After service restrictions disrupted Ukrainian drones and air defenses, Starlink and Starshield returned to normal speeds—but competing accounts still leave unclear who can control a battlefield utility.
Read today’s story ↗SECOND STORY TODAYFrance put 70,000 officers on the streets. 410,000 people still came.Read feature two ↗The U.S. is cutting staffing at four Middle East embassies after intelligence of heightened Iranian threats, a concrete sign that the conflict’s risk is spreading from battlefields and shipping lanes into diplomatic operations.
+ Oleshky has a promised ceasefire—one city, not an end to the war.Attacks on Saudi airports and energy infrastructure show a regional war turning civilian mobility and global fuel supply into strategic leverage, with consequences far beyond the Gulf.
Tehran said seven tankers were damaged overnight in the Strait of Hormuz; the claim is unverified, but the episode shows how a contested waterway can transmit military risk directly into energy prices and supply chains.
The Paris target has shifted from a ceiling to a recovery mission: UNEP says the world will exceed 1.5°C, but rapid emissions cuts can still limit the overshoot and return temperatures to that level by 2100.
+ A drone strike killed at least 153 people at a market in Abyei.Trump’s openness to a Xi-Putin meeting has made a once-unthinkable premise live: a process to decide Ukraine’s future that may exclude Ukraine, even as Russia’s war continues.
The Houthi strike in Shabwa was not just another battlefield toll: alongside Egypt’s support for Saudi Arabia, it marks a widening regional stake in Yemen’s war.
+ A training fire killed four Canadian soldiers—and wounded 39 more.