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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian displays a memorandum of understanding after signing it in Tehran, Iran, on June 18, 2026.
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US-Iran deal isn’t all good for Tehran, Colombians head to polls for presidential runoff, EU takes a page out of the US’s tariff book

The interim agreement to end the war, signed by both sides on Wednesday, appears to tilt toward Iran. But the regime remains vulnerable.

People walking along the Dubai Creek Harbour
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Potential rebuilding fund for Iran, China's effort to keep its money at home, Trump and Modi's reset

Iran could reportedly receive up to $300 billion in a reconstruction fund for its battered economy as part of its interim peace deal with the US, but US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US would not be the one paying for it.

The growing strategic importance of the Arctic
GZERO Reports

The growing strategic importance of the Arctic

From the sidelines 2026, US-Canada Summit, hosted by Eurasia Group and RBC in Toronto, Tony Maciulis sits down with Thomas Dans, chairman of the US Arctic Research Commission, to discuss why the Arctic is increasingly central to national security, energy development, critical minerals, and geopolitical competition

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at a news conference
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Netanyahu’s re-election chances may worsen, Hungary’s Orbán can’t return to office, China gives boost to Myanmar’s leader

Israeli PM Netanyahu was already struggling in polls ahead of elections later this year, but his situation might get worse after Washington and Tehran agreed to a deal (pending its signing on Friday). Why the issue with ending the war?

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinya bowing down with a hand on his heart at a campaign rally
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Russia takes an L in Armenia, China’s Xi flies to North Korea, Rebel groups exacerbate Ebola crisis, and Trump to attend Knicks game

Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a commanding election victory on a pro-Western platform, cementing the country's pivot away from Moscow with fresh deals signed with Washington this year.

​NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, on April 2, 2026.
Analysis

Who will win the new space race?

Rather than Washington against Moscow, the new space race pits US private firms against their public Chinese counterparts.

French President Macron shaking hand with Norway's Prime Minister of the Kingdom Jonas Gahr Støre
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France to extend its nuclear umbrella to Norway, Brazil to cut work week, Japan bids to boost ties with the Philippines

French President Macron extended France's nuclear umbrella to Norway this week, as Western Europe increasingly looks to Paris for security guarantees amid growing doubts about the US commitment to NATO.

​Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad showing his identity document with the other hand on his heart
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The surprising US-Israeli plan for Iranian “regime change,” Hot air only at Russia-China summit, Baltic states on edge before NATO meeting

The US and Israel planned to make former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — a Holocaust denier — Iran's new leader before the war began. The plan fell apart on day one when an Israeli strike meant to free Ahmadinejad from house arrest hurt him.