Briefing

Briefing: The U.S. may or may not be talking to Iran; the Iranian regime may or may not be turning on itself. Lebanon shows out the ambassador from Tehran. + A Category Four cyclone is about to cross northern Australia twice. Why twice?

Briefing: The war hits the gas fields that power half the world. Three central banks hold rates—and cite the war. + Will Ukrainian democracy survive the Russian assault?

Briefing: The first senior U.S. official to quit over the Iran war is from Trump’s inner circle. The man running Iran since Khamenei’s death is dead. + Why is Kazakhstan so warm right now?

Briefing: The price of oil as Iran mines the Strait of Hormuz. Two terror attacks hours apart on American soil. + How did a criminal industry worth tens of billions entrench itself in Cambodia?

Briefing: Iran names a supreme leader who hasn’t appeared in public since the U.S. and Israel started bombing. A deleted tweet moves oil prices 17 percent. + Why’s it getting so hot in West Africa?

Briefing: The U.S. Navy sinks an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean. The U.S. Senate votes to keep the war going. + What held the post–World War II order together—and what’s coming apart?

Briefing: Washington continues fighting with no public definition of victory. Hezbollah breaks its ceasefire with Israel, while Lebanon outlaws Hezbollah. + How could an unexpected event transform a work of art?

Briefing: The last fuel in Cuba. The first strikes on Afghanistan since the Americans left. + Why is Los Angeles’s entertainment industry in such crisis?

Briefing: The logic of Mexico’s surprise killing of the head of its most powerful cartel. The distance between the American president and the Pentagon on war with Iran. + Why are so many countries rethinking their nuclear strategies?

Briefing: A former prince arrested over the Epstein files. A former president sentenced to life for insurrection. + Why is Silicon Valley fighting with the EU?