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US-Iran Peace Deal Finalized: End of Operations and Hormuz Reopening
The United States and Iran finalized a peace deal calling for an immediate halt to military operations and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, pushing oil prices lower as Europe warned over the nuclear file.
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Trump Says Iran Deal to Be Signed 'Sunday' and Hormuz to Reopen — Tehran Pushes Back
Pakistan talks of an 'electronic signature' within 24 hours, Trump promises the Strait of Hormuz 'open to all' the moment it's signed — and Tehran replies it won't be Sunday. Crude falls to its lowest since April, yet Iran already proclaims: 'we are the winner.'
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G7 in Évian: Trump Sets the Agenda, Zelensky Relegated to a Mere 'Working Session'
Under 16,000 police and the threat of 50,000 protesters in Geneva, the Seven gather on Lake Geneva. Trump will see Zelensky with no bilateral, dine at Versailles — and every leader knows you 'cannot manage Trump.'
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Xi leaves Pyongyang: what his silence on nukes says about recognizing Kim's bomb
Xi's first visit to North Korea in seven years, an 'important consensus,' expanded military cooperation — and not a word on nuclear weapons. What went unsaid weighs more than what was said.
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Washington bombs Iran's water reservoirs and threatens bridges and power plants as the deal collapses
Twenty thousand Iranians cut off from drinking water in 50°C heat, US bases hit from Kuwait to Bahrain, and a president who promises to 'keep going' — April's truce is hanging by a thread.
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Anthropic calls for an AI pause while SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic itself rush toward the biggest IPO wave in history
Anthropic's filing for a trillion-dollar debut, the $920-million-per-month SpaceX-Google deal, ChatGPT's 'superapp' overhaul before listing — the race for 21st-century tech dominance is playing out this month.
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Xi Lands in Pyongyang on June 8 for the First Time in Seven Years — and Kim Greets Him With a New Uranium Plant
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.
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Anthropic Asks the World to Pause AI — While SpaceX Signs with Google and Trump Floats a Public Stake
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.
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Marjane Satrapi Dies at 56: Persepolis Becomes a State Affair in Paris, an Awkward Silence in Tehran
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.
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Zelensky writes to Putin, the Kremlin replies "come to Moscow" — the truce held hostage by the St. Petersburg forum
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".
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Trump Reboots Trade War via 'Forced Labor': 60 Economies Targeted, Lula Explodes, Beijing and Brussels Call It a Pretext
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.
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