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Interim US-Iran agreement appears to take shape. Possible signing close to G7 next week—AND MORE
CNN: An interim deal between the US and Iran would extend the ceasefire, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and pave the way for talks on…
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Long reach of Beijing now extends across democratic world
Bitter Winter: The U.S. Congressional‑Executive Commission on China has released a report that offers a sobering and comprehensive examination…
Biotech firm WuXi sues US over allegations it supports China’s military
SMCP: WuXi AppTec filed its complaint in the Washington federal court, calling its inclusion on the list arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by…
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
Financial Times: Palantir has lost a legal bid to force a Swiss magazine to publish its responses to articles detailing how the country’s…
Spectator goes all in on Palantir, calling its critics victims of ‘Palantir Derangement Syndrome.’ What the magazine won’t say…
Nafeez Ahmed: 🔺Spectator is owned by Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace – which holds some 2.3 million shares worth $380m in……
DOGE bros were hired to slash govt contracts. Now they want to win some.
Vanity Fair: Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, and Jack Stein, three of the young engineers who helped take an axe to the federal workforce last…
Watch: Four UFO videos newly declassified by US govt
BBC: The clips, which were sent to the FBI, show bright orbs moving in the sky. The government says they were all filmed in the same general…
Far-right surge puts Merz’s coalition on clock to deliver
Politico Europe: In fact, the main factor keeping the chancellor’s struggling coalition of center-right conservatives and center-left Social…
Everyone loves Chinese cars, except the Chinese
Wall Street Journal: Domestic market shrinks 20%, hitting carmakers’ profits and pushing them to export more. …The troubles at home are…
China arrests American scholar-journalist, adding to friction with U.S.
Wall Street Journal: Min Zin, a U.S. citizen, has been placed under criminal detention by authorities, Lin Jian, a spokesman for China’s…
Trump’s allies have another way to pay ‘weaponization’ victims
Reuters: The most viable path, according to Trump allies and legal experts, may involve compensating these loyalists under a 1946 law called…
U.S. plan said to pull third of fighter jets it provides NATO for Europe
New York Times: The United States plans to significantly reduce the aircraft and warships that it makes available for NATO operations in…
2029 warning: NATO’s race to rearm ahead of Russia
CBC: In remarks published Wednesday, Generalleutnant Christian Freuding, the inspector of the German Army, said the 2029 date was not a figure…
Google director resigns, citing its military deals: ‘Management has lost its moral compass’
Business Insider: “Google management has quietly abandoned the goals to become carbon-neutral because of the AI model energy usage,” he wrote…
End of open internet: How Europe lost plot on online speech
Jacob Mchangama/Foreign Affairs: The real promise of the open Internet was never that platforms would be impartial gatekeepers or that…
Kallas defends EU’s foreign service after French paper questions its survival
Politico Europe: In an email seen by POLITICO, Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, wrote to the 5,000-strong staff of the European…
Advanced AI models can ‘destroy the financial system,’ IMF boss warns
Politico Europe: Georgieva said frontier AI models can be used positively to identify “cybersecurity vulnerabilities with speed and scale that…
Prominent Biden envoy unloads on White House he served
Politico: “There was political failure to understand the reality of the crisis at the border, and the political consequence it would have on…
Trump and allies working on plan to ‘expunge’ impeachments
Wall Street Journal: President Trump and his allies have discussed pushing lawmakers to pass a resolution aimed at voiding his first-term…
Switzerland’s radical proposal on immigration: Cap the population
Wall Street Journal: A referendum Sunday on keeping permanent residents below 10 million people reflects a growing discontent in the West;…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises $75bn in world’s biggest IPO
Financial Times: Trading is due to start on Friday after SpaceX priced 555.6mn shares at $135 a piece. The total fundraising could rise to…
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