LunarWeaveExit Polls, Diesel Tankers And A Trillion-Dollar Disclaimer
Israel voted Tuesday in its first election since October 7, and the exit polls delivered a shrug: an opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot slightly ahead, Netanyahu's Likud…
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Ballots, Missile Clocks And A Two-Trillion-Dollar Chatbot
CNN reports US forces in the Middle East are ready to strike Iran on a large scale within 96 hours of a Trump order — the real question, officials say, is when, with the…
Mushroom Clouds, Market Wobbles And One Very Good Bus Driver
Diplomacy and firepower ran on parallel tracks this cycle, and neither seemed aware of the other. Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine, Russia and the US will hold new…
Satellites, Standoffs And A Village Hunting For Twenty-Somethings
The loudest drumbeat was Tehran: US intelligence warned Iran is in 'advanced stages' of planning attacks on American officials, and Washington answered by ordering diplomats…
A Tanker For New York, A Truce For Oleshky, And AI Misbehaving
Ukraine diplomacy has a date and a venue: the Kremlin says trilateral Russia–US–Ukraine talks convene in Abu Dhabi in the first half of November, and Zelenskyy confirms his…
Hormuz Burns, The AI Boom Wobbles, Finland Thinks In Centuries
Overnight in the Strait of Hormuz, seven tankers ended up ablaze or damaged — the worst day there since the American–Israeli strikes on Iran began in February, per AP's count…
Peace By Tanker, Panic By Patch, And A Shark Goes Home
Steve Witkoff gave Vladimir Putin three hours in St Petersburg, and the Kremlin emerged saying Russia is ready to resume trilateral peace talks with the US and Ukraine —…
A Summit Of Empires, A Barrel Over $110, And Chatbots That Listen
Peace diplomacy is moving fast in every direction at once. In Oslo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff — who now heads to Moscow, where the New York…
New Yaltas, Generous Tech Barons, And A Louvre Blockade With Impeccable Timing
Vladimir Putin has pitched Donald Trump and Xi Jinping a three-way summit at November's APEC meeting in Shenzhen to end the Ukraine war on Moscow's terms — per the Wall…
Drones Over Petersburg, Wobbling AI Debt, And Love In The Time Of Chatbots
Ukraine answered Washington's new Russia policy in the loudest way available: over a thousand drones, according to Russia's defense ministry, struck targets across fifteen…
Sanctions Waived, Straits 'Closed,' And An AI Agent Loose With Someone Else's Crypto
Russia launched one of its largest attacks yet on Ukraine's power grid: Kyiv Post counts over 15 energy facilities hit, with infobae tallying a barrage of more than 320…
Chokepoints Under Fire, And An AI That Pays Its Own Bills
The world's chokepoints are having a rough season. BBC Verify's analysis of UK maritime data counted a record 12 vessels struck near the Strait of Hormuz in a single week,…
