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Long Reads19 May 26
The Limits of Maximum Pressure: Bessent's Iran Sanctions Push and the Domino Theory Redux
Long Reads19 May 26
The Choreography of Beijing's Balancing Act
Long Reads19 May 26
The Geometry of the Beijing Summit: What Xi and Putin's Diplomatic Alignment Reveals
Asia19 May 26
Beijing Rolls Out the Red — and Red — Carpet as Putin Arrives for State Visit
Long Reads19 May 26
How Beijing is managing an economy in multiple transition at once
Asia19 May 26
Beijing Dressed in Flags: Putin's Visit Cements a Partnership the West Cannot Undo
Culture19 May 26
Beijing Confirms US-China AI Governance Dialogue as AMD Chief's Meeting Opens Diplomatic Front
Letters19 May 26
Yemen Condemns Israeli Interception of Gaza-Bound Fleet, Calls for Activists’ Release
Culture19 May 26
Yang Shuang-zi's Taiwan Travelogue Wins the International Booker Prize
Europe19 May 26
WHO Ebola Death Toll Rises to 134 as Missionary Case Reaches Germany
Sport19 May 26
Wembanyama's 41-Point, 24-Rebound Playoff Night Rewrites NBA History
Americas19 May 26
The Weaponization of Conditionality: How the EU and US Are Using Financial Aid as Foreign Policy Leverage
Long Reads19 May 26
The Art of the Ultimatum: How Washington and Tehran Are Talking Past Each Other Toward a Crisis
Americas19 May 26
Vatican Holds First Mass for Cuba Peace in Italy, Testing Diplomatic Middle Ground
MENA19 May 26
Vance's Iran 'Reset' Comes With a Loaded Disclaimer
Energy19 May 26
Vance Rules Out Russian Uranium Route as Iran Talks Advance
Long Reads19 May 26
Vance's Iran Talks Stumble Into the Familiar Ambiguity That Has Defeated Every Negotiator Since 1979
MENA19 May 26
Vance draws red lines on Iran nuclear programme as uranium-for-peace talks surface
Long Reads19 May 26
Deal or War: Vance's Iran Gambit and the Uncertainty at the Negotiating Table
Europe19 May 26
Vance Clarifies Poland Deployment Delay, Rejects 'Withdrawal' Characterization
Americas19 May 26
US Halts Decades-Old Joint Defense Board With Canada, Raising Northern Command Questions
Africa19 May 26
U.S. Embassy Kampala Suspends Visa Services as Ebola Outbreak Strains Uganda's Health Infrastructure
Long Reads19 May 26
The Unraveling of the Permanent Joint Board: How Washington Just Broke 80 Years of North American Defense Architecture
Obituaries19 May 26
Former Ukrainian Sports Coach Sentenced in Systematic Sexual Abuse of Minors Case
Energy19 May 26
Ukraine Confirms Strikes on Russian Oil Refinery and Pumping Station
Long Reads19 May 26
The Art of the Deal, Reimagined: Trump, Xi, and the Fragile Architecture of US-China Relations
Asia19 May 26
Trump Taiwan Odds Reveal the Cost of Strategic Ambiguity
Asia19 May 26
Trump Tells Taiwan Not to Go Independent — But Does the Island Want To?
Long Reads19 May 26
Trump's Texas Gambit: Why the Paxton Endorsement Is a Party Civil War in Miniature
Long Reads19 May 26
Trump Pauses Iran Strikes After Gulf Leaders Intervened. The Real Story Is Their Newfound Leverage Over Washington.
Culture19 May 26
Trump Pauses Iran Strike Review as NATO Trip Spotlights European Troop Debate
Letters19 May 26
Trump's Palantir Purchase and the Iran Dilemma: What the Disclosures Say About the Second-Term Pattern
Letters19 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Logic of Unilateral Strike Authority
Long Reads19 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum: How the Nuclear Talks Became a Standoff
Long Reads19 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum: Deal or Strike — and What It Tells Us About the Architecture of Coercion
Long Reads19 May 26
The Hour Before War: Trump, Personalised Deterrence, and the Gamification of Iran Strike Rhetoric
MENA19 May 26
Trump Signals Iran Strike Within Days as Hormuz Standoff Intensifies
Energy19 May 26
Trump sets Iran deadline as administration signals split on nuclear deal prospects
Europe19 May 26
Trump Ebola Concern Follows American Evacuation to Germany
Long Reads19 May 26
Ten Dead Near Tire: The Civilian Calculus of Israel's Lebanon Strikes
Energy19 May 26
Tehran's Hormuz Calculus: What the Strait Means for Global Oil Markets in 2026
Culture19 May 26
Tehran's Demographic Gambit: Iran's Supreme Leader Links National Power to Population Growth
Arts19 May 26
Tech Titans Want You to Love AI. The Rest of Us Are Left With the Mess
Culture19 May 26
Tamil Cinema's Political Romance: How Suriya's Karuppu Became a Cultural Lightning Rod
Opinion19 May 26
Takeda, Toyotas, and the Price of Japan's Export Machine
Culture19 May 26
A Mandarin Milestone: Taiwan Travelogue and the International Booker's Quiet Revolution
Long Reads19 May 26
Taiwan Parliament Fails to Impeach President Lai as Regional Warning Lights Flash
Oceania19 May 26
Sydney Sweeney and the AI Glamour Problem
Long Reads19 May 26
The Su-57 and the Sanctions Waiver: Reading Russia's Competing Signals
Long Reads19 May 26
The Strike Near Tyre: What the Attack on Lebanon's Italian Hospital Tells Us About the Rules of War
Business19 May 26
Starbucks Korea Scandal Exposes Corporate Blind Spots as Seoul Accelerates Digital Currency Push
Europe19 May 26
Sikorski's data play: how Warsaw is reframing Poland's EU story
Obituaries19 May 26
Shell's French Retreat: The Death of a Retail Fuel Presence and What It Tells Us About European Energy Transition
Long Reads19 May 26
The Geometry of Fiscal Stress: Shakira's Win, Wall Street's Warning, and the Architecture of Sovereign Debt
Sport19 May 26
Back-to-Back MVP SGA Meets Rising Contender Mitchell in Thunder-Spurs WCF Showdown
Long Reads19 May 26
The Senator, the Deadline, and the Deal That Wasn't: Washington Navigates an Iran Moment
Sport19 May 26
Scotland's World Cup squad: Clarke names his card with tournament hopes in the balance
Obituaries19 May 26
San Diego Police Neutralize Threat at Islamic Center in Clairemont
Opinion19 May 26
The San Diego Attack Exposed a Rotted Consensus on Anti-Muslim Violence
Arts19 May 26
Venice on the Volga: Inside Russia's Festival of Floating Painted Boats
Europe19 May 26
Russia's Two-Seat Su-57D Takes Flight, Redrawing Fifth-Generation Calculus
Obituaries19 May 26
Russia's Drone Army Ambition Collides With Manpower Reality
Asia19 May 26
Rubio's New Delhi Visit Puts US-India Strategic Partnership Back in Focus
Europe19 May 26
Romanian F-16s Down Drone Over Estonia in First Baltic Air Policing Intercept of 2026
Long Reads19 May 26
Risk-On Is Dead: How the US-Iran Showdown Is Rewriting the Rules of Markets and Political Loyalty
Culture19 May 26
Riot Games Removes d4vd's Remember Me Following Murder Charges
Culture19 May 26
The Prequel Paradox: How Star Wars' Most Mocked Trilogy Became Its Most Enduring
Europe19 May 26
Postponed Iran Strike Tests Trump's Credibility and Britain's Fragile Recovery
Science19 May 26
Popular Forces Militia Announces Capture of Beit Lahia as Hamas Faces Fragmented Control in Northern Gaza
Tech19 May 26
Polymarket's Private-Market Bet and Meta's AI Workforce Pivot
Americas19 May 26
The Island and the Exchange: Polymarket's Cuba Contracts Expose a Hollow Prediction Market
Opinion19 May 26
The Polish Micro-Niche Engine: How Three X Accounts Are Rewriting the Rules of Platform Influence
Asia19 May 26
Pakistan's Diplomatic Pivot: From Frontline Deployments to Back-Channel Mediation Between Washington and Tehran
Long Reads19 May 26
The Jury Spoke. The Money Moved. What the OpenAI Verdict Tells Us About Silicon Valley's Accountability Gap
Energy19 May 26
Oil Drops as Trump Postpones Iran Strike, Citing Gulf Arab Diplomacy
Long Reads19 May 26
Oil in the Balance: How Washington Quietly Ceded Control of the Russian Crude Market
Long Reads19 May 26
Northern Israel Struck by Lebanon Drone: What the Strike Tells Us About Shifting Frontline Dynamics
Science19 May 26
Netanyahu Trial Session Cancelled Amid Security Concerns, Sources Say
Defense19 May 26
NATO Weighs Naval Escort Operations for Strait of Hormuz Amid Iranian Closure Threats
Energy19 May 26
NATO Discusses Hormuz Strait Deployment as Market Puts 31% Odds on Quick Resolution
Long Reads19 May 26
NATO's Hormuz Dilemma: Alliance Cohesion Meets the Strait's Oil Lifeline
Long Reads19 May 26
NATO's Hormuz Calculus: The Strait, the Standoff, and the Shadow of a New Maritime Front
Long Reads19 May 26
NATO's Hormuz calculus: when an 'assistance mission' becomes a flashpoint
Sport19 May 26
Nashville Lands Super Bowl LXIV: Titans' New Stadium Puts Music City on the Clock
Long Reads19 May 26
The Narrative Battlefield: How Western Media Frames Iran's Conflict — and What Gets Lost
Long Reads19 May 26
Musk v. OpenAI: What the Jury Didn't Decide
The Weekly19 May 26
Musk vs. OpenAI: The Verdict That Sets AI's Commercial Path in Stone
Long Reads19 May 26
Musk's OpenAI Trial: A Jury Said He Filed Too Late. The Bigger Fight Is Just Beginning
Culture19 May 26
MoneyHash's African Bet: The Drive for Continental Payment Infrastructure Autonomy
Obituaries19 May 26
Mohammad Mosaddegh: The Democrat Who Dared to Nationalise Iran's Oil
Sport19 May 26
Former England captain Mike Smith dies aged 92
Arts19 May 26
Maytoni's Tavo Collection and the Quiet Logic of In-House Design
Long Reads19 May 26
Marcos Jr.'s Crossfire: How Manila Is Navigating the Taiwan Strait squeeze
Investigations19 May 26
The M-44 Reversal: How the Trump Administration Unbanned Cyanide Bombs
Europe19 May 26
London Stabbing Case Tests European Resolve as Iran Escalates Extraterritorial Operations
Culture19 May 26
La Furia del Libro Returns for 2026 Edition as Latin America's Literary Festivals Gain New Urgency
Long Reads19 May 26
Korea's Cultural Reckoning: How Starbucks Fumbled History and KB Financial Stepped Into the Digital Future
Opinion19 May 26
Khan al-Ahmar is the test case — and Israel appears ready to fail it
Economy19 May 26
Khamenei Frames Iran's 'Third Sacred Defense' as Proof of Great-Power Status
The Weekly19 May 26
Khamenei's Third Sacred Defense: Iran's Long Game for Regional Dominance
Culture19 May 26
Khamenei's Letter to Jamiat Activists Signals Iran's Domestic Political Weather
Africa19 May 26
Kenya's Sh244bn Safaricom Windfall Slips as Global Financial Crosscurrents Bite
Africa19 May 26
Kenya Draws South Africa, Guinea, Eritrea in 2027 AFCON Qualifier Group
Culture19 May 26
Andrej Karpathy Leaves OpenAI for Anthropic: What the Move Tells Us About the AI Talent Wars
Tech19 May 26
Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI for Anthropic Pre-Training Team
Long Reads19 May 26
Japan's Second-Hand Export Boom: How a Weakened Yen Turned Used Cars into a Geopolitical Weapon
Asia19 May 26
Japan's Corporate Diplomacy Problem: Antitrust Verdict and Texas Fossil Fuel Standoff Expose Double Standard in Tokyo's…
Asia19 May 26
Japan Anchors Indonesia's South China Sea Fishing Ambitions
Obituaries19 May 26
James Fishback Surges in Florida Governor Race, Pulling Even With Trump-Backed Byron Donalds
Culture19 May 26
Jackson Pollock's Number 7A Sells for $181 Million — What the Auction Record Says About Art Market Gravity
Culture19 May 26
Israel's Culture Minister, the Messiah, and an Unfinished War
Long Reads19 May 26
Inside the Escalation: How the Israel-Hezbollah Border Conflict Reached a New Intensity
Opinion19 May 26
Israel's Abu Dhabi Flight Is Not a PR Stunt — It's a Economic Survival Strategy
Culture19 May 26
Islamic Jihad Rebukes Peace Council Report Over Bias Allegations
Long Reads19 May 26
The Manifesto and the Message: What the Islamic Center Shooting Reveals About America's Reckoning with Hate
Obituaries19 May 26
Isak Andic, Founder of Mango Fashion Empire, Dies at 71 After Montserrat Mountain Fall
Obituaries19 May 26
Isak Andic, Founder of Mango, Dies at 71 — and Leaves Behind an Unresolved Question About How He Fell
Long Reads19 May 26
Irish President's Sister Arrested as Israeli Navy Intercepts Gaza Aid Flotilla
Culture19 May 26
Iran's WHO Gambit: Medical Neutrality or Political Theater?
Long Reads19 May 26
Iran's Warning and the Limits of Diplomatic Time
MENA19 May 26
Energy Reserves Drain and the $180 Scenario: How the Iran Conflict Is Reshaping Global Oil Markets
Science19 May 26
Iran's State Media Frames Raisi's Legacy as a Governance Model Ahead of Election
Culture19 May 26
Iran Seizes 900 Tons of Hoarded Chicken as Food Security Tensions Simmer
Culture19 May 26
Iranian Diplomats Convene on Infrastructure and Foreign Policy Overlap
Long Reads19 May 26
Iran Mobilises Air Defence Over Qeshm as Drone Incursion Tests Regional Tensions
Long Reads19 May 26
Iran's Nuclear Gambit: How Tehran Turned Washington's Strike Threat Into a Diplomatic Opening
Letters19 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit and the Cost of Washington's Iran War
Long Reads19 May 26
Iran's Dual Signal: Overture and Warning From the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads19 May 26
Iran Demands Accountability for Minab Strike as USCENTCOM Defends Targeting Justification
Long Reads19 May 26
The Iran Deal is Dead. Now What?
Culture19 May 26
Iran Unveils Translations of Contested War Memoir Cell No. 14 Into Three Additional Languages
MENA19 May 26
$25 Billion in Corporate Losses and a 39% Airspace Closure Probability: Iran's Economic War Enters a New Phase
Long Reads19 May 26
India's Russian oil bet: how New Delhi is testing the limits of Western sanctions
Asia19 May 26
India's $10 Billion Great Nicobar Gambit Tests the Limits of Malacca Strait Deterrence
MENA19 May 26
IDF Sexual Assault Complaints Nearly Double in Five Years as Military Grapples With Accountability Crisis
Obituaries19 May 26
IDF Company Deputy Commander Killed in Southern Lebanon as UN Warns Against Treating Ceasefire as Routine
MENA19 May 26
Hezbollah releases footage of anti-tank strike on Israeli Merkava in southern Lebanon
MENA19 May 26
Hezbollah Claims Drone Strikes on Israeli Military Positions Along Lebanon Border
Long Reads19 May 26
The Drone Corridor: How Hezbollah Redefined the Rules of Engagement Along Lebanon's Southern Border
MENA19 May 26
Hezbollah Claims Anti-Tank Ambush in Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Strikes Intensify
Long Reads19 May 26
Gulf Shield: Inside the UAE-Israel Defence Partnership Reshaping Middle East Security
Tech19 May 26
Google's IO 2026: Smart Glasses Return as Gemini Accelerates
Culture19 May 26
The Multimodal Threshold: What Google's Gemini Omni Actually Changes
Long Reads19 May 26
Google's Agentic Gambit: How Gemini 3.5 Flash Signals a Cost-Leadership Pivot in AI
Long Reads19 May 26
Google's Agentic Pivot: How Gemini 3.5 Flash Signals a New Phase in the AI Infrastructure Wars
Long Reads19 May 26
Google's Agentic Bet: What Gemini 3.5 Flash Signals About the Next Phase of the AI Race
Long Reads19 May 26
The Agentic Turn: How Google's Gemini Gambit Is Quietly Reshaping the AI Arms Race
Long Reads19 May 26
Google and Blackstone's $5 Billion AI Bet — and What It Tells Us About the Infrastructure Race No One Is Talking About
Opinion19 May 26
Google's AI Agents Want to Watch You Forever
Long Reads19 May 26
Google's Agentic Turn: What Gemini Spark and the AI Assistant Wave Mean for the Internet's Architecture
Opinion19 May 26
Google's Agent Pivot Is a Quiet Power Grab — and No One Is Watching
Culture19 May 26
Giant Provocative Flag Erected Outside New York City Hall Draws Fresh Scrutiny of Public Art Funding
Europe19 May 26
G7 Fracture: UK Defies EU Push to Close Russian Fuel Import Loophole
Culture19 May 26
The Free Speech Fault Lines Running Through American Higher Education
Culture19 May 26
FAO and Damascus Move to Stabilize Raqqa's Water Infrastructure as Agricultural Recovery Gains Momentum
Sport19 May 26
Fantasy Football 2026: How Algorithmic Projections Are Reshaping the Draft Room
Long Reads19 May 26
Ebola Returns to the Headlines: What the Latest Outbreak Tells Us About Global Health Architecture
Tech19 May 26
Ebola Returns to Eastern Congo as Seventeenth Outbreak Since 1976 Strains Regional Health Infrastructure
Africa19 May 26
Ebola Death Toll Climbs Past 120 in DRC Outbreak as WHO Warns of Complexity
Africa19 May 26
Ebola Death Toll Reaches 131 in Eastern Congo as WHO Warns of Unchecked Spread
Long Reads19 May 26
Drone Shadows and Courtrooms: The Two-Front Pressure Closing on Netanyahu
Long Reads19 May 26
Drone Strike Near Lebanon Border Exposes Deeper Pattern of Israeli Territorial Consolidation
Africa19 May 26
Ebola Outbreak Forces DR Congo to Rearrange World Cup Prep as US Entry Restrictions Loom
Americas19 May 26
Diaz-Canel's Sovereignty Claim Meets a Prediction Market Bet on His Arrest
Culture19 May 26
China's Cinema Renaissance: How Grassroots Films Are Reshaping the World's Largest Screen Market
Long Reads19 May 26
Showroom to Stream: How Chinese Auto CEOs Became Influencers
Defense19 May 26
Car Bomb Targets Syrian Defense Ministry in Damascus
Europe19 May 26
Britain's Hiring Freeze and Qatar's Warning: Two Flanks of the Iran Stalemate
Long Reads19 May 26
The Northern Flank Opens: How Belarus Became the Next Front in Ukraine's War
Long Reads19 May 26
Beijing's Balancing Act: How China's Economic Recalibration Is Reshaping Its Global Footprint
Long Reads19 May 26
The Beijing Sequence: Why Putin's Arrival Immediately After Trump Left Matters
Long Reads19 May 26
The Beijing Package: Why Putin's China Visit Matters More Than Trump's Did
Long Reads19 May 26
The Strategic Sequence: Why Beijing Chose to Host Putin Immediately After Trump
Long Reads19 May 26
Beijing's Diplomatic Double: How Xi's Putin Visit Tightens the Eurasian Knot
Long Reads19 May 26
The Beijing Calculus: Putin's Visit and the Architecture of an Unaligned World
Long Reads19 May 26
The Ballroom Bunker: What Trump's Subterranean Announcement Reveals About a Second-Term White House
Oceania19 May 26
Australian Medical College Suspends Leader Over Alleged Health and Safety Breach
Oceania19 May 26
Australia's International Student Pause: Quality Concerns Mask a Sector Under Pressure
Asia19 May 26
Asia's Coal Rebound: Energy Security Trumps Climate Pledges as Middle East Crisis Bites
Europe19 May 26
Asia's Budget Carriers Bet on Growth as G7 Economies Flag Broader Instability
Long Reads19 May 26
The Art of the Maximum Pressure Deal: How Trump Is Playing Both Sides of the Iran Crisis
Sport19 May 26
Alcaraz Withdraws From Wimbledon, Casting Doubt on Rest of Season
Europe19 May 26
Air France Extends West Asia Flight Suspension as Regional Tensions Reshape European Aviation
Science19 May 26
The AI Trust Gap: America's Fastest-Growing Industry Faces a Public Rebellion
Opinion19 May 26
AI Agents With Wallets Are Here. Nobody's Ready.
Long Reads19 May 26
The Senate's Iran Vote and the Fracture Lines in America's War Powers Doctrine
Asia19 May 26
Putin Lands in Beijing as China-Russia Partnership Hardens Into a Counter-Order Signal
Oceania19 May 26
Blinken Admits Scale Gap as US-China Industrial Contest Enters New Phase
The Weekly19 May 26
UAE Intercepts Six Hostile Drones Near Barakah Nuclear Plant, Attributes Origin to Iraq
Opinion19 May 26
Trump's Underground Bunker and the Collapsing Boundary Between Spectacle and State Secret
Long Reads19 May 26
Trump's Divide-and-Conquer Miscalculation: How Tariff Pressure Backfired on Beijing and Moscow
Letters19 May 26
Trump's Regulatory Rollback and the Politics of Contamination
Oceania19 May 26
Police Charge Man With Triple Murder After Bodies Found in Sydney Home
Culture19 May 26
The Persian Gulf's Enduring Strategic Geometry: How Geography Still Shapes Global Commerce
Africa19 May 26
Morocco's Fog Harvesters Turn Arid Mountains Into a Source of Drinking Water
Long Reads19 May 26
Minnesota's Divergent Path: Sanctuary Politics and Crypto Innovation in the Age of Mass Deportation
Culture19 May 26
Iran's Book Market Defies the Odds: 192,000 Copies Sold at Virtual Fair
Letters19 May 26
India Supreme Court Delivers Landmark Rulings on Promotion Rights and Stray Dog Feeding
Arts19 May 26
When the Supreme Court of India Takes a Joke: The Jabalpur Flat, the Elderly Woman, and the Comedy of Legal Errors
Science19 May 26