Everyone but the Saudis
The Houthis at the mouth of the Red Sea. Free passage promised, with one exception. & What’s in the ruins of Gaza?
Stop lights on empty tracks
Rail sabotage on Budget Day. Burning parcels and cut cables across Europe. & What’s getting American teenagers off their phones?
Those aren’t stars
Canada’s bid for Europe. America’s weapons in orbit. + Is September 11 still an open case?
Pass this to Gilberto, would you
A curious note, handed across a defense conference in Seoul. South Korea’s record exports, after a 26th month of factory-job losses. & Is September 11 still an open case?
Apologies for absence
How the hard-right Alternative for Germany could take over a federal state without a majority. The return of the U.K.’s assisted-dying bill. & Is the world moving off the dollar?
Party balloons over El Paso
The tariff over Canadian cars that doesn’t tax cars. Local police in the U.S., now licensed to shoot down aircraft. & What happens when the American government hires private firms to hack foreign criminal networks?
A mailbox in Virginia
Briefing: The CIA’s apparent attacks on Ecuadoran fishing boats. Hungary’s new president, someone its last government got rid of. + Why is the White House calling its political opponents “national security” threats?
Leave your phone at home
Briefing: No one can get to the villages that took the worst of a magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Colombia. The White House pares American childhood vaccines down from 17 diseases to 11. + Why do temperatures keep rising—even after they cool off?
Overdrawn
Briefing: The Pentagon regrets finding itself out of missiles—until 2030. In India, the ex-prime minister of Bangladesh brushes off her death sentence. + What happened to the “public intellectual”?
Just passing through
Briefing: Sixty thousand over the fence into Spain in two days. Iran decides on a price for reopening the Strait of Hormuz: total control of everything. + What could the defeat of Hezbollah actually settle?