Hormuz
WORLD
Hormuz Ceasefire Starts to Fray
After the UAE accused Iran of new missile and drone strikes this week, the ceasefire around Hormuz began to look less like a settlement than a pause under pressure.
US-China
Pacifists Buy Missiles: Bern and Tokyo After Hormuz
The world's oldest armed neutrality and its most famous pacifist constitution broke in the same month.
BUSINESS
Rivals Redraw Energy Map as Germany’s Industry Stalls
As Moscow disrupts Kazakh oil flows heading west to Germany, Tehran builds a northern corridor to Kazakhstan, leaving Berlin with no leverage.
EUROPE
Populists Collide: Behind the Meloni-Trump Feud
From golden praise to bitter fury, Meloni's rebuke of Trump's papal attack over Iran ends their special bond.
WORLD
How the Iran Ceasefire is Realigning the Gulf and Europe
US-Iran ceasefire, GCC stability, Brent oil drop, and Lebanon escalation reshape Gulf strategy and global energy markets.
Popular
Hollywood Takes Homer and Greece Pushes Back
Christopher Nolan had every right to reinvent Homer, but Greek frustration reveals what is lost when a living cultural inheritance becomes Hollywood spectacle.
Iran and Ukraine’s Wars Are Converging
Caspian strike on Iranian ship and warnings to Europe suggest two wars merge into one conflagration.
The US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Normalises Enrichment in the Gulf
The US-Saudi nuclear agreement may be civilian in name, but its enrichment provisions could persuade other Middle Eastern states that nuclear latency is becoming the region's new measure of power.
Greece Keeps Betting on Golden Visa Capital
Greece is preserving its golden visa programme because foreign capital remains valuable to its recovery, even as property investment worsens pressure on housing.
Andy Burnham Plans to Retax British Homes
Burnham weighs a property tax overhaul that could redirect who pays for Britain's homes.
