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EDITORIAL: Zelensky, the tightrope walker who must please both Washington and Brussels
There is a diplomatic exercise that few leaders in the world master with as much forced consistency as Volodymyr Zelensky.
DECODING: Ukraine's economy refuses to bend under Russian strikes
Some images contradict, almost by their sheer existence, a narrative Moscow has been trying to sell for months. While Ukrainian drones turn Russian refineries…
REPORT: Hormuz shut down, the global bill nobody wants to pay
Some sentences alone are enough to send the price of a barrel soaring before a single ship changes course. On July 12, 2026, the…
ANALYSIS: Iran isolated but still defiant after the American response
In the days following the American strikes of July 11 to 12, 2026, against roughly 140 targets linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…
FACT-CHECK: Did Iran's nuclear program really survive the American strikes
Five months after the war between Israel, the United States and Iran erupted over Tehran's nuclear program, and weeks after a fragile ceasefire framework…
REPORT: In the Gulf, the diplomacy of silence facing the Iran-US war
Since July 9, 2026, the Gulf has been living through a nightmare it spent years trying to avoid: becoming the actual battlefield of a…
INVESTIGATION: Hormuz shut down, the world holds its oil breath
On the night of July 11 to 12, 2026, the United States struck roughly 140 targets linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)…
ANALYSIS: In the Sahel, Russia's strategy bogs down in Azawad's sand
There is something obscene about the synchronicity of these images. While Sergei Lavrov shook hands with Burundi's president on July 10, 2026, wrapping up…
INVESTIGATION: The jihadist-Tuareg alliance that is shaking the Malian junta
For years, JNIM, the regional al-Qaeda affiliate, and Tuareg separatist movements pursuing the independence of Azawad were widely understood as rivals rather than partners,…