United States — news through its media
Stories followed in this country, with their framing set against the rest of the world.
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First direct Iran-Israel strike since April: missiles on Galilee after Beirut bombing, Trump explodes at Netanyahu over the phone
Eleven Iranian missiles on northern Israel, schools closed nationwide, Beirut in flames — and a Trump-Netanyahu call that sharpens into an ultimatum: 'You will accept the deal with Iran.'
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Iran at the World Cup under special regime: visas refused for staff, entry and exit on the same day, Tehran petitions FIFA
Four days before kickoff, Iran's players have their visas for Los Angeles, but 15 officials remain blocked and the team must enter and leave U.S. soil on the same day — Tehran denounces unprecedented treatment in World Cup history.
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Cuba strangled: sanctions on Diaz-Canel and the Castro family, Raúl reappears at 95, hotel chains pack up
Visa and Mastercard suspended, Iberostar and Meliá close 27 hotels, GAESA targeted, Castro indicted for murder, the Atlantic bloc reorganizes — and Havana prepares for invasion.
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Day 100 of the Iran-USA war: Iranian missiles on Bahrain and Kuwait, U.S. drones in Hormuz, the April ceasefire in tatters
Seven Iranian ballistic missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain, two drones shot down in Hormuz by the U.S. Navy, the Fifth Fleet targeted: the April 8 ceasefire holds only on paper.
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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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World Cup 2026: dynamic pricing, vandals in Mexico City, FIFA investigated in New York — the most expensive event in history opens in chaos
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.
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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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Hezbollah rejects the ceasefire, an Israeli officer killed in Lebanon, a Serbian peacekeeper shot — the April truce collapses in 48 hours
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.
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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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