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Long Reads07 May 26
Beijing's Two Crises: The Spy Trial and the Property Collapse Converging on Xi's Leadership
Long Reads07 May 26
Beijing's Sanctions Defiance and the Crumbling Architecture of Dollar Coercion
Long Reads07 May 26
Beijing's Balancing Act: Property Slump Meets Geopolitical Opening
Long Reads07 May 26
US Strikes Iran: What the Reports Say and Why It Matters
Long Reads07 May 26
Inside the US-Iran Nuclear Deal That Could Remake the Middle East
The Weekly07 May 26
Trump's 'Love Tap' Diplomacy: How the US-Iran Ceasefire Survived Its First Real Test
Long Reads07 May 26
The Love Tap Doctrine: How Trump's Iranian Ceasefire Became a Weapon of Ambiguity
Long Reads07 May 26
The Gap Nobody Wants to Talk About: Why Trump's Iran Deal Keeps Slipping
Europe07 May 26
Starmer Faces Electoral Reckoning as UK Goes to the Polls
Letters07 May 26
Starmer's Electoral Reckoning: UK Debt at 5% Meets the Ballot Box
Long Reads07 May 26
Six Weeks and a Handshake: Decoding Washington's Contradictory Iran Signals
MENA07 May 26
Shell's $6.9bn Quarter Exposes the Cost of Middle East Oil Volatility
Europe07 May 26
Russia Summons Armenian Ambassador After Zelensky Visit as Yerevan Charts EU Course
The Weekly07 May 26
Pashinyan's Break: Armenia's Quiet Divorce from Russia's Orbit
Long Reads07 May 26
Night Over Tehran: What the May 7 Air Defense Activation Reveals About Iran's Calculated Deterrence Posture
Oceania07 May 26
Vigils Held Across Australia for Five-Year-Old Aboriginal Girl Found Dead Near Alice Springs
Long Reads07 May 26
Unclaimed detonations and a microscopic intruder: Israel faces simultaneous crises on two very different fronts
Economy07 May 26
Iran's Multipolar Gambit: How Tehran Is Redefining the Rules of Its Own Isolation
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's diplomatic pivot: between resistance rhetoric and the promise of a deal
Arts07 May 26
Faces of the Infantry: Kyiv's Botanical Garden Hosts a Portrait Exhibition of Wartime Defenders
Long Reads07 May 26
The Drone War Deepens: How Russia's Bombardment of Kharkiv Exposes the Limits of Western Air Defense Promises
Letters07 May 26
Car Explosion Rocks Dnipro as Russia Continues Strikes on Ukrainian Heartland
Arts07 May 26
The Death of Vladimir Yarotsky and Russia's Architecture of Political Imprisonment
Obituaries07 May 26
Former Chinese Ministers Sentenced to Death With Reprieve: What Beijing's Anti-Corruption Verdicts Signal
Long Reads07 May 26
China's Economic Reckoning: Slowdown, Structural Crossroads, and the Limits of Industrial Policy
Long Reads07 May 26
Death with a Reprieve: China's Purge of Two Defense Ministers Exposes the Cost of Military Reform
Long Reads07 May 26
China's AI Moment: How Beijing Rewrote the Rules to Let Frontier Companies Public
Long Reads07 May 26
The Ceasefire Gambit: Washington, Tehran, and the Nuclear Question at the Heart of the Iran War's Endgame
Culture07 May 26
British Museum: UKLFI Letter Targets 'Palestine' Labeling in Exhibits
Long Reads07 May 26
Beijing's Military Purge: What the Ex-Defence Ministers' Convictions Reveal About Xi's Accountability Play
Arts07 May 26
The Arts of the Deal: How Trump's Iran Statements Became a Case Study in Diplomatic Theatrics
Asia07 May 26
Xi Hosts Trump as Iran Talks Redraw Asia-Pacific Security Calculus
Africa07 May 26
WHO Reassures Public: Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Is Not Another COVID
Obituaries07 May 26
WHO Confirms Three Dead, Seven Hantavirus Cases Aboard Cruise Ship in South America
Culture07 May 26
WHO Chief Cites Hantavirus as Warning Against US Withdrawal From Global Health Body
Culture07 May 26
WHO Chief Makes Hantavirus Case to Washington as US Withdrawal Clock Ticks
MENA07 May 26
Washington to Host Third Round of Israel-Lebanon Talks as Ceasefire Diplomacy Intensifies
Business07 May 26
Washington Passes Memorandum to Tehran on Phased Reopening of Strait of Hormuz
Defense07 May 26
Washington's Gulf Dilemma: The Qatar 747 and the Symbolism of Air Force One
Long Reads07 May 26
Victory's Shadow: How Ukraine's Drone Strike Exposed Russia's Fraying Air Defense at the Gates of Moscow
Culture07 May 26
Venice's Biennial Crisis: Art, Money, and the Russian Pavilion Controversy
Culture07 May 26
Venice Biennale's Russian Pavilion Decision Triggers Institutional Crisis
Culture07 May 26
The Venice Biennale Confrontation and the Limits of Cultural Diplomacy
Culture07 May 26
The Biennale as Battleground: How Venice Became a Geopolitical Stage
Opinion07 May 26
USD1's $4.5 Billion Moment Is a Dollar Story, Not Just a Crypto One
Investigations07 May 26
The US vs Vietnam's Pirates: Inside Washington's Intellectual Property Crackdown
Long Reads07 May 26
US Strikes Iranian Naval Infrastructure Near Bandar Abbas: What the Escalation Means for Regional Stability
MENA07 May 26
US Strikes Iran Port Facilities; Tehran Claims Missile and Drone Attack on Three American Destroyers
Long Reads07 May 26
US Strikes Iranian Port Infrastructure: What the Escalation in the Strait of Hormuz Actually Means
Long Reads07 May 26
US Navy Destroyers Come Under Iranian Attack in Strait of Hormuz; CENTCOM Confirms Defensive Strikes Against Iranian…
Energy07 May 26
US-Iran Temporary Deal Signals Fragile Opening on Strait of Hormuz
Science07 May 26
US Presents Iran New Nuclear Framework, WSJ Reports
Long Reads07 May 26
Strait of Restraint: Inside the U.S.-Iran Naval Exchange That Wasn't a War
Long Reads07 May 26
US-Iran Naval Confrontation at Strait of Hormuz: What We Know and Why It Matters
Geopolitics07 May 26
US-Iran Hormuz Concessions Emerge as Seoul Probes Tanker Incident
Long Reads07 May 26
US-Iran Exchange in Strait of Hormuz Escalates Following Tanker Attack
Culture07 May 26
The Unquiet Gulf: How America's Muted Response Is Fracturing Decades of Strategic Trust
Europe07 May 26
Ukraine Navigates Shifting Alliances as Missile Threat Persists
Long Reads07 May 26
The 9 May Dilemma: How Ukraine Is Using Moscow's Victory Day as a Diplomatic Test
Culture07 May 26
"We Are Going to Die" - the Frontline Costs of Uganda's US Health Deal
Americas07 May 26
Two Koreas, One Market: Seoul's Financial Rise Meets Pyongyang's Hard Line
Culture07 May 26
Turkey's Air Defense Gambit: How Ankara is Reshaping the Middle East's Security Architecture One Sale at a Time
Energy07 May 26
Trump Warns of 'Massive' Retaliation if Iran Talks Fail as Ceasefire Holds — For Now
Opinion07 May 26
The Price of Conviction: Trump, Bitcoin, and the Arithmetic of Rhetoric
Long Reads07 May 26
Trump and Lula Meet at the White House: What the May 7, 2026 Talks Reveal About the US-Brazil Relationship
Business07 May 26
Trump Kills 'Project Freedom': Iran Tightens Grip on the World's Most Critical Oil Chokepoint
Europe07 May 26
Trump's July 4 Ultimatum Exposes the Structural Limits of EU Trade Concessions
MENA07 May 26
Trump Claims US Will Secure Iranian Uranium as Saudi Refusal Halts Covert Operation
Science07 May 26
Trump's Iran Nuclear Ultimatum Meets an Electoral Reckoning
Long Reads07 May 26
Trump's Iran Gambit: Dealmaking, Deterrence, and the Diplomacy of Ultimatums
The Weekly07 May 26
Trump's Iran Diplomacy Is a Pressure Cooker With No Visible Release Valve
Opinion07 May 26
Trump's Iran Deal Is Not Diplomacy, It's a Revenue Stream
Long Reads07 May 26
The Deal That Isn't: Trumps Iran Negotiation and the Gap Between Announcement and Agreement
Defense07 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Ultimatum Collapses as Iran Holds and Gulf Allies Waver
Long Reads07 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Ceasefire Meets Reality: The Gap Between Truce Announcements and Ship Attacks
Long Reads07 May 26
The Uncertainty President: how Trump turned governance into a prediction market
Europe07 May 26
Trump gives EU four-week deadline to pass stalled trade deal
Long Reads07 May 26
Bitcoin, Bullion, and Bombs: How the Trump Family's Crypto Bets Intersect With Washington's Iran Calculus
MENA07 May 26
Trump Claims US Destroyers Crossed Strait of Hormuz Under Fire
Long Reads07 May 26
Crypto Politics: How Trump's Bitcoin Bet Collides With His Iran Strategy
MENA07 May 26
Trump's Advisors Sound the Alarm on Iran War's Political Costs as Fuel Prices Bite
Long Reads07 May 26
The Caress and the Carrier: How Trump’s Iran framing collides with military reality
Culture07 May 26
Tennessee's Newest Congressional Map Targets the State's Most Diverse District
The Weekly07 May 26
Tehran's Hormuz Gambit: Iran Demands U.S. Naval Withdrawal Before Any Diplomatic Opening
Culture07 May 26
Syria Returns to Venice: Ministry Inaugurates Palmyra Tower Cemetery at Biennale
MENA07 May 26
Switzerland Offers to Host Direct Iran-US Talks as Both Sides Signal Diplomatic Opening
Long Reads07 May 26
The Night the Strait of Hormuz Caught Fire
Long Reads07 May 26
The Strait That Runs the World: UAE Oil, AIS Spoofing, and the Limits of Hormuz Containment
Opinion07 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Just Became a Battlefield
Long Reads07 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Gambit: How Iran Outmaneuvered Project Freedom
Culture07 May 26
Spotify's AI Audio Bet: Platform as Digital Voicebox
Long Reads07 May 26
Madrid's Defiant Gesture: Spain Awards Sanctioned UN Official as Washington Tests the Limits of Diplomatic Pressure
Americas07 May 26
Spain Wants EU Shield for ICC as US Sanctions Bite
Tech07 May 26
SpaceX's Terafab Gambit: A $55 Billion Bet on Domestic Semiconductor Sovereignty
Long Reads07 May 26
Six Explosions in 40 Seconds: What We Know About the Southern Iran Incident
Letters07 May 26
Six Explosions Near Qeshm: What We Know and Don't Know About the Incidents Off Iran's Southern Coast
Long Reads07 May 26
The Language of Annexation: How Israel's Settler Movement Is Reshaping the Post-War Vocabulary
Asia07 May 26
Seoul and Tokyo's Upgraded 2+2: An Alliance Architecture Quietly Taking Shape
Asia07 May 26
Seoul Defiant: South Korea Rejects Trump's 'Go It Alone' Framing as Market Milestone Shifts the Balance
Americas07 May 26
Seoul's Crypto Tax Calculus: Stability Before Speculation as Korea Claims Seventh Spot
Letters07 May 26
Saudi Base Suspension Exposes Limits of US Hormuz Strategy
Energy07 May 26
Saudi Arabia's Military Block Puts Trump's Strait of Hormuz Gambit in Reverse
Long Reads07 May 26
How Saudi Arabia Blocked Trump's Strait of Hormuz Gambit
Tech07 May 26
The Satellite Boom Has a Dirty Secret — And It's Not Just Space Junk
Culture07 May 26
Sakana AI's Small-Model Gambit: Can a 7B Parameter System Really Tame GPT-5 and Claude?
Long Reads07 May 26
Ryan Cohen's eBay Joke Lands Like a Bullseye — and Raises the Question Nobody Wants to Answer
Asia07 May 26
Russia's Victory Day Parade Underscores Narrowing Diplomatic Circle
Long Reads07 May 26
The Silence That Never Came: Russia's May 9 Offensive and the Collapse of Kyiv's Ceasefire Gambit
Long Reads07 May 26
Russia Rejects Ukraine Ceasefire With Kindergarten Strike, Zelensky Vows Response
Long Reads07 May 26
Russia and China Veto UN Resolution on Strait of Hormuz — What the Block Tells Us About Multilateral Governance
Europe07 May 26
Rubio's Vatican Gambit: Mending Fences After Trump Rattles the Holy See
Europe07 May 26
Rubio's Rome Mission: Meeting the Pope Days After Trump's Public Spat With Meloni
Long Reads07 May 26
The Secretary of State, the Pope, and the Architecture of a Fragile Peace
Opinion07 May 26
The Real Crash Isn't Bitcoin — It's the Myth of On-Chain Transparency
Long Reads07 May 26
The Quiet Revolution: How Wall Street Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bitcoin
MENA07 May 26
Explosions Reported Near Iran's Qeshm Island as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Escalate
Africa07 May 26
Qatar's Mediation Architecture Faces Stress Test as Regional Diplomatic Channels Realign
Intelligence07 May 26
Iranian Parliament Speaker Decries Axios Reporting as White House Fiction Operation
Asia07 May 26
Pyongyang Stakes Its Claim: Nuclear Posture Locked In as First Russia-North Korea Road Bridge Nears Completion
Culture07 May 26
Private Collections and the Museum: A New Era of American Art Partnerships
Asia07 May 26
The Tariff Agreement Puzzle: Why Polymarket Traders Doubt a US-China Deal Before Summer
Arts07 May 26
The Memory Wars Return: Poland, Ukraine, and the Politics of WWII Exhibition
Obituaries07 May 26
Poland Tightens Military Mobilization Rules as Attrition Concerns Mount
Americas07 May 26
Poland's Mobilization Framework: Who Gets Called, and What It Signals About Europe's Defence Reckoning
Asia07 May 26
Philippines GDP Slows to 2.8% as Iran War Hits Asian Economies Differently
Europe07 May 26
Overnight Strikes and Currency Pressures: What the Night of May 7 Tells Us About the Ukraine Conflict in 2026
Sport07 May 26
OKC Thunder Eye 2-0 Series Lead as LeBron James Plays 300th Playoff Game
Long Reads07 May 26
Oil, Optics, and the $10 Gap: How a Single Price Figure Became a Battleground in Middle East Coverage
Americas07 May 26
North Korea Constitutionally Severs Reunification Pillar as South Korea Marks Market Milestone
Culture07 May 26
Nobel Laureate's Letter to Jerusalem Festival Revives Cultural Boycott Debate
Asia07 May 26
The Nikkei Rallies While Bitcoin Retreats: Markets Price In an Iran Ceasefire
Sport07 May 26
NFL Sets Eyes on Two Dates for 2026 Schedule Release
Long Reads07 May 26
Musk's Tax Confession and the Quiet Consolidation of xAI Into SpaceX
Opinion07 May 26
The Musk–OpenAI Trial Is a Master Class in How Not to Govern Transformative Technology
Long Reads07 May 26
The Musk–Altman War Reaches a Courtroom: What Shivon Zilis Knows
Long Reads07 May 26
Airstrike on Iran's Minab Naval Facility Deepens Regional Tensions as Proxy Networks Realign
Science07 May 26
John Mearsheimer says Iran has won its confrontation with the United States
Opinion07 May 26
The Market Hit a High. The Rest of America Didn't.
Investigations07 May 26
Malaysia's Real-Time Payments Bet Puts AI Security at the Center of the Board
Long Reads07 May 26
Lula's White House Gambit: How Brazil Won a Tariff Truce and What It Tells Us About the New Diplomatic Order
Long Reads07 May 26
Lula at the White House: What the Brazil Visit Reveals About the Fraying of an Old Alliance
Americas07 May 26
Lula Pushes Back on Trump Iran Claims as Oil Prices Bite American Consumers
Sport07 May 26
Knicks Lead Eastern Semis 2-0 as Spurs Level Western Series in NBA Playoffs
Sport07 May 26
The Ball Retrieval That Broke the Internet: How One NBA All-Star Moment Went Viral
Obituaries07 May 26
Jiiva Bids Farewell to Father RB Choudary, Vijay Among Mourners at Tamil Cinema Fixture's Funeral
Obituaries07 May 26
The Enduring Mystery of Jeffrey Epstein's Death — and the Note That May Never Close It
Long Reads07 May 26
Japan's Quiet Pivot: Energy Crisis, Iran War, and the Architecture of a New Security Posture
Long Reads07 May 26
Israel's War Economy and the Price of Global Isolation
The Weekly07 May 26
Israeli Strikes Target Gaza Security Infrastructure as Ceasefire Talks Stutter
Tech07 May 26
Israeli Military Missed the FPV Warning: How Drone Threats Were Visible Before the Lebanon Border Erupted
MENA07 May 26
Israeli Forces Intensify Strikes Across Southern Lebanon as Border Tensions Escalate
MENA07 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Four Southern Lebanese Towns as Border Tensions Escalate
MENA07 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Near Nabatieh Hospital Draw Hezbollah Drone Response as Cross-Border Violence Escalates
The Weekly07 May 26
Israeli Airstrike on Beirut Breaks Ceasefire as IDF Claims Elimination of Hezbollah Commander
MENA07 May 26
Israel Strikes Beirut for First Time Since Ceasefire, Killing Hezbollah Commander
Long Reads07 May 26
The Censorship Paradox: How Israel's Information Lockdown Is Backfiring in the Iran-Hezbollah Conflict
Business07 May 26
Iran Fires Missiles at US Warship in Strait of Hormuz, State Media Reports
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's Underground Lifeline: How Tehran Defies the World's Most Ambitious Maritime Siege
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Claims Anti-Ship Strike on US Destroyers in Strait of Hormuz — What We Know
Energy07 May 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Toll Authority Meets French Naval Build-Up in High-Stakes Chess Match
Energy07 May 26
Iran signals Strait of Hormuz sovereignty claims as regional tensions escalate
Long Reads07 May 26
The 90-Day Reckoning: How Iran's Port Blockade Is Reshaping Gulf Politics
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's Persian Gulf Flashpoint: What the Bandar Abbas Explosions Signal About Escalation Risk
MENA07 May 26
Iran Fires Missiles at US Warship in Strait of Hormuz After Tanker Seizure Attempt
MENA07 May 26
Iran's New Hormuz Rules Turn Critical Waterway Into Negotiation Arena
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Sovereignty Claims, American Pushback, and the Chokepoint That Can't Be Closed
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: A New Authority, Old Tensions, and the Price of Passage
MENA07 May 26
Iran Formalizes Strait of Hormuz Toll Ambitions with New Navigation Authority
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Fires on U.S. Warships in the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Fires Missiles at US Naval Vessels in Strait of Hormuz: The Escalation No One Planned
Asia07 May 26
Iran Denies Role in Strait of Hormuz Incident Involving South Korean Vessel
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Denies Role in Strait of Hormuz Explosion as Regional Tensions Resurface
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Denies Gulf Strike on South Korean Ship — A Dispute That Tells a Larger Story
Energy07 May 26
Iran Calls US Hormuz Reopening Proposal 'Unrealistic' as CIA Warns of Prolonged Blockade Resilience
Science07 May 26
Iranian Court Indicts Blogger Over 26 Billion Toman Patient Fraud
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Alleges US Strike on Tanker Near Hormuz, Escalating Ceasefire Tensions
Culture07 May 26
Inside Al-Shifa: Gaza's Main Hospital Faces Systemic Collapse Under Siege Conditions
Culture07 May 26
The Infidelity Exception: What America's Moral Line Reveals About Its Anxieties
Asia07 May 26
India and Vietnam Elevate Ties to Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
Asia07 May 26
India Supreme Court Taps Ex-CJI Chandrachud to Mediate High-Profile Estate Dispute
Science07 May 26
IDF Strikes Hezbollah Weapons Infrastructure in Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Tensions Escalate
Tech07 May 26
IDF Soldier Wounded as Hezbollah Reports 17 Operations Against Israeli Positions in Southern Lebanon
Science07 May 26
How Wars Are Counted: The Asymmetry at the Heart of the Israel–Hezbollah Conflict's Information Battlefield
Long Reads07 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Confrontation: What We Know About the May 7 US-Iran Naval Exchange
Long Reads07 May 26
The Hormuz Flashpoint: US Warships Pass Through Under Fire as Gulf Allies Revoke Overflight Rights
Long Reads07 May 26
Escalation at the Strait: How a Tanker Interdiction Became a Missile Exchange
Long Reads07 May 26
The Hormuz Asymmetry: Why US Military Supremacy Doesn't Guarantee Strategic Control
Americas07 May 26
Honda's $15 Billion Canadian EV Plant Pause Exposes the Limits of Industrial Ambition Without Policy Coherence
Long Reads07 May 26
Hezbollah's 17-Operation Surge Tests Fragile Lebanon Ceasefire as IDF Casualties Mount
MENA07 May 26
Hezbollah Claims 16 Cross-Border Strikes as Hamas Official Declares Gaza Resistance Unbroken
Energy07 May 26
Gulf States Revoke US Base Access as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Escalate
Culture07 May 26
Gulf States Are Asking Whether America Still Shows Up
Long Reads07 May 26
The Strait at the Centre: How the Gulf Rebalanced the Map on US Military Access
Long Reads07 May 26
Gulf Exchange of Fire: What We Know About the Iran–US Strikes
Long Reads07 May 26
Gulf Cooperation and Hormuz Denial: Inside the Contradictory Signals from Washington
Europe07 May 26
Google's Reddit Pivot: Platform Diplomacy, AI Credibility, and the Brussels Factor
Tech07 May 26
Google's Forum Gamble: When AI Search Starts Quoting Reddit
Letters07 May 26
Global Debt Hits $353 Trillion Record as Musk Moves to Absorb xAI Into SpaceX
MENA07 May 26
Gazans Race to Save Rare Books as Israeli Airstrikes Continue
Defense07 May 26