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Long Reads18 May 26
The Underground War: How Ukraine Built 1,170 km of Tunnels to Outsmart the Drone Age

Culture18 May 26
UN Flags ICC Referral as Israel Advances Military Museum Plans at UNRWA Compound in Sheikh Jarrah

Europe18 May 26
Ukraine's Foreign Coach Gambit: Why Milan, Brighton and Marseille Matter for a Nation at War

Long Reads18 May 26
Ukraine's Domestic Bomb and the Architecture of Accountability

Science18 May 26
Ukraine Anti-Corruption Court Confirms 140 Million Hryvnia Bail Paid for Presidential Chief of Staff

Letters18 May 26
Two Dead in Shooting at Islamic Center of San Diego
Long Reads18 May 26
Two Dead in San Diego Mosque Shooting as Police Confirm Shooter Neutralized

Science18 May 26
The Trust Deficit At the Heart of Musk's OpenAI Battle

Long Reads18 May 26
Trump's Two-Signal Market: How Crypto Became Caught Between Diplomatic Relief and Iran Escalation

Long Reads18 May 26
Trump Signals Strike Pause as Iran Deal Rejection Raises Stakes
Long Reads18 May 26
The Deal That Wasn't: Inside Trump's Rejection of Iran's Nuclear Proposal
Long Reads18 May 26
Trump's Rare Earth Reckoning: What the China Deals Actually Mean for American Supply Chains
Long Reads18 May 26
Trump Pauses Iran Strike: What Gulf Diplomacy Won — and What It Revealed

Long Reads18 May 26
Trump's Iran Warning and the Coming Reckoning in the Nuclear Talks
Long Reads18 May 26
The Clock, The Coin, and The Calculus: How Trump’s Iran Warning Revealed Crypto’s Vulnerability to Geopolitical Shocks
Long Reads18 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Anatomy of Coercive Diplomacy
MENA18 May 26
Trump says Iran strikes called off — but three administrations have made the same promise
Long Reads18 May 26
Trump's Iran Strike Pause: Gulf Diplomacy, Domestic Calculus, and the Architecture of a Threat
Long Reads18 May 26
Trump's Iran Strike Pause: Diplomatic Intervention or Calculated Theater?
Long Reads18 May 26
Trump's Iran gambit: how nuclear diplomacy collapsed in real time
MENA18 May 26
Trump Warns Iran's 'Clock Is Ticking' as Nuclear Talks Falter
Long Reads18 May 26
The Theatrics and the Stakes: Inside Trump's Iran Diplomacy Meltdown
The Weekly18 May 26
Trump's Hormuz ultimatum exposes the limits of American leverage in the Gulf

Africa18 May 26
Trump's Ebola Comment and the Geography of Western Concern

Long Reads18 May 26
Trump, Bitcoin, and the Clock: How Geopolitical Risk Became the Market's Dominant Force
Long Reads18 May 26
The Silence Over Iran: Why Trump's War Stopped Before It Started
MENA18 May 26
Tehran's 'Two Layers' Problem: Inside Iran's State Media Rebuke of Western Binary Framing

Culture18 May 26
Tehran's Press Row: How Iran's Presidency Uses State Media as Governance Infrastructure

Sport18 May 26
Sunderland's European Ambitions Take Shape After Comeback Win at Everton
Long Reads18 May 26
The Sumud Flotilla and the Architecture of Siege: Maritime Blockade, Court Rooms, and the Limits of Legal Theater
Culture18 May 26
Spotify's Logo Reversal and the Platform That Learned Too Late Glitter Is Not for Everyone

Sport18 May 26
SportsLine's 2026 Fantasy Football Model Targets Another Breakout After Hitting Daniel Jones Call
Long Reads18 May 26
SpaceX's Trillion-Dollar IPO and the Remaking of Global Capital Markets
The Weekly18 May 26
South Korea at the Crossroads: AI Disruption, Labor Revolt, and the Northern Fortress
Opinion18 May 26
South Korea Is Winning the AI Hardware Race — and Leaving Its Own People Behind

Culture18 May 26
How South Carolina's Redistricting Fight Exposes the Mechanics of One-Party Entrenchment

Asia18 May 26
Singapore Small-Caps Defy the Middle East Cloud as Tech Takes the Lead
Asia18 May 26
Silicon Ceiling: The Gap Between Washington's China Tech Policy and the Board's Imperative

Africa18 May 26
Sierra Leone's First Lady: From Escaping Child Marriage to One of Africa's Most Powerful Political Women

Sport18 May 26
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Caps Historic Season With Back-to-Back MVP
Opinion18 May 26
Seoul Sounds North Korea Launch Alarm as Kim Regime Signals Resumption
Opinion18 May 26
The SEC Just Opened the Door. Whether That's Good News Depends on Who Walks Through

Long Reads18 May 26
The Scramble for Supply Chain Sovereignty: How the West Is Rewiring Its Economy Around China

Opinion18 May 26
San Diego Shooting Exposes the Architecture of American Islamophobia
The Weekly18 May 26
San Diego Police Respond to Active Shooter at Islamic Center of San Diego
Long Reads18 May 26
Active Shooter at San Diego Islamic Center: What We Know
Long Reads18 May 26
Active Shooter at San Diego Islamic Center Tests US Counterterrorism Apparatus

Africa18 May 26
Russia Deepens African Union Ties as Lavrov Vows Close Coordination on Joint Agenda
Energy18 May 26
Russia Backs Iran's Enrichment Rights as Bushehr Cooperation Deepens
Long Reads18 May 26
The Rose Garden Fed: Warsh's Swearing-In and the Quiet Revolution in American Finance

Opinion18 May 26
The Prediction Market Paradox: When Crowdsourced Intelligence Becomes Insider Bait

Arts18 May 26
The Politics of the Wall: Street Art and the Last Unmediated Canvas

Americas18 May 26
Pentagon Suspends Joint Defense Council with Canada Amid Reported Deep Differences

Arts18 May 26
Pentagon Reverses Course on European Deployment as Germany Drawdown Accelerates
Defense18 May 26
Pentagon Readies Strike Options on Iran as Trump Delays Decision

Letters18 May 26
Paris Opens Door to Judicial Reckoning on Khashoggi Killing

Asia18 May 26
Pakistan's Tehran Gambit: Islamabad Steps Into the Iran Mediation Void
Long Reads18 May 26
The Back-Channel Calculus: Pakistan's Diplomatic Gambit and the Fractured Architecture of US-Iran Normalisation
Energy18 May 26
Pakistan Deploys 8,000 Troops and Fighter Squadron to Saudi Arabia as Iran Conflict Escalates
Energy18 May 26
Oil Prices Surge as Strait of Hormuz Tightens Under Iran-US Standoff
Defense18 May 26
North Korea writes off reunification and hardens its border — the two moves are one signal

MENA18 May 26
Netanyahu Requests Three-Hour Testimony Cut as Trial Enters New Phase of Disruption
Long Reads18 May 26
Musk vs. OpenAI: The $150 Billion Lawsuit That Wasn't
Opinion18 May 26
Musk v. OpenAI Is Over. The Governance Question It Exposed Is Not.

Opinion18 May 26
The Musk Problem: When Platform Ownership Becomes Ideological Infrastructure
Geopolitics18 May 26
Musk Jury Verdict Hands OpenAI Legal Win, but Governance Questions Linger
Long Reads18 May 26
The Verdict That Wasn't: What Musk's Loss Against OpenAI Reveals About AI's Governance Vacuum
Long Reads18 May 26
The Verdict That Wasn't: Why Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Was Decided Before It Began
Long Reads18 May 26
Musk's OpenAI Gambit Fails as Jury Bars 'Too Late' Claims
Long Reads18 May 26
The $150 Billion Question: How Elon Musk's OpenAI Crusade Collapsed in a California Courtroom
Tech18 May 26
Musk Loses OpenAI Jury Trial as Strategy Buys $2.01B in Bitcoin
Opinion18 May 26
Musk's Legal Strategy Is the Real Story Behind the OpenAI Verdict

Long Reads18 May 26
Musk's Innovation Confession: What Israel's Ranking Reveals About Silicon Valley's Israel Problem
Asia18 May 26
Sovereign Funds and Wall Street Giants Are Quietly Monetising the Bitcoin Pivot

Culture18 May 26
MoneyHash Taps Hwan Lee as Africa Regional Director in Continental Expansion Push
Long Reads18 May 26
Meta's Great AI Gamble: What the 8,000-Person Restructure Actually Tells Us

Obituaries18 May 26
Man Dies in Kyiv Fall as City Repurposes Underground Spaces for War-Era Shelters
Africa18 May 26
Making Foundational Learning Investments Last: Africa's Education Reform Challenge
Obituaries18 May 26
The Death of Mainok: Islamic State West Africa's Vanishing Commander

Opinion18 May 26
The Language of Neutralization: What San Diego Tells Us About Who Gets to Be a Victim

Oceania18 May 26
KuCoin Australia Launches Visa-Mirrored Debit Card, Enabling USDC Settlements at 130 Million Merchants

MENA18 May 26
Israeli Forces Resume Heavy Shelling of Khan Yunis as Southern Gaza Offensive Extends Into Fourth Week

Africa18 May 26
Kenya's Russia Recruitment Problem Is Washington’s Test Case for African Compliance
Africa18 May 26
Raila Jr. Confronts Treasury CS Over Alleged Slights to Odinga Family — Kenya Coalition Tensions Surface Again

Culture18 May 26
Julianne Moore and the Cannes Gender Gap That Won't Close

Culture18 May 26
Julianne Moore's Cannes Reckoning: The Gender Equality Numbers Hollywood Would Rather Not Cite

MENA18 May 26
Israeli Strikes Hit Multiple South Lebanon Towns as Ceasefire Push Falters
Tech18 May 26
Israeli Strikes on Lebanon Exceed 3,000 Dead as Hezbollah Drone Attack Escalates Tensions
MENA18 May 26
Israeli Naval Forces Intercept Gaza-Bound Vessel After Sea Pursuit
Long Reads18 May 26
Israeli forces board Gaza-bound flotilla in international waters — what comes next

Letters18 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Southern Lebanese Villages as Cross-Border Tensions Escalate
Science18 May 26
Israel Intercepts Turkish Gaza Flotilla as Netanyahu Seeks Trial Delay
Letters18 May 26
Israel Intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla for Second Time, Erdogan Condemns 'Fascist' Interception
Long Reads18 May 26
Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Flotilla in International Waters, Raising Legal and Humanitarian Questions
Long Reads18 May 26
Iron Gates on the Hills: Israel's al-Murabah Closure and the Escalating Geometry of West Bank Control
Asia18 May 26
Iranian Tanker Breaks Through US Blockade to Dock at Kharg Island
Business18 May 26
Iran's Undersea Gambit: Tehran Targets the Internet's Backbone as Leverage Against Big Tech
Long Reads18 May 26
The Iran Trap: How Escalation Toward War Is Repricing Global Risk
Letters18 May 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Internet Gambit: How Tehran Is Weaponising the Cable Corridor
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Gambit: How Tehran Is Building a Parallel Infrastructure for Global Shipping
Americas18 May 26
Iran's State Media Revives Regime-Change Confrontation Narrative as US-Israel Talks Intensify
Asia18 May 26
Iran's Revised Proposal to the U.S.: What Islamabad's Back-Channel Diplomacy Tells Us
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Revised Proposal Rejected: Why Pakistan's Mediation Is Running Out of Road
MENA18 May 26
Iran Rejects U.S. Proposal Via Pakistan as Military Drill Imagery Circulates Online
Obituaries18 May 26
Iranian Rallies on Qeshm Island Channel Gulf Tensions Through Anti-Israel, Anti-Emirates Chants
MENA18 May 26
Iran Says It Sent Proposals to Washington, Awaits Response as Nuclear Talks Narrative War Heats Up
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran Presses Its Advantage as the China Factor Reshapes the Hormuz Equation
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's quiet executions: inside the regime's war on dissent
Defense18 May 26
Iran's Pezeshkian Draws Red Lines on Nuclear Talks: 'Dialogue Does Not Mean Surrender'
Europe18 May 26
Iran Plays Both Cards: Transit Talks With Oman and Legal Offensive Against US and UK
Culture18 May 26
Iran's negotiating team holds the line on principles as nuclear talks enter critical phase
MENA18 May 26
Iran Nuclear Talks on Brink as US Official Warns of 'Second Chances' Exhaustion
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Diplomatic Opening Slams Shut as US Rejects Nuclear Proposal
Science18 May 26
Iran Military Commanders Send Appreciation Messages to Medical Personnel as Regional Tensions Remain Elevated
Obituaries18 May 26
Iran Marks Second Anniversary of Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian's Death
Culture18 May 26
The Loyal Dissenter: How Iran's Hardliners Use Former Prisoners to Amplify State Narratives
MENA18 May 26
Iran's Kharg Terminal Falls Silent as Air Defenses Mobilise Near Strait of Hormuz
Energy18 May 26
Iran's Kharg Island Oil Export Freeze Complicates Nuclear Talks as Deadline Pressure Mounts
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Traffic Fee: Legal Claim, Diplomatic gambit, or Both?
Culture18 May 26
Iran's Undersea Gambit: How Hormuz Cable Vulnerability Became a New Front in Geopolitical Leverage
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's $10 Billion Bitcoin Insurance Gambit: Can Hormuz Safe Redraw the Map of Sanctions Finance?
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Permits, Bitcoin, and the Fracturing of a Critical Internet Chokepoint
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: How Tehran Weaponized a Chokepoint With Bitcoin and Bureaucracy
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: How Tehran Built a Crypto Insurance Wall Against Washington's Financial Warfare
MENA18 May 26
Iran's Five Conditions and a Warning to Washington: What Tehran's Latest Diplomatic Gambit Means
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Dual-Track: How Tehran Is Talking Tough While Keeping a Diplomatic Door Open
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Dual Signal: New Hormuz Body and Revised Proposal Test US Diplomacy
Culture18 May 26
Iran FM Spokesperson Invokes Trump Biopic in Diplomatic Message to Washington
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran Deal Dead, Markets Reprice: How Washington's Hardline Drove a Diplomatic Collapse and Crashed Crypto
Culture18 May 26
Iran's Public Cycling Push: Soft Power, Sanctions, and the Road Ahead
Long Reads18 May 26
Iran's Bitcoin Gambit: How Tehran's Strait of Hormuz Insurance Plan Could Reshape Global Shipping Finance
Markets18 May 26
Iran's Bitcoin Insurance Gambit: Sanctions Evasion or Strait of Hormuz Power Play?

Letters18 May 26
Indian Worker Killed as Ukraine Drone Strikes Hit Moscow Region: New Pressure on New Delhi's Ukraine Calculus

Letters18 May 26
India's Currency and the Price of Dollar Dependence
Obituaries18 May 26
India's Courts, Kashmir's Grievances, and the Architecture of Incarceration Politics

Long Reads18 May 26
IDF Evacuation Orders Hit Southern Lebanon Villages as Ceasefire Talks Stall
MENA18 May 26
Houthi Leader Warns of Israeli Entrenchment in Southern Syria as Regional Tensions Mount
The Weekly18 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Is Now a Geopolitical Flashpoint — and Oil Markets Are Paying Attention
Europe18 May 26
Gymnastics Federation Lifts Russian Flag and Anthem Ban, Drawing Sharp Divided Reactions
Long Reads18 May 26
Did Gulf States Actually Change Trump's Iran Calculus?
Asia18 May 26
Gulf States' Intervention Stalls Trump Administration's Iran Strike Plan
Long Reads18 May 26
The Gulf Intervention: How Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE Stopped a US Strike on Iran
Long Reads18 May 26
The Paused Strike: Gulf Diplomacy, Threat Inflation, and the Architecture of Escalation on Iran

MENA18 May 26
Gulf Diplomacy Derails Trump's Iran Strike: Regional Powers Assert Leverage Over Washington
Europe18 May 26
Germany to Deploy Patriot Battery and 150 Troops to Turkey by June
Long Reads18 May 26
The Gaza Maritime Blockade Faces Its Biggest Test as a 60-Ship Flotilla Is Intercepted Near Cyprus

Long Reads18 May 26
France's Khashoggi Gambit: What a Judicial Probe Against MBS Actually Means for Global Accountability
Africa18 May 26
France-Algeria Diplomatic Thaw on Display as Justice Minister Visits Amid Detained Journalist Crisis

Long Reads18 May 26
The Five-Year Shadow: Why Taiwan Dominates Every US-China Conversation
Culture18 May 26
Five Dead in San Diego Islamic Center Shooting, Police Say
Long Reads18 May 26
Fifty Ships, One Interception, and the Legal Grey Zone Gaza's Naval Blockade Has Always Occupied
Culture18 May 26
FDA Scientist's Termination Exposes Fault Lines in Washington's Science Establishment

Culture18 May 26
Eric Cantona's Cannes Double: Football Legend Becomes Film Festival Fixture
Long Reads18 May 26
Ebola Returns: What the Congo–Uganda Emergency Reveals About Global Health Architecture in 2026

Africa18 May 26
Suspected Ebola Cases Near 400 in Congo as U.S. Embassy Halts Uganda Visa Services
Long Reads18 May 26
Ebola Returns: How the World's Latest Health Emergency Exposes Decades of Hollow Promises

Opinion18 May 26
Dollar Weaponisation and the Quiet Squeeze on Emerging Market Currencies
Long Reads18 May 26
The Disconnection Dividend: How Aviation Contractions and Market Resilience Reveal Asia's Shifting Economic Geometry
Long Reads18 May 26
Days Not Weeks: Inside the Diplomatic Pressure Pushing the Iran Nuclear Standoff Toward a Breaking Point

Culture18 May 26
David Petraeus Returns to Baghdad: A Ghost Tour or a New Chapter?
Americas18 May 26
Cuban Political Futures Signal Unease as Díaz-Canel's Tenure Becomes Market Question

Americas18 May 26
Cuba Takes Its Blockade Grievance to BRICS—and the Group Listens

Investigations18 May 26
China's Sulphuric Acid Curbs and the $17 Billion Farm Deal: Decoding the Trade Détente
Economy18 May 26
China's Consumption Problem Deepens as Export Controls Reshape Battery Supply Chains
Long Reads18 May 26
The $17 Billion Question: What China's Farm-Goods Pledge Really Tells Us About the New Trade Détente

Sport18 May 26
Cavaliers and Pistons Face Off in High-Stakes Game 7 With Conference Finals Berth on the Line
Culture18 May 26
Cannes Has Two Festivals. The Red Carpet Is the One You're Watching.
Culture18 May 26
Cannes renames beach after Brigitte Bardot, reigniting debate over cultural memory and contemporary values
Culture18 May 26
At Cannes, Moore Names What Industry Diversity Reports Dance Around
Culture18 May 26
Canal+ Cannes Blacklist Sends Shockwaves Through French Film Industry
Geopolitics18 May 26
California Jury Rejects Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit on Statute of Limitations Grounds
Sport18 May 26
Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons Play the Most Important Game in 17 Years Thursday
Europe18 May 26
Burnham's Domestic Bet: Labour's Quiet Pivot on Europe
Europe18 May 26
Bulgaria Wins Eurovision 2026 as Israel Faces Audience Backlash
Long Reads18 May 26
When the Clock Hit $77,000: Bitcoin, Iran, and the Presidency's Conflict of Interest Problem

Long Reads18 May 26
Belarus Nuclear Drills and Russia Readmission: A Signal Without a Strategy
Energy18 May 26
Belarus Joins Russia in Nuclear Drills, Drawing Condemnation From Kyiv and NATO
Arts18 May 26
Corn, Clay, and Cultural Bridge-Building: Beijing's Maya–Andean Exhibition Opens on International Museum Day

Opinion18 May 26
The Quiet Uncoupling: Beijing Dumps Treasuries While Space Stocks Orbit Higher

Oceania18 May 26
Asia-Pacific Momentum: Thai Growth and Kiwi Population Surge Redraw the Regional Map
Opinion18 May 26
Apple's Siri pivot exposes the privacy paradox at the heart of AI's new race
Long Reads18 May 26
Apple's Geopolitical Squeeze: How the iPhone Maker Found Itself Cornered in India
Opinion18 May 26
America's War on Muslim Spaces Never Really Ended
Oceania18 May 26
How America's Cultural Exports Became a Rorschach Test for Global Resentment
MENA18 May 26
Airstrike on Al-Faluja compounds Gaza's humanitarian crisis as rodent infestation spreads through displacement camps

Europe18 May 26
Air France Extends West Asia Flight Suspension as Regional Tensions Persist
Culture18 May 26
AI Labs Built Powerful Models. Their Software Pipes Are Still Leaking.

Science18 May 26
The Access Problem: Why AI Drug Discovery Needs a Claude Moment More Than a Better Model

Culture18 May 26
African Cinema's Cannes Problem Runs Deeper Than a Selection Shortlist
Long Reads18 May 26
The $17 Billion Test: Washington Signs Farm Deals While Beijing Counts its Shoppers

Obituaries18 May 26
Two Killed as 5.2 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Guangxi Province

The Weekly18 May 26
Trump Rejects Iran's Updated Deal Proposal, Raising Risk of Wider Regional Conflict
Long Reads18 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum Triggers Crypto Selloff as Markets Reassess Risk
Long Reads18 May 26
Trump Cancels Iran Strike, Opens Door to Negotiations as Gulf Tensions Peak

MENA18 May 26
Saudi Arabia Intercepts Three Drones From Iraqi Airspace, Reserves Right to Respond

Culture18 May 26
Iran's Arabic Media Offensive: The Book Launch That Tells Two Stories

MENA18 May 26
Intelligence Leak Contradicts 'American Victory' Narrative on Iran Strikes

Europe18 May 26
The Hare and the Scooter: A Budapest Collision That Says More Than It Seems

Sport18 May 26
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Named NBA MVP; Steve Nash Delivers Announcement

Opinion18 May 26