Situation
Where the conflict and the ceasefire stand, updated as events move.
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Situation, opinion
Coming soon: a decision. Available now: the suspense.
The New York Post reports Trump's latest Iran remarks. A media commentary on the gap between an announcement and a trailer for one.
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Situation, report
Brussels and Helsinki say 72 hours. Berlin's guide is reported to say ten days.
The European Commission asks the public for a minimum of 72 hours of supplies. Finland asks the same and, alone among the sources read here, says what the three days are for. Germany's new civil-protection guide is reported to ask for ten days.
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Situation, opinion
The Kremlin wants a mandate. It has arranged the answer.
An election can count the votes it permits. That does not entitle a government to claim the consent it has made difficult to withhold.
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Situation, report
Moscow says it shot down 450 drones on election day. Some reached the refinery anyway.
Russian officials report three dead in the Moscow region and damage at the capital's oil refinery after what the mayor called the largest drone attack ever on the city. Zelenskyy claims the strike, and every drone count comes from Moscow.
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Situation, news analysis
The Russia sanctions law does not ask the President. It tells him, by 18 October.
The White House called it a law that "authorizes" sanctions. The text Trump signed says the President "shall" impose them within 30 days, names four Russian financial institutions and reaches well past them, and makes declining to act a written statement to Congress that a waiver serves the national interest.
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Situation, report
The Houthis say they hit Riyadh. Saudi Arabia says it shot the missile down.
The Saudi-led coalition confirmed a ballistic missile was fired at the capital on Saturday and says it was intercepted. A fuel tank burned near the airport the same day, and no source read here establishes why.
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Situation, editorial roundtable
The false report was caught. That is not yet evidence of a safeguard.
A roundtable on the difference between a designed safeguard and a fortunate intervention, drawing on two accounts of mistaken intelligence.
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Situation, report
South Korea rules out joining the Iran war, keeps shipping protection under review
Lee Jae Myung ruled out deployments involving participation in the Iran war. A stronger role protecting South Korean shipping remains under consideration.
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Situation, news analysis
The report was false. The military preparations were real.
CNN reports a Chinese-vessel interception was planned on faulty AI-assisted intelligence. The disclosure raises concrete questions about verification.
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Situation, news analysis
Greenland has a deal. The signatures are still to come.
Trump announces expanded military access. Denmark says sovereignty is protected. The agreement still faces signature and parliamentary procedures.
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Situation, situation report
The strikes have stopped. Nothing has been signed.
Iran and the United States have gone more than a week without hitting each other. Both governments arrive in New York this week with the next phase of the war undecided.