday Tells Us About the Fragmenting Capital Map
Culture10 Jun 26
Bondi Beach attack suspect faces expanded charges as Australia confronts a hardening domestic security front
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Bill Gates heads to Congress: what the closed-door Epstein interview will and won't settle
Europe10 Jun 26
Protesters paralyse Berlin airshow access as Germany-Israel arms debate boils over
Europe10 Jun 26
Belfast erupts: cars set ablaze, migrant homes attacked as Northern Ireland protest wave escalates
Europe10 Jun 26
Belfast anti-migrant protests test Northern Ireland's post-Brexit politics
Investigations10 Jun 26
Belfast burns: how a single stabbing has reopened Northern Ireland's immigration faultline
Europe10 Jun 26
Belfast's anti-immigrant riots expose a post-Brexit fault line Northern Ireland's politics cannot keep stitching shut
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Bandar Abbas under fire: what the opening hours of a US-Iran missile exchange actually show
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Bandar Abbas Under Fire: A Night of Strikes, Two Narratives, and the Geometry of Escalation
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Bahrain under fire: what the Manama interceptions tell us about a widening Iran-US flashpoint
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Alerts in Bahrain: What Twelve Telegram Flashes in Eighty Minutes Actually Tell Us
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Asia's midnight kick-off: who really pays for a World Cup the region has to watch in bed
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes on Asaluyeh and the Geometry of a US–Iran Negotiation
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Anthropic's Claude Fable puts a Mythos-class model in the public's hands — and the guardrails are doing the talking
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Anthropic opens the Mythos-class era: Claude Fable 5 puts frontier capability in public hands
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Anthropic's safer Mythos sibling lands — and the restraint is the story
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 lands: the first Mythos-class model escapes the lab
Science10 Jun 26
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 Hits the Benchmarks, Then Walks Back the Subscription
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Ali Akbar Pourjamshidian, secretary of the funeral committee for Iran's Supreme Leader, dies
Americas10 Jun 26
Seventeen years in a cockpit, no licence to captain: the Air Canada case and the regulator that missed it
Americas10 Jun 26
Seventeen years in the cockpit: an Air Canada pilot, a fraudulent licence, and the regulator that did not catch it
Americas10 Jun 26
Air Canada extends Tel Aviv suspension through late October, deepening post-war aviation retreat
Science10 Jun 26
Three threads, one unease: AI rule-breaking, Microsoft layoffs, and an inflation re-acceleration collide in a single…
Americas10 Jun 26
ADNOC's Canada play and Cenovus's pipeline warning redraw the map of who can ship Canadian energy where
MENA10 Jun 26
Trump signals broader Iran strikes as energy sites enter targeting frame
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Trump widens the Iran file: Apache downing triggers a new round of strikes
Intelligence10 Jun 26
Unverified Reports of Iranian Strike on US Naval Facility in Bahrain Circulate Overnight
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strike on the Fifth Fleet: What the Bahrain Footage Does and Does Not Tell Us
Americas10 Jun 26
Border, bench, bug: three threads in Trump-era America on 10 June 2026
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Charges in the Wang Fuk Court fire revive a hard question about high-rise safety in Hong Kong
Long Reads10 Jun 26
4.2% and Counting: How a Single Inflation Print Reshaped the 2026 U.S. Recession Debate
Energy10 Jun 26
U.S. forces disable eighth tanker in Gulf of Oman blockade, CENTCOM says
Europe10 Jun 26
Pint Price Politics: Why the Cost of a UK Beer Says More Than It Should
Arts10 Jun 26
Tehran's Museum of Time: A Small Civic Space That Says Something Larger
Asia10 Jun 26
Pyongyang walks out of the Beijing summit with the bigger headline
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Greed, glass, and governance: Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court fire goes to court
Opinion10 Jun 26
Three Indian Sailors Missing After US Strike on Tanker in Gulf of Oman — and the Framings That Follow
Letters10 Jun 26
Pezeshkian tells physicians Iran's enemies are 'dreaming of surrender' as he defends wartime footing
Tech10 Jun 26
Patriot intercepts over Sakhir: a snapshot of layered Gulf air defence under live fire
Science10 Jun 26
Tehran's envoy to Moscow calls US strikes on Iranian cities 'barbarity' as diplomatic register hardens
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes, Ceasefire Bets, and a $92 Barrel: Reading the First Hours After the US Hit Southern Iran
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes, Spikes, and the Squeeze: How a U.S.–Iran Re-Escalation Is Bending the Inflation Curve
Sport10 Jun 26
Tuchel's second act: how an England job built on fear-removal is now being tested by the World Cup horizon
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strikes on a U.S. Naval Facility in Bahrain: What the Hour-by-Hour Telegram Traffic Actually Shows
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Divestment, Default, and the Cost of a New York: How Three Unrelated Money Stories Lay Bare the Architecture of 2026
Americas10 Jun 26
Colombia’s House panel suspends President Petro pending campaign-finance investigation
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Capital's two clocks: how a Tarot forecast, a Bitcoin inflation scenario and a Wipro buyback converged on 10 June 2026
Long Reads10 Jun 26
A Burning Car in East Belfast, and a City Used to Worse
Oceania10 Jun 26
Australia's AUKUS Public Inquiry Lands on a Long List of Uncomfortable Questions
Americas10 Jun 26
Argentina's last dance in Miami: can Scaloni's old guard rewrite the script in 2026?
Opinion10 Jun 26
Apple's quiet rewrite of the App Store contract
Culture10 Jun 26
Cuts Coming for US Spies: Inside the Workforce Shake-Up Under a New Director
Americas10 Jun 26
Mexico shutters US live-animal imports as screwworm reappears on the border
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Moscow car bomb and overnight Ukrainian drone strikes on Samara: a war's two fronts, hours apart
Long Reads10 Jun 26
The Erdogan–Netanyahu Row and the Erosion of the Turkey–Israel Mediation Channel
Letters10 Jun 26
A presidential compliment, and the subtext behind it: Trump on Modi's record run
Africa10 Jun 26
Rand Paul handshake at the White House: a small gesture, a long shadow over US-Africa policy
Obituaries10 Jun 26
White House defends immigration detention of more than 500 young children as appeals-court seat opens
Africa10 Jun 26
Dangote's Refinery Comes Back Online: What the Mid-June Restart Actually Tells Us
Science10 Jun 26
Anthropic's Dario Amodei wants a federal agency to approve AI releases before they ship — and Washington is finally…
Culture10 Jun 26
Strikes on the Crimean coast: how a museum in Sevastopol became a target
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Stephen King, the Reflecting Pool, and the Strange Politics of Public Memory
Culture10 Jun 26
Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII: Revelation bets the trilogy on a bigger map
Markets10 Jun 26
SpaceX's IPO moment and the new AI capex cycle collide in a $2 trillion market jolt
Obituaries10 Jun 26
Yekaterinburg bus crash kills four after vehicle strikes church and pedestrians
Europe10 Jun 26
Hungary lifts veto, unblocking roughly €13.5 billion in EU refunds to capitals that armed Ukraine
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Taliban Says Pakistani Airstrikes Killed 13, Including Children, in Border Provinces
Asia10 Jun 26
Pakistan strikes Afghan border region, ending a months-long lull
Asia10 Jun 26
Pakistan's airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan raise the cost of a long-running border standoff
Asia10 Jun 26
Pakistan strikes inside Afghanistan kill 13, Taliban says, as cross-border tensions reopen
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Strike on Iran: A Night of Waves, an Unclear Morning After
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Inside the Second Wave: How a 36-Hour US Air Campaign Against Iran Escalated Beyond Its Own Brief
Letters10 Jun 26
Third wave of US strikes reported against southern Iran as air defences take the brunt
The Weekly10 Jun 26
Price transparency meets deport-to-vote: a Tuesday of administrative hardball in Washington
Africa10 Jun 26
Two maritime incidents on 10 June revive questions about Gulf of Aden shipping security
Long Reads10 Jun 26
When the Sell Signal Becomes the Story: Markets, Politics and the 2026 Mid-Term Mirror
Europe10 Jun 26
Zelenskyy's Poland Visit Lands as Vaccine Studies Come Under Fire and UK Banks Tighten Crypto Rails
Long Reads10 Jun 26
Viral clips and coalition maths: a Polish opposition leader sizes up 2027
Culture10 Jun 26
Russia's Recruitment of Underage Girls into Sabotage Networks Tests Ukrainian Counter-Intelligence
Americas10 Jun 26
Iran's wheelchair basketball team books a world championship berth as Paralympic pathway deepens
Culture10 Jun 26
Hong Kong's Handover anniversary: free museums, MTR discounts and the politics of giveaway economics
Culture10 Jun 26
Federal court order pushes Kennedy Center to scrub Trump's name from digital platforms
Africa10 Jun 26
Dangote refinery nears full gasoline rates as Nigeria's fuel-import math quietly redraws itself
Asia10 Jun 26
Deadly week in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir tests the line between insurgency and protest
Asia10 Jun 26
Meta's Reliance deal hands India's AI build to the country's largest conglomerate — and asks harder questions of every…
Culture10 Jun 26
Kenya's school calendar rewrite tests a longer worry: the term is too short to teach
Sport10 Jun 26
The World Cup economy: why a UK pint now costs 36% more than it did in Qatar
Long Reads10 Jun 26