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Investment firms join Trump’s $100bn race for Venezuelan oil
Financial Times: Lionheart Capital and Keo Energy create Nasdaq-listed company to pursue assets in Latin American nation…
June 13, 2026
France opposes ‘anglicisation’ of EU trade talks
Financial Times: “This is a matter of the French constitution,” said a French official. “France cannot be bound…
June 13, 2026
US and Iran closer to agreement than ‘ever before.’ Iran sealed uranium cache, placed mines amid fears of US operation to seize material—AND MORE
CNN: Key mediator Pakistan says a potential agreement between the US and Iran is “likely expected” to be…
June 13, 2026
Anthropic suspends latest AI models after US blocks access to foreigners
Financial Times: Trump administration directs company to limit access to foreign nationals on national security grounds…
June 12, 2026
How Nigeria’s internet scammers became local celebrities
Bloomberg: Nigeria’s “Yahoo Boys” have industrialized romance scamming, reflecting and distorting modern hustle culture in the face of…
June 12, 2026
China arrests U.S. scholar on spying charge
New York Times: The arrest of U Min Zin, who did graduate studies at U.C. Berkeley and directs…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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,…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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,…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 12, 2026
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,…
June 12, 2026
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…
June 11, 2026
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…
June 11, 2026