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Kremlin Opens the Door to Foreign Capital at SPIEF - but Washington May Slam It Shut

ST. PETERSBURG, June 8 -- On the closing day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov delivered what amounted to an investor pitch - the kind that, under dif... Read More


Russia Pledges Countermeasures as NATO Launches Biggest-Ever Air Drills Along Its Northern Flank

New Delhi, June 8 -- Dmitry Peskov arrived at the podium with a familiar formulation and a conspicuous absence of specifics. Russia, he said, is taking "necessary measures" to secure itself against NA... Read More


On Day 100 of the Iran War, Netanyahu Defied Trump and Israel Struck Anyway

New Delhi, June 8 -- The phone call from Washington came first. Then the missiles. a conflict that President Donald Trump once promised would end fast, launched on February 28 when the United States ... Read More


IAEA Has Gone a Full Year Without Access to Iran's Key Nuclear Sites, Grossi Says

"We have a gap, June 8 -- What Rafael Grossi cannot say is almost as telling as what he can. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency stood before reporters on Monday and acknowledged what h... Read More


Kremlin Withholds Judgment on Armenia Vote, Flags Violations as Pashinyan Claims Victory

MOSCOW, June 8 -- Dmitry Peskov stood at the Kremlin podium on Monday and did something telling: he refused to say anything about Nikol Pashinyan's election victory in Armenia. What he did say instead... Read More


New York Knicks Return to the NBA Finals: A City Exhales After 27 Years

New Delhi, June 8 -- the grief of a city that remembers what it felt like to matter in June, and has spent every June since wondering if it ever would again. On Monday night, that grief dissolves. The... Read More


Nelly Korda Wins U.S. Women's Open at Riviera, Fulfilling a Dream Decades in the Making

New Delhi, June 8 -- The putt circled the rim of the cup, defied logic for one agonizing revolution, and then fell. That was the moment Nelly Korda became a U.S. Women's Open champion. the involuntar... Read More


Schmigadoon! Wins Best Musical at 2026 Tony Awards as Broadway's Long-Overdue Newcomers Finally Get Their Night

NEW YORK, June 8 -- Joshua Henry had been nominated before. So had Shoshana Bean, and so had Caissie Levy. Broadway had put all three of them in the room, given them the categories, placed the statuet... Read More


Trump Refuses to Unfreeze Iranian Assets Before a Deal, Leaving Both Sides Demanding the Same Concession First

New Delhi, June 8 -- The two sides negotiating an end to the US-Israel war with Iran agree on almost nothing. But on one question - who must give first - they are, improbably, mirror images of each ot... Read More


Russia's South Group Seizes Khimik in DPR as Putin's SPIEF Claims Clash with Frontline Reality

DONETSK, June 8 -- The Russian Defense Ministry announced Monday that units of the South Group of Forces had seized the settlement of Khimik in the Donetsk People's Republic, a small node on the DPR's... Read More