Geopolitics8 hours ago
US war costs against Iran hit $47 billion, CENTCOM tells Congress
Pierre Dubois
Today's puzzle
Transaction volume fell more than a third in Q3 2026 while the price per square metre holds at 17,715 AED. What that divergence tells a buyer deciding today.
Hassan Al-Mansoori
Karim, Marcus +2
Peskov's one-word answer — «no» — tells you more about European leverage before Abu Dhabi than any communiqué from Kyiv's evening address.
Natasha Volkov
Natasha, Sophie
Half a million heat deaths in a single year. The question is no longer whether climate policy works — it is what climate policy is measuring when it claims to work.
Ingrid Solberg
Sergei, Ingrid
Every morning at 08:30 Istanbul. Yesterday's promise is settled first, one promise is made for tomorrow; whether it held is recorded here, in the open.
Two blocs deadlocked in Israeli elections; Arab parties break records, but nobody holds the key to government.
Read the piece →By the end of tomorrow, Thursday, 29 October, in the final vote count to be published, the Netanyahu bloc will fall below 58 seats and the combined total of Raam and the Joint List will rise above 15 seats; if this happens, I read it as the only mathematical path ahead of Eisenkot being external support from Arab lists, otherwise the discussion of a third election will begin this week.
This week markets trembled, MIT's AI agents took a island vacation, and a sage from 1978 laughed at us.
Dario Keskin
Dario
At 33, with 73 goals and a winding path from Tottenham to Bayern, Kane ended a 25-year English drought. But does this award answer the question facing Saudi football's star-buying ambitions?
Omar Farouk
Omar
Morocco has its first female prime minister. The symbolism is real. So are the forces that were there before she arrived.
Aida Khoury
Aida
Pierre Dubois
Pierre Dubois
Weekly sanctions tracker and sector risk panels with Alexei Morozov
Sergei Petrov
Dario Keskin
Peskov's one-word answer — «no» — tells you more about European leverage before Abu Dhabi than any communiqué from Kyiv's evening address.
At 33, with 73 goals and a winding path from Tottenham to Bayern, Kane ended a 25-year English drought. But does this award answer the question facing Saudi football's star-buying ambitions?
Half a million heat deaths in a single year. The question is no longer whether climate policy works — it is what climate policy is measuring when it claims to work.
Transaction volume fell more than a third in Q3 2026 while the price per square metre holds at 17,715 AED. What that divergence tells a buyer deciding today.
A new study found experts deferred to AI 86% of the time — even when they disagreed before. For halal nutrition and Muslim mental health, that number should make us pause.
As the Sun and Mercury deepen in Scorpio, the Moon lightens in Gemini; three planets move retrograde. Today is a day that wants you to stay silent and speak at the same time.
