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  • Jun 13

    Qatar and Switzerland meet in World Cup Group B opener after Canada-Bosnia draw

    On the evening of 13 June, Qatar and Switzerland took the field at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for their opening match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with Group B already wide open following a draw between Canada and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Ceuta's warning surfaces, aide resigns

Houthis squeeze oil routes as officials confront AI misuse, border failures and inflation

The day’s hardest news ran through chokepoints, both physical and institutional. Houthi gains near Bab el-Mandeb and strikes on Saudi infrastructure jolted oil markets, while documents in Spain and disclosures from Anthropic showed officials learning, again, that warnings age badly when ignored.

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  • Bulgaria ammunition depot fire

    Struck a second time as another fire erupted at an EMKO ammunition depot in Bulgaria, marking the second incident at the facility in just 33 days.

  • Turkish court rules on Ekrem Imamoglu

    Sentences former Istanbul mayor to 25 months in prison and imposes a political ban, barring him from public office.

  • Houthi advance on Yemen's Red Sea coast

    Take control of Moca, Hays, and Red Sea islands including Zuqar and Hanish as Brent crude rises to $104

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World · Updated 37m ago

The Middle East after Gaza

Israel-Lebanon talks postponed to October and Houthi seizure of Hanish islands are incremental within an already-escalating chokepoint crisis.

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