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Beijing and Pyongyang announce the trip on the same June 5 morning; the day before, Kim Jong-un unveils a secret facility he says has doubled fissile capacity. The message is unmistakable: Xi will have to negotiate with an "irreversible" nuclear state that he claims to be pushing toward denuclearization.
Six days before its IPO at a $965 billion valuation, Claude's maker is asking rivals to slow down before AI learns to build itself — a message that reads as prudent in Europe, suspect in Washington, and inaudible in Beijing, where the acceleration continues unannounced.
The author of Persepolis, who refused France's Legion of Honor in 2025 to denounce Paris's "hypocritical" Iran policy, died "of sadness" a year after her husband — and the Islamic Republic is pretending nothing happened.
Water bottles banned, tickets sold for up to 50 times face value, footballer statues vandalized in the Zócalo, criminal probe by the New Jersey attorney general: six days before kickoff, the party has already lost its innocence.
An open letter, a mocking invitation to Moscow, a Ukrainian drone on a Russian oil terminal: Ukrainian diplomacy walks straight into Putin's "Russian Davos".
Naim Qassem calls it "capitulation", an anti-tank missile kills Captain Lemberg in southern Lebanon, a UNIFIL soldier dies under mortar fire: the peace architecture built in Washington falls apart under Trump's eyes.
After the Supreme Court demolished the 'Liberation Day' tariffs, the Trump administration reinvents its trade war via Section 301 — and triggers a diplomatic mutiny from Brazil to South Korea.
A civilian terminal pulverized in Kuwait City, two Iranian diplomats expelled within 24 hours, oil pushing toward $97 a barrel, and Tehran warning: 'let this be a lesson'.
The most violent night of 2026 turns a 24-story apartment block into rubble — and reveals that Kyiv has stopped waiting for the United States.
The Israeli flag flies again over the Crusader castle abandoned in 2000 — and hours later, Trump announces that the tanks rolling toward Beirut have been turned back.
On May 31, 2026, a US federal judge orders the removal of Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and blocks his administration's plan to shut down or restructure the institution. The ruling follows lawsuits by performing-arts groups and former trustees. Conservative outlets: judicial overreach; liberal outlets: institutional checks. 15 capitals weigh in: rule of law, cultural politicization, US democratic signal.
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