International
Gaza Ceasefire at Nine Months: Israel Now Controls Nearly 70% of the Strip
Nine months into the Gaza ceasefire, Israel controls nearly 70% of the strip. The UN says about 200 people have died near shifting lines.
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International
Buried Under Fire: Khamenei Goes to His Grave on Day 132 of a War That Would Not Pause
Khamenei was buried as American strikes hit Iran for a second day. History will remember the funeral the war refused to pause for.
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Congo Ebola Outbreak Nears 600 Deaths as Unpaid Health Workers Walk Off the Job
The Congo Ebola outbreak is nearing 600 deaths as unpaid frontline health workers strike, threatening efforts to contain the virus.
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Le Pen Will Run in 2027 — Convicted, Tagged, and Cleared by the Court That Convicted Her
The Le Pen presidential run is on. Within hours of a French appeals court confirming her embezzlement conviction this week, Marine Le Pen announced she will stand for the presidency next year — and that she intends to campaign without the electronic monitor the same court ordered her to wear for a year. The ruling […]
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Russia Bans Diesel Exports: The Oil Superpower That Can No Longer Fuel Itself
The Russia diesel export ban announced this week is the kind of sentence that would have read as satire three years ago. The world’s second-largest oil exporter has stopped selling diesel abroad — not as leverage, not as strategy, but because Ukrainian drones have destroyed so much refining capacity that Russia can no longer reliably […]
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NATO Summit Hands Ukraine the Patriot Blueprint — and Reopens the Greenland Wound
The NATO summit in Turkey gave Ukraine a license to build Patriot air defences and reopened the Greenland dispute. One alliance, two very different signals.
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Khamenei Funeral Procession: Twelve Hours Through Tehran, and a Throne Still Empty
The Khamenei funeral procession moving through Tehran today is engineered to be unforgettable: twelve hours, street by street, with an estimated 15 to 20 million people expected to participate before the late supreme leader reaches his grave. Foreign dignitaries and religious leaders have flown in. State media is broadcasting wall to wall. By design, no […]
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Khamenei Funeral: Millions Mourn in Tehran While the New Leader Stays Invisible
The Khamenei funeral filled Tehran’s Grand Mosalla with grief, heat and fury this weekend. The one person conspicuously missing may matter more than the millions who came. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled Iran for over three decades and whose death followed the February US-Israeli strikes, is being mourned in ceremonies running from 4 to 9 […]
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The Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is a Catastrophe. The World Barely Noticed.
The Ebola outbreak in Congo has now killed more than 450 people. If you had not heard, you are not alone — and that is exactly the problem. By the end of June, the Democratic Republic of the Congo had confirmed 1,460 cases of Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus, with 452 deaths. The […]
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A Record Night of Missiles Over Kyiv Shows What Russia Means by Negotiation
More than 70 missiles and close to 500 drones in one night. A nine-storey apartment block partly collapsed. A record 52,500 people sheltering in the metro. Kyiv's worst night in months is also a message