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Culture05 May 26
Kermanshah and the Economics of a Corridor: What Iran's $148 Million Export Figure Actually Tells Us
Culture05 May 26
Japan's Food Education Model and the Question of Public Health Infrastructure
Asia05 May 26
Japan's startup reckoning: What the harassment data reveals about its innovation ambitions
Investigations05 May 26
Japan's Broken Rungs: Climate, Harassment, and the Billion-Dollar Ambition That Cannot Afford Them
Asia05 May 26
Japan and Philippines Open Talks on Surplus Destroyer Exports — the Biggest Step Yet in Their Security Partnership
Asia05 May 26
Japan's Energy Gambit: Tehran Tensions Push Tokyo Toward Russian Oil
Tech05 May 26
Israeli Air Defense Activated as Suspected Drone Crosses Northern Border
Long Reads05 May 26
Inside Israel's Lebanon Gambit: Airstrikes, Evacuations, and the Risks of an Uncontained Front
The Weekly05 May 26
Iranian Strikes on UAE Resorts Expose Fragile Link Between Gulf Instability and US Consumer Inflation
Energy05 May 26
Iran, Washington and the Strait of Hormuz: The Anatomy of a Standoff
Africa05 May 26
Iran War Clouds Copper and Cobalt Supplies From the Congo Basin
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran Launches Fresh Missile and Drone Barrage at UAE as Regional Tensions Reach New Threshold
Energy05 May 26
Iran Strikes at Hormuz: Day 67 of a Crisis That Could Reshape Global Energy Routes
Long Reads05 May 26
How Iran learned to weaponize the Strait of Hormuz
Africa05 May 26
Iran's South Africa Embassy Takes Jab at Trump as US-Iran Diplomatic Ice Holds
Long Reads05 May 26
"We Haven't Even Started Yet": Iran’s Parliament Speaker Issues Direct Challenge to Washington
MENA05 May 26
Iran Tells Regional Neighbours It Has No Hostility — But US Bases Remain the Red Line
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: How a Transit Notification System Is Redrawing Gulf Calculus
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran's Email Strait: Tehran's New Transit Mechanism and the Geometry of Gulf Passage
Arts05 May 26
A Cartoon Responds: Iran Depicts Hormuz as Its Final Lever Against Trump's Tariff Offensive
MENA05 May 26
Oil, Drones, and the Architecture of Evasion: How Iran and Hezbollah Adapt Under Pressure
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran's Diplomatic Gambit: Pezeshkian's Sovereignty Signal and the Architecture of American Pressure
Americas05 May 26
Iran Denies UAE Strike Origins as Western Condemnation Mounts
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran's Beijing Gambit: Araghchi's Visit and the Geometry of Sanctions Evasion
MENA05 May 26
Iran Attacks Two US Commercial Ships and Issues Warning to UAE Over American Military Presence
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran's Araghchi Lands in Beijing as the China–Iran Axis Quietly Deepens
Letters05 May 26
Iran's Top Diplomat Lands in Beijing as Tehran Courts China's Counter-Sanctions Architecture
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran's Araghchi Lands in Beijing: What the Xi-Tehran Axis Tells Us About the Multipolar Moment
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran's Airspace Dilemma: Markets Bet on Escalation as Diplomatic Channels Widen
Asia05 May 26
India's Wedding Economy Redraws the Map: How Gold Fatigue and Manufacturing Innovation Signal a Structural Shift
Defense05 May 26
India Signs Mutual Base-Sharing Pact With Russia, Deepening a Defense Bond the West Tried to Break
Long Reads05 May 26
India's Russian Gambit: Deepening Defense Ties While Moscow Bleeds in Ukraine
Asia05 May 26
India's Operation Sindoor and the Technological Warfare Question
Asia05 May 26
India's Energy Reckoning: Middle East Tensions Expose Gaps in LNG Infrastructure
Culture05 May 26
Three to Four Months to Stabilise: The IMF's Calculus on Iran's Economic Aftershocks
Culture05 May 26
IDF Eliminates Nukhba Commander Who Infiltrated Nova Music Festival During October 7 Attack
Obituaries05 May 26
The Quiet Retirement of the Human-Marked Market: Wall Street's Automation Reckoning
Long Reads05 May 26
A House Demolished in Jerusalem's Arab al-Araara: What the Wire Reports Say, and What They Don't
Culture05 May 26
Insurance Premiums Surge for Tankers Transiting Strait of Hormuz as Market Absorbs Risk Premium
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Moment: How a Naval Confrontation Exposes the Limits of American Power in the Gulf
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz and the Geometry of Coercion
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis: How a Waterway Carrying One-Fifth of Global Oil Flow Became the Front Line of a New…
Long Reads05 May 26
The Hormuz Question: Bessent's Ultimatum and the Fraying Architecture of Sanctions
Long Reads05 May 26
The Hormuz gambit: how a waterway became the world's most dangerous flashpoint
Long Reads05 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: Trump's Naval Blockade and the Anatomy of Coercive Diplomacy
Long Reads05 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: How Iran's Strait Threat Is Redrawing the Map of Global Energy Politics
Long Reads05 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: Day 67 of a Conflict That Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Global Trade
Long Reads05 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: How China's Iranian Oil Dependency Became the Fault Line in a New Gulf Standoff
Long Reads05 May 26
Hormuz in the Crossfire: How Trump's Simultaneous Pressure on Iran and China Risks a Gulf Crisis
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis: How a Shipping Chokepoint Became the World's Most Expensive Pressure Valve
MENA05 May 26
Hezbollah's Tactical Weather Gambit Exposes Fragility of Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire Talks
MENA05 May 26
Hezbollah Releases Footage of Drone Strike Destroying Israeli Merkava Tank in Southern Lebanon
Long Reads05 May 26
Hegseth's Strait of Hormuz Ultimatum Tests the Limits of American Deterrence
Defense05 May 26
Hegseth's Strait of Hormuz Briefing: What the Pentagon's Ceasefire Comments Actually Mean
Long Reads05 May 26
The Ceasefire and the Ultimatum: Hegseth's Iran Calculus
Long Reads05 May 26
Hegseth's Hormuz Gambit: The Anatomy of a Credible Threat
Energy05 May 26
Hegseth Draws Line on Strait of Hormuz as Iran Tensions Settle Into Uncertain Pause
Intelligence05 May 26
Hapag-Lloyd Halts Strait of Hormuz Transits as Security Assessments Persist
Long Reads05 May 26
Germany's Convergence Point: Leipzig, Refugees, and the Tariff Storm
Europe05 May 26
Germany Requests Israeli Jet Fuel as Hormuz Tensions Disrupt Energy Transit
Europe05 May 26
Germany Budget Plan Allocates 11.6 Billion Euros for Ukraine in 2027
MENA05 May 26
Gaza Health Ministry Reports Death Toll Has Reached 72,615 Since October 2023
MENA05 May 26
Gaza health crisis deepens as UNRWA documents surge in skin infections across Strip
Obituaries05 May 26
Gaza City Bombing Leaves One Dead as Lawyers Allege Interrogation Threats Against Flotilla Activists
Culture05 May 26
The $4 Threshold and the Flower Carpet: Two Americas, One Morning
MENA05 May 26
French Bulk Carrier Hit by Cruise Missile Off UAE Coast; CBS Cites American Officials
Obituaries05 May 26
Four Dead After Russian Strike Hits Poltava Oblast Industrial Target
Obituaries05 May 26
Five Israeli Soldiers Killed, 33 Wounded: Military Acknowledges First Combat Deaths Since Gaza Ceasefire
Long Reads05 May 26
Five Dead, Markets Shaking: The Strait of Hormuz Reaches a Boiling Point
Long Reads05 May 26
Fire in the Corridor: Hormuz, the South Korean Vessel, and the Fault Lines of a 2026 Maritime Crisis
Culture05 May 26
FBI Director's AI-Generated Post Revives Beastie Boys Copyright Questions
Europe05 May 26
Europe's uneven divorce from Russia: gas reroutes and diplomatic expulsions expose a fractured consensus
Europe05 May 26
EU presses Anthropic for direct access to Claude Mythos as €150bn InvestAI programme takes shape
Africa05 May 26
Ethiopia Marks the Victory That Broke Italian East Africa
MENA05 May 26
Former IDF Chief Eisenkot Questions Netanyahu Government's Gaza Strategy
Africa05 May 26
Twelve Dead in 48 Hours: Eastern Cape Crash Toll Lays Bare South Africa's Road Safety Emergency
Long Reads05 May 26
The Drone War Along Israel's Northern Border Is Entering a New and Less Predictable Phase
Letters05 May 26
The DOJ's NYTCo Lawsuit Is Politically Convenient. The Legal Theory Is Shaky.
Science05 May 26
Disputed Claims Over Strait of Hormuz Passage: What We Know
Long Reads05 May 26
Digital Patrol: How Polish Social Media Turned Road Incidents Into a Proxy War on Authority
Culture05 May 26
Cultural Funding in the Crossfire: How Geopolitics Is Reshaping Film Finance
Opinion05 May 26
Crypto's Diverging Bets: When Layoffs and Partnerships Tell the Same Story
Tech05 May 26
Coinbase's 14% Cut and the Prediction Markets Betting on a Tech Layoff Wave
Opinion05 May 26
The CLARITY Act's Quiet Compromise Is Still a Win for Crypto
Arts05 May 26
Google Chrome's Silent AI Download Raises Consent Questions
Americas05 May 26
China's Supercomputing Leap Tests the Limits of Western Tech Containment
Tech05 May 26
China's Silicon Ambition Meets American Counterpressure
Long Reads05 May 26
The Soft Power of Sniffing Out Hearts: How China's Military Dog Videos Reveal Beijing's Social Media Play
The Weekly05 May 26
Cargo Ship Hit in Strait of Hormuz as Regional Tensions Simmer
Long Reads05 May 26
Bullish Bets $4.2 Billion That Wall Street Wants Crypto on Regulated Rails
Science05 May 26
Brockman's Personal Diary Takes Center Stage in Musk's OpenAI Trial
Business05 May 26
Britain Declares Strait of Hormuz World's Most Dangerous Maritime Passage
MENA05 May 26
Bitcoin Reclaims $81K as Iran Strike Tests Crypto's New Risk Architecture
Asia05 May 26
Bessent's Hormuz Ultimatum: US Taps China as Co-Enforcer in Iran Standoff
Culture05 May 26
Austria Expels Russian Diplomats as Drone Warfare Reshapes the Battlefield
Oceania05 May 26
Australia's Banks Raise Rates Independently as RBA Holds Steady
Culture05 May 26
Asha Sharma Overhauls Xbox Leadership Team to Address Execution Failures
Letters05 May 26
Iran's Top Diplomat Lands in Beijing as Middle East Realignment Accelerates
Opinion05 May 26
Apple's $250M Siri Settlement Is a Reckoning Silicon Valley Saw Coming
Long Reads05 May 26
Anthropic's Financial Services Push and the Quiet Convergence of AI and Crypto Capital
The Weekly05 May 26
Anthropic's Banking Pivot: AI Agents Enter the Compliance Layer
Long Reads05 May 26
The Credibility Problem: American Economic Statecraft at the Hormuz Crossroads
Culture05 May 26
Amazon's Green Gambit: Nobel-Backed Dehumidification Tech Targets Corporate Energy Waste
Sport05 May 26
The Algorithm Always Wins: SportsLine's Prediction Machine and the New Sports Media Economy
Culture05 May 26
When AI Gets It Wrong: A Canadian Musician Takes Google to Court Over a False Sex-Offender Label
Opinion05 May 26
The Agentic Pivot: Why Crypto Is Betting Everything on Bots That Pay Each Other
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait and the Story: Trump, Hormuz, and the Limits of Coercion
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Geneva Gambit: Tariffs, Hormuz, and the Architecture of Economic Coercion
Culture05 May 26
Smotrich at the Ibrahimi Mosque: Why Hebron's Most Contested Site Keeps Igniting Diplomacy
Long Reads05 May 26
The Idle Engine: How Video Game Technology Quietly Became Industrial Infrastructure
Long Reads05 May 26
Video Game Engines Are Quietly Running the World's Construction Sites
Culture05 May 26
Turkey Unveils Yıldırımhan ICBM, Signaling a Strategic Detour From NATO orthodoxy
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Taiwan Gambit: Trade, Theater, and the Art of Great-Power Restraint
Culture05 May 26
Soledad Gallego-Díaz, First Woman Director of EL PAÍS, Dies at 73
Sport05 May 26
Seahawks Add Pass-Rush Depth with Veteran Edge Rusher Dante Fowler Jr.
Long Reads05 May 26
How Rio's Street Murals Keep Football's Memory Alive Long After the World Cup Ends
Opinion05 May 26
The Presidential Brand: When the Office Becomes the Marketing Department
Americas05 May 26
Methane Mountain: Inside the Santiago Landfill Reshaping Climate Calculus
Culture05 May 26
The Mbappé Question: Real Madrid's Fractured Romance with the World's Most Expensive Signing
Sport05 May 26
Knicks Run Riot in Game 1 as Wembanyama Sets Historic Record Across Conference Finals
Culture05 May 26
Khorramabad Residents Report Unexplained Smell as Environmental Officials Cite Industrial Source
Asia05 May 26
India's Supreme Court Demands Answers on Disability Rights — and a May 15 Deadline
Long Reads05 May 26
Hong Kong's Aging Building Stock and the Politics of Regulatory Reform After Tai Po
Science05 May 26
When Hong Kong Hikers Go Remote: The Science of Mountain Rescue and Why Preparation Still Falls Short
Long Reads05 May 26
The Game Engine Migration: How Video Game Technology Became Industrial Infrastructure
Climate05 May 26
Chinese Clean Energy Investment Pullback Tests U.S. Climate and Industrial Goals
Culture05 May 26
Canadian Violinist Sues Google for $1.5 Million Over AI Identity Mix-Up That Cost Him a Gig
Oceania05 May 26
Australia's Royal Commission Exposes Antisemitic Abuse Targeting Jewish Schoolchildren
Americas05 May 26
US Strikes Iranian Fast Boats as Tehran Targets UAE Oil Facility
Long Reads05 May 26
Tehran's Labour Reform: Iran's Parliament Moves to Dismantle the Contractor Class
Culture05 May 26
Tehran Accuses West of 'Economic Terrorism' as Sanctions Pressure Mounts
Culture05 May 26
Shiraz Week and the Politics of Persian Cultural Projection
Africa05 May 26
RSF Atrocities May Eclipse Gaza Crisis, Gulf Security Expert Warns
Science05 May 26
Project Freedom: How the US Drew a Narrow Red Line in the Gulf
Africa05 May 26
Luxury Cruise Ship Held Off West Africa as Hantavirus Fears Escalate
Long Reads05 May 26
Gulf on a Knife-Edge: The Strike, the Ceasefire, and the Inflation Reckoning
Asia05 May 26
FIFA's Broadcast Gaps Are Excluding the World's Biggest Football Markets
Long Reads05 May 26
The Diplomacy of Displacement: Rubio, Caracas, and the Civilians Left in the Gulf
Culture05 May 26
The Meat Festival and the Wrapped Bodies: Vegetarian Activism Meets Japanese Spectacle Culture
Long Reads05 May 26
The Open Secret: House Democrats and the Quiet Case for Acknowledging Israel's Nuclear Arsenal
Sport05 May 26
Lawrence Taylor Released From Hospital After Stomach-Related Issue
Opinion05 May 26
Coinbase Is Betting on AI — and That Bet Tells Us Something About Crypto's Future
Obituaries05 May 26
Five Dead After Commercial Complex Fire Sweeps Shahriar District of Tehran
Sport05 May 26
The Eighteen-Team Ceiling: What Simon Harmer's Decade Reveals About County Cricket
Science05 May 26
Cargo Ship Struck Near Strait of Hormuz as Energy Chokepoint Tensions Mount
Tech05 May 26
Ukraine Targets Cheboksary Plant Producing Navigation Modules for Russian Missiles
Africa05 May 26
JoonaPay Pitches $1.2 Billion Waitlist as Francophone West Africa Fintech Race Accelerates
Tech05 May 26
US Air Force KC-46A Transmits Emergency Code 7700 Over Persian Gulf, Lands in Saudi Arabia
Arts05 May 26
Iran to Convert Bombed Isfahan University Site Into War Museum After Strikes
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump, Pope Leo XIV, and the Fracturing of an Old Alliance
Europe05 May 26
UK Jury Finds No Intent to Harm, But Convicts Four Palestine Action Activists of Criminal Damage
Europe05 May 26
Cuban opposition figure urges EU and US to apply Venezuela-era pressure on Havana
Long Reads05 May 26
Netanyahu's Shortened Testimony and the Pardon Calculus: Why the 8% Market Odds Matter
Sport05 May 26
Wembanyama's Record Night Not Enough as Timberwolves Claim Game 1
Sport05 May 26
What Tarik Skubal's Injury Means for Detroit's World Series Chances
Europe05 May 26
Trump Tariff Threat Pushes EU to Consider Retaliatory Measures Beyond Autos
Long Reads05 May 26
Sharif Calls for Ceasefire Respect as India-Pakistan Tensions Enter Fragile Phase
Opinion05 May 26
When Thieves Cut the Wire: Pakistan's Connectivity Problem Has No Easy Patch
Culture05 May 26
Square Enix Revives Final Fantasy IX With a 44-Page Picture Book Prequel — and the Franchise Itself May Be What Needs…
Oceania05 May 26
Rare Comet Sweeps Across Southern Skies in Brief, Once-in-a-Decade Display
Arts05 May 26
Pune Exhibition Reclaims Pastoralist Cultural Heritage at Zapurzha Museum
Long Reads05 May 26
HSBC's $400 Million Fraud Loss Exposes the Hidden Leverage Inside Private Credit's $3.5 Trillion Machine
Africa05 May 26
Africa's exit surge conceals a deeper liquidity crisis for early investors
Investigations05 May 26
Pakistan's Fiber-Optic Infrastructure Under Siege as Cable Theft Disrupts Lahore Connectivity
Oceania05 May 26
Reserve Bank of Australia Sounds Alarm on Inflation as Regional Tensions Reshape Economic Landscape
Tech05 May 26
US Embassy Orders Citizens to Leave Iraq as Security Warning Escalates
Obituaries05 May 26
Two Courts, Two Landmark Rulings: What India's Judiciary Decided This Week
Long Reads05 May 26
The Weight of Twenty Years: How Arsenal Found Their Way Back to European Football's Biggest Stage
Culture05 May 26
The Viral Divorce Lawyer Quote That Says More About Us Than Italian Women
Arts05 May 26
The Viral Accusation Economy: How Social Media Bias Claims Reshape Newsroom Credibility
Asia05 May 26
Indonesia's 5.61% Q1 Growth Masks a Deeper Conversation About Development Models
Culture05 May 26
GTA 6 Console Strategy Exposes Rockstar's Last-Mile Challenge
Opinion05 May 26
The Fire That Shouldn't Be Surprising: What Arizona's Wildfire Cycle Reveals About Institutional Forgetting
Science05 May 26
Cambridge Study Suggests AI Isnt Making Hackers Smarter Just More Efficient
Sport05 May 26
How SportsLine Models Are Shaping NBA Playoffs Prop Betting
Sport05 May 26
Mark Cuban Takes Aim at NFL's Top Pick With Indiana QB Recruitment
Culture05 May 26
The UAE's Image Problem: How Gulf Soft Power Rebalanced After October 7th
Long Reads05 May 26
The Last Flight: How Spirit Airlines Became a Casualty of Fuel Prices and Financial Strain
Culture05 May 26
IMF Says Three-Week-Old Global Forecasts Are Already Invalid Amid Persian Gulf War
Long Reads05 May 26
The Drone War and the Base Pact: How Two Events on the Same Morning Exposed the Limits of Western Order
Long Reads05 May 26
The Art of the Swipe: Trump's Executive Fantasy and the 8% Trade Reality
Letters05 May 26
The Arithmetic of Untruth: What 30,573 Lies Tells Us About Political Reality
Oceania05 May 26
Australia Raises Rates to 4.35% as RBA Signals Mortgage Pain to Extend Into 2027
Culture05 May 26
The Rise of China's 'Female Knights': How Mothers Are Rewriting the Rules of the Gig Economy
Obituaries05 May 26
Malayalam Actor Santosh K Nayar Dies in Road Accident at 58
Sport05 May 26
Dinesh Karthik Weighs RCB's Title Triumph Against India's 2007 T20 Landmark
Tech05 May 26
Jensen Huang's Double Game: AI's Job-Creation Promise Meets the Geopolitics of Chip Exports
Long Reads05 May 26
Romania's Government Has Fallen. What Comes Next?
Tech05 May 26
The Met Gala Has Become a Attention Economy Battlefield. Here's What That Means for Fashion.
Asia05 May 26
Twenty-One Dead in Liuyang Fireworks Factory Blast as Industrial Safety Questions Resurface
Obituaries05 May 26
Hunan Fireworks Blast Claims 26 Lives, Exposes Persistent Industrial Safety Fault Lines in China's Manufacturing…
Long Reads05 May 26
The Song in Yerevan: What Macron's Casual Diplomacy Tells Us About Armenia's Recalibration
Long Reads05 May 26
The Price of Pressure: Trump, OPEC, and the Fragile Arithmetic of Cheap Oil
Sport05 May 26
Cunha's verdict puts Carrick's case in sharpest relief
Americas05 May 26
Light Aircraft Crashes Into Belo Horizonte Residential District, Killing Three
Americas05 May 26
21 Killed as Fireworks Factory Explosion Rocks Liuyang, China
Americas05 May 26
Nine Workers Killed in Colombia Coal Mine Explosion, Highlighting Persistent Safety Gaps in Global Extractive Sector
Opinion05 May 26
Coinbase's AI Bet Reveals Tech's Discomforting Labor Calculus
Long Reads05 May 26
Game Over? How the Technology Built for Play Conquered the Industrial World
Sport05 May 26